Is There Anybody Out There? + Project Art works short film

Award-winning BAFTA nominated documentary, Is There Anybody Out There? follows Brighton filmmaker Ella Glendining's global search for someone with a body that looks like hers, and explores what it takes to love yourself fiercely as a disabled person in a non-disabled world.

While navigating daily discrimination, she inhabits and loves her unusual body and searches the world for another person like her. The film explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.

The film is a captivating cry for the disabled community and a self-professed love letter to the disabled community and anyone who has ever felt other.

This film is F-Rated. The F-Rating is applied to all films which are directed by women and/or written by women. Find out more about F-Rating.

About short film The Mask

We'll also be screening a short film in collaboration with Tim Corrigan, Creative Director at Project Art Works at the event.

The Mask, dir: Sharif Persaud and Tim Corrigan (2017)
3 minutes 46 seconds

We are delighted to be screening the Project Art Works short film, The Mask, alongside Is There Anybody Out There?
This award-winning film is about autism and identity. Featuring writer and director Sharif Persaud as he journeys along a coastal footpath, Sharif describes what it means to have
autism while all the time wearing his favourite celebrity mask.

He finally arrives at his destination where he comes face to face with his alter-ego.

The Mask won Best Story at the Oska Bright Film Festival in 2017, and has been shown at screenings across the world including FilmBath UK, the Other Film Festival in Melbourne,
Electric Palace in Hastings, and the Discover Film Awards festival in London. It has also featured in a British Film Institute Collection Disabled Britain on Film.

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Coastal Currents exhibition

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