Our Facilitators

Taylor McInroy

Taylor ran the StoryThreads project in East Ayrshire. He also runs Ayrshire Film Company, which has helped local organisations such as East Ayrshire Churches and Homelessness Action to tell their stories, as well as giving young people across Ayrshire the opportunity to learn about filmmaking. He is also passionate about voluntary work, working as a Trustee for Kilmarnock Station Railway Heritage Trust which provides opportunities for young people to improve their lives. He currently lives in Kilmarnock.

Dan Brown

Dan ran the We Are Dundee project and the Glenrothes 70th Anniversary project. He has a wealth of experience inspiring people to tell stories on film, stemming from a background teaching Moving Image at Hereford College of Arts and leading filmmaking workshops for Eastside Educational Trust. Dan currently lives in Tayport.

Sabine Hellman

Sabine ran the People’s Story project in Falkirk and the StoryBird project in North Ayrshire in partnership with James Gibb. She is a freelance filmmaker and facilitator of participatory media trainings with InsightShare and has enabled people from all walks of life to plan, film and edit their own videos, for example refugees in a settlement in Uganda, students at a film school in Myanmar, Red Cross staff in Nepal and women and girls from the Deaf community in Jamaica. Sabine currently lives in Glasgow.

James Gibb

James ran the StoryBird project in North Ayrshire in partnership with Sabine Hellmann. He has worked across different media for Into Film, Scottish Film Education, Centre for Moving Image and Halo Digital Arts as well as lecturing in audio technology. He is currently Digital Training Development Manager for the Scottish Library and Information Council. He has traveled extensively photographing and sound recording the people and wildlife around him and is now working on his first novel. He currently lives in Ayrshire.

Paul Bristow

Paul ran the StoryBoat project in Inverclyde. He runs Magic Torch Comics, a social enterprise that runs comic creation workshops. His recent projects have included Light Years, in which people over 65 were supported to share creative writing and personal stories. Paul has also worked for Inverclyde Community Development Trust on a range of community projects including setting up a befriending programme and an arts programme based on children’s rights. He currently lives in Greenock.

Mark Jenkins and Rebecca Marr

Mark and Rebecca ran the Orkney Story Stack project. They support local people to tell their stories and learn about filmmaking, as well as helping local organisations to plan and deliver local heritage projects. Mark is an award-winning film editor and filmmaker, and also runs a film festival in Orkney. Rebecca is a photographic artist who has worked with Orkney Library and the Hoy Kirk Heritage Centre on projects capturing and sharing local people’s stories. They currently live in Stromness.

You can find out more about their work with local communities at kolektopartnership.wordpress.com.