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A social Impact Smartphone health film
Premiere at
Fertility Fest, Life Rewired Festival, Barbican 2019
Infertility & Sub-fertility affect over 10% of women
Source: World Health Organisation
Personal stories about fertility and infertility...bringing all conversations to the table....
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n. the moment a conversation becomes real and alive, which occurs when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony, momentarily grounding the static emotional charge you’ve built up through decades of friction with the world.
www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
Produced and Directed by Dimple Devadas - multi-award winning health & social impact smartphone film maker
Featuring Jessica Hepburn - story teller, vocal artist
Adventure activist, award winning author, arts Producer - one of the UK's leading voices on fertility and family and founder of Fertility Fest The Worlds first arts festival dedicated to fertility, infertility, th science of making babies and modern families.
Featuring Linn Johansson - -story teller, vocal artist
Writer, theatre producer, actress
Featuring Samina Khan - story teller, vocal artist
Featuring Laura Calcagno - dancer and performer
Featuring Camilla Isola - dancer and performer
Original soundtrack and dance choreography by Camilla Isola
Audio engineering by Matthew Coulton
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Dimple DevadasDirector
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Dimple DevadasProducer
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Linn JohanssonKey Cast"Story teller - vocal artist"
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Jessica HepburnKey Cast"Story teller - vocal artist"
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Samina KhanKey Cast"Story teller - vocal artist"
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Camilla IsolaKey Cast"Dancer "
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Laura CalcagnoKey Cast"Dancer"
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Camilla IsolaKey Cast"Original soundtrack "
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Samina KhanKey Cast
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Matthew CoultonAudio Engineering
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Project Type:Other
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Runtime:5 minutes
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Completion Date:May 1, 2019
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Production Budget:0 GBP
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:United Kingdom
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Iphone Xs
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Fertility Fest, Life Rewired Festival, Barbican 2019London
United Kingdom
May 2, 2019
Premiere -
London Experimental Film Festival 2019London
United Kingdom
August 16, 2019
Official selection
Dimple Devadas is an award winning experimental smartphone film maker, serial Vol-entrepreneur, writer, Medical Journalist (https://www.mjauk.org), Psychology Coach (https://www.fmlm.ac.uk/dimple-devadas), Award winning Doctor, Meditation teacher, Artist, Human Book (http://humanlibrary.org), TEDx speaker, Storyteller, Creative, Artist, London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games maker, Street Doctor and founder of the social impact movements "Urban BackHer" (Women's empowerment initiative), "Silience Global" (smartphone social impact initiative) and "Vol-entrepreneurs" (Volunteer initiative).
Her work and projects are inspired by and explores health, well-being, community, relationships, being human, sustainability, empowerment, creativity, dance, movement, mindset, LGBTQI & Diversity perspectives and expression of citizen narratives through experimental smartphone film making.....
Her smartphone films have won international independent film awards and featured in film festivals and screenings all over the world, including at the BBC club, Imax cinemas, US TV, Roku TV, Barbican......and she is part of the global smartphone movement "Filmbreaker"
( I am Filmbreaker, Dimple)
She has performed with the acclaimed theatre company "Complicite" in their new production "Everything that rises must dance" with renowned Director and choreographer Sasha Milavic Davies and is featured in an upcoming documentary about the social impact movement. A compelling celebration of female movement, incorporating both the everyday and the universal with the Dance Umbrella movement which brings together 200 women from across London for a free performance in three venues around the capital and forms part of the Mayor’s #BehindEveryGreatCity campaign to celebrate the centenary of the first women winning the right to vote and tackle gender inequality in London.
Link to video: https://vimeo.com/293502075
(http://www.complicite.org)
She curated a spoken word piece and performed this at the National Theatre (https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk) and performed a version of this spoken word piece along with the premiere of her smartphone film called "Flashover" addressing infertility at the Barbican in 2019 in association with Fertility Fest Festival at the Life rewired festival.
She is a story teller in the immersive interactive exhibition "Room to Breathe" until Summer 2020 at the British Migration Museum and the Augmented Reality version of the exhibition (Link for AR experience - https://vimeo.com/448849848)
(Link - https://www.migrationmuseum.org/exhibition/room-to-breathe/) and in "Sounding centres" audio-visual exhibition in London with migrant stories.
She runs interactive experimental smartphone film workshops combining psychology, music, dance, spoken word with citizen stories....
She also directed and produced "Silience at Walthamstow" experimental smartphone film in Collaboration with SICK (Social Initiatives Changing Culture).
She is a visiting lecturer/speaker in Diversity and is also an International best selling Human book that can be loaned out from the Human Library.org
She is currently working on her healthy food blog, podcast series, music meditations and curating bespoke health and wellness content ....
Her integrative relational psychology coaching approach and projects combine science, art and community volunteering and provides the powerful opportunity via the co-created coaching relationships for a much deeper level of personal, professional and social transformation with development for a more resourceful and expansive self and society.....
flashover
n. the moment a conversation becomes real and alive, which occurs when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony, momentarily grounding the static emotional charge you’ve built up through decades of friction with the world.
www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
"Flashover" stories about infertility-fertility
Lets bring all conversations to the table