ST WILFRID'S HOSPICE
DIRECTOR, CAMERA, EDITOR
This film explores how the Hospice Community team helped Mark to be at home when he died, and what that meant to his wife Debbie.
ST WILFRID'S HOSPICE
DIRECTOR, CAMERA, EDITOR
Showing the work of the Hospice Nurses, and how the hospice helps to open up conversations surrounding death and end of life care. The film opened the Art on a Postcard auction at the Towner Gallery in September 2023. The auction, curated by Gemma Peppé, included artists such as Sir Grayson Perry, Mick Rooney RA and many more, raising over £50,000 for the hospice.
ART ON A POSTCARD x WAR CHILD UK
DIRECTOR, CAMERA, EDITOR
A series of short films commissioned by Art on a Postcard and War Child UK to film and interview artists in their studios across the UK to showcase work raising money as part of charity art auctions. In her studio in Cambridge, Selena Scott describes what inspires her process, her research trip to Barbados and the inspiration her mother provides as a textile artist. Available on YouTube.
ART ON A POSTCARD x WAR CHILD UK
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Lee Eelus shares the sensory inspirations behind his artworks and how making mistakes creates a form of therapy in his painting process. Available on YouTube.
ART ON A POSTCARD x LIMINAL GALLERY, MARGATE
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Joining Andrew Torr on his nighttime moped rides the film explores the process behind his Nocturne paintings on display at the Liminal Gallery. Available on YouTube.
POWER OF WORDS (2022)
STATUS EMPLOYMENT
DIRECTOR, CAMERA, EDITOR, CO-WORKSHOP LEAD
Short documentary commissioned by Status Employment, funded by The Lottery Community Fund. Through a series of workshops, the film explores the weight that words hold in our everyday lives, and how we can question, nurture, and shape our relationship with them - particularly with job applications and rejections. Status Employment group are a charity aimed at supporting people with neurodiversity and mental health needs with securing and retaining employment. Available on YouTube.
"This has been an inspiring and moving project...What emerged was a deeply insightful discussion of the things we do that help us and those which don’t, developing into the powerful and empowering exploration of the words we use: of the choices the words express; the judgements we make of ourself and others; the choice between expressing limitations or possibilities; how the words we choose can change how we think" Catherine Eaglestone, Producer
"Greatly successful" National Lottery Awards for All
RAM GOPAL: I SAW A GOD DANCE (2022)
APSARA ARTS
EDITOR
25 minute documentary directed by Malti Patel (Apsara Arts) charts the impact of pioneering Indian classical dancer Ram Gopal OBE, 80 years since his first stage performance. It brings together intergenerational dancers who explore the place of Indian classical dance in a modern world.
Screened at David Lean Cinema, Croydon.
CAN YOU HEAR ME? (2021)
STATUS EMPLOYMENT
EDITOR
Conversations in the dark, a treasure hunt, looking after an elephant in London. A group of people connect through a year of drama improvisations filmed remotely in lockdown. Can You Hear Me is a short participatory film by mental health service users, made in association with Status Employment, supported by the NHS Maudsley Charity. The documentary brings together drama improvisations focused around social anxiety, merging the boundaries between fiction and reality to understand feelings of loneliness and togetherness.
SAREE REINVENTED (2018)
APSARA ARTS
EDITOR
Lottery Funded 25 minute documentary, filmed and directed by Malti Patel. This community driven documentary brings together the story of the saree told through a community of South Asian women in Bromley. The interviews focus on the women’s own journey of migration from various parts – India, East Africa, Sri Lanka – and their own relationship and identity with the saree. The film explores how the ‘saree’ adapts to the changing environment, trends, and technology to stay relevant as a strong cultural identity for many British Asian women.