Outsider Cinema

Explores the work of amateur and independent filmmakers working in Northern Ireland between the 1950s-1980s.

Ciara Chambers is Senior Lecturer in Film & Ciara Chambers is Senior Lecturer in Film & Screen Media at University College Cork and President of the International Association for Media & History. Author of Ireland in the Newsreels (2012) and co-editor of Researching Newsreels (2018), she has contributed chapters on newsreels, amateur film, archives and creative reuse to various journals and edited collections. She was scriptwriter and associate producer of Ireland in the Newsreels, a six-part BAI-funded television series broadcast on TG4, and producer of the historical play Souls, Shadows and Secrets. She works on the Make Film History project which won the 2021 FIAT/IFTA award for Excellence in Unlocking the Value and Potential of Archives. She is a board member of Northern Ireland Screen, Chair of the Northern Ireland Moving Image Heritage and Archive Working Group and an advisor to Atticus Education, the digital education company established by Oscar-winning producer Lord David Puttnam.