This brand new course offers you sessions delivered directly from artist-filmmaker Steven Eastwood, filmmaker Chloe White and the Stims Collective team. It is aimed at film professionals or those already within the industry, to gain skills and knowledge for the creation and delivery of co-creation and collaborative projects, and insight into how to create, programme and finance inclusive film projects.

Course Description

WHAT: This brand new course offers you sessions delivered directly from artist-filmmaker Steven Eastwood, filmmaker Chloe White and the Stims Collective team. It is aimed at film professionals or those already within the industry, to gain skills and knowledge for the creation and delivery of co-creation and collaborative projects, and insight into how to create, programme and finance inclusive film projects.

WHERE: In-Person, UCL East, Stratford, London.

WHO: Run by Steven Eastwood (Autism through cinema), Chloe White (Whalebone Films) and Stims Collective: Georgia Bradburn, Sam Chown-Ahern, and Lilian Crawford.

WHEN: February 16th – March 23rd 2026

COMMITMENT: Varying number of hours per week (Please see schedule below for breakdown)

WHAT YOU GET: 7 sessions with film professionals from across production exhibition, to gain a thorough grounding in non-fiction film activism and advocacy, the mechanisms of inclusive working environments, and case studies of film aesthetics and structures.

HOW MUCH: General: £450 | Concession: £375

DEADLINE TO SIGN UP: TBD.

AGES: 18+

 

From the team that created The Stimming Pool (2024) the course will provide a thorough grounding in the essential tools, practices and strategies for developing and exhibiting collaborative and inclusive productions. Sessions will include collaborative activities and discussions to inform future producers, production managers, exhibitors and film professionals, on how to contribute to an industry that supports inclusive methodologies and practical applications of inclusivity, particularly for neurodivergent and disabled communities. The course will involve break-out activities where participants are encouraged to explore and troubleshoot potential co-creation projects of their own.

Intended Learning Outcomes:

• Develop potential co-creation projects, meet potential collaborators
• Learn how to embrace the IP complexity that inevitably and necessarily arises from co-creation projects, and how the rights of artists and contributors can be better defined and enshrined in contracts, ownership models, roles and sign-off mechanisms
• Workshop how potential subjects might become collaborators/co-authors.
• Explore a number of films that have used distinct concepts, aesthetics and structures to more accurately represent subjects
• explore how inclusive and co-created film productions can partner with arts organisations and exhibitors to run relaxed screenings and will also consider how funders could be more accessible.
• Study non-fiction film activism and advocacy in the context of disability, through case study films