PLAY! Festival 2024

Dominique Unsworth MBE has been a creative media producer for more than 20 years, working with the BBC, Channel 4, BFI and BAFTA to name a few, and is chair of the Creative Industries Advisory Board. She is passionate about supporting under-represented Artists and Filmmakers, developing strategies and programmes for new crew with partners including Pinewood, Sky, Netflix, and Disney. During this session she will share insight on how to go about launching your career immediately after graduation - how to network, promote yourself, and connect with people.

Who is Dominique Unsworth MBE?

Dom Unsworth has been a producer for more than 20 years, making 50-plus short films over that period. She’s passionate about inclusion and accessibility in the screen industries and supports diverse talent, crew and artists while producing commissions for the likes of the BBC and Channel 4. She has also supported hundreds of underrepresented artists and filmmakers to secure work through her Slough-based social enterprise Resource Productions. In 2020, she was presented with an MBE for services to apprenticeships.

Dom started in the industry as a runner while still at school, before making her first short, Stain, in 2005. Among the many short films she has produced since then are Exhale (2021), by BFI Future Film Festival 2022 award winner Adekemi Roluga; Fish (2021), by Underwire nominee Emilie Cheung; Lehenga (2018), by Iris Prize nominee Nathalia Syam; and Tehzeeb (2015), by BAFTA nominee Myriam Raja. She’s also been a participant of BFI NETWORK x BAFTA Crew (2017-2019).

In 2021, Dom founded Parity Pictures in Bolton, with the aspiration of producing more regional long-form content. She has also just completed her debut feature, a British-South Asian romantic comedy entitled Little English, which will receive its UK premiere at a gala screening at the London Indian Film Festival in June 2022.

Join us

Please contact maeve.oconnell@rhul.ac.uk if you wish to attend this event. 

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