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BBC Film –
THE SHORT ANSWER INTERVIEW WITH
Dionne Farrell, Development Executive at BBC Film What do you love most about your job as a Development Executive at BBC Film? I really enjoy being involved in identifying the next generation of exciting filmmaking talent to support and champion in a meaningful, long-term way, whether that’s Adura Onashile proving that she can direct for screen, or Runyararo Mapfumo making something with a bit more scale. I also like the breadth of the work because you can be an objective eye across lots of different stories, rather than trying to come up with these ideas and worlds alone.
Dionne Farrell
Adura Onashile’s Expensive Sh*t encapsulates the idea of screening unseen lives – is that part of what you relished about the film? It gives us a lens into a world that we don’t really get to see on screen. Onashile makes the person who is usually in the >> 19
