On Our Own Terms

Artists creating cutting-edge, award-winning work share insights into their innovative, socially engaged approaches, which respond directly to today's cultural and political realities.

Image: Ish, Dir. Imran Perretta

Credits

  • Total running time

    90min

Access information

British Sign Language (BSL):
Saturday 18 October 16:30

Live captions:
Saturday 18 October 16:30

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Introduction

At the forefront of some of the UK's most urgent and original filmmaking, award-winning director Akinola Davies Jr. joins Imran Perretta, the co-founder of the radical artist workers' cooperative not/nowhere and the cooperative's co-director Jennifer Lauren Martin, to discuss their working methods. They will explore how to navigate questions of socially engaged and globally resonant cinema, sustain creative practice amid uncertainty, and how to deal with rapid change in the film industry and the world at large.

Speakers/panellists

  • Akinola Davies Jr., dir. My Father's Shadow
  • Imran Perretta, dir. Ish and co-founder not/nowhere
  • Jennifer Lauren Martin, co-director not/nowhere

Hosted by Abiba Coulibaly, film programmer and founder of Brixton Community Cinema.

In partnership with Brixton Community Cinema.

How to book

This event is free and open to those aged 15 and over.

Booking opens on Thursday 2 October at 10am.

Tickets for LFF for Free events are over-allocated to account for no-shows. Tickets do not guarantee entry and work on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Seating is unallocated unless otherwise stated.

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Try your luck at the standby queue 15 minutes before the start time.

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