BFI NETWORK South West x Untamed Stories: Press Reset Inclusion Panel
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Thu 3 Dec, 2020
BFI NETWORK South West x Untamed Stories: Press Reset Inclusion Panel
Online
Photo of the participants, from top left to bottom right: Lindsey Dryden, Stephanie Castelete-Tyrrell, David Ellington and Zosia Feher.
BFI NETWORK South West and Untamed Stories present this panel discussion on resetting practices within the TV & Film industry to better include those with disabilities and establish a new, more inclusive, normal. We have invited D/deaf and Disabled filmmakers to speak about the impact COVID-19 has had on the community and their vision for the future.
It has been noted by D/deaf and Disabled filmmakers that many of the negative consequences of the pandemic, for able bodied film pros, were in line with everyday issues experienced by their D/deaf and Disabled peers. This led to the aim of the BFI’s Press Reset campaign, to inspire gatekeepers and those in positions of authority across film and TV. To challenge them to take advantage of the opportunity to reset practices to become more inclusive.
We will be joined by to Bristol based writer/director Stephanie Castelete-Tyrrell, who has recently released her feature length documentary Living in Fear, which was filmed during lockdown. We will also be joined by Bristol based filmmaker and artist David Ellington, who has diverse and successful career in television, film and theatre. As well as Zosia Feher a filmmaker from the North East who for the past eight years has been working and is on the Board of Directors with multi award-winning Beacon Films.
The panel will be hosted by Gloucestershire based producer, writer and director Lindsey Dryden, whose production company Little By Little Films works with a representational model and focuses on storytelling led by LGBTQ+, women’s and D/deaf and disabled voices and people with unconventional experiences of the body, prioritising equity and inclusivity in their productions and practices.
This workshop will be delivered via Zoom with live Closed Captions (CC) and BSL interpretation.
If you have any specific needs, please contact us in advance of the event and we will arrange this. To tell us about your access needs, and/or if you have any questions in regard to access, please email us on bfinetwork@watershed.co.uk
To attend please register via the Zoom sign up page by clicking on the link here.
Stephanie Castelete-Tyrrell
Stephanie is an award-winning editor, writer and director with a passion for editing and screenwriting. In 2017, Stephanie completed her BA (Hons) Film Studies and Creative Writing degree at the University of Portsmouth and her Film and Television MA degree at the University of Bristol. She turned her passion for film editing into a successful career and is the founder of Four Wheel Drive Productions who specialise in creating content that promotes well-being and positive change in society. Her most recent feature film documentary Living in Fear, which was filmed entirely during lockdown, is currently on the film festival circuit.
David Ellington
David is an award-winning director of VS1 Productions. David has a diverse career as a freelance artist, including film, theatre and television drama and presenting. His TV directing debut, of Life Out There, commissioned by British Sign Language Broadcast Trust has won RTS Bristol, Community Media Award. David has always enjoyed creative works including film making projects and theatre workshop projects (Diverse, Graeae and DRoots) for deaf and disabled participants and also supported Academy of Live & Record Arts in running theatre courses for Deaf students.
Zosia Feher
Zosia is a filmmaker from the North East, she has autism and Tourette’s syndrome which allows her to look at the world in a different way. For the past eight years she has been working and is on the Board of Directors with multi award winning Beacon Films in various roles with a particular interest in camera and directing. In this time, she has been involved in a wide variety of films, including the co-writing and directing of Grace Darling – After the Storm which went on tour around the UK.
Lindsey Dryden
Lindsey Dryden is an Emmy®-award winning producer, director and writer. She produced Unrest which premiered at Sundance and broadcast on Netflix and PBS; produced Emmy®-winning Trans In America with the ACLU; co-produced Unrest VR (which won the VR Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest); Exec Produced The Uncertain Kingdom’s The Forgotten C (2020); and she directed Lost and Sound which premiered at SXSW, plus films for Tate’s groundbreaking Queer British Art exhibition. Lindsey founded indie production company Little By Little Films which specialises in authentic storytelling by LGBTQ+, women’s and D/deaf and disabled voices. She’s a proud founding member of Queer Producers Network and FWD-Doc (Filmmakers With Disabilities), and a 2020 BFI Vision Awardee.
Partner logos from top left to bottom right: BFI NETWORK, Film Hub South West and Untamed Stories.
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