Film Programming

I am a freelance film programmer and curator with a specialised interest in disability representation and LGBTQ+ stories. You can read more about my programming experience and projects below:

I was President of RGU Film Society whilst I was studying at Robert Gordon University, and I organised and led a short film festival in 2019.

I have been a submissions previewer for a number of festivals, including Take One Action! Film Festivals, Women X Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, and Edinburgh Short Film Festival.

In 2020, I underwent Cinema For All’s Access Launchpad scheme to gain more practical knowledge about the running of a community cinema. With funding support from Cinema For All and Film Hub Scotland, I delivered an online screening and Q&A as part of Caption This Cinema.

In 2021, I completed a Film Curation Fellowship as part of Aya Film’s Curate-It. I curated Left For Deaf, a collection of short films exploring disability and deafness in the horror and thriller genres, which was available to watch through Curate-It’s screening platform.

I was honoured to be invited to be a Judge for Deaffest’s TV & Film Awards 2022.

For Edinburgh Filmhouse and Belmont Filmhouse, I curated a weekender of films to celebrate Deaf Awareness Week. You can find out more about the Belmont Filmhouse weekender and the Edinburgh Filmhouse weekender.

I was a lead programmer for the 2023 edition of BFI’s Busting the Bias Film Festival, and I curated a short film programme. ECLECTIC screened at BFI Southbank and was available on BFI Player.

For the release of Is There Anybody Out There?, I was involved in curating and organising a roundtable event and panel event on behalf of Conic Films.

In 2024, I worked with Take One Action! Film Festival, Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF), and Edinburgh Deaf Festival to curate a programme of short films exploring Deaf and disabled perspectives, intersectional identities, queer ecology, and our connection to the natural world and climate justice. Titled ‘Our World: Signs for the Future’, the first screening took place at the Edinburgh Deaf Festival. An expanded programme and filmmaker Q&A took place at the 2024 edition of SQIFF.

In 2024, I supported the development and launch of Deaf Action’s BSL Film Club, and I programme monthly screenings with co-programmer Tomas Gerrard.

As part of Crip Cinema Collective, I co-curated a panel and presentation on the representation of disabled women in cinema for the BFI’s Women With A Movie Camera Summit 2025, which took place at BFI Southbank.

I was a lead programmer for the BFI’s We Crip Film Festival, which took place at BFI Southbank in July 2025. This festival champions disability storytelling, filmmaking, and community action.

I am a curator for Independent Cinema Office’s ‘Crip Melodrama: She’s Hysterical’ tour, along with Emily Simmons and Florence Grieve. This tour of Safe (1995) screenings and events examines the representation of disabled women within melodrama.

I am part of the Leith Kino collective, a weekly pop-up cinema at Leith Depot, Edinburgh. I programmed and presented a screening of Reid Daveport’s portrait documentary, I Didn’t See You There, in November 2025. The programming notes are available to read on Leith Kino’s Substack.

Caption This Cinema

I founded Caption This Cinema — a pop-up cinema with access at its core, striving to empower and champion disabled audiences. Caption This aims to provide accessible cinema experiences, as well as disability representation in its programming.

Caption This’ inaugural screening took place in 2022 through the online screening platform Eventive. Rodney Evans’ profound documentary, Vision Portraits (2019) was screened, followed by an online Q&A with disabled curators, Theresa Heath and Tara Brown.

You can find out more by reading this article featured in The Press and Journal.

Caption This Cinema is looking for partners and venues to collaborate with on future events. Get in touch! (Caption This Cinema is currently on hiatus)