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Between Takes: Guided Reflection to Rejuvenate Your Film

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  • Rebecca Day, Moderator
  • Poh Lin Lee, Moderator
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Join Film In Mind for a reflective hour, an opportunity to reconnect with your project and set intentions to sustain you throughout the next stages of production. This facilitated workshop will invite you to pause, step outside of the demands of production for a moment, and reset. There will be 30 minutes of additional time afterwards to remain in community with the facilitators and fellow participants to reflect on what this experience evoked for you. 

Even if they seem avoidable, there will always be natural breaks and roadblocks in any given production timeline. Production and/or fundraising pauses don’t have to signal stagnation or failure. In fact, a hiatus can be really generative, allowing the filmmaker and film team space to reframe an issue or gather resources to proceed in a more purposeful and creative way. At times, the grueling pace of production and the pedantic but necessary details of shoots obscure the foundational reason you began making your film in the first place. There are ways to use these breaks to sustain the film and its team throughout a long production schedule.

For the first hour of this program, practitioners from Film in Mind will use guided prompts to help you return to your film’s purpose. Together, you will explore ways to reconnect and spark movement through projects. Even if you’re not currently in a production pause, it’s good to prepare for a future break when you may need these resources, ensuring you have the strategies for longevity for your film and in this career path.

Open to IDA Members - DocMaker level and above

Access

If you have any access needs that you would like to share with us, please email access@documentary.org at least two weeks prior to the event. We will do our best to accommodate. 

This session won’t be recorded.

Automatic Zoom captions will be turned on for the Webinar.
 

Code of Conduct

All participants agree to read and approve the IDA Events Code of Conduct here.

Event Participants

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    Rebecca Day

    Rebecca Day is a qualified psychotherapist and founder of Film In Mind, a therapeutic service for filmmakers, working actively with filmmakers to reduce psychological risk and to address mental health challenges in the documentary field. Rebecca has combined her therapeutic skills with over a decade of documentary production experience to create therapeutic support tailored to the unique needs of freelance filmmakers, production companies, and film organisations. She is also a co-founder of DocuMentality (2023), an international research project on the mental health issues faced by doc-makers in the current climate, and a collaborator on the participant care resources released by Peace is Loud in 2024. Her services include therapy, film supervision, psychological consultations, workshops, and speaking events.

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    Poh Lin Lee

    Poh Lin Lee is a teacher, writer, and consultant who accompanies filmmakers with a unique approach influenced by decolonial, feminist, and non-extractive worldviews. With 20 years of experience as a narrative therapist, working within contexts of trauma and displacement, she has developed rigorous ways to bridge ethics and trauma-informed approaches into creative, relational work. Her involvement in over 30 film, theatre, and writing projects has shaped her focus on developing nuanced practices of consent, co-design, and care that nourish creative risk and radical alliances.