ATTN active @scmstudies.bsky.social members of the Nontheatrical Film & Media Scholarly Interest Group. Elections for our new co-chair are now underway. Polls upon through 30 June. We are lucky to have three stellar candidates. Check your email for candidate statements and voting link! 🗳️

Attention active SCMS and SIG members! We are excited to announce that three candidates are running for the Co-Chair position (2026–2029). Check your emails for voting directions and candidate statements. Polls open through 30 June.

Precarious scholar? Grad student? Are you thinking of submitting to #SCMS27 but have no institutional support for membership? Apply for a 2026-27 SCMS membership fee waiver from the PLO! Deadline: July 27! buff.ly/RCFLdff

For students working on women and film history! Please share this @wfhinetwork.bsky.social CFP widely. Submissions due by September 15. www.wfhi.org/student-proj...

The Cinematheque Libanaise was founded in 1999 by then-Minister of Culture Mohammed Youssef Baydoun. It was part of a series of cultural initiatives launched after UNESCO named Beirut the Arab Cultural Capital for 1999. https://loom.ly/HANrBjI

CFP alert! "Filmstrips, slides and beyond: Entangled histories of projected images in Europe, 1945–2000” for TMG: Journal of Media History. Abstract deadline 1 October 2026. tmgonline.nl/announcement...

CFP alert! The Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference Committee invites proposal submissions for sessions, posters, and workshops for the AMIA Annual Conference to be held December 2-4 in Pittsburgh, PA. Proposal deadline is June 8. Link for details: amiaconference.net/amia-2026-ca...

Excited to share that first podcast interview with New Books Network is now live. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social I spoke with host Ailin Zhou about my new book Film Diplomacy ( @columbiaup.bsky.social) Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/film-diplomacy #FilmDiplomacy #newbook #history

The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television has issued a call for an Editorial Assistant. Great opportunity for a PhD Candidate! Interested candidates should contact the journal co-editors at hjfrt.1981[at]gmail[dot]com before 25 May. See visuals (with alt text) for more details!

We hear the latest issue of THE MOVING IMAGE— @amianet.bsky.social's peer review journal—just dropped! A special issue on Government Film edited by Brian Real. Nine new peer-reviewed articles spanning 1920s to ‘80s (if the TOC is any indication). 1/

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For the unaware. From the director of CARNIVAL OF SOULS!

between that and this, from the director of 'Wanda', there's a wealth of cult cinema greatness attached to these short industrial/educational films

The results are in! We are pleased to announce the election results for our new @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social grad rep! Ben Lazar (Wisconsin-Milwaukee) + Joshua Baldelomar (UC-Santa Barbara) will be serving as grad rep co-chairs. 👏

Of interest! #nontheatricalfilm

Filipino American Historical Association of Chicago home movies from Ohio. 1937! #Orphans2026

See wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Blog post on another #Orphans2026 presentation next week! @orphanfilm.bsky.social Wua Ling Wu on Digitizing Portuguese Revolutionary Home Movies 🇵🇹 #nontheatricalfilm #homemovies wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 #Orphans2026

And from a few days ago! Blog post by Gu Xue (FamilyLens) on his upcoming #Orphans2026 presentation about home movie archiving in contemporary China. He’ll present with Ann Lyuwenyu Zhang (NYU) + Dwight Swanson @orphanfilm.bsky.social wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Another #Orphans2026 preview just dropped. Andrea Callard & Ana Marie on video works from New York City artists’ group Collaborative Projects Inc. (COLAB) + Monday/Wednesday/Friday Video Club (MFW). Works preserved by XFR Collective. 📼 @orphanfilm.bsky.social wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

We’re proud to announce winner of our Nontheatrical Student Essay Award 2026 (collab w/ THE MOVING IMAGE @amianet.bsky.social journal) We congratulate John Adrianfer Atienza (U of the Philippines Diliman) for his essay: "When the Looks Speak: Filipino Balik-titig in American Wartime Newsreels” 🏆

Another preview for #Orphans2026. Owen Gottlieb will present his work on ‘orphaned television,’ specifically an episode of the series "Inside/Out” produced by the The Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT). The episode is held at Indiana U’s Moving Image Archive. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Pumped to see that Ashley Dequilla (Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago) will be back presenting again at the @orphanfilm.bsky.social symposium. I consider her presentation on ‘30s/‘40s home movies a highlight of the 2024 symposium. A preview... wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Another @orphanfilm.bsky.social blog post we missed! John Morton of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound on his upcoming presentation of newly restored 16mm color films from 1939 made in "The Volunteer State.” Symposium starts in one week! wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

ICYMI the @orphanfilm.bsky.social blog has been rolling out loads of essays about films featured in their upcoming symposium. Here’s one from a past SIG co-chair @martinlj.bsky.social about a 1960s work made by the North Carolina Film Board #Orphans2026 wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Active @scmstudies.bsky.social SIG members. Election for new graduate rep has begun. We have FOUR (!!) amazing candidates. Please check your emails for candidate statements + voting link. Polls open until 10 April. Thank you to our previous star grad rep I-Lin Liu for his service!

