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About the 2024-25 Advisory GroupWe want to make our Screening Days even better over the coming years.
One of the ways we are trying to do this is by including the views of people who do not work for the ICO. We have set up an ongoing advisory group comprised of people who are not ICO staff to help us to think more deeply about how we run Screening Days. We also want to reach more people from different backgrounds, and find out what they think we need to change.
Our 2024-25 advisory group will be advising on and helping to develop our specialised events (Inclusion and Diversity Screening Days and Archive Screening Days) this year, before passing the work on to another group of advisors.
If you have any thoughts, concerns or comments about ICO Screening Days that you would like the advisory group to consider, please submit them via this form.
About the 2024-25 Advisory Group
Charlie Little
Charlie Little (she/they) is Matchbox Cine’s in-house access consultant, working across the film exhibition sector on access and inclusion for Deaf and disabled audiences. Based in Edinburgh, they bring their lived experience of deafness and sight loss to their work. Charlie has programmed for festivals such as BFI’s Busting The Bias and has written extensively on disability within cinema. They work with an array of charities and exhibitors, such as Reclaim The Frame and Take One Action! Film Festivals, and they are Film Hub Scotland’s EDI Champion. They are also a member of the BFI’s Disability Screen Advisory Group.
Lisa-Marie Tonelli
Lisa-Marie is the Founder and Festival Director of the North East International Film Festival CIC, which is billed as one of the most diverse, collaborative and inclusive film festivals in the UK. It is also the youngest ever BIFA and IMDB qualifying festival, the first of many inclusive initiatives such as the Raising Films Initiative, the BBC 50/50 Equality Project and the only carbon negative festival in the world.
Lisa-Marie is also a multi-award winning independent Film Producer and volunteer Programmer at Star & Shadow Cinema, a community-led cinema in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society Of Arts, a Distinguished Honorary Advisor for the Federation Of World Cultural & Arts Society Singapore, a full BAFTA and BIFA Member, a member of the Royal Television Society and a stakeholder of the North Shields Cultural Quarter.
Lisa-Marie’s other roles include being a Board Member for AutismAble and a Trustee for Fertile Ground.
She is a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Points Of Light Award, winner of the Champion Of Women Award (Champion Of Compassion) 2022, and has been added to the Northern Power Women Future List for accelerating and supporting gender equality in her community and in her industry.
Maimuna Ndow
Maimuna loves independent films! She is a freelancer working in film exhibition, the arts and creative sector.
She has different experiences from working in pharma, retail, and for ITV Talent and Royalties.
She’s previously worked for Factory International, as admin and support in the Factory Academy, with a focus on new talent and striving to make the arts accessible for everyone, with diversity and inclusivity.
She now works Front of House for Factory International, the new arts and culture venue in Manchester, which involves customer service and support for the different events at Aviva Studios.
She’s very proud of her successes, which include:
- DJing – DJ MuMu
- Running DJ workshops
- Volunteering for the Kino Film Festival
- Volunteering in Front of House Host at Manchester Indian Film Festival
- Front of House Host for the CHANEL / Factory International / Chaos Sixty-Nine collaboration
- Film Extra & Background Artist
- Director on the Committee of a Community Interest Company
With training from Cinema for All, Maimuna curated a community cinema, cinemaXtra, at the Carlton Club in Whalley Range, building an immersive experience of food, discussion, and Q&A to keep the vibe and interaction in the space. She also took cinemaExtra as a pop-up to Didsbury Arts Festival, screening a series of indie shorts.
Maimuna continues to develop her craft via virtual training with Film Hub North and the ICO.