FOCAL International

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16/06/2026

15/06/2026

Meet the nominees for the Jane Mercer Researcher of the Year Award, sponsored by The Associated Press, at the . 🏆

Congratulations to:
🎞️ Sophia Doe | Once Upon a Time in Space
🎞️ Nessa Dundon | The Hunt for Peter Tobin
🎞️ Katharine Waldrum | Boyzone: No Matter What
🎞️ Julieann Galdames | Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time
🎞️ Jackie Clary | Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately

The 23rd FOCAL International Awards Gala takes place on Thursday, 18 June 2026 at Church House Westminster, London. Learn more about the nominees: https://focalint.org/awards/2026-nominees-announcement

13/06/2026

Meet the nominees for the Best Archive Restoration and Preservation Project or Title, sponsored by Hollywood Film Company at the . 🏆

🎞️ Sterne by Konrad Wolf, 1959 | L'Immagine Ritrovata Group / DEFA-Stiftung
🎞️ Riso Amaro | Cineteca di Bologna
🎞️ The German Retreat and Battle of Arras | Imperial War Museums
🎞️ The First Aerial Journey Across Europe | GP archives
🎞️ African Jim (also known as Jim Comes to Jo'burg) | R3store Studios

The 23rd FOCAL International Awards Gala takes place on Thursday, 18 June 2026 at Church House Westminster, London. Learn more about the nominees here: https://focalint.org/awards/2026-nominees-announcement

12/06/2026

Meet the nominees for Company of the Year at the . 🏆

🎬 R3store Studios
🎬 Reuters Connect
🎬 Footage. net

The 23rd FOCAL International Awards Gala takes place on Thursday, 18 June 2026 at Church House Westminster, London. Learn more about the nominees here: https://focalint.org/awards/2026-nominees-announcement

11/06/2026

Here are the nominees for Footage Person of the Year, sponsored by UV&S at the 🏆

This year's shortlisted nominees are:
🎞️ Martin Lisius | StormStock
🎞️ Megan McCooley | Yorkshire and North East Film Archive
🎞️ Christopher Morgan | Reuters Connect

The 23rd FOCAL International Awards Gala takes place on Thursday, 18 June 2026 at Church House Westminster, London.

11/06/2026

Extend your FOCAL Festival of Archives 2026 experience with a series of exclusive behind-the-scenes tours on Wednesday, 17 June!

📡 Reuters Study Tour & Networking Breakfast
A rare look inside the Reuters newsroom, Media Ingest Hub and digitisation facilities, plus a preview of newly digitised rushes.

🖼️ Getty Images Hulton Archive
Step inside the largest picture library in private ownership. 94 million images. Less than 5% digitised. The stories waiting to be told are endless.

📺 Shutterstock tour
Dive into 35 million photographs of UK pop culture, from unseen rock 'n' roll shots to royals, politics and television gold.

🎖️ IWM London Private Tour (Imperial War Museums)
An expert-led private tour of Imperial War Museums, including the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries, with direct access to the IWM licensing team.

🎞️ R3store Studios Tour
Go inside a working film restoration facility and witness how archival footage is scanned, colour graded and brought back to life.

👉 Five tours. Rare access. Strictly limited spaces, register now before they're gone.

🎟️ Register here: https://focalint.org/focal-festival-of-archives/focal-festival-of-archives-tours

10/06/2026

Meet the nominees for the Student Jury Award for Most Inspiring Use of Footage, sponsored by Sky Clip Sales at the . 🏆

As part of FOCAL’s outreach strategy to support new generations of industry professionals, we partner with the National Film & Television School in the UK and INA and its school and training centre, INA Campus, in France to give a selected student jury access to view a number of productions for our Student Jury Award for Most Inspiring Use of Footage.

This year's shortlisted nominees are:
🎞️ Je n'avais que le néant - "Shoah" by Lanzmann (All I Had Was Nothingness) | Les Films du Poisson / Les Films Aleph / ARTE FRANCE CINEMA
🎞️ Diamond Diplomacy | Flying Carp Productions
🎞️ Boy George & Culture Club | Fine Point Films
🎞️ Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story | Misfits Entertainment / Wayfarer Studios / Mediawan Rights / Entourage Media / Shanakee Archive Agency

The 23rd FOCAL International Awards Gala takes place on Thursday, 18 June 2026 at Church House Westminster, London. Learn more about the nominees: https://focalint.org/awards/2026-nominees-announcement

Congratulations to all shortlisted nominees. 👏

10/06/2026

We are delighted to announce the nominees for Best Use of Footage in a Sports Production, sponsored by Getty Images at the . 🏆

This category features productions for any media platform that uses footage of any sports.

This year's shortlisted nominees are:
🎬 Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire | ACME
🎬 Nothing But a Winner: The Alabama Football Story | Adelaide Pictures / BarFaye Productions / Required Reading LLC / Source Media Group
🎬 Iománaíocht Hollywood (Hollywood Hurling) | Léirithe le Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín
🎬 Diamond Diplomacy | Flying Carp Productions
🎬 Big Star: The Nick Skelton Story | Debsdocs Productions / Dirty Robber

The 23rd FOCAL International Awards Gala takes place on Thursday, 18 June 2026 at Church House Westminster, London. Learn more about the nominees here: https://focalint.org/awards/2026-nominees-announcement

Congratulations to all shortlisted nominees. 👏

09/06/2026

Here are the nominees for Best Use of Footage in a Short Film Production, sponsored by Shutterstock at the . 🏆

Productions eligible for this category include any film of 30 minutes or less in which footage is integral to the storytelling, whether documentary, fiction or any genre of filmmaking.

This year's shortlisted nominees are:
🎞️ Song of My City | Erddigo
🎞️ Ghosts | Katia Lom
🎞️ Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn | Universal Music Group / Apple Corps Ltd / Orofena Films / Park Road Post Production
🎞️ The Bannfoot Ferry | UTV / Northern Ireland Screen

The 23rd FOCAL International Awards Gala takes place on Thursday, 18 June 2026 at Church House Westminster, London. Learn more about the nominees: https://focalint.org/awards/2026-nominees-announcement

Congratulations to all shortlisted nominees. 👏

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