The History of Moviegoing, Exhibition, and Reception—or HoMER—Project was founded by an international group of cinema scholars in June 2004.
It aims to promote understanding of the complex, international phenomena of film going, exhibition, and reception through several means:
Talitha Ferraz is a Brazilian professor in cinema and media studies at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM) and the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Cinema e Audiovisual of the Universidade Federal Fluminense (PPGCine-UFF). She holds a PhD in communication and culture from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (ECO-UFRJ), with a doctoral internship at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-Nova), Portugal. Dr. Ferraz carried out postdoctoral research at the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (CIMS) at Ghent University, Belgium. In Brazil, she is coordinator of the research groups Modos de Ver (ESPM-PPGCine-UFF/ CNPq) and Coordenação Interdisciplinar de Estudos Contemporâneos da ECO-UFRJ (CIEC/ECO-UFRJ). Dr. Ferraz is also one of the coordinators of History of Moviegoing Exhibition and Reception – HoMER Network, and member of the following networks International Media & Nostalgia Network (IMNN) and Cinema City Cultures (CCC). Her research area is cinema history, with a focus on cinema exhibition and cinemagoing practices, as well as memory and nostalgia studies.
Åsa Jernudd is affiliated to the department of Media and Communication Studies at Örebro University. Her area of research is cinema studies, more specifically, related to historical exhibition and audiences. Currently, she leads a project financed by the Swedish National Board for Research and in collaboration with the National Library, entitled, Swedish Cinema and Everyday Life, a study of cinemagoing in its peak and decline. Åsa was thrilled to discover the HoMER network when attending ‘The Glow in their Eyes’ conference in Ghent in 2007.
Maria Luna-Rassa is researcher and lecturer at the Department of Audiovisual Media at TecnoCampus ESUPT, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She is also research member of the group Narratives of Resistance in the Cultura de la Pantalla network, member of the board in ALADOS, Colombian documentary film makers association as well as artistic director from 23-25 MIDBO (International Documentary Film Festival of Bogotá) in Colombia. With Pablo Mora and Daniela Samper Luna-Rassa co-edited the book Territorio y memoria sin fronteras, nuevas estrategias para pensar lo real (2021) and she authored the chapter Sur on Demand in the book Cines latinoamericanos, en busca del público perdido (2020), edited by Ana Rosas Mantecón and Leandro González. She is also documentary filmmaker and has published several papers on transnational and community cinema in Latin America. Link to publications: https://tecnocampuc.academia.