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Award winning director mentors young film maker
28th July 2009
BCIDN Associate, Marilyn Gaunt, is currently mentoring a young film maker who is a wheelchair user, for a scheme initiated by the Grierson Trust. 5 x 5 minute documentaries are being made by young people around the theme of family. Grierson decided to seek out young film makers from less usual sources, avoiding film schools and media studies groups, finding candidates from schools, youth clubs and small video clubs.
Laura Hyde is in her final year at Ralph Thoresby School, in Leeds. It specialises in Performance Arts and also has a mix of both able-bodied pupils and those with disability. Her film centres on a sight impaired friend who has a mother with MS, looking at home and school life from the perspective of disability.
The films will be screened at the Whitechapel Gallery on October 5th.
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