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An impact innovator, convener and communicator working at the intersection of the…
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Volunteers and former students joined us at the farm to build our dry stone wall through courses with Stuart Iles. After many hours of hard work, the…
Volunteers and former students joined us at the farm to build our dry stone wall through courses with Stuart Iles. After many hours of hard work, the…
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Pre-loved fashion sales are 📈. It made me wonder: 𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 Vinted 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? Vinted claim to have 16…
Pre-loved fashion sales are 📈. It made me wonder: 𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 Vinted 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? Vinted claim to have 16…
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Mind blown!! WYATT EARP & THE COWBOY WAR opens at Number 7 in the ENTIRE WORLD and NUMBER 4 in the USA and UK!! 🤯 So proud to have co-written this…
Mind blown!! WYATT EARP & THE COWBOY WAR opens at Number 7 in the ENTIRE WORLD and NUMBER 4 in the USA and UK!! 🤯 So proud to have co-written this…
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Experience
Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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I studied development economics and randomised controlled testing with Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, who would together go on to be awarded the Nobel prize in Economics (2019) for their development of this approach to microeconomics and poverty alleviation.
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Activities and Societies: Year Representative
I studied performance at Drama Centre London, within the ecosystem of Central Saint Martins, but itself one of the most rigorous and respected acting and directing schools in the world. Over 18 months we made a thorough examination of the process and techniques of filmed performance, with reference to the system of Character Analysis developed by the school's founder Yat Malmgren, which he himself had adapted from Rudolf Laban's theory of Movement Psychology. I devised and directed a play…
I studied performance at Drama Centre London, within the ecosystem of Central Saint Martins, but itself one of the most rigorous and respected acting and directing schools in the world. Over 18 months we made a thorough examination of the process and techniques of filmed performance, with reference to the system of Character Analysis developed by the school's founder Yat Malmgren, which he himself had adapted from Rudolf Laban's theory of Movement Psychology. I devised and directed a play, Boundary Dispute, taking three actors through a process of independent character development, with reference to the work of John Cassavetes and Mike Leigh, and we performed the play at the Cochrane Theatre in May 2005. I directed a short film, Kate 123, from a script by Gwanwyn Mason, which opened the local Clerkenwell Film Festival. And I directed a 25 minute short, The Surviver, from a script by television writer Roland Moore; the film won the Redemptive Storyteller Award in the US.
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Activities and Societies: Film Reviewer for award-winning university newspaper Concrete
I transferred after a year at Southampton University with a 2.1 in Formal Logic. I read Philosophy, including courses on Political Philosophy with Prof Martin Hollis, Aesthetics, and Creative Writing in the renowned eponymous department founded by Malcolm Bradbury. I found out later that I was a few doors down the hall from the late author W.G Sebald, who was there teaching German literature at the time. I wrote film reviews for the student newspaper Concrete (Student Newspaper of the Year…
I transferred after a year at Southampton University with a 2.1 in Formal Logic. I read Philosophy, including courses on Political Philosophy with Prof Martin Hollis, Aesthetics, and Creative Writing in the renowned eponymous department founded by Malcolm Bradbury. I found out later that I was a few doors down the hall from the late author W.G Sebald, who was there teaching German literature at the time. I wrote film reviews for the student newspaper Concrete (Student Newspaper of the Year 1996), earned extra income from DJing, and roamed remote stretches of East Anglia.
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Get Creative - Steering Committee
Homeless Link
- 3 years
Poverty Alleviation
Contributor to the expert group for Homeless Link's Get Creative initiative, amassing and circulating innovation and best practice amongst arts organisations working in the homelessness sector. Open Cinema was one of three companies featured in a 2014 'influencing paper', published to help homelessness agencies make the case to funders that the arts provide measurable value in catalysing the work they do at the frontline.
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Panellist
Various Non Profit organizations
- Present 15 years 3 months
Arts and Culture
ACCESS VFX
Visual Effects Industry Working Group on Diversity and Inclusion
Working Group Member, 2017 - present
VIDEO FOR GOOD - CHARITY MEETUP
Google UK, September 2017
Presentation: Participatory Video for Charities
TEN YEARS AFTER THE CRASH
The RSA, London, September 2017
Panel: Beliefs, Values and Worldviews in the Workplace
COMMUNITY SCREEN FORUM
University of East Anglia, July 2017
Presentation: Social Value and Sustainability in Community…ACCESS VFX
Visual Effects Industry Working Group on Diversity and Inclusion
Working Group Member, 2017 - present
VIDEO FOR GOOD - CHARITY MEETUP
Google UK, September 2017
Presentation: Participatory Video for Charities
TEN YEARS AFTER THE CRASH
The RSA, London, September 2017
Panel: Beliefs, Values and Worldviews in the Workplace
COMMUNITY SCREEN FORUM
University of East Anglia, July 2017
Presentation: Social Value and Sustainability in Community Cinema
Presentation: The Future of Cinema
DBACE Awards 2017
Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Enterprise
Shortlister
DIGITAL SHOREDITCH
London, May 2015
Presentation: Anywhere can be a Cinema, Cinema can be Anything
EUROPEAN SOCIAL FRANCHISING NETWORK CONFERENCE
Gothenburg, May 2014
Seminar: Distributed Innovation
UALL NATIONAL CONFERENCE
London, April 2014
Seminar: Open University Cinema
CLINKS / ARTS ALLIANCE NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Cardiff, March 2013
Seminar: Filmmaking in Prisons
LOCALITY NATIONAL CONFERENCE
London, March 2013
Workshop: Cinema in Libraries
LOCALITY NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Manchester, July 2012
Panel event: Arts, Culture and Resilience
THE OXFORD JAM
Social Enterprise Conference, Oxford, March 2012
Panel moderator: The Film Jam
LOCALITY NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Manchester, November 2011
Panel event: Libraries and digital assets
BAFTA
Rushes Short Film Festival, June 2011
Screening of three Open Cinema short films, and panel discussion
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE VENTURE LECTURE SERIES
London, RSA, March 2011
Panel on social innovation
SHEFFIELD INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
Sheffield, November 2010
Panel event: Community Cinema
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Edinburgh, June 2010
Panel event: "A Time to Play: Cinema in the Digital Age"
SKOLL WORLD FORUM
Said Business School, University of Oxford, April 2010
Panel event: "Compelling Action: Social Change Media in the Age of Information Overload"
Note: one of 'rotated panellists' from audience, not official panellist.
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Chairman
Churches Together in Westminster
- 7 years 5 months
Poverty Alleviation
Member, Homelessness Task Force (September 2005 - January 2013)
Chair, Homelessness Task Force (January 2007 - January 2013)
Representative, Homeless London (January 2006 - January 2007)
Chairman (January 2010 - January 2013)
Churches Together in Westminster is an ecumenical body galvanising voluntary action amongst the approximately 50 churches in the centre of London.
As well as outreach and support projects, my work here involved advocacy on human rights issues…Member, Homelessness Task Force (September 2005 - January 2013)
Chair, Homelessness Task Force (January 2007 - January 2013)
Representative, Homeless London (January 2006 - January 2007)
Chairman (January 2010 - January 2013)
Churches Together in Westminster is an ecumenical body galvanising voluntary action amongst the approximately 50 churches in the centre of London.
As well as outreach and support projects, my work here involved advocacy on human rights issues affecting homeless people in the City of Westminster, including participation in a working group which successfully prevented a bylaw outlawing street homelessness being passed.
Each year I convened a public debate as part of the AGM, featuring discussion by experts on a topic of pressing social concern. Themes included the Media and Citizen Journalism, Christianity Under Threat in the Middle East, and the Church and the Big Society. Guests included Ed Stourton, Giles Fraser, Danny Kruger and Lord Boateng.
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Volunteer and local group chair
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
- 2 years 4 months
Poverty Alleviation
I visited prisoners on Sundays, and isolated older people in care homes on weekday evenings. This was where I overcame my hesitations about voluntary work, discovered that there is greater value to be apprised in these forgotten corners of society than in the limelights, and gleaned the seeds of my later work.
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Advisory Panel
National Media Museum
- 1 year
Science and Technology
Contributor to the multi-year review process into the role and strategy of the museum. I advised on the place of community and participatory media in the mix of outreach activities the museum provides, on festivals, partnerships, communications and branding.
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Working Group member
Access VFX
- Present 7 years 1 month
Civil Rights and Social Action
Access VFX is an initiative led by leading international visual effects companies to increase inclusion and diversity in the film industry. Each year, as part of National Inclusion Week, we host a week of events promoting access to careers in visual effects and the wider industry for people from under-represented demographics and communities.
In 2017, I hosted a screening and moderated an industry panel respectively at BFI Southbank and Double Negative for participants of a filmmaking…Access VFX is an initiative led by leading international visual effects companies to increase inclusion and diversity in the film industry. Each year, as part of National Inclusion Week, we host a week of events promoting access to careers in visual effects and the wider industry for people from under-represented demographics and communities.
In 2017, I hosted a screening and moderated an industry panel respectively at BFI Southbank and Double Negative for participants of a filmmaking programme for people affected by cancer and mental health difficulties.
