We are absolutely delighted to announce the lineup for the 21st edition of Bridging the Gap!
In the coming months, these twelve talented filmmakers will have the opportunity to refine their ideas and skills through a series of workshops, masterclasses, and bespoke training sessions. Following the development stage, each filmmaker will be pitching their project to a panel of experts in January 2023.
We want to take a moment to express our gratitude to all the applicants who shared their ideas with us. Your stories were truly captivating, and we felt honoured to have the chance to read them.
Watch this space for more exciting news about the upcoming Bridging the Gap workshops.
Meet the participants below:
Noor Abdel-Razik
Noor Abdel-Razik is a Scottish/Sudanese/Egyptian, Glasgow-based, self-shooting filmmaker and writer with an MA in Film and Politics and an MSc in International Journalism who holds credits with the BBC, Channel 4, Paramount+, ITV and NBC spanning many genres but with a specialism in sensitive access and investigations.
Eubha Akilade
Eubha Akilade is an actor, writer and director from Glasgow. Her short BLACKWOOL, funded by Screen Scotland and BFI, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, the first Scottish narrative short to ever do so. Eubha also co-wrote and directed on the BBC monologue series THE WEDDING, and is commissioned currently by Amazon Prime to write and direct her second short, shooting in November.
Eva Babington
A graduate of Bournemouth Film School, Eva’s recent documentary focused on women’s reproductive health. Its impact has inspired her to concentrate on social cause documentaries. She has experience as a production assistant and camera operator on other productions and is an alumni of Edinburgh TV Festival’s talent scheme The Network.
Mariana Duarte
Mariana Duarte is a filmmaker with a particular interest in migrant cinema. After working as an in-house editor at TV Globo in Brazil and graduating from the Kino Eyes Erasmus Film Masters, she’s now a part-time PhD candidate at Edinburgh College of Art. Mariana directed the short documentary NEWCOMERS (2013) and has edited a number of TV shows and short films, which have screened at renowned festivals. In 2022 she was selected for Berlinale Talents and for a Bafta Connect membership.
Ciara Flint
Ciara Flint is a South African documentary filmmaker living in Scotland. Her award winning short films have screened at a wide array of festivals across the UK, including Sheffield Doc/Fest, Encounters and Glasgow Short Film Festival. Her work centres around raw, human-centric stories and bold, experimental visuals.
Alex Hetherington
Alex makes 16mm films that observe encounters between members of different (alternative, queer or forgotten) communities, artists, spaces, objects, biographies, writing and time. Recent hybrid documentary/experimental works include Sister Films, the installation SEEN AND NOT SEEN for the CCA in Glasgow and a 16mm collaboration with Luke Fowler.
Lipa Hussain
Lipa previously wrote and directed her debut short film PRESS KEY FIVE which was also a bilingual film. Whilst she is still early in her filmmaking journey, she has found a lot of joy in telling stories that provoke discussion and emotion. Filmmaking has in some ways served as her second act, but it has now become an outlet to tell stories that matter to her.
Ross Little
Ross Little is a filmmaker from Scotland. He first studied Painting at The Glasgow School of Art and then Film Directing at Edinburgh College of Art. His films highlight communities and environments worldwide that are struggling for justice, recognition and visibility, be that concerning labour conditions, political representation or ecological survival.
Sara Missaghian-Schirazi
As an Assistant Producer for major broadcasters, Sara was named an Edinburgh TV Festival’s ‘One to Watch’ and an ‘Emerging Producer’ by The World Congress of Science and Factual Producers. Taking the leap into cross-genre directing in 2021, she is developing a character-focused body of work fusing gentle humour and visual beauty to generate empathy for less-heard perspectives
Theo Panagopoulos
Theo Panagopoulos is a Greek-Lebanese-Palestinian filmmaker based in Glasgow. His first short documentary MY OWN PERSONAL LEBANON screened in multiple Bafta-qualifying festivals and his latest short THE PLACE BETWEEN WAS AND WILL BE premiered at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in 2022. His films explore themes of collective memory, fragmented identities and otherness.
Holly Marie Parnell
Holly Márie Parnell is an Irish/Canadian filmmaker based in Glasgow. Through a documentary language, she works across film and expanded cinema. Her practice is motivated by the powerful truths of embodied knowledge and lived experience. She is an alumnus of the FLAMIN Fellowship and an MFA graduate of the Slade.
Gavin Reid
Gavin completed his filmmaking MA at UWS in August and his final project was a documentary I directed MY DAD AND THE VOLCANO. It’s about him, his Dad and a 6ft volcano sculpture he made at art school. It’s been in his Dad’s shed for five years, much to his annoyance.
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