A&E Accessibility and Environment Podcast

How can a person suffering from Alzheimer's still tell their own life?  A_biography recollects through drawn animation, point by point, the emergence of a memory exactly where it seems lost - remembering: the possibility of being at a "point of view". This process takes place in a gliding state of constant transformation on the surface of a now closed body of memory. More Info | Transcript Alexand...

Traveling Light, is a short dance film celebrating performers with disabilities, revealing the language of movement as a profound form of communication. The film explores human connections and community as well as our inevitable link to nature. More Info | Transcript In "Traveling Light," three out of five actors are neurodivergent. These performers with disabilities play a dual role as...

Nich L. Perez is a Filipino-American filmmaker, educator, and collaborator. He creates film grain and pixels through personal human connections, carving narratives with the lens of empathy and community.  As the founder and director of the Nonprofit Film Collective (nonprofitfilm.org), a grassroots group of storytellers, “Nick” transcends traditional boundaries by collaborating with nonprofits, co...

Mark Krol was born in Stavropol in Russian Federation in 1990. “Invisible Life" is his debut feature-length documentary following 5 visually impaired people, (3 of them completely blind), around their daily lives. The youngest of the characters, Sasha Leshov passes away 2 months after starting the filming. The film is dedicated to his memory. His story serves as a poignant reminder of the fra...

Pripyat Horse is a splinter from a much bigger project. The live footage was shot in Pripyat in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in 2009. Sally Pearce made this short piece to express grief for her editor and friend Marianne Kuopanportti Fennell who died in December 2020. The grieving extends out from the very personal to the global. Through this film she also grieves for the earth at a time of climat...

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 c...

Renee discusses her film Tiger (72000 BC - 2059 AC), the motivation behind it and what is next for her as a young activist filmmaker. More Info  |  Transcript #GirlsAgainstGunViolence https://girlsagainstgunviolence.com help the victims of the gun violence.

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. More Info | Transcript

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. More Info | Transcript Coming up: ROAD MOVIE is a new multi-media exhibition at Eastbury Manor House, Barking &a...

Writer and producer Maddi Crease, Director Aaron Shrimpton, Sound designer Steve Pretty, and choreographer  Hollie Dee, discuss their film Autistic Joy. More Info 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 autist...

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...

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...

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. Mor...

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. More Info | Transcript

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...

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. ⁠ More Info⁠ | Transcript 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. More Info | Transcript See Oluwale at the Arnolfini Showcase on the 1 March 2025