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Sarah Neely is a writer, producer, and academic focused on film history, memory, and artists' moving images. She has served as a co-investigator on the AHRC-funded project, Cinema Memory Digital Archive, and led a year-long project celebrating the centenary of filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait. Neely's book publications include 'Categories: Films Margaret Tait - Portraits, Poetry, Sound Place' (Peter Lang, 2016), 'Margaret Tait: Personae' (as editor) (LUX, 2020), and 'Margaret Tait: Poems, Stories Writings' (as editor) (Carcanet, 2012). Her production work includes the film 'Place: Portrait Margaret Tait' (dir. Luke Fowler, 2022) and 'Bogancloch' (dir. Ben Rivers, 2024). She has given talks and curated film programmes at various prestigious festivals and venues including the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Istanbul Silent Film Festival. Sarah has also served on advisory boards and judging panels for numerous film industry awards, including the BAFTA New Talent Awards and the Margaret Tait Award. In 2017, she was awarded a residency at the Ingmar Bergman Estate on Fårö island, Sweden, further solidifying her contributions to the field of film studies, particularly in relation to Scottish cinema and the artists' moving image.