This week we sit down with 23 year old still life painter and artist Lorena Levi explains her relationship with her process, choice of oil paint as her medium, and how her illness, cystic fibrosis informs the subject of her painting, the style and more broadly, her life. She tells Creating Waves about what moving away from London to Edinburgh meant to her and how to find a new form of independence and trust in new and old friends. 

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We speak to professional composer, vocalist and composer Ella Jarman Pinto during her lockdown in Cumbria. She was recently commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for ‘Postcards from Composers’ and has recently been described by Classic FM as ‘one of the UK’s most exciting music-makers’.  We get to know about Ella’s love of music and how commissioning for film differs from composing.

Award-winning Spanish Colombian cinematographer Alana Mejía González reveals her process and how her background is in documentary photography, performance and contemporary art influences her cinematography. She also emphasises her love of narrative storytelling and travelling. Alana has received the BSC Emerging Cinematography Award for her work on The Girl With Two Heads.

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Music by Patrick Fitzgerald

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Multidisciplinary filmmaker Emily Badescu works for businesses who put ethics at the heart of their brand. Her works mainly span the fields of commercial and documentary. We touch on her latest work Nuestro Muro, a documentary focusing on the lives of a group of young migrants who have been brought together in Barcelona by Rebobinart, an urban art training programme that encourages self expression through graffiti.

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We sit down with the hilarious and talented film director Riffy Ahmed. She recently graduated with an MA in Directing Fiction from the National Film and Television School in London. Riffy reflects on her journey from photography at university to filmmaking. She speaks openly on how her previous relationship impacted her decision to pursue directing, her fears of not being good enough and her love of spirituality for keeping her grounded and centred. We speak about her recent project Al Sarab inspired by her uncle’s life story that unravels religion, family dynamics and reuniting.

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Music by Patrick Fitzgerald

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Introducing Green Aral Sea, Under the Accelerator Lab section sponsored by the UN the Green Initiative is a programme close to their hearts. In an attempt to crowdfund the money needed to cover the dried up sea bed with native plants, we find out more about the causes of the disappearance of the Aral Sea, the effect on the locals and how we can support their work.

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Music by Patrick Fitzgerald

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In this episode of Creating Waves, we speak to Jennifer Hines, an American illustrator and lettering artist. Jennifer delves into what drew her to illustration and why she chose food based illustration, as well as the power of lettering and the overlap between the two.

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Music by Patrick Fitzgerald

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During the fifth episode of Creating Waves with Thea and Pauline, Shaneika Johnson Simms speaks to us about her journey. After realising how her name would be attached to whatever she worked on, Shaneika got over her fears of directing and has worked tirelessly to release her most recent feature film Doll House. She shares how these experiences have influenced her path towards and stylistic choices in her filmmaking.

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Music by Patrick Fitzgerald

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Joyce is the creative director of Black On Black Creative, a creative agency that supports creatives of colour, and founder of Climate in Colour, focusing on bringing conversations of the intersection between climate change and social justice into the forefront of the media. She has also been accepted on a MRes + Phd at Cambridge University in Applying AI to Climate Change. We speak about her personal journey as well as shining a light on the effects of colonialism on climate change.

For the third episode of Creating Waves, we hear from photographer and Pauline’s mum, Elisabeth Blanchet. Otherwise unofficially known as ‘Britain’s Most Boring Woman’ and a title she holds dear to her heart. Elisabeth tells us about her journey from a maths teacher to a photographer to her latest career change. We find out more about her documentary Russian Boy, how finding an old film camera in a charity shop with an undeveloped roll of film led her to track down its owner from Moscow and how they developed a real friendship ever since. Elisabeth guides us through the importance of owning your passions, to not be afraid and to push through your obstacles.

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Music by Patrick Fitzgerald

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