Holly Black is a director, producer, visual artist and self shooting PD of documentary and experimental film. Holly is a co-founder and co-director of Black Bark Films, a female led film company that creates authentic and socially conscious films by working collaboratively, and offering workshops, facilitation and radically inclusive filmmaking practices. Black Bark Films focus on working with social change, food and farming, artists in theatre settings, and young people. Holly understands and respects the power of storytelling through a visual medium and considers documentary as one of the most powerful tools we possess in the current sociological climate - not just as a tool to transmit information but as something that can help unlock parts of ourselves in both the comfort of familiarity and the edges of possibility not yet considered. Holly works in Education as an associate lecturer on the Filmmaking BA at the University of the West of England, Lead Mentor and facilitator for the BFI Film Academy Bristol, Mentor for the BFI South West programme and Screenology’s mentoring programme for their degree level students - alongside developing a feature length documentary centring on the journey of a democratic school in the south of Spain, a feature length looking at a queer traveler community in Southwest England and a short centring on a near death experience resulting in post traumatic growth. Holly uses she/her pronouns.
Documentary, radical filmmaking, process led, trauma informed practice, food and farming, social justice, queerness, performance art, experimental, women, gender diversity, safe working spaces, working with young people, working in theatre settings.
Political, Reality, Short Film
British English