by Alice Farkas | Jun 20, 2021 | Articles, Personal Essays
‘Dina’ is a non-fiction, feature length documentary about a love story, which, at its core is just like any other. Yet despite belonging to the romantic comedy genre, the film features central two characters who, because of their neurodiversity, belong to a group...
by Alice Farkas | Jun 13, 2021 | Articles, Authors
Earlier this year, Heady Mix spoke with author Nigerian-American author Chinelo Okparanta. Chinelo’s list of accolades and awards is extensive and includes being named as Granta’s Best of Young American Novelist in 2017 for her novel Under the Udala Trees. It...
by Alice Farkas | Jun 6, 2021 | Articles, Personal Essays
Mildly Different is a crowd-funded film project aimed at raising awareness of autism in women and girls, exploring what the condition looks and feels like in females who can often be misdiagnosed. Written and produced by Anna Czarska, who is herself autistic, the...
by Alice Farkas | May 23, 2021 | Articles, Authors
In part II of our conversation with writer Masande Ntshanga, author of Triangulum – a novel that featured in the 2019 Heady Mix theme ‘Afrofuturism’, we discussed the context of the genre and to what extent it is aligned to Africa and African writers… Heady...
by Alice Farkas | May 15, 2021 | Articles, Authors
Ausma Zehanat Kahn is the award-winning author of the hugely successful Khattak and Getty crime novel series. This sequence of books has brought Ausma critical acclaim for stories centred on solving crimes in some of Canada’s most vulnerable communities. From Toronto...
by Alice Farkas | May 5, 2021 | Articles, Short Films
My mind is forever swaying this way and that. Naoki Higashida Naoki Higashida is a Japanese author who, aged just 13, began narrating his experience as someone who sees the world through the lens of Autism. This body of work culminated in the publication of ‘The...
