My Work

FILMMAKER . DIRECTOR . PRODUCER

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

PANELS . TALKS . TRAINING

PODCAST WHEN I DARE TO BE POWERFUL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IRENE LUSZTIG Using archive to bring voices and their subjective truths from the past into the present Photo courtesy of R. Ron Jones.	PODCAST WHEN I DARE TO BE POWERFUL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE JA'TOVIA M. GARY The Importance and Burden of Locating Self Within the Filmic Space. Image courtesy of Ciara Elle Bryant.	PODCAST WHEN I DARE TO BE POWERFUL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ALLY ZLATAR 'Voice' as an authentic and vulnerable artistic expression and a therapeutic power. Art by Ally Zlatar.
GLOBALISING THE LOCAL DIASPORA CINEMA AND MEDIA GLOBALISING THE LOCAL Panel host: ‘Diversity on Screen: Perspectives on Black British and British Asian Screen Media.’	GENERATION WILEY UK Guest speaker: The Art of Oppression (2021) film viewing and Q&A.	ALJAZEERA NEWS ALJAZEERA NEWS: INSIDE STORY Panel discussion: 'How can racism against people of African descent be tackled?'
ROOTS/ROUTES Series of five films: Centring the works and voices of Black creatives and academics.	INVISIBLE BRITAIN Book launch and Q&A: Against the backdrop of Conservative austerity, the book features stories of hope and resilience from ordinary people across the UK.	THE PLACE IS HERE Q&A: The launch of a series of screenings of Black and Asian films from the 1980s to the present. The first being The People’s Account and The Hard Stop.
MAKING WAVES Q&A: Discussion ahead of the Making Waves screening. How possible is it to be Black and British?	TALKING HEADS Training: A Midlands3Cities funded media training programme for final year postgraduate research students.	QUEEN NANNY Talk: Introduction and film presentation of Many Rivers To Cross and Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess who led local Jamaicans to victory over the British Army.
GIRLHOOD Talk and Q&A: Discussing the impact on Black women of 'whitewashed' stories in terms of perpetuating racism and racist ideology.	OCTOBER DIALOGUES Talk: Centre for Research in Race and Rights. Public conversations examining the ways in which slavery has figured in public history in Britain.	HIDDEN FIGURES Q&A: Examining the erasure of women, Black women in particular, from his-stories. How much progress has been made since?
BEYOND THE LIGHTS Q&A: The film uses Black hair metaphorically to weave together critique of a sexist music industry and a mother’s failure to ‘see’ her own daughter.

CONFERENCES AND PAPERS

CONFERENCE ORAL HISTORY SOCIETY Paper: 'Is Collaboration and Co-Creation an Illusionary Practice?'	INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE CONVENOR 'When I Dare To Be Powerful' International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists, together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists in order to answer pressing questions relating to voice as an agent of change.	CONFERENCE INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR PROMOTING POLITICAL ECONOMY Paper and Panel host: 'They Will Be Heard: Representing and Re-Presenting the Voices of Marginalised and Racialised Women Through Film.'
RESEARCH CONFERENCE ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH CONFERENCE Paper: 'Re-visioning Cultural, Historical and Gendered Aspects of Nottingham's Past and Present.'	FILM FESTIVAL LEICESTER HUMAN RIGHTS ARTS AND FILM FESTIVAL Paper and Q&A: ‘Visualising the Muted Effect of Dissenting Women’s Voices.'	"I WANT THE BURDEN" "I WANT THE BURDEN" ANNUAL CONTEMPORARY DIRECTORS SYMPOSIUM Paper: ‘Some of Us are Silenced.’ Challenges the absence of plurality of Black British women in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films.
MOVEMENTS MOVEMENTS: PROTEST, POLITICS AND ACTIVISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY An exploration of the political effect of the 1984 miners’ strike focusing specifically on the women involved, and the transforming effects of their dissent, not just on the social order, but also in the women themselves.	RADICAL FILM FESTIVAL A self-conscious reflection of film practice and an exploration of directorial influence asking how important director subjectivity is and if directorial authenticity is distracting.	SENSIBLE CINEMA CHASE SENSIBLE CINEMA A two-day event exploring new research methods for creating moving-image works organised around an ecological sensibility.

THE ART OF OPPRESSION

My film The Art of Oppression (2021) features three female artists who use their art to express the social and political issues impacting their gender, race and class.

Winner 'Best Film' - Windrush Caribbean Film Festival 2022.
'Best Documentary' nominee - Midlands Movies Awards 2022.
Quarter Finalist - Serbest International Film Festival 2022.

Funded by Arts Council England.

