Richard
Richard Warden is a festival producer, film programmer, and producer. He speaks about his former role as a festival curator at the Scottish Mental Health and Arts Festival.
Name: Richard Warden
Years: 2000s
Richard Warden is a festival producer, film programmer, and producer. He speaks about his former role as a festival curator at the Scottish Mental Health and Arts Festival.
He discusses changes in public attitudes surrounding mental health and personal changes around stigma as well.
Richard talks about the measuring of successes for funding and shares anecdotes of the impacts he has seen films make.
Excerpts:
“At the beginning I thought, okay, well if I want to talk about mental health I should speak to the experts and, you know, and not realising that, you know, I was an expert myself given my own experience.”
“It’s a lot easier to measure numbers than it is to measure say the kind of impact that I was talking about in a particular screening attended by seven people.”
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