A special programme of short films exploring class – with a filmmaker discussion and mixer to follow.
Uncommon Voices starts a conversation about how working-class filmmakers are capturing class experience in the Britain of today, spanning documentaries, flights of fancy and realism. This programme of recent shorts, selected by filmmaker and curator Nia Childs, is for anyone who wants to explore working class Britain as it is and imagines itself to be, in the hope of discovering something new.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A between Paul Chambers, director of Three Bull-Mastiffs in a Corner Kitchen, and a BFI NETWORK Filmmaker Mixer for creatives to network with the North East film community.
Thursday 4 December
18:30 - 20:00, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
£6 (£4 students, unwaged, 65+)
Paul Chambers is a writer/director originally from North Yorkshire now based in Manchester. His short films and documentaries have won multiple awards, including a nomination for a BIFA. His films have been screened in prisons, rehab centres and in spaces where real change can take place. Chambers is interested in the space between fact and fiction and strives to tell Northern British stories about his own lived experience and those around him.
Baltic Cinema is a new year-round cinema programme at Baltic, bringing otherwise rarely-screened work to the North East. All regular screenings take place in their Level 1 Cinema, and you can catch free drop-in films in Front Room every week from September 2025.
Baltic Cinema is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.