Click here to watch The Art of Oppression

PUBLICATIONS

My publications are motivated by my research and include published works, blogs and online articles.

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JOURNAL

My journal can be accessed via the link below.

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MY WORK

FILMMAKER . DIRECTOR . PRODUCER ​ DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

PANELS . TALKS . TRAINING

PODCAST

WHEN I DARE TO BE POWERFUL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IRENE LUSZTIG Using archive to bring voices and their subjective truths from the past into the present Photo courtesy of R. Ron Jones.

PODCAST

WHEN I DARE TO BE POWERFUL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE JA'TOVIA M. GARY The Importance and Burden of Locating Self Within the Filmic Space. Image courtesy of Ciara Elle Bryant.

PODCAST

WHEN I DARE TO BE POWERFUL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ALLY ZLATAR 'Voice' as an authentic and vulnerable artistic expression and a therapeutic power. Art by Ally Zlatar.

GLOBALISING THE LOCAL

DIASPORA CINEMA AND MEDIA GLOBALISING THE LOCAL Panel host: ‘Diversity on Screen: Perspectives on Black British and British Asian Screen Media.’

GENERATION WILEY UK

Guest speaker: The Art of Oppression (2021) film viewing and Q&A.

ALJAZEERA NEWS

ALJAZEERA NEWS: INSIDE STORY Panel discussion: 'How can racism against people of African descent be tackled?'

ROOTS/ROUTES

Series of five films: Centring the works and voices of Black creatives and academics.

INVISIBLE BRITAIN

Book launch and Q&A: Against the backdrop of Conservative austerity, the book features stories of hope and resilience from ordinary people across the UK.

THE PLACE IS HERE

Q&A: The launch of a series of screenings of Black and Asian films from the 1980s to the present. The first being The People’s Account and The Hard Stop.

MAKING WAVES

Q&A: Discussion ahead of the Making Waves screening. How possible is it to be Black and British?

TALKING HEADS

Training: A Midlands3Cities funded media training programme for final year postgraduate research students.

QUEEN NANNY

Talk: Introduction and film presentation of Many Rivers To Cross and Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess who led local Jamaicans to victory over the British Army.

GIRLHOOD

Talk and Q&A: Discussing the impact on Black women of 'whitewashed' stories in terms of perpetuating racism and racist ideology.

OCTOBER DIALOGUES

Talk: Centre for Research in Race and Rights. Public conversations examining the ways in which slavery has figured in public history in Britain.

HIDDEN FIGURES

Q&A: Examining the erasure of women, Black women in particular, from his-stories. How much progress has been made since?

BEYOND THE LIGHTS

Q&A: The film uses Black hair metaphorically to weave together critique of a sexist music industry and a mother’s failure to ‘see’ her own daughter.

CONFERENCES AND PAPERS

CONFERENCE

ORAL HISTORY SOCIETY Paper: 'Is Collaboration and Co-Creation an Illusionary Practice?'

INTERNATIONAL

CONFERENCE CONFERENCE CONVENOR 'When I Dare To Be Powerful' International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists, together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists in order to answer pressing questions relating to voice as an agent of change.

CONFERENCE

INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR PROMOTING POLITICAL ECONOMY Paper and Panel host: 'They Will Be Heard: Representing and Re-Presenting the Voices of Marginalised and Racialised Women Through Film.'

RESEARCH CONFERENCE

ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH CONFERENCE Paper: 'Re-visioning Cultural, Historical and Gendered Aspects of Nottingham's Past and Present.'

FILM FESTIVAL

LEICESTER HUMAN RIGHTS ARTS AND FILM FESTIVAL Paper and Q&A: ‘Visualising the Muted Effect of Dissenting Women’s Voices.'

"I WANT THE BURDEN"

"I WANT THE BURDEN" ANNUAL CONTEMPORARY DIRECTORS SYMPOSIUM Paper: ‘Some of Us are Silenced.’ Challenges the absence of plurality of Black British women in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films.

MOVEMENTS

MOVEMENTS: PROTEST, POLITICS AND ACTIVISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY An exploration of the political effect of the 1984 miners’ strike focusing specifically on the women involved, and the transforming effects of their dissent, not just on the social order, but also in the women themselves.

RADICAL FILM FESTIVAL

A self-conscious reflection of film practice and an exploration of directorial influence asking how important director subjectivity is and if directorial authenticity is distracting.

SENSIBLE CINEMA

CHASE SENSIBLE CINEMA A two-day event exploring new research methods for creating moving-image works organised around an ecological sensibility.

THE ART OF OPPRESSION

PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL

FILMMAKER . DIRECTOR . PRODUCER

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY