Aisling Byrne

There's amazing companies like Blue Teapot in the West who are very influential for us in terms of...

you know our foundation but it's becoming harder and harder to sustain this practice you know to do it meaningfully you know making something inclusive making it accessible takes time it takes resources and there's just never enough so we absolutely um Derek is so right more funding brass tacks

More money will be absolutely brilliant to try and create more opportunities.

Yes, very exciting.

So we're off to the Houses of Power.

We were invited in to screen the film.

They have opportunities in the AV room and the DALTA platform work, I suppose, that's making an impact or that's highlighting critical issues.

And I suppose what we're very proud of with Mary is Missing is it's not necessarily, it's not a film about disability inclusion.

It's a well-made thriller and it's full of twists and turns and it's a little bit bonkers.

Would you agree, Derek?

Yes.

It's a film that's exactly the film that our artists wanted to make and that was important to us.

So we're not in to highlight a social issue.

We're in to celebrate the work and say, this is what's possible.

People with intellectual disabilities, when they're given the platform to make great art, when they're given the resources and the time and the funding to do so and to participate fully in cultural life, these are the kind of perspectives we can see.

And I suppose as a filmmaker,

We're so tired of seeing the same stories told the same way over and over.

You know, everything is recycled and rehashed.

And we really believe that the work we make at Run of the Mill is so unique.

And it's the type of film that I would love to see and say, I've never seen that before.