This episode, along with the next three are quite special in that I recorded them during and at the Flatpack Film Festival in Birmingham, an annual event that takes place in venues across the city where recurring themes include animation, music, artists’ film, archive discoveries, offbeat shorts for kids and live cinema. The Flatpack folk are firm believers in creating a sense of occasion and exploring the fertile territory where film bumps up against other artforms, and also showing people things they might not otherwise have seen.
So thank you very much to the wonderful festival, who helped facilitate these interviews with just a handful of the really smart and thoughtful women who helped create and curate the wickedly eclectic programme.
Kicking things off is my interview with Alex Jackson. Alex is a BFI NETWORK Talent Executive for the Midlands, which basically means she discovers and nurtures filmmakers in that region. Before taking up this post Alex managed Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre’s learning and talent programme. She has also lead on other national projects, including Access Cinema, which works to establish comfortable and enjoyable cinema environments for people with disabilities.
She was involved in Flatpack’s talent camp a one-day training event for new and emerging talent looking to make narrative fiction short films. It was a real pleasure to meet Alex and hear how committed she is to make cinema and filmmaking as accessible as possible, and also to chat about the ins and outs of filmmaking outside of London.
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#137: Desiree Akhavan, Director, Writer, Actor
#136: Moss Barclay, Executive Producer for TV at See-Saw Films
#135: Leo Anna Thomas, Wellbeing Facilitator
#134: Farhana Bhula, Head of Creative at Film4
#133: Vicki Brown, Senior Executive of Sales & Distribution at BFI
#132: Tricia Tuttle, Head of Directing Fiction at NFTS
#131: Uzma Hasan, Producer
#130: Laura Zempel, Editor
#129: Clare Baines, Disability Equality Lead at BFI
#128: Cassandra Johnson-Bekoe, Writer, Producer, Script Editor & Head of Development at DARE Pictures
#127: Emma Obank, Talent Agent at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates
#126: Sophia Hardman, Foley Editor & Mixer
#125: Helen Gladders, Producer
#124: Eve Gabereau, Founder & MD of Modern Films
#123: Jeanie Igoe, producer
#122: Hanna Flint, Critic, Author & Broadcaster
#121: Ines Adriana, Sound Designer & Mixer
#120: Lucy Bright, Music Supervisor
#119: Olive Nwosu, Filmmaker
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