HippFest @hippfest.bsky.social HippFest is Scotland’s first and only festival of silent film with live music, centred in and inspired by Scotland’s oldest cinema, featuring exceptional screenings, commissions, workshops, community events and touring. More info: http://www.hippfest.co.uk
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The Criterion Collection @criterion.bsky.social Since 1984, we’ve dedicated ourselves to gathering and publishing the greatest films from around the world. criterion.com
SCMS Gender & Feminisms Caucus @scmsgfcaucus.bsky.social The caucus was founded in 1994 “to promote parity for women’s intellectual and practical work” in film and media. We are committed to promoting interdisciplinary and transnational feminist-informed work and support our members through diverse initiatives.
Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies. Author of Bad Film Histories. Writing a book about reference. Views my own. Most get deleted.
🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social Our AHRC-funded project aims to make the history of women’s screen work better known by working with #archives, #museums and #filmmaker donors. 🗃️ 🎞️ 🎥 https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/ Posts by Project Team, project lead: @helenexeter.bsky.social
Susan Potter @specksofthings.bsky.social new to BSky ...
queer cinema history | contemporary lesbian film
archive-ology | historiography | creative practice
use: she/her - them/they also ok
www.susanpotter.me
San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social SFFP's mission is to restore, preserve, and provide access to the world’s cinematic heritage, ensuring that films—of all genres and eras—remain accessible for future generations.
https://linktr.ee/sffilmpreserve
DAVIF @davif.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy BMBF Research Group "Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History (DAVIF)" at Philipps-Universität Marburg | https://uni-marburg.de/Q85oo
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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social Official page of the Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group of @SCMStudies. Sign up for our newsletter 'Nontheatrical News’ by emailing: nontheatricalnews@listserv.dfn.de
Bloomsbury Film & Media @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social Innovative academic research, textbooks & practical guides by Bloomsbury’s Film & Media team and the BFI🎬
https://www.bloomsbury.com/academic/film-media/
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🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social ✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | Programmer, Must-Watch Indies @ FACETS Chicago | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
Nannina Gilder @nannina.bsky.social In 1916 Lois Weber was the highest paid director in Hollywood.
SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies SIG @scmspedagogy.bsky.social Official page for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
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JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies @jcmsjournal.bsky.social Media studies for all. Print & online open access content. We value accessibility, transparency, diversity, & community. Published through SCMS
Online at: https://jcmsjournal.org
Lilya Kaganovsky @lkaganovsky.bsky.social UCLA prof of all things Soviet film; big fan of the Pacific ocean, books, movies, travel, food, cats & dogs
Isadora Campregher Paiva @campaiva.bsky.social Film scholar and lecturer at the
University of Amsterdam. Scholarly interest in film history, digital methods, data science and AI.
Josi Diecke @josidiecke.bsky.social Film and media scholar | Assistant Prof @UZH | Analog/Digital | DH | Film Restoration | East Germany | Film Colors
Sarah-Mai Dang @sarahmaidang.bsky.social Film and Media Studies Scholar | Humboldt Research Fellow | Zentrum Künste und Kulturtheorie (UZH/ZHdK) | Digital Film and Media History | Cultural Heritage Data | Feminism | Open Science | sarahmaidang.com | @SarahMaiDang@fedihum.org
Clara Auclair @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social Film scholar and preservationist based in Stockholm, Sweden • Current DAVIF fellow at Phillips Universität Marburg • Teaches media studies at DIS Stockholm • Always happy to talk about film, archives and their stories.
Silentvalerio @silentvalerio.bsky.social Silent film nerd, ex-archivist 🎞️ and professional photographer 📷 in Bologna, Italy. Antifascist 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🇺🇦
https://linktr.ee/silentvalerio
https://www.valeriogrecophotography.com/
[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. https://intransition.openlibhums.org/ 
Paul S Moore @psmoore.bsky.social Media Historian. Toronto Metropolitan Univ. CoAuthor: The Sunday Paper @UIllinoisPress. Hollywood Publicity | Canadian movie-going & cinemas (he/him)
The HoMER Network @homer-network.bsky.social International network of researchers interested in understanding cinema-going, exhibition, and reception, from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Web: https://homernetwork.org/
Jennifer J. Wild @drjjwild.bsky.social Permanent Research (PR. LAX-ORD-CDG). Death Penalty Abolitionist. PhD. PSLF/Public Service Loan Forgiveness, 2022: $130K. #GiveMimesMoreTime
Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social Restoring and distributing "lost" films outside the Hollywood mainstream since 1990. We mess with the canon. Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, founders. www.milestonefilms.com
Shelley Cobb @bellecobb.bsky.social Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies University of Southampton, UK
Stummfilm Magazin @stummfilm-magazin.bsky.social Stummfilm Magazin: Filme, Stars, Geschichte, Festivals, Kinotermine und mehr.
