Creative Connection : Black History Month - new filmmakers
We’ll be holding Creative Connection event with a focus on black filmmakers in support of under-represented talent in the film industry.
We’ll be screening Home Grown, directed by Corinne Walker, and BFI-backed film Spin produced by Dami Adeyeye (Dami will be joining us on the panel), plus Tianna Hanton will be sharing her experience of making a short documentary film about the Central Club Mural, a key focal point for the Reading community.
There will be a Q&A after the screenings. We’ll then move into the workspace in the RBF for networking and snacks from local artisans – all included in your ticket.
An event not to be missed.
About our panel:
Corinne Walker:
Corinne Walker is a Bristol-based Writer-Director. Her first short Clifford, commissioned by BBC Arts was a 90s-sitcom style look at gentrification and the housing crisis. The film subsequently screened at Fringe of Colour, Exeter Phoenix and Bafta-Qualifying Carmarthen Bay Film Festival.
Dami Adeyeye
Dami Adeyeye is a West London-based indie film producer and actor. I have produced two BFI NETWORK-funded short films - (SPIN) and AN EIGHTH OF HIM, as well as SAVING ART, a London Film School graduating short film. He began his filmmaking journey by producing and directing a feature documentary, A DARK MIND, while teaching at Eton College. The film explores mental health and its stigmas in the black community and was a creative response to my own mental health experiences.
Dami is passionate about how and why we tell stories, and the function of drama within society.
Tianna Hanton
Her filmmaking credits include: Last Wish, A Kind Soul: The Movie, What Could Go Wrong, Trial And Error, Best Blues, Young Black And On The Way Up, Re-Incarnation: The Three Brothers Killed Instincts, Out of the Darkness, Just Remember, The Closer I Get To You, The Central Club Mural Documentary, The Aftermath, A Shared Experience and more recently It Feels Like home and A Mother's Love.
This event is supported by the BFI Audience Network, Film Hub South East and the University of Reading
About BFI NETWORK
Made possible through National Lottery funding, BFI NETWORK collaborates with film organisations and leading cultural venues across the UK to provide short film and early feature development funding, industry-backed professional development and networking support to producers, writers and directors aged 18 and above.
About Film Hub South East
The Independent Cinema Office is the Film Hub Lead Organisation for the BFI Film Audience Network in the South East. They work with film exhibitors of all types to build new audiences for independent and British films through Film Hub South East, nurture the professional development of new and emerging filmmaking talent through BFI NETWORK, and build young people’s passion for screen culture and help them to develop careers in the sector through the Young Film Network South East.
