Advising Member
Kyla Harris is an advising member of FWD-Doc. FWD-Doc supports a number of diffrent activities including hosting quarterly online meetings for D/deaf and disabled filmmakers, building a database of D/deaf and disabled talent, organising accessible mentorship and office hours by and for our membership as well as Creating resource packs and toolkits to empower our members and wider industry. For more information about FWD-Doc you can visit https://www.fwd-doc.org
Creative Associate
Kyla Harris is a Creative Associate with Little by Little Films. Little By Little Films is an independent production company whose critically-acclaimed films and campaigns illuminate brilliant storytelling by and about underrepresented voices, particularly women, LGBTQ+ folks and D/deaf and disabled people.
FWD-Doc
FWD-Doc Engagement Pack
Kyla Harris, Little by Little and FWD-Doc in association with the BFI Doc Society Fund co-wrote:
The FWD-Doc Engagement Pack
This downloadable PDF contains resources aimed at filmmakers, commissioners, funders, buyers, decision-makers, business affairs and exhibitors, and includes templates for use across the industry.
The FWD-Doc Engagement Pack focuses on the processes of collaboration and audience engagement in documentary filmmaking, particularly with a view to social impact.
This disabled-led resource offers empowering and practical information and best practice examples, focused on the crucial topic of engagement: engagement with disabled colleagues and expertise, and engagement with audiences.
We aspire to a filmmaking community that invests in authentic, respectful and equitable collaboration with D/deaf and disabled film professionals. Additionally, we know that making and releasing documentary films often involves direct engagement with audiences and stakeholders. This Pack aims to help make all of these processes more inclusive and equitable.
We hope that you will use it alongside our recently-released FWD-Doc Toolkit, which was created in association with Doc Society and supported by Netflix. The Toolkit details effective production and representation methodologies, and the ideas and resources within it complement those in this Engagement Pack.
FWD-Doc Toolkit
Kyla Harris, Little by Little and FWD-Doc in association with Doc Society supported by Netflix, wrote:
A Toolkit for Inclusion & Accessibility: Changing the Narrative of Disability in Documentary Film
We find ourselves in an unprecedented moment of creative and financial opportunity for the documentary film industry, if we engage with authentic disabled storytelling and talent, make our media genuinely accessible, and better understand and cater to the world’s 1 billion D/deaf and disabled people — currently a seriously underserved audience for film.
This Toolkit for Inclusion & Accessibility has been created by FWD-Doc in association with Doc Society and supported by Netflix, featuring a case study about Crip Camp (2020) and with a view to best practice, not just compliance.