Oska Bright Film Festival, the leading international festival of films made by or featuring people with a learning disability adds an LGBTQ+ strand to its programme for the 2017 festival.
The festival is looking for short and feature length films that tackle themes of identity, gender and sexuality. Films can be any genre, from music videos to digital art, animation to comedy.
Matthew Kennedy, a queer, femme, learning disabled filmmaker, said: “Being at Oska Bright has definitely given me some form of creative empowerment as a learning disabled filmmaker/artist, it is giving us a space as learning disabled filmmakers to carve out our own stories and narratives.”
The festival takes place every other year, with the next one taking place from November 15-17 at The Old Market in Brighton & Hove.
At the 2015 festival, 60 films were screened, from 11 different countries. Awards were presented by representatives from Warner Brothers, the BFI, Adult Swim and film director Andrea Arnold OBE. Nearly 3000 people came to the festival over three days.
If you want to be part of the world’s first and biggest celebration of learning disability film-making, submit your film by April 30, it’s easy and free to enter.
To submit your film, click here:
Or email: oskabright@carousel.org.uk
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