Performing Recovery Presents Creative Healing in Focus: Inside the 2025 Recovery Street Film Festival
Performing Recovery Presents Creative Healing in Focus: Inside the 2025 Recovery Street Film Festival
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Join us for a powerful and thought-provoking conversation exploring the 2025 theme of the Recovery Street Film Festival - Creative Healing - where lived experience meets the transformative power of storytelling.
Filmmaker and recovery advocate Maddie Kitchen FRSA, the newly appointed Creative Director of RSFF, will be in conversation with Lisa Selby, RSFF Judge, award-winning filmmaker of Blue Bag Life, artist and academic. Together, theyโll explore how creativity becomes a tool for recovery, connection, and empowerment - how to craft a film for the competition, and why stories like yours truly matter.
Thinking of submitting a film?
RSFF invites submissions of 1โ3 minute films that share personal experiences of recovery.
๐ Deadline: 31st August 2025
Full competition details: (http://www.rsff.co.uk)
Speakers
Lisa Selby
Lisa Selby is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, and an academic, whose work explores themes of drink and drug addiction, grief, and love. Her debut as co-director for the BAFTA-nominated documentary Blue Bag Life, offers a raw, deeply personal perspective on addiction and incarceration, from the perspective of a loved one. As a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and RSFF judge, Lisa uses storytelling to question, to connect, and to promote creative expression as a path to understanding and healing.
*Watch Blue Bag Life - Storyville on BBC iPlayer:*
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001lspj
Follow the Blue Bag Life community on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/bluebaglife
Maddie Kitchen FRSA
Maddie Kitchen is a filmmaker, recovery advocate, and the Creative Director of the Recovery Street Film Festival. With 19 years in recovery, she brings lived experience and a bold creative vision to her work. Maddie is the founder of Sobriety Films UK, a social enterprise that champions recovery from addiction, trauma, and mental ill health through the power of film. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, recognised for her leadership in using storytelling and film to drive social change.