{"id":2712,"date":"2023-10-11T23:08:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T23:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2023-10-11T23:16:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T23:16:33","slug":"afirc-fellowship-winner-announced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/?p=2712","title":{"rendered":"AFIRC Fellowship winner announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The AFI Research Collection and RMIT Culture are thrilled to announce that the 2023\/4 AFI Research Collection Fellowship winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fellowship\u00a0which has been awarded\u00a0since 2011, giving researchers\u00a0access and support to dive deep into the collection. It showcases\u00a0the unique holdings of the AFIRC including\u00a0special collections, film stills, newspaper clippings and other significant artefacts from the Australian film and television industry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Past recipient\u00a0<strong>Mark Ryan<\/strong>\u00a0explored Ozploitation and Australian Gothic cinema in <em>\u2018Digging\u00a0up the history of Australian horror cinema\u2019<\/em> and <strong>Whitney Monaghan<\/strong>\u00a0researched the representation of Queer characters on Australian TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DIgby.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2715\"\/><figcaption><em>Digby Houghton<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Continuing the legacy\u00a0of the fellowship is our new\u00a0recipient, who I\u2019m\u00a0pleased to announce is <strong>Digby\u00a0Houghton<\/strong>, a film critic, filmmaker\u00a0and screenwriter from Melbourne. He is editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/kinotopia.com.au\/\">Kinotopia<\/a><\/em> newsletter and is interested in the intersection between history and film.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digby will spend the coming year\u00a0in the collection\u00a0investigating\u00a0of Melbourne\u2019s historic film culture that will be used as the basis of a screenplay titled \u201cCine-Files\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first time we\u2019ll\u00a0have this type of\u00a0creative outcome\u00a0from the fellowship\u00a0and we\u2019re\u00a0excited to see it come to life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Digby and thank you to all of our applicants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFI Research Collection and RMIT Culture are thrilled to announce that the 2023\/4 AFI Research Collection Fellowship winner. The Fellowship\u00a0which has been awarded\u00a0since 2011, giving researchers\u00a0access and support to dive deep into the collection. It showcases\u00a0the unique holdings of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/?p=2712\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fellowship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}