Follow The Dogs
A MediaActive Projects Production, presented by Film Cymru Wales and BFI Network in association with BBC Cymru Wales through Beacons Short Film Fund
Directed by Isabel Garrett
Follow the Dogs is a short, part-animated documentary by animation director Isabel Garrett and creative producer Sue Gainsborough, made in creative collaboration with, and featuring, elder Warren Hastings. The film explores and celebrates Warren's resilience, imagination and creativity as he faces the challenges of recovering from major surgery.
The film is the first step into documentary for Isabel.
The film draws upon Warren's lived experience but also reflects upon his innate creativity and passion to make things. Warren is not only the subject of the documentary, but he has genuine creative agency that needed to be carefully considered by the Director.
Follow the Dogs' origins can be traced back to a collaborative arts project working with older people in Shropshire - commissioned by MediaActive Projects through their Creative Conversations partnership programme and funded by Arts Council England's Celebrating Age Fund.
Follow the Dogs is currently on its film festival tour, and will be broadcast on BBC Wales, and available on BBC iPlayer later this year.
The film is the first step into documentary for Isabel.
The film draws upon Warren's lived experience but also reflects upon his innate creativity and passion to make things. Warren is not only the subject of the documentary, but he has genuine creative agency that needed to be carefully considered by the Director.
Follow the Dogs' origins can be traced back to a collaborative arts project working with older people in Shropshire - commissioned by MediaActive Projects through their Creative Conversations partnership programme and funded by Arts Council England's Celebrating Age Fund.
Follow the Dogs is currently on its film festival tour, and will be broadcast on BBC Wales, and available on BBC iPlayer later this year.
Watch the Follow The Dogs trailer here
Isabel Garrett
Isabel is a Welsh animation director known for creating tactile stop-motion films which are surreal, subversive and laced with a dark sense of humour. Formerly a resident artist at Alexander McQueen's Sarabande Foundation, and a graduate of the prestigious National Film and Television School, Isabel specialises in crafting intricate, atmospheric worlds that are as surreal as they are charming. Often animating with non-traditional materials and preferring to work with tactile textures, Isabel fluently combines animation styles and techniques to transport audiences into the most unexpected places. |