Holdsworth, Claire M. and Blanchard, Simon (2017) Organising for Innovation in Film and Television: The Independent Film-Makers' Association in the Long 1970s. In: Mulvey, Laura and Clayton, Sue, (eds.) Other Cinemas: Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s. London : IB Tauris. pp. 279-298. ISBN 9781784537180

Abstract

The Independent Film Makers’ Association (IFA) was founded in 1974 to promote the interests shared by a diverse coalition of ‘independent’ filmmakers working in Britain. Though mentioned, there is little detailed historical information relating to this significant coalition during its early years, and even later dates and stages of the organisation, for example when exactly it changed its name and so forth. The Association’s campaigns helped to bring new voices and visions into film and television at the time and provided a forum in which to meet, debate and campaign. Prepared by Dr Simon Blanchard, who was a member and participant/observer at IFA meetings and a National Organiser at the IFA from 1980, in conversation with archivist and researcher Claire M. Holdsworth, this chapter offers a Commentary and brief Chronology of this cultural network, with some reflections on its significance (5,000 words). This chapter is supplemented by two other, smaller contributions as well as a chronology, also published in this book (all written by Holdsworth).

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