19/03/2015 - BFI Flare announces the winning filmmakers of the first first LGBT Film Mentorship programme

The BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival announced today the successful filmmakers who will take part in the inaugural BFI Flare Mentorship programme in partnership with Creative Skillset.

 

This is a programme that offers support to emerging LGBT filmmakers who will be mentored by a senior figure from the film industry as they develop industry knowledge and professional connections.

 

The winning filmmakers and their specially chosen mentors are:

 

- Aleem Khan, writer/director, whose short film Three Brothers was BAFTA nominated in 2015 and who is currently working on new feature, After Love.

Mentor: Ben Roberts, Director, BFI Lottery Film Fund

 

- Claire Kurylowski,  whose web-based work, In Real Life, garnered a place in Dazed Digital’s Visionaries series and had its cinema premiere at the Institute of Contemporary Arts as part of London Short Film Festival

Mentor: Ester Martin Bergsmark, award-winning Swedish filmmaker (Something Must Break, She Male Snails)

 

- Islay Bell-Webb, writer, an NFTS graduate who co-wrote Slap (directed by Nick Rowland), which was also BAFTA nominated earlier this year

Mentor: Russell T. Davies OBE (Doctor Who and recently Cucumber, Banana and Tofu)

 

- Rachelle Constant, producer, who is currently a development editor at BBC Continuing Drama and recently produced short film Two Dosas which screened at BFI London Film Festival

Mentors: Mike Goodridge, CEO of Protagonist Pictures, former editor Screen International; and BAFTA-nominated producer Gavin Humphries

 

- Scout Stuart whose debut feature Mud was selected for initial development with Creative England’s iFeatures

Mentor: Hong Khaou, director of BAFTA-nominated Lilting

 

For more information on the BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival, which runs from the 19th to the 29th of March 2015, click here to visit their website.