Zan Barberton Showreel 2010

Zan Barberton is a freelance filmmaker for hire and director of Heartbeat Films. She sees the core medium of video as emotion, and her philosophy is to make excellent films that capture the heart of the audience. She is interested in film as a tool to empower the unseen and marginalised, and would like to break down the boundaries between 'normal' and 'participatory' filmmaking and strive always to involve participants in the authorial process. In her view all good documentaries should be doing this anyway -- from youth projects to high-end BBC docs. There is just no point in a film if it doesn't strive to make the world a better place.

In her 10-year career, she has worked closely with talented filmmakers such as Roger Graef, Marilyn Gaunt, Nick O'Dwyer and Taghreed Elsanhouri. Subjects include sharks in Kuwait, Shariah Law in Nigeria, abandoned babies in Sudan, theatre in Kosovo, gun crime in Peckham and young people everywhere. She shoots, scripts edits and directs.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• documentary filmmaker
• zan barberton
• zan barbeton
• participatory filmmaking
• roger graef
• nick o'dwyer
• marilyn gaunt
• taghreed elsanhouri
• youth film