Our Facilitators

Taylor McInroy

Taylor runs Ayrshire Film Company CIC, which produces high quality video content for organisations across Scotland, as well as giving young people across Ayrshire the opportunity to learn about and try out filmmaking. He currently lives in Kilmarnock and is passionate about improving Ayrshire as a whole.

Dan Brown

Dan 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 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 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. His latest project has been filmmaking with the NHS and participants with learning disabilities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ItOZmpqZ_8

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 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 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.