Скачать или смотреть Education Speaker: Genevieve Clay-Smith - My presentation at ICMI's Women in Leadership event

Genevieve is transforming filmmaking from being an elitist industry to one that embraces disability and marginalised people.

She has taken a potential negative and turned it into a positive. Using her childhood challenges of depression as a result of being bullied at school, she has developed a deep appreciation for ‘belonging’ and moving people from being marginalised to ‘included’.

Genevieve is the co-founder and co-owner of the award-winning creative agency, Taste Creative and, co-founder and Executive Director of the pioneering not-for-profit organisation, Bus Stop Films. She is the NSW Young Australian of the Year.

Genevieve’s films about inclusion have been viewed by over half a million people worldwide.

In 2009, at 20 years old, Genevieve won 1st prize at Tropfest, with her film, Be My Brother about a young man with Down Syndrome. It was acclaimed for the way it broke down social stigmas about disability.
Be My Brother is now used across Australia in schools as a related text for the HSC, has aired on the ABC and in-flight entertainment for Qantas. Be My Brother’s success inspired Genevieve to co-found Bus Stop Films a pioneering not-for-profit organisation, with a focus on creating supportive learning environments for people with an intellectual disability.

Since 2011, Genevieve has held weekly, filmmaking workshops for people with an intellectual disability. Her workshops are progressive, helping people learn about tertiary level film studies topics. Since 2009, Genevieve has developed six ‘inclusively made’ short films to help voice the experiences of marginalised communities within Australia.

Genevieve is raising the bar when it comes to disability and the arts, showcasing that people with an intellectual disability can be involved in creating artistic works of excellence. The Interviewer, made in 2012 created with a class of 12 students with an intellectual disability has been used by countless international recruitment agencies across Australia, Germany and France to raise awareness about inclusive employment. It’s been sold and distributed in five international territories, gone viral in Europe, has screened at the UN as well as several Oscar-qualifying film festivals and has won over 30 international film festival awards.

In 2014, Genevieve worked with NAB and Australia Post to produce short films and internal campaigns designed to break down barriers and create conversations surrounding people's fears and uncertainties about disability and mental health in the workforce.

In 2013, she facilitated the world's first inclusive television commercial, where two of her students with an intellectual disability received paid employment on a television commercial she directed for the Special Olympics.

This video is a snapshot of Genevieve Clay-Smith's presentation at the ICMI Women in Leadership / Women in Business event 2016.

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