Ameen AlGhabri takes us through his journey of his work in photography and filming; how human and nature in Yemen are seen through his eyes and lense. From the hot deserts of Yemen to Hollywood, he shares with us his finely crafted film. 

Paul Hutchinson, film lover and founder of Bedford Film Festival takes us on a journey through the film scenes in his head. From the classics to the most recent, films are more than stories to show and tell, but to express one's emotions to one or hundred people.  And through the movie pictures are how people can be touched and understand the story teller from behind the camera.

After working on Oscar winning movie Million Dollar Baby, Lance McDaniel moved back to Oklahoma to launch his film career and help grow the film community in Oklahoma. This presentation details Lance's wild journey from assisting on low budget horror films to writing and directing successful family comedies. And, he explains how Oklahoma City's deadCenter Film Festival serves as the hub of the now thriving film industry in Oklahoma. 

Vannaphone, known as "Kino" to most, is a Lao journalist and documentary filmmaker with a mission to develop socially responsible coverage of life in her country and region. In her presentation ‘My Little Discovery’ Kino will share some experiences and stories from her early days as a journalist.

Alexander Storey Gordon is a curator, artist and writer currently based in Fife and Glasgow. Sitting productively between these roles Storey Gordon curates and makes film, text, performances and events that focus on how the relationship between our bodies, our built environment, and others is mediated through contemporary art, film and literature. In his curatorial, art and written work this is achieved through a rigorous experimentation with the structures, codes, and conventions that govern and channel our reading of experience, time and event.

For GI Pecha Kucha, Storey Gordon will give a presentation on the artist and filmmaker Don Levy and the exhibition Don Levy: Time Regained, presented by Storey Gordon at SWG3 as part of GI 2016. Touching on wider themes of time, edit and the problem of the archive, the presentation will collage together different materials from exhibition research.

あなたは、映画がお好きですか？そして、どんな映画といえば、どんなものを想像するでしょうか。普段は研究職に就きながら、映画への想いを止めきれず映画を自主制作、そしてCannes Film Festivalへも足を運んだ松本佳乃さんが、その経験を共有してくれました。

What is a dance that is a film? A film that is a dance? How can we use kinesthetic literacy to read and deconstruct popular forms of action-based cinema through a queer and post-colonial lens? Join Meryl Murman in asking 20 questions we know could be asking ourselves, or our bodies, or both, when we look at media images.

Andrew Vasco shares how he created a successful web series in Asheville, and why you should too.

Pia Lundberg & Andrea Reuter from The Swedish Film Institute give a film history lesson, taking the audience from Ingrid Bergman to Alicia Wikander, who won an Oscar 2016 for her Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Gerda in The Danish Girl.