
Afro-Queer Filmmaker, Topher Campbell talks about his BET UK movie, Joanna Abeyie MBE talks BBC Creative Diversity and Stephan Pierre Mitchell talks about his 2nd short film & childhood motivation
Afro-Queer Artist Topher Campbell's 20+ year output spans broadcasting, theatre, performance, writing, experimental film and site-specific work. His work focuses on sexuality, masculinity, race, human rights, memoir and climate change. Alumni of the Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme In 2005 he was awarded the Jerwood Directors Award and was nominated for the 2011 what’s On Stage Theatre Event of the Year Award. In 2017 he was Longlisted for the inaugural Spread the Word Life Writing Prize for his forthcoming memoir Battyman. In 2000 he co-founded rukus! Federation a Black Queer arts collective with photographer Ajamu X. This culminated in the internationally recognised rukus! Archive currently held in the London Metropolitan Archives. The rukus! Archive won the 2008 Landmark Archive Award. His films have appeared in festivals worldwide including his first film The Homecoming a meditation on art masculinity and sexuality, featuring commentary by Stuart Hall. His film FETISH, a collaboration with 2014 Mercury Music Prize Winners. Young Fathers, is shot on the streets of New York. It was premiered at the Barbican Centre, London, Official Selection for the 2018 Aesthetica Short Film Festival and 2018 Scottish Queer International Film Festival and 2021 Sheffield DocFEST. Topher is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Patron of Switchboard and in 2017 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Sussex for his work in the Black LGBTQ+ community. His latest film, is a documentary about UK Black Queer history and culture for B.E.T. and will be broadcast globally in June 2022.
British born Afro-Caribbean Actor, Director, Writer Stephan Pierre Mitchell trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama(BA) / Masters Degree at Drama Centre London (MA Screen). Stephan's directorial debut short documentary film Deleted has accrued multiple industry nominations and awards: Best Short Documentary Award Winner 2021 - North East International Film Festival (Newcastle upon Tyne UK) Best Documentary Award Winner 2020 - The British Urban Film Festival (UK) Best International Documentary Winner 2020 - Jozi Film Festival (Johannesburg South Africa) Best Documentary Award Winner 2020 - SouthportFilmFest (UK) Best Short Documentary Award Winner 2019 - Winchester Film Festival (UK) Best Documentary /Runner Up - Sunderland Short Film Festival 2019 (UK) Deleted has also had premiere screenings in Toronto, Canada and three screenings in the United States. Deleted garnered global distribution and is now available on all major platforms including: AppleTV / iTunes / Amazon Prime video/ Samsung TV He is in post production for his star studded short film Reshaped, set for a winter release.
Joanna Abeyie MBE is an award-winning, agenda-setting diversity and inclusion campaigner, entrepreneur, and broadcast journalist. Driven by her passion to see real and lasting change in the working world, she has made it her mission to help place more people from diverse backgrounds in permanent and freelance jobs in the creative industries. The BBC hired media diversity specialist Joanna Abeyie on a short-term contract, a day after it emerged the corporation’s diversity chief June Sarpong is to depart later this year. Abeyie will take on a six-month Interim Head of Creative Diversity role, working closely with the outgoing Director of Creative Diversity Sarpong and BBC Chief Content Officer Charlotte Moore. In effect, Abeyie is replacing the BBC’s well-regarded Head of Creative Diversity Miranda Wayland, who last month was poached to become Head of Europe DEI for Amazon Studios and Prime Video but remains in post for the time being.
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