Screen Dance Curator, Flatpack Film Festival
Sima Gonsai is an award-winning artistic film maker, arts producer and film festival curator. Based in the West Midlands, Sima originally trained in visual communication and her practice explores cultural narratives through screen dance and social documentary. She is the screen dance curator for BAFTA qualifying Flatpack Film Festival and an arts producer for a range of moving image artists. Her extensive experience in film production and visual arts, enables her to combine her storytelling abilities to create artistic films capturing under represented voices across the disapora.
Her work is rooted in collaboration, with a commitment to connecting human experience, people and place. Her working process varies with each project; from narrative-led storytelling and the visceral language of movement, contemporary dance and film to connect with her subjects or themes; to collaborate with differently-abled artists; international communities; or a combination of many of these processes at once.
At the heart of her practice is a desire to experiment with digital, create tech and inclusive ways of storytelling, where deep human narratives are told through the medium of multimedia, dance and film. Her work is rooted in presenting intergenerational social and cultural experiences and explores bodily signatures to explore social and environmental studies.Her artwork has received accolades globally including, Best Digital Inclusion award for createch dancefilm Suspended Motion and nominated by Royal Television Society alongside receiving funding from Creative England, The Space and Arts Council England.