Murray Weston

Murray Weston is Director of the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC), a specialist representative body which supports the production, study and use of moving image and sound for UK higher education and research.  Part-funded by HEFCE via the JISC, a large proportion of the BUFVC’s work is delivered through online services (www.bufvc.ac.uk).

The BUFVC prepared all content and metatdata - more than 7,000 movie and sound items - now delivered as ‘Film and Sound Online’ by EDINA (www.filmandsound.ac.uk).  The BUFVC recently digitised 3,000 hours of selected ITN/Reuters Television content in more than 50,000 segments for Newsfilm Online (newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk) soon to be released.   Large-scale national services such as the Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching, the British Universities Newsreel Database, the Moving Image Gateway (www.bufvc.ac.uk/gateway) and the Off-Air Television Recording Back-Up Service are also in the BUFVC portfolio.

Murray has a special interest in non-fiction and documentary film and has produced and contributed to number of award-winning film and television productions.  He is Vice-Chair of The Grierson Trust (www.griersontrust.org), Vice-Chair of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation (www.editor.net/k-k/about) and a member of the Archive Committee of the Royal Television Society.