Abigail Davies' Outputs (4)

Expanding practice: Script development with new Deaf screenwriting talent (2020)
Journal Article

In Deaf film and television, modest production budgets and limited training opportunities present considerable challenges for emerging screenwriting talent. This article argues that orthodox approaches to developing screenplays must be expanded when... Read More about Expanding practice: Script development with new Deaf screenwriting talent.

Developing new Deaf screenwriting talent (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines how orthodox approaches to developing screenplays must be expanded when working with emerging screenwriting talent. It explores the particular issues and problems facing those working in Deaf film and TV, where production budgets... Read More about Developing new Deaf screenwriting talent.

Hope (2019)
Digital Artefact

Hope: 28' drama for BSL Zone, Film4 and Together Channel

Hope is a care-free, fun-loving Deaf teenager... but a fatal diagnosis is about to change everything.

Hope is a fun loving Deaf 17 year old who's enjoying partying and is planning for t... Read More about Hope.

Footsteps of the Emperor (1999)
Digital Artefact

50 min Documentary about Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I’s time living in the city of Bath in exile from 1936 - 1941, during Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia.

Directer and Producer - Shawn Sobers
Presenter - Benjamin Zephaniah
Executive Prod... Read More about Footsteps of the Emperor.