Presentation at the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) Congress in Montreal, 2025

Image of the archival material showcased at the exhibition A Feminist Lens: The 1973 Women & Film International Festival at the TIFF Film Reference Library from October 2024 to March 2025.

As part of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) 2025 Congress in Montreal, I'll be presenting a joint presentation with Natania Sherman (Senior Manager, TIFF Film Reference Library) as part of the panel "Interventions, Revelations" on Monday, April 28 at 4pm.

A Feminist Lens: Reframing Collaboration Between Archives and Scholars with the 1973 Women & Film International Festival

By working together in moving the Women & Film International Festival archive from the private to the public domain, Sherman and Sallis-Parchet found opportunities to activate this research through the exhibition A Feminist Lens: the 1973 Women & Film International Festival at the TIFF Film Reference Library in 2024-25 and a UNESCO World AV Heritage Day screening of archival materials. As a result, Sallis-Parchet’s research allowed for new audiences to discover the WFIF and nurtured intergenerational relationships between Canadian women filmmakers. This presentation will reflect on the generative possibilities between archives and scholars in activating under-researched materials and proposes that archives embrace opportunities to support new scholarly research.