2:00 - 2:15 Welcome - Snacks & Refreshments
2:15 - 3:15 Short Films from Neurodivergent Filmmakers (tbc)
3:15 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4: 00 Q&A part I
Yasmin Godo (BAFTA X BFI 2025 Alumni/Director) & Tylan Grant (Actor/ Star of Hollyoaks ‘Pheonix Hathaway’)
4:00 - 4:20 Break
4: 20 - 4:50 Q&A part II
Levi Eddie Aleude (Award Winning Director) & Sam Chown-Ahren (Director of Stimming Pool/Presenter of ‘Are You Autistic?’)
5:00 - 5:15 Outro / Optional Networking
Tylan Grant is a 23yr old, actor, director and an ambassador for the National Autistic Society .In 2018 Tylan gained the role of Pheonix Hathaway on Channel 4’s Hollyoaks, where he worked for 6 years.Tylan broke records when he appeared as the first autistic person of colour and first trans person to play an autistic character in a British TV Drama. He’s been nominated for the 2018 Digital Spy Awards Best Newcomer, again for Best Newcomer at the British Soap Awards in 2019, Best Young Actor for the Inside Soap Awards and Celebrity of the Year for the 2019 National Diversity Awards.In 2024 Tylan joined the company of The Other Place for a season at The National Theatre.Ty is an absolute film fanatic, running a film club called Spike6 where him and five others regularly screen movies and follow with engaging group discussions. He recently had his first directing debut for a music video.
Yasmin Godo is a South London-based director and writer. Her work champions social realism through disability, diaspora & queer storytelling. Yasmin’s award-winning short film Musical (Un)fit To Work featured as part of the 40th Anniversary broadcast of Channel 4’s Random Acts series gaining both UK and international festival success. In addition to her work in film, Yasmin has also directed a range of projects across live-action and animation, including the Ob-Doc micro-series with RSA Films and Cambridge University.
Yasmin has 10 years’ previous experience as a 1st Assistant Director. She is also a former mentee of We Are Parable’s Momentum programme, and is currently in development on her feature length version of (Un)fit To Work
Levi Eddie Aleude is an award-winning writer and director based in southeast London, known for their ability to create sensual, thoughtful and confident queer shorts and sci-fi web series, The Smell of Cut Grass (2022), An Eighth of Him (2023) and Visions of a Vivid Life (2020). Each film has led to success whilst playing in cinemas and screening at Academy Award, BAFTA and Canadian Screen Academy qualifying festivals around the globe
Sam Chown Ahern a visual artist and filmmaker working in the mediums of film, illustration, photography and sound. Sam's work explores the experiences of living and existing as a neurodivergent person.She directed feature film ‘Stimming Pool’ as part of the Neurocultures collective. The film recieved rave reviews with critics and was released in cinemas across the United Kingdom.