In this episode Will and Ieuan had the pleasure of speaking with Owain Astles; a neurodivergent director and 1st AD based in Bristol & London. Owain’s work focuses on social impact, participatory filmmaking and visual activism, and spans narrative, documentary and commercial.

We talk all about how Owain makes docu-dramas, his work as a first AD, his time spent teaching prison inmates how to make films and his experience so far on the BFI Network’s Shorts2Features programme.

Here are some links to Owain’s work: 

https://www.owainastles.com/work/sleeping-rough

https://www.owainastles.com/work/thehardestfight

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p09j7fdm/new-creatives-to-my-younger-self