Sustainability in Filmmaking 

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Led by Sheherazade Bodin, Founder of Blue Metaphor

How can we tell meaningful stories without costing the Earth?

In this session, filmmaker and Blue Metaphor founder Sheherazade Bodin shares her insights on embedding sustainability into every stage of production, from script to set, and all the way through post. Drawing on her Albert Certification in Sustainable Production, Sheherazade will unpack the practical ways we can reduce waste, rethink materials, and challenge “business-as-usual” approaches that harm both people and planet.

Expect an honest, solution-focused conversation about what green filmmaking really looks like - not just swapping plastic bottles for paper cups, but reimagining how we collaborate, travel, source, and storytell.

As a writer, director and producer, Sheherazade’s company Blue Metaphor champions underrepresented voices and films that drive social and cultural impact. This workshop isn’t just about environmental sustainability, it’s about creative sustainability too: how to keep telling powerful, purpose-driven stories in a way that supports both your crew and the world around you.

You’ll leave with:

• Practical tools to make your next production greener

• Fresh inspiration for eco-conscious set design and storytelling

• Insight into the wider impact of sustainability in the creative industries

• A reminder that filmmaking with purpose starts long before you hit “record.”

ADHD: Let’s Get Real! 

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Late discovered ADHDer turned Activist and ‘Leopard Print Army Leader’ Laura Mears-Reynolds turned tragedy into triumph with her globally acclaimed podcast: ADHDAF (ADHD As Females) which led to her gamifying the learning process by turning an ADHD Seminar into Bingo on her three UK podcast tours and at multiple festivals and events.

The impact of her Podcast and tours inspired Laura to found ADHDAF+ Charity connecting and empower ADHD adults of marginalised genders in Scotland, England and Wales with free in-person Peer Support Groups for adults at any stage in their ADHD discovery or diagnosis. SELF DIAGNOSIS IS VALID.

Laura is also the Co-founder of ADHDAF Emporium: a marketplace championing the creations of neurodivergent makers and raising funds for ADHDAF+ Charity.

Alongside the unexpected millions of ADHDAF Podcast listens the world over; this raver who swears like a sailor has unbelievably been nominated for the Positive Role Model Award for Disability at the National Diversity Awards for the last two years running.

A rebel with a cause; validating and shame eradicating in leopard print. Laura wants the world to know that ADHD is NOT a trend… ADHD is real. And that together we can change the system.