Let’s Get Physical: The State of Film Collecting

In this panel discussion, Festival programmer Nicola McCafferty talks with director Kevin Shaw (One Golden Summer) and librarian & archivist Natalie Djordjevic about the state of film collecting, including the growing interest in physical media and what it means for the industry, their curation process, and their favorite (and strangest) films in their collection. Get ready to geek out about all things physical media with three avid collectors!

Panelists

Natalie Djordjevic, the artist behind Night Natalie, is a librarian with a life-long passion for film and physical media. She sources, restores, and remasters lost and rare media to create VHS and cassettes to make them accessible. She also works in different mediums and makes art that homages her favorite genre movies and idols.

Kevin Shaw has created award-winning films for prestige platforms. Shaw’s latest film, Let The Little Light Shine, was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award, debuted on PBS’ award-winning series POV, and played at several film festivals and theaters around the country to stellar reception, where the Chicago Tribune lauded the film for carrying “the visceral impact of all six Rocky films and a few Creed films put together.” Shaw was a segment director and cinematographer on America To Me, and additional cinematographer on City So Real from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Steve James, where they both debuted at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and aired on Starz and Hulu respectively. Shaw’s debut documentary about Basketball Hall of Fame coach Bob Hurley, The Street Stops Here, aired nationally on PBS and ESPN in 2010 to rave reviews. The following year, Shaw’s Big Ten Network short documentary on a quadriplegic trying to regain the ability to walk won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Sports Reporting Excellence.