Following @jenniferpete.bsky.social's lead, here’s my blog post on film I’m presenting in just over a week at the Orphan Film Symposium in Ohio. I’m on a mission for everyone in the world to see the joyous SUNDAY ON THE RIVER (1961) #Orphans2026 @orphanfilm.bsky.social wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Call for Special Issue closes March 31st! The Moving Image Special Issue: Videotape in the Archive. https://loom.ly/CjFjs20 https://loom.ly/CjFjs20

George Willeman brings newly preserved state-sponsored Ohio films. This, from 1937, the first in a series of one-reel films.

CASABLANCA projected onto the sail of a ship from inside a lighthouse with audience watching from the shore. Cheers to that! My new favorite @newyorker.com cartoon! #nontheatrical #filmexhibition From December 1, 2025, issue.

Hey #scms26, are YOU a Professor Superstar? Come see me for a ribbon!

Good morning, Chicago ☀️ Excited to be here and can’t wait to talk Film Diplomacy this Saturday at #SCMS2026 📽️ Come say hi, tell me what you’re working on, and let’s talk film, history, and all things media across borders ✨

Resharing for our @scmstudies.bsky.social attendees. If you’re an active SIG member, please check your inbox for link to vote for new graduate rep. FOUR stellar candidates!!! #SCMS2026

Come along, do.

🎬 Grad students of #SCMS2026 — come say hello! Save the date: Thursday, March 26, 8-9 pm at Fairmont International Ballroom Join us for drinks, conversation, and community at the Graduate Student Reception.

Excited for our panel at #SCMS2026 and talk about #filmdiplomacy this Saturday #nontheatrical #mediaecologies

We’re hosting an off-site event at @scmstudies.bsky.social 2026 — a field trip to the Chicago Film Archives on Friday, March 27 from 10:00am to 11:00am! Limited space available. Please RSVP by March 24 via email to azborowska[at]uchicago[dot]edu. Image and 🧵for more details. 1/

Active @scmstudies.bsky.social SIG members. Election for new graduate rep has begun. We have FOUR (!!) amazing candidates. Please check your emails for candidate statements + voting link. Polls open until 10 April. Thank you to our previous star grad rep I-Lin Liu for his service!

16mm film print library collections you say?!

Here's a blog post on a film I'll be presenting at the Orphan Film Symposium at the Wexner Center next month. Produced and distributed by the USDA Motion Picture Service: A FOREST AXIOM (1929). #Orphans2026 @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

We’re hosting an off-site event at @scmstudies.bsky.social 2026 — a field trip to the Chicago Film Archives on Friday, March 27 from 10:00am to 11:00am! Limited space available. Please RSVP by March 24 via email to azborowska[at]uchicago[dot]edu. Image and 🧵for more details. 1/

COMING SOON in #nontheatricalfilm books. @julideetem.bsky.social's FILM DIPLOMACY: A MEDIA HISTORY OF TURKEY-US RELATIONS from @columbiaup.bsky.social. We love to see it! 🍾👏

New(ish) book of note for the amateur film fans! Ciara Chambers’s OUTSIDER CINEMA: INDEPENDENT AND AMATEUR FILMMAKING IN NORTHERN IRELAND, 1929-1989 from Edinburgh University Press. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Amateur Movie Day is next week. In 2025, Yale's Alice Cinema and Brian Meacham of the Yale Film Center screened a half dozen gems. Including the Soviet Russian title seen here. I BELIEVE IN SPRING (1962). It was the first film by director Slava Tsukerman (Liquid Sky, 1982). R.I.P Slava. 2.28.2026

A/V Geeks 16mm Lunch 3-5-2026 Going to show old 16mm today provide the power doesn't go out again.. Oof, what a pain! #avgeeks #16mmfilms www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFE5...

CFA is so excited that many of the great amateur films from our collection (including the iconic OBEY YOUR AIR RAID WARDEN) will be seen around the world for #AmateurMovieDay2026! Find an AMD event near you: www.amateurcinema.org/index.php/amd

We spy 👀 one of our favorite #nontheatricalfilms— OBEY YOUR AIR RAID WARDEN! (1942) from the Robert and Theresa Davis Collection @chicagofilmarchives.org #AmateurMovieDay2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVTw...

We’re proud to announce the CFP for our annual "Nontheatrical Student Essay Award 2026” in collaboration with @amianet.bsky.social's THE MOVING IMAGE. Submissions due March 15. Please share widely! Link to PDF of CPF with details. amianet.org/wp-content/u...