Hello again,
Apologies - some of the links were wrong in my previous email!
Just touching base to let you know about the Practice Research SIG Panel at this year's BAFTSS Annual Conference: Practice Research SIG panel about accessibility:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KDw0O8_7nfM--mpkKPj2PHfKt5obapgM/view?usp=sharing
Accessible Filmmaking: Practice Research SIG in association with Screenworks
From the Universal to the Self in Media Accessibility: Accessibility as a Conversation
Kate Dangerfield (University of Roehampton, London) & Pablo Romero Fresco (Universidade di Vigo, Spain):
We Make Film: Accessibility and Inclusion in Film Practice Research Projects
Shweta Ghosh (University of Reading) & Priyanka Pal
This panel brings together academics and filmmakers to discuss media accessibility and examine an alternative model of media access. Rather than being a one-way process that takes place at the distribution stage, where non-disabled access experts make films directed by non-disabled artists accessible for the benefit of disabled people, this panel explores a new model (the accessible filmmaking model) which approaches media access as a dialogue between filmmakers, access experts and disabled users in which access is considered during production as part of a collaborative creative process.
Traditional media access guidelines are often focused on comprehension and accuracy “for all”, claiming to be universal and based on objectivity. However, this concept of the universal runs the risk of denying difference and further marginalising and excluding. What would media access be like using a model that makes space for disabled filmmakers to create so that they are not just the passive receivers of non-disabled content, but active creators? How can we develop an alternative/creative media access approach, which goes beyond providing access for the users of a film and enables them to make an artistic contribution in their own right; access here is openly subjective, focused on engagement and fluid and malleable.
We’ll be exploring this through a mix of academic papers, practice research and artist-filmmakers who are implementing this new approach to media access, with the aim to open up the conversation around how the industry (and the academy) can go beyond traditional models of media access and inclusion, to develop alternative/creative approaches.
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Look forward to seeing some of you there. You can register here: https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fonlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk%2Fconferences-and-events%2Fconferences%2Fschool-of-philosophical-anthropological-and-film-studies%2Fbaftss-conference&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0SEl9hQAesC_n5QKn6XJ_9
Full Programme: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KDw0O8_7nfM--mpkKPj2PHfKt5obapgM/view?usp=sharing
Abstracts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xl4e9jdCL0it2ep3I-sWMTr45MB7YrZY/view?usp=sharing
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We'll be holding the BAFTSS Practice Research SIG meeting on Friday 22 April, 12-12.30 if you want to join, after the panel.
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Also John Twycross is standing down as Practice Research SIG co-convenor so please email me with "Practice Research SIG Convenor" in the subject, including an expression of interest before 20 April, if you are interested and we can vote at the above SIG meeting. Many thanks to John for his contribution, especially his lively Practice SIG Panel at last year's conference.
Very best wishes,
Charlotte
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