Professor and Para-athlete Rodrigo de Oliveira Garcia is the writer, co-director and subject of the documentary’ In the sea’.
The film shows Rodrigo traveling to swim for 8km in Rio de Janeiro. He narrates the sensations of spending hours alone in the sea, unveiling issues such as the autonomy of the use of his body, the ableist discourse of overcoming, and racial inequality in his country.
This conversation touches on many aspects of disability issues and environmental access, as well as citizenship handled as a commodity through different cultures and economic systems, opposite indigenous peoples and and their relation with their lands, nature and self. Rodrigo speaks about his unique heritage, his social class and his take on disability culture and the global burning issues as COP30 comes to one more unresolved ending.
You can reach him at:
rodrigo7garcia@yahoo.com.br
Instagram: @rodrigo7garcia
Renee discusses her film Tiger (72000 BC - 2059 AC), the motivation behind it and what is next for her as a young activist filmmaker.
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Max Endersby talks about his film The A Files. The A Files explores the experience of coming to terms with autism, told through a story of mystery, a mad scientists and meeting your clone.
Aislinn Evans talks about her work Bring Me My Chariot of Fire!
Aislinn is a site-responsive artist looking at the urban and industrial sites she calls home. She talks about the inspirations and ideas behind the work and her experience as a young, neurodivergent artist living in London.
Coming up:
ROAD MOVIE is a new multi-media exhibition at Eastbury Manor House, Barking & Dagenham. ROAD MOVIE uses expanded cinema - slides, sound, stills, video - to rethink the road, using disorientation to change how we feel about the space around us. At the opening there'll be a chat with the artist Aislinn Evans, food, sound people, and an exclusive first look at the exhibition!
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1258213132349?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Writer and producer Maddi Crease, Director Aaron Shrimpton, Sound designer Steve Pretty, and choreographer Hollie Dee, discuss their film Autistic Joy.
Autistic Joy is a micro short poetry film exploring the side of autism that often goes unspoken and under-explored: the joyful. From happy stimming to sensory delight, Autistic Joy delivers an insight into the positives within our autistic experience.
Lia Beltrami talks about her film 'Guardians of the Rainforest', a journey across rainforests in Amazon, Congo Basin, Borneo. A collective song of Indigenous women’s voices as they share their stories, of socio-ecological destruction, and their hopes for constructing something different.
Lia Beltrami received the Golden Lion for Peace 2017 in Venice. She is the director of 40 documentaries and is CEO of Aurora Vision.
Alfie and Maud talk about their film Picturing Wonderland. They explore their working practices, their relationships with the rest of the crew, their understanding of disability, Maud's experience of degenerative blindness and how their practice and thinking relates to the environment.
Picturing Wonderland explores Maud’s fascinating relationship with the colours of the world around her as well as the use of the medium of analogue photography as a form of documentation and hobby.
Kirsten Slemint talks about her film Burnt Country which won the Best Short Documentary at the first A&E Film Festival and is BAFTA nominated.
Could Australia’s past help secure its future? 65,000 years in the making, Burnt Country is about fighting fire, with fire.
Exploring the profound knowledge and wisdom of First Nations, this film is an invitation to connect to country and community.
Jody Santos talks about her life, the Disability Justice Project and her documentary 'Rising Tides - Raising Voices' featuring disabled grassroots activists across the Pacific championing disability-inclusive climate action.
Rising Tides, Raising Voices is a call for intersectional, inclusive, community-led solutions to the encroaching global crisis.
Peter Carr talks about the film Whale Wash - The Forgotten Whale which was premiered in the first A&E Accessibility and Environment Film Festival and was awarded a Special Mention by the Jury.
Whale wash tells the story of an ESPA maritime investigations team pursuing Norwegian whaling vessels at sea and revealing the whalers' unethical hunting methods.
Peter discusses the issues raised by the film and how to effectively campaign to protect endangered species. He also talks about the ESPA (Endangered Species Protection Agency) and how he works with ex-military and special forces recruits around the world.
See Whale Wash - The Forgotten Whale at the Arnolfini Showcase on the 1 March 2025
Petra Kuppers talks about her film Crip/Mad Archive Dances which received a special mention in the first A&E Accessibility and Environment Film Festival.
See Crip/Mad Archive Dances at the Arnolfini Showcase on the 1 March 2025
Jeremiah Quinn talks about his film Oluwale which received a special mention in the first A&E Accessibility and Environment Film Festival.
See Oluwale at the Arnolfini Showcase on the 1 March 2025