Bolton Friend’s work shown at Manchester festival
Both films are about not making assumptions about older people, or those who are marginalised.
Bolton Quaker Rosie Adamson-Clark had two films shown at a film festival last month. The LGBT+ campaigner, who was given three months to live during the summer, spoke in a Q&A session at Kinofilm Manchester International Short Film Festival.
Rosie Adamson-Clark described the event as ‘enjoyable’ and a ‘proud moment, all enabled by the wonders of portable oxygen! If we give more support and equal access to all aspects of lived experience, we would enrich the world with more talents and skills from those with labels to carry and barriers to get through.’
Rosie Adamson-Clark’s film Dance was picked out by filmmaker Jeremiah Quinn for special praise.
It tells the story of a woman considered speechless and left ignored in a care home who is revived by her love of music and the special interest of a careworker. The film Breathe is about a woman’s childhood reminiscences as she is dying in a hospice.
Rosie said: ‘They are both about not making assumptions about older people, or those who are marginalised – and that magic can happen if someone feels cared for.’