For Access VFX Month in October 2018, I facilitated partnerships and mechanisms to connect young and diverse talent with major employers in the visual effects industry. -
Guest Lecturer
Goldsmiths, University of London
- 1 month
Civil Rights and Social Action
At the invitation of emeritus professor Tony Dowmunt, I gave a lecture to students on the MA Documentary programme on documentary and social impact, using Open Cinema case studies.
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Guest Lecturer
The University of Edinburgh
- 1 month
Civil Rights and Social Action
At the invitation of Susan Kemp, programme director in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, I presented a lecture to students of film at the university on community cinema and social impact.
Publications
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Get Creative Influencing Paper
London
Open Cinema was part of the experts group of arts and homelessness organisations informing the development of the report produced by Homeless Link, the national umbrella body for homelessness organisations in England, through its Get Creative project. The study looked at how these organisations can work with the arts, examples of good practice, and explored the difference these programmes can make to the lives of participants.
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Courses
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Impact Investment Readiness
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Social Franchising
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Projects
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Movement to Work
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Movement to Work was a 12-week pre-apprenticeship programme for technology giant Cisco Systems, led by Jane Lewis (then at) Living Networks. Open Cinema contributed the film skills component, enabling 14 young people excluded from education, employment and training to build life, media and enterprise skills through film production skills development.
Three of the participants gained access to Cisco's paid and accredited apprenticeship programme (worth £150k per individual). All 11…Movement to Work was a 12-week pre-apprenticeship programme for technology giant Cisco Systems, led by Jane Lewis (then at) Living Networks. Open Cinema contributed the film skills component, enabling 14 young people excluded from education, employment and training to build life, media and enterprise skills through film production skills development.
Three of the participants gained access to Cisco's paid and accredited apprenticeship programme (worth £150k per individual). All 11 others gained full-time work in the company's supply chain.
A combined showcase for Movement to Work and Reboot UK (see separate project) was hosted at BFI Southbank in July 2016, presented original films and other participant achievements. I moderated a vibrant panel and audience discussion amongst sectoral leaders, service managers and programme participants.Other creators -
Reboot UK
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Reboot UK was a Lottery-funded digital inclusion programme, piloting various creative approaches to accelerating digital skills among excluded groups. A second phase of the programme is currently in development.
For the pilot, Open Cinema delivered community cinemas with partner organisations and participants in homelessness centres in Stockwell, Croydon and Sheffield. The film clubs co-created technology-themed film seasons - with titles including The Ape and The Microchip, and The…Reboot UK was a Lottery-funded digital inclusion programme, piloting various creative approaches to accelerating digital skills among excluded groups. A second phase of the programme is currently in development.
For the pilot, Open Cinema delivered community cinemas with partner organisations and participants in homelessness centres in Stockwell, Croydon and Sheffield. The film clubs co-created technology-themed film seasons - with titles including The Ape and The Microchip, and The Innovator's Dilemma. Film screenings took place on a weekly basis, with post-screening discussions facilitated by cinema coordinators, and regular appearances by special guests. The cinema coordinators doubled as peer mentoring coordinators, training participants in IT skills as well as in how to train and support their peers in these activities. A film on the Stockwell project can be watched here: https://vimeo.com/177998536
We also produced three films on the pilots for Reboot UK. One on the Evolve Cinema in Stockwell (above), one on Leeds MIND, and another on the Abington Centre of Education for people with multiple and complex needs.
Two participants from Evolve in Stockwell progressed to the Movement to Work programme we were delivering in parallel for Cisco Systems (see separate project).
A combined showcase for Reboot UK and Movement to Work was hosted at BFI Southbank in July 2016, presented original films and other participant achievements. I moderated a vibrant panel and audience discussion amongst sectoral leaders, service managers and programme participants.
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Honors & Awards
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RSA Catalyst Award
The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce
Airbase - a new digital platform enabling any premises to host course of learning - has been awarded a Catalyst Award to support the development of partnerships, in preparation for its Alpha launch in July 2018.
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RSA Scaling Catalyst Award
The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce
Open Cinema was awarded the highest Scaling Catalyst award by the RSA in support of its work to develop long-term partnerships in the social sector and its country-level franchise system, subsequently launched in its first iteration in Finland in 2017.
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Best Short Documentary
Moondance Film Festival (US)
For "The Right to Food", one of four participatory films made for the UK Common Rights Project (Housing Justice / Just Fair), exploring the rights of homeless people to food, shelter, water and sanitation.
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Fellowship
Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Elected fellow
Organizations
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RSA
Fellow
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