CHRIS Horak @filmarchivist.bsky.social Forty years as moving images preservationist. Still blogging at Archivalspaces.com and teaching film history.
Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social film & lit scholar, CUNY prof, culture writer, editor, higher ed unionist, author of Elaine May (U of Illinois Press, 2025) and Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction (Ohio UP, 2019).
Kathy Fuller-Seeley @kathyfs.bsky.social loves silent film, Jack Benny, good jokes, and cats
Alix Beeston @alixbeeston.bsky.social Writer and academic | Author of *In and Out of Sight* (Oxford UP) and coeditor of *Incomplete* (U Cali P) | Coming in 2027: *Image Encounters* (Penn State UP) and *Women, Sisters and Friends: Selected Plays and Screenplays of Kathleen Collins* (U Cali P)
Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social Occasionally writing
https://lukemckernan.com 
Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social NYU.edu/orphanfilm
Allyson Nadia Field @allyfield.bsky.social 
Sarah Keller @skkeller.bsky.social Prof of cinema studies and art at UMass Boston, arts enthusiast, apparently resistant to self description
Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social The Official Bluesky account for SCMS
https://www.cmstudies.org/
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social Professor, cinephile, treehugger 🌱🪵🪲🦬
Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick mayhem, and suggestive gender play. https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/
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Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social Old hippie, tree hugger, childless cat lady, lover of animals and some humans, I write about movies for the New York Times. Member of the Times Guild, which is represented by the NewsGuild of New York. Trolls, haters and bigots blocked.
Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS (2026). she/her (white cis queer)
Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76.bsky.social Associate Professor in Film Studies, specialising in animation, early cinema, film music/sound, advertising and other useful animation.
Dagmar Brunow @dbrunow.bsky.social Professor of film studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Works on audiovisual archives & cultural memory; film historiography & video collectives. Likes bookshops, cinemas, libraries, and archives. 
Kristina Köhler @anitsirkk.bsky.social Kunst- und Mediengeschichte @UniCologne | mit einem großen 💜 für frühe Film- und Kinogeschichte | Mode, Stoffe, Texturen, Luftschlangen, Konfetti, Diskokugel in Filmen und im Leben | mother of 2
Kristen Wagner @kmaw.bsky.social Film nerd, history nerd, nerd-nerd. Overworked adjunct. Mom to 1 human and 1 cat. Author of Comic Venus: Women & Comedy in American Silent Film
Silent Beauties @silentbeauties.bsky.social Blogger. Silent films. Art heals. History is a tool to improve the future and our decision making in the present time. Trying to make a difference.
Social media links: https://linktr.ee/silentbeauties
Kristen Hatch @khatch.bsky.social Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies, University of California, Irvine. Research on stardom, film history, childhood and media.
Ben Model @silentfilmmusic.bsky.social silent film accompanist-historian-presenter; Undercrank Prods. home video; archivist of Ernie Kovacs television collection
Claire Cooley @clairescooley.bsky.social current project: sonic infrastructures & middle east & south asia film histories | vera's mom | she/her | 🍉
Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social Feminist Media Histories examines the role gender has played in media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. Published quarterly by UC Press.
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Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social Australian academic (media production & journalism), historian of gendered labour & technology in media industries, factual content producer. Lover of radio & GLAM. She/her. Dharawal country, Wollongong & Awabakal country, Newcastle, Australia.
Enri Ceballos @vitascopian.bsky.social Historia del cine mexicano. Busco a las pioneras.
Candidatura al Doctorado en Historia del Arte UNAM y Dirección General en el Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México.
Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social assoc prof @ UW CMS, editor Feminist Media Histories, lover of tea, pickleball addict, collector of (filmic) junk
Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social Silent cinema, curating, and feminist practice and theory at the University of Amsterdam; project manager/editor, @WFPProject.
Martin L. Johnson @martinlj.bsky.social Film historian and urbanist. Co-president of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema. Coming attractions include A Teaching Companion to Silent Cinema (Rutgers) and a history of advertising film (Illinois).
Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social Film & Media Scholar + Historian • Assistant Prof. in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts + Women's and Gender Studies Program, Texas A&M University • PhD '22 @UChicago • Edit. Contributor @WFPProject • Book Reviews Editor EVPC • she/her
Weimar Film Network @weimarfilmnetwork.bsky.social https://weimarfilmnetwork3.wordpress.com
Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social A place for people who love silent film.
https://silentlondon.co.uk/
Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social Author, critic, historian | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Curse of Queen Kelly | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social A digital publication & resource that advances research on silent-era women filmmakers. Published by the Columbia University Libraries.
https://wfpp.columbia.edu/
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