London’s Screen Archives and The New Black Film Collective’s Undocumented project seeks to address the lack of Black home movies within film archives. The project aims to create a space where we can discuss the importance of celebrating and preserving the Black experience in London and highlight the crucial role screen archives play in preserving stories from the past.

For our second year, we ran the Screen Heritage Ambassador programme which was a series of workshops for Black Londoners to learn about digitisation, non-western archiving, cataloguing and programming. The aim was to create a cohort of skilled community ambassadors who can continue to be custodians of screen heritage and memory work through audio-visual archives.

Ambassadors have had the opportunity to have their own home movies digitised, preserved and acquisitioned into LSA’s own collection with contextualisation written by the cohort themselves.

Featured below are a range of these films, including family weddings, birthday parties, speeches from Black activists, and cultural & community festivals.