Charles Chislett was a bank manager from South Yorkshire with an abiding love for the medium of film and a passion for recording the lives of people and communities in his local area.  On 14th November 2024, Rotherham District Civic Society recognised and celebrated this exceptional filmmaker with the unveiling of a blue plaque at the building which bears his name: the Charles Chislett Centre, part of Kimberworth Park Community Partnership.

We would like to say a huge thank you to Derek Mathieson and George Theaker who presented the Archive with a £4320 donation on behalf of the North East Region of the IAC (NERIAC).

In 2021, YFA was awarded a cataloguing grant from the Archives Revealed programme to carry out vital cataloging work on the Ukrainian Video Archives Society collection (UVAS), taking the next step to make this unique collection accessible.

This Valentine's Day, as the world celebrates love in its many forms, together with our partners at York St John University’s Cinema and Social Justice project, and York Business School, we're proud to announce the online release of our celebrated film "Nature Matters". Intended as a ‘love letter to nature,’ this beautiful short film is a poignant cinematic ode to the British countryside with a call to action to protect it.

A love letter to nature and a call to action.  Nature Matters is a timely short film which speaks across generations, using over a century of archive footage to remind us of our innate relationship with the natural world. This is a unique opportunity to witness and screen climate stories told through regional film heritage by the people who were there and witnessed the events.

Over the course of our ‘Nature Matters’ project, we’ve uncovered lots of wonderful footage which showcases our complex relationship with the environment around us. The films in our collection tell the stories of both people and the natur...

Sophia Gray is an A-level student from North Yorkshire who recently undertook a 2-day work experience placement with Yorkshire Film Archive. Following the successful work we’ve been doing with volunteers, this placement was integrated within the Nature Matters project, under the supervision of the Nature Matters Curator.

We've done it again! Following our success at the 2022 FOCAL International Awards, the team are delighted to have won two more coveted awards at the 2023 event held in London. The ceremony on 15th June marked FOCAL International’s 20th year of the prestigious competition dedicated to the promotion and celebration of archival footage, and its contribution to the creative and cultural industries.

We're delighted that YFA & NEFA have been shortlisted in three categories at this year's FOCAL International Awards, which take place on 15th June! Best Use of Footage in a Short Film Production: Our short film, 'Cost of Living', commissioned by Yor...

Charting the history of television in the North, from first broadcasts to award-winning documentaries and regional news output, the North East Film Archive are delighted to be back on the film show trail with a specially curated ‘television’ screening at the Forum Cinema, Hexham on Saturday 18th March, as part of the 2023 Tyne Valley Film Festival. 

We're heading back to Harrogate for a repeat of our sell-out 'Harrogate on Film' screenings, giving you another opportunity to catch this unforgettable programme featuring the people, places, major events, and everyday life in this historic town and neighbouring Knaresborough during the 20th century. 

York St John University partners with Yorkshire and North East Film Archives to highlight social issues of the past that feel uncomfortably contemporary.

This special screening is the first in a series of special 2023 events as the Whitby Museum to mark their 200th anniversary. And what better way to start than by a look back at daily life in Whitby in the 1960’s, seen through the eyes of local newspaper reporters, and captured on film for the BBC television documentary with the title ‘Something’ll Happen by Friday’ as they follow a week in the life of the Whitby Gazette in 1967.

Join us as we take a journey back through the history of TV programming in the North of England - where will the TV Time Machine be heading in 2023?

Echoes of the North: a new film created by YFA as part of an unprecedented collaboration between the Yorkshire and North East Film Archives, North West Film Archive, and London’s Archive Film Agency, takes audiences down the highways and byways of n...

Charting the history of television in the North of England, the Yorkshire Film Archive are delighted to be back on the film show trail with a specially curated screening at Pictureville, Yorkshire’s biggest independent cinema, based at the National...

Charting the history of television in the North, from first broadcasts to award-winning documentaries and regional news output, the North East Film Archive are delighted to be back on the film show trail with a specially curated ‘television’ screening at the Jam Jar Cinema in Whitley Bay on Sunday 27th November.  

Join YFA and Sheffield Showroom Cinema for a special screening to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Yorkshire Television documentary series 'On the Manor', filmed on Sheffield's Manor estate. YFA's Director, Brent Woods, will present highlights from the programme as part of our 'TV Time Machine' series of events.