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Getting Queer-ious

Craft Queer content creators share personal experiences of working in the documentary space: secrets for success, mistakes made, lessons learned, and tactics and techniques for unforgettable inclusive storytelling.

 

 

Right across factual formats, we’re making more provocative mini-series, more daring social experiments, zooming in on more niche communities and subcultures in the hope we’ll all be challenged to check our own prejudice to understand one another more. But how well are we doing at reflecting genuine LGBTQIA+ diversity in documentary, and how can we cut through the tropes to tell more authentic untold queer stories in unexpected ways for global audiences?

Join Patrick Abboud (The Greatest Menace: Inside the Gay Prison Experiment), and fellow queer content creators Tony Ayres (Anatomy, China Dolls), Maya Newell (The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone) and Zoë Coombs Marr (Queerstralia) as they tap you into stories you never knew existed and where the opportunities are to tell them in new ways. The panel will share their secrets for success: how to approach development with sensitive subjects, what it takes to turn a local story into an international must watch, mistakes made, lessons learned, tactics and techniques in the field for unforgettable inclusive storytelling.

 

 

Image Credit: China Dolls, Tony Ayres, 1997

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