In this talk, filmmaker and creative learning facillitator George Magner aims to establish the principles of an ethical framework of co-authorship throughout the creation of Our Lives Inside.

Our Lives Inside is a series of research-led audiovisual projects telling the stories of imprisoned people through their own experience.

The prison community exists within substantial firewalls: practical, technological, legal and conceptual. Negotiating these firewalls to work presents considerable creative, methodological and ethical challenges.

Building on award-winning research with prisoners across the UK, Our Lives Inside aims to develop a “co-authorship” model that will enable imprisoned participants to contribute directly to the next generation of projects.

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