Opportunity – Curating Visibility Filmmaker Required

Accentuate creates and delivers projects that break new ground for deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people in the cultural sector. Most recently we have specialised in working with museums, galleries, digital practitioners and academics, always looking to foreground the unique perspectives of deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people, seeing them as vital contributors to our rich cultural ecology.  Accentuate is one of Screen South’s portfolio of programmes. Screen South is a Folkestone based cultural development agency, with digital creativity at its heart. 

 We have been awarded an Arts Council England grant to deliver the landmark project Curating Visibility. Curating Visibility follows the acclaimed Curating for Change programme and will continue to tackle the serious under-representation of deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people in museum workforces, collections, interpretation and audiences, through 6 Curatorial Fellowships for deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people at Partner Museums across England (as listed above). Fellows are gaining the experience they need to kick start or progress their Curatorial careers, ensuring that those with lived experience of disability are at the heart of museum research and interpretation. Fellows are also starting to work with local communities to research hidden disability history stories and share these through highly accessible public-facing interventions which have a strong digital focus.  We would like our film maker/editor to help us gather the evidence and reflections of key participants in the programme (Fellows, Co-producers and key members of our partner museum teams), tracking the progress of the project and the journey of those participating in it. This will also create both a digital audio-visual legacy of the project and a way of communicating our work to as wide an audience as possible.