Beyond Boundaries: Meet the 2023 Participants
Film Hub South West is thrilled to be collaborating with a wonderful cohort that will develop their practice and film event ideas as part of Beyond Boundaries 360.
Read about the group, and discover the South West creatives who are excited to expand film exhibition in the region.
Each participant has a strong interest in film and cinema, a clear commitment to inclusion, and a motivation to develop their work and practice. Over 6 months, the participants will work collaboratively to develop film events from idea to screen, utilising knowledge and skills that are in the group and that will be gathered over the sessions.
Florence Grieve is a Bristol based creative with a passion for accessible cinema. She has a particular interest in authentic representation of disabled lives, moving away from the trope of disability as inspiration or pity. In 2022, she was a pre-selector for Depict and was a volunteer programmer for the Queer Joy screening as part of the Queer Vision film festival. When she’s not at the cinema, she is writing and has been published in Mslexia, featured as an Acumen Young Poet and on BBC Upload.
Delroy Hibbert is the Managing Director of Freestyle Bristol CIC, an organisation that supports young creatives in Bristol. His organisation recently promoted a film event, The 4 Pillars, that celebrated 50 years of hip hop culture and is keen to explore events like this more. Working with young people, including film makers, has also inspired a desire for his organisation to showcase locally produced film by young filmmakers and to work with them to produce film in the future.
Amelia Watts recently graduated from the University of Exeter with a PhD in Film and has worked and volunteered for several film festivals. Most recently, she worked as the Events and Festival Manager for Bristol-based conservation charity, Wildscreen, on their first hybrid festival in 2022 and the inaugural Wildscreen Festival Nairobi 2023. Amelia is passionate about working in film exhibition and is currently working as an Associate Lecturer at UWE. Being part of the Beyond Boundaries 360 scheme will be an invaluable step towards fulfilling her dream of starting her own film festival.
Harriet Worsey is a Film graduate and cinephile. She recently moved to Bristol and strongly believes that screen representation is extremely important and one day, hopes to contribute to the celebration of film culture across the South West.
Sarah Garland De Carvalho is a British Brazilian Artist and Cinephile based in Bristol. Sarah explores film as a visual art, creating her own short films which contemplate place and belonging. Their focus is on showcasing Brazilian and Latinx film to wider audiences.
Sarah is looking forward to meeting like-minded people and growing their network while having the guidance to actualise their ideas. They aspire to gain knowledge and experience to help them continue to build their place in the industry.
Sal Creber is a trans, autistic person with a long-standing passion (obsession) for film and cinema. Their one true love is horror, with a particular adoration of folk horror. They attended Bath Spa University as a Film and Screen Studies undergraduate, after completing a diploma in Creative Media Production at The Henley College. They have spent the last few years attending Frightfest in London in an attempt to refine and widen their knowledge of the horror genre and daydreaming about the perfect accessible queer and trans horror festival that they one day hope to create.
Hannah Ali Khan is a script writer with an interest in stage, screen, and audio. Moving to Bristol last year for an MA in Drama Writing at BOVTS and being surrounded by film enthusiasts reignited her teenage love for film, and over the year she spent many evenings visiting the Watershed and watching movies at home. She is eager to learn about and enter the world of film curation and production, bringing her theatre and arts background to the programme.
Nathan Hardie is a mixed-race, working-class arts critic born and raised in Bristol. From studying Mathematics at Plymouth, he pivoted careers to writing so he could develop his passion for cinema. With articles published on his blog HardieWrites, BFI Film Academy South West and Freestyle Bristol, he frequently covers local screenings and film festivals – hoping to programme events of his own.
Patrycja Loranc is experimental filmmaker, artist, and PhD researcher at University of Plymouth, interested in psyche-revealing potential of film. Patrycja is a co-founder of Alternative Night of Experimental Film and is interested in creating inclusive events that bring together perspectives on convergence of film and perception, exploring how time-based media allow to communicate sensory realms and altered states, in the framework of neurodiversity.
Stef Graham is a performer and film marketer currently based in Weston-super-Mare. They have 8 years experience working in film exhibition, working their way from General Assistant at Everyman Cinema in London to now working as a Communications Coordinator at Watershed in Bristol. They hope to bring their love of independent and art-house cinema closer to their new home in Weston.
Kate Cannon is a recent law graduate from the University of Bristol who has had operational roles within cinemas dating back the last 10 years. As someone who regularly experiences the emotional impact felt by audiences, she is very interested in the intersection between the arts and education from the perspective of rights-based issues within the law.
Having grown up in a post-conflict environment in Ireland, Kate believes that cinema, and art in a wider sense is key to nurturing empathy to be able to both understand the perspectives and experiences of those that are most impacted by institutions of power, as well as being able to question and challenge those power structures.
Monica Wat is a multidisciplinary creative from Hong Kong. She is the founder and co-producer of arts festival MOON FEST which celebrates East and South East Asian creatives in the UK with short film screenings, live performances, art and food. The festival’s production identity, Made on the Moon, has also co-hosted a preview screening of Past Lives with Watershed. Monica has starred in, produced and directed short films and music videos, including Assimilation which was part of the British Film Institute’s SCENE. She is also a freelancer in film exhibition, having been the pre-selector of the Encounters Film Festival, Depict Short competition and assisted the outreach of Cinema Rediscovered. She is also a curator, most recently as part of the Independent Cinema Office’s Inclusion and Diversity Screening Days. She has a keen interest in furthering her creative career in the music, film and literary sectors including and beyond creation and curation.
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