What a success! Exploding into Old Billingsgate on Thursday evening the Diverse Minds Gala, run by SAP, was an amazing event raising over £77,000 for the National Autistic Society and Ambitious About Autism.
Trailers for our #ExDxFilms were beautifully displayed on large screens in the exhibition area for the entirety of the evening. This was our first external event and we were very excited to be showing our work to over 350 supporters of the SAP event.
Meeting Eddie Callis, whose animation features in our films, and seeing his exciting new artwork were such a delight. For those of you who might like to have an opportunity to see his paintings and craft work Cornwall has its ‘Open Studios’ event running from the 25th May to 2nd June. We also had the opportunity to meet two other artists from The Art of Autism, Mahlia Amatina and pencil artist Chris Baker who are both, like Eddie, amazingly talented.
All in all it was a wonderful evening and we would like to sincerely thank SAP for giving us a great opportunity to bring our work to such an interested audience. We would also like to particularly thank Georgy Southall from SAP for being so helpful and such a great host on the evening and Gareth Skade from ICF Next for setting our trailers up so beautifully.
As we mentioned in our previous blog we have lots more festivals planned for the summer as well as a big online launch of the films later in the season. To make sure you don’t miss the date keep logging into this blog and our Twitter (@ExDx_UoE).