Program Notes

In composing Program Notes for your screening, following is basic recommended information to include:

1. Title of film/video (original language listed first, then English translation, if applicable)
2. Name of filmmaker(s)
3. Year work created
4. Format (both original format and the format you are screening if different, e.g. "Originally 35mm, screened in 16mm")
5. Color/black and white information
6. Sound or silent information
7. Length
8. Acknowledgement of print source (print courtesy of...)
9. Preservation information, if applicable (Print preserved by XX Archive)

If you are including a brief description of the film, remember to credit the source of that description.

Finally, don't forget to thank your funders, if applicable, in your program notes: "This program was made possible with the support of X, X and X."

You may also wish to thank key collaborators and volunteers.

Following are selected links to past Program Notes online, from archives and venues:

American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre (Hollywood), program notes 1999 - present.

Blinding Light Cinema (Vancouver), program notes 1998-2003.

Filmforum (Los Angeles), program notes 2000-present.

Melbourne Cinematheque (Australia), program notes 2000-present.

Pacific Cinematheque (Vancouver) screenings and program notes, 1996-2000.

Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA) film notes. A searchable database from the Pacific Film Archive Library, containing "over 14,000 critical and historical texts about films shown at PFA from 1979 to the present, many of them constituting unique documentation of rare films."

UCLA Film and Television Archive program notes. Searchable film notes from past and present programs.