Lisa Roberts
Since 1999 she has collaborated with Andrew Wilson on the short film initiative Short Circuits and later the Low Budget Lottery award with Screen Yorkshire, co-ordinating more than fifty film screenings and commissioning twenty-two low budget short films, winning several awards and receiving festival and broadcast TV screenings around the world.
In 2004 she devised and produced Pocket Shorts, commissioning a slate of new short films, which enabled filmmakers to explore the new medium of the mobile phone and to consider the impact of mobile technology on the future of film making and distribution.
In addition to developing Bluevend, isa continues to distribute Pocket Shorts films, run film challenges such as the One Take Competition in Rotterdam and share other original mobile content at key festivals. Earlier this year Bluevend distributed Film and Video Umbrella’s Single Shot film series throughout their UK city tour, launching at Tate Britain. Lisa uses the screen as key interface in all of her initiatives and searches for new ways to engage audiences in creative production and interaction. Lisa is currently investigating the dynamic between private and public screens through practical exploratory projects such as the urban screen Bluetooth photography event My Screen.
