With all the tragic news in the world, how do you do anything about it? You laugh. People often say that if you want change,...
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'Truckload' Review: A Hopeful Exploration of Disability
TruckloadWriter: Evie JonesDirector: Aella Jordan-EdgeCast: Evie Jones, Jodie Whittaker, Joe Dempsie, Cathy Tyson, Adam Ali, and Lara McDonnellCinematographer: Essi HyrkkiProducers: Arpita Ashok, Victoria Emslie “Piss...
Championing Untold Stories in Film: 'Truckload', The Empower Fund, and Disability Representation at Tribeca
It’s funny timing that the year I left the film industry is the year that the right people were founding the kind of projects that...
Profile: Mr Funbles’ Sunday Portal - An Interview with Shevek Fodor
We love a good interview profile here at Read The Room. As it’s been a bit quiet on these pages in recent months, we decided...
Playlist: As Long As You Feel Something
Co-Editor Alfie here! Things have been really quiet on the pages of Read The Room in recent months. One of the things about having unreliable...
A Compassionate Approach To Film: An Interview with Katie Harriman of Fly Girl Films
Founded by Katie Harriman, Fly Girl Films is a female-led film production company based in Yorkshire. With 10 years of experience so far, the company’s...
'Read The Room' Recommends, Vol. 8
For our final RTR Recommends of 2024, regular contributor Amber shares some of her film, TV and book highlights including the magazine's first ever video...
EDITORIAL: One Year of Read The Room: Growth and Learning
Hey everyone, it’s magazine founder and co-editor Alfie here! I started writing this editorial last month to coincide with our first birthday but external...
All You Can Do Is Try: An Interview with Joshua Idehen
Joshua Idehen is a spoken word artist and musician. A British-born Nigerian, Joshua lives in Stockholm, Sweden where he collaborates with producer Ludvig Parment. Together...
The Holmwood Foundation: a Dracula podcast with a queer modern bite
“A Secretive organization. Two antagonistic colleagues. Dracula's severed head.” Since his beheading at the end of Bram Stoker’s classic gothic novel Dracula, the titular character’s...