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...
by Alice Farkas | Apr 20, 2021 | Articles, Short Films
Our next series, of thought-provoking short films, comes from filmmakers, trailblazers and creatives exploring what it is to be autistic. The following bodies of work, which will be shared over the coming months, each present their own unique depiction surrounding the...
by Alice Farkas | Apr 3, 2021 | Articles, Short Films
Migrant Sound is a youthful celebration of migration and its impact on the UK’s music and culture. Combining broad societal stories with personal family anecdotal histories, this series permits emotional storytelling mixed with vibrant visuals of migrant culture, told...
by Alice Farkas | Mar 9, 2021 | Articles, Short Films
When young women arrived in England from the Caribbean aboard HM Empire Windrush, their hope for new opportunity must have been palpable. Determined, driven, fuelled with agency, action and ambition to see more of the world. And specifically, to see what Motherland...
by Alice Farkas | Feb 27, 2021 | Articles, Short Films
The next instalment in our Windrush short film series is another from Black Apron Productions, and their project ‘Windrush Generations’. Carmen has a chronological narrative. The film retells a grandmother’s story through the voice of her granddaughter. Filled with...
by Alice Farkas | Feb 3, 2021 | Articles, Short Films
Consider the sounds of the Caribbean, the beat, the patter, the rhythm of a tropical life, where the heat and humidity drive social events into the cooler hours of the late evening, outside and open. For so many, although of course not all, these were the sounds and...
