About
Northern Ireland Now: Contemporary Collecting, is an innovative outreach and digitisation project from Northern Ireland Screen and Nerve Centre that will increase representation in the Digital Film Archive — a database that contains hundreds of hours of moving image footage from 1887 to the present day.
Community Collaboration
The project will give voice to and prioritise material relating to underrepresented communities including ethnic minorities, diversity of religious belief, disabled people, neurodivergent people, LGBTQIA+ individuals and working-class communities (especially young men), to address imbalances in our collections.
We've been meeting with wonderful community groups across Northern Ireland. So far we have had the pleasure of working with rural groups in Hilltown, the Belfast-based ImageNation and Anaka Women's Collective, Selkies in Portaferry, community groups in Omagh, SPUDS in Portadown and creative media students in Derry.
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Funding
Northern Ireland Now is increasing access to archival material with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery, led by Northern Ireland Screen.
