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, 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
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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. |
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A key consideration for contemporary creatives has to be how we operate in relation to the very real challenges of climate change and climate justice. The Creative Industries need to work harder to find ways they can contribute positively to this agenda.
Through working practices we can reduce our carbon footprint and encourage others to do the same. Through editorial choices we can profile the issues and opportunities that are ahead of us all.
For this production we have used the film industry’s albert carbon action planning and carbon footprint audit toolkits. This process has increased our awareness of the issues and opportunities, and supported our planning and auditing of an intended reduction in the film’s carbon footprint. The audit quantified our carbon footprint; we then used a carbon-offsetting scheme to reduce the environmental impact of the project.
Through simple steps we have been able to take action to reduce, reuse, recycle and avoid waste. We have been mindful of reducing energy and fossil fuel consumption by using low and green energy options when possible. We have utilised remote working options, avoiding unnecessary travel…and, when we have travelled, we used public or shared transport as much as we could.
These measures are obvious choices that we all can make, at work, at play, and at home.
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Through working practices we can reduce our carbon footprint and encourage others to do the same. Through editorial choices we can profile the issues and opportunities that are ahead of us all.
For this production we have used the film industry’s albert carbon action planning and carbon footprint audit toolkits. This process has increased our awareness of the issues and opportunities, and supported our planning and auditing of an intended reduction in the film’s carbon footprint. The audit quantified our carbon footprint; we then used a carbon-offsetting scheme to reduce the environmental impact of the project.
Through simple steps we have been able to take action to reduce, reuse, recycle and avoid waste. We have been mindful of reducing energy and fossil fuel consumption by using low and green energy options when possible. We have utilised remote working options, avoiding unnecessary travel…and, when we have travelled, we used public or shared transport as much as we could.
These measures are obvious choices that we all can make, at work, at play, and at home.
For more information about albert please visit: wearealbert.org
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