Diane Devlin was born in Leith, Edinburgh, in 1956 and grew up in a working class family with a love for music and storytelling. A former nurse, she is passionate about amplifying marginalised voices, especially older women. She has worked on community driven film projects tackling health stigma around smear tests and mammogram uptake. A […]
Lucy Parker is an artist filmmaker and film educator living in London. Her film work explores spectrums of political and social practices that enable, or form barriers to, community led change. She is motivated by the desire to imagine and live in a way not built on dominance and extraction; this motivation informs her approach […]
Jonathan Johnson is a photographer and filmmaker whose work examines the idea of place and the shifting relationships between humans and the natural world. His practice weaves together autobiography and landscape, drawing from his mixed-heritage background, travel, and backcountry exploration. Through still and moving images, he reflects on how personal and collective histories shape our […]
The Bali-Glasgow Filmmaker Exchange is a residency program for Indonesian and Scottish filmmakers that is made possible with the support of Connections Through Culture (CTC), a grant scheme run by the British Council in the UK and East Asia to foster international collaborations through arts and culture. This program fosters creative dialogue around environmental sustainability, […]
Robert Rae is a theatre and film director and writer. He chooses to develop work through socially engaged practice that aligns with his own political and activist commitments. His expertise has taken him all over the world sharing and developing his methodology. His career spans over 30 years, beginning as Producer for 7:84 England and […]
Kaljeven Singh Lally is a writer and director based in Glasgow. As a writer, he focuses on stories specific to his voice and lived experiences as a Sikh person raised in Scotland; combined with his love of cinema. As a writer he has a feature film, Five Thieves, in early development with Screen Scotland/Short Circuit. […]
Emily Munro (she/her) is a writer and filmmaker based in Glasgow whose work explores our ambivalent relationship/s to the past and future in the Anthropocene. Thematically, she is often concerned with energy use and extraction, the correspondence and dichotomies between plants, plastics, humans and the cosmos, nostalgic viewpoints on the Pyrocene, archival re-use, and speculative […]
For the last 20 years Oliver has been making films for television and theatrical presentation, working for internationally renowned broadcasters including the BBC and for creators including New Guide to Opera, Unhold Productions and Stans Cafe. In his TV work he specialises in high-profile factual series often about the outdoors. He was the lead director […]
Xiaolu Guo was born in 1973 in China and comes from a family of sea lovers. Her grandfather was a fisherman, her father was sent to a labour camp in the 60s because he wanted to paint the sea instead of being a farmer. At 19 she left her hometown and studied at Beijing Film […]
Working with the Bolex, sisters Chloe and Emily Charlton use in-camera techniques such as single frame shooting and multiple exposures to explore geological vibrancy and liveliness. They are recipients of the Lateral Lab artists Correspondence collaboration of Autumn ‘22, a project that supported contemporary creative responses to the environment through an ecocentric spirit of exploration […]
Rikke Luther is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. Luther’s work has been presented in Biennales and Triennales [such as Venice, Singapore, Echigo-Tsumari, Auckland, Göteborg and Sao Paulo]; museums [such as Moderna Museum, Kunsthaus Bregenz, The New Museum, Museo Tamayo, Smart Museum]; exhibitions [such as Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art, 48C Public.Art.Ecology, Über Lebenskunst and […]