#Shortitout
Filmmaker Front Room Q&As with Desiree Akhavan
Thursday 30th April | 18:00 BST
Hosted by Alix Taylor, BFI NETWORK in partnership with BAFTA
BFI NETWORK, Encounters Film Festival and Watershed, in partnership with partners including BAFTA and Channel 4 will be hosting a series of online Q&As with filmmakers live from their front room! Every Thursday evening in May we’ll be joined by a different guest; be inspired by their filmmaking journey, get advice on where to start on yours and keep your creative juices flowing!
The amazingly talented Iranian-American filmmaker Desiree Akhavan will be joining us for our first #Shortitout Filmmaker Front Room Q&A! Best known for her directorial debut feature Appropriate Behaviour (2014) and more recently The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018), she also wrote, directed and starred in the Channel 4 series The Bisexual. We will be chatting with Desiree about her filmmaking journey from her lesbian comedy web series The Slope (2010) to Grand Jury Prize Winner at Sundance Film Festival for The Miseducation of Cameron Post and making films about a subject that is deeply personal to you.
Episode 1 of The Slope (2010)
You can watch Seasons 1 & 2 of The Slope here.
#shortitout is brought to you by Encounters Film Festival, BFI NETWORK and Watershed as part of Depict 2020.
