With a strong track record in programming and delivering film events, film commissions, and talent development programmes, I’m passionate about championing underrepresented and emerging voices. *
As talent producer for the 52nd and 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam, I oversaw production for all talent programmes—and ran the famed Rotterdam Lab for emerging producers, which welcomes 70+ participants from around the world to a 5-day programme with the aim to empower them, to provide them with an overview of the international co-production landscape, and to expand their international network.
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BFI Flare, the British Council, and BFI NETWORK commissioned three short films exploring LGBTQ+ stories from cross-cultural teams formed by UK and Syrian, South African and Palestinian filmmakers. I exec produced the films and ran all stages of the scheme.
A pioneering programme offering emerging LGBTQ+ filmmakers the opportunity to develop industry knowledge, professional connections, and an overview of queer features entering the marketplace. I ran the scheme for five years—from participant and mentor selection, to events programming, to evaluation and reporting.
After serving as Delgate Services Manager for two years, I produced the 7th edition of the festival, which welcomed the audience, filmmakers and industry guests to a programme of 100+ films (shorts and features) plus 30+ events at 12 cinemas and venues across London.
As part of BAFTA's 70th anniversary, I curated events for a UK regional tour of BAFTA-winning debut features from Steve McQueen, Asif Kapadia, Andrea Arnold, Lynne Ramsay, Amma Asante and Joe Wright.
Programmed and delivered a strand of events at the 2015, 2016 and 2017 editions of the festival, including panels on the queer diaspora and art as connector, "glocal" LGBTQ+ activism, the voguing scene in the UK, current trans representation on-screen and the transformation of queer spaces in London.
Based on the success of the BFI Flare x BAFTA Crew Mentorship, I also ran a new mentoring opportunity for underrepresented writers, directors and producers in the industry, as part of a wider programme of events.
Among others, I produced a series of events for the Experimenta strand of the 60th BFI London Film Festival, and a symposium on trans representation on-screen for the 30th BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
