FOCAL's Online Workshop: Working with Sensitive Content
FOCAL's Online Workshop: Working with Sensitive Content [Virtual], October 19, 2022 at 3:45pm BST
This workshop will include a discussion on mental health and the challenges faced by the archive industry when working with graphic and disturbing content. With the advance of True Crime series, this panel will introduce resources for a better protection and support of production crews and freelancers.
Panelists: Alexis Morrell, VP and Head of Archival and Clearance at IPC; James RM Hunt, award-winning producer, founder and CEO of Dog & Duck Films Ltd; Lucy Tallon, Head of Mental Health and Wellbeing at the Film and TV Charity.
Register here.
Additional reading:
ScreenSkills, April 19, 2022: Archive producer James Hunt talks about working on Netflix documentary American Murder
Audible, April 14, 2022: Improving workplace mental health in the TV and Film Industry - with Lucy Tallon
Vulture, August 1, 2018: The Ethical Dilemma of Highbrow True Crime