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What is an Access Coordinator and How Can They Benefit Your Production?

Upskill In this upskill session, learn from trained Access Coordinator Chanel Bowen and Hard as Puck director Isaac Elliott about the ways in which documentary filmmaking can be supported by this important position - from development, to production, and beyond.

Considering working with an access coordinator, but not sure where to begin? Join us for an opportunity to learn how an access coordinator can support documentary filmmaking, from development to production and beyond.

Chanel Bowen is an experienced screen industry professional and trained Access Coordinator with her production company, Norfolk Pictures, dedicated to championing disabled stories and practitioners. Offering a unique perspective as a person who has become disabled while working in the screen industry, she has been on both sides of the fence. She will speak to her experience access-coordinating on productions and also producing for disabled stories, creatives and crew,

In this session Chanel is joined by writer/director Isaac Elliott (We Are Sexual Beings) to speak to their shared experience with Hard as Puck (in production) and on documentaries with and without an access coordinator. The pair will provide actionable steps for industry practitioners wanting to make their own productions more inclusive.

 

Image credit: Hard as Puck, 2025, Photo Mikey Hamer

 

 

Session

  • Date & Time

    13:45 – 14:30, Tuesday 4 March 2025

  • Venue

    Gandel Digital Future Lab 1

  • Speaker

    Isaac Elliott

  • Moderator

    Chanel Bowen

  • Session Producer

    Chanel Bowen