Documentary Filmmaking
Owain Astles is a director and visual activist.
Owain’s work focuses around participatory filmmaking, visual activism and community empowerment.
In this workshop, you’ll be taken through how to create a solid treatment, best practices for interviewing non-actors, how to find stories that matter and more.
Owain is currently delivering a project working with individuals in London prisons, creating films based around participants’ experiences of mental health within the criminal justice system. Owain is a member of BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew and has created projects through BFI New Writers Lab and BBC Arts. Previous projects include Sleeping Rough, a docudrama about street homelessness created in collaboration with Big Issue Foundation and Cardboard Citizens; To My Younger Self, a BBC documentary about solitary confinement in the youth justice system; and The Hardest Fight of My Life, a docudrama about boxing as a coping mechanism for mental ill-health.
Owain Astles is a director and visual activist.
Owain’s work focuses around participatory filmmaking, visual activism and community empowerment.
In this workshop, you’ll be taken through how to create a solid treatment, best practices for interviewing non-actors, how to find stories that matter and more.
Owain is currently delivering a project working with individuals in London prisons, creating films based around participants’ experiences of mental health within the criminal justice system. Owain is a member of BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew and has created projects through BFI New Writers Lab and BBC Arts. Previous projects include Sleeping Rough, a docudrama about street homelessness created in collaboration with Big Issue Foundation and Cardboard Citizens; To My Younger Self, a BBC documentary about solitary confinement in the youth justice system; and The Hardest Fight of My Life, a docudrama about boxing as a coping mechanism for mental ill-health.
Owain Astles is a director and visual activist.
Owain’s work focuses around participatory filmmaking, visual activism and community empowerment.
In this workshop, you’ll be taken through how to create a solid treatment, best practices for interviewing non-actors, how to find stories that matter and more.
Owain is currently delivering a project working with individuals in London prisons, creating films based around participants’ experiences of mental health within the criminal justice system. Owain is a member of BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew and has created projects through BFI New Writers Lab and BBC Arts. Previous projects include Sleeping Rough, a docudrama about street homelessness created in collaboration with Big Issue Foundation and Cardboard Citizens; To My Younger Self, a BBC documentary about solitary confinement in the youth justice system; and The Hardest Fight of My Life, a docudrama about boxing as a coping mechanism for mental ill-health.
