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March 19 – 30, 2025

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LGBTQ+ FOLK: WHAT STORIES DO WE WANT TO TELL AND WHO GETS THE MONEY TO TELL THEM?

16:40 - 17:30 Tuesday 19th Mar 2024 / 50 min

4 film makers from across the many and varied LGBTQ+ community sit down to discuss and debate perhaps the two most important subjects – stories and money.

Do we all get equal access to the money, both public and private? Do some types of stories get more money? If we can get to the money, do we want (or feel we need) to focus on politicised, activist stories or is there room for more joy or perhaps even ordinariness? How do we get to have our cake and eat it too?

Speakers

Cherish Oteka

Cherish Oteka is a BAFTA award-winning documentary filmmaker who is passionate about telling universal stories through the lens of often erased communities.

Bisi Alimi

Bisi Alimi is an “Angelic Troublemaker Incarnate” PASSIONATE public speaker, policy analyst, television pundit, campaigner and social media influencer and a prophet of Intersectionality. Bisi’s expertise in Social Justice ranges from Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity to Race and Race Relation

Daniel Karslake

Daniel Karslake is an American film and television director/producer whose latest feature, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO, about four religious families who discover they have a gay or trans child, premiered at the Tribeca Festival. His first film, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO, premiered at Sundance.

Lindsey Dryden

An Emmy®-award winning producer and director, Lindsey produced Trans In America (2018, ACLU/them) and Unrest (2017, Sundance Special Jury Award, PBS/Netflix), and directed Lost and Sound (2012, SXSW) and Jackie Kay (Tate Queer British Art). She is a proud co-founder of FWD-Doc and member of QueerDoc.; Lindsey Dryden is an Emmy® award-winning filmmaker based in Austin TX and the UK. She directed The Callers with Multitude Films, Jackie Kay for Tate’s Queer British Art, and SXSW-premiering Lost and Sound. She produced Sundance-debuting Unrest and Emmy-winning Trans In America. She’s a proud co-founder of FWD-Doc and member of QueerDoc, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and BAFTA.; An Emmy®-award winning producer and director, Lindsey produced Trans In America (2018, ACLU/them) and Unrest (2017, Sundance Special Jury Award, PBS/Netflix), and directed Lost and Sound (2012, SXSW) and Jackie Kay (Tate Queer British Art). She is a proud co-founder of FWD-Doc and member of QueerDoc.; Lindsey Dryden is an Emmy® award-winning filmmaker based in Austin TX and the UK. She directed The Callers with Multitude Films, Jackie Kay for Tate’s Queer British Art, and SXSW-premiering Lost and Sound. She produced Sundance-debuting Unrest and Emmy-winning Trans In America. She’s a proud co-founder of FWD-Doc and member of QueerDoc, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and BAFTA.