Screenplay in the making

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We were lucky enough to receive ACE funding in early 2020, just before COVID-19 hit. Of course our plans had to change drastically, but the fact that we were able to work together in some way, and be paid to do it, was a privilege. We were going to be with Eleanor Bauer in both the UK and Sweden, writing our screenplay for Nora the Many, and then filming and editing the film. But instead we’ve spent a whole year (pretty much) on zoom…. doing what? Well, a tonne of things: writing our screenplay, taking part in Coven Press (an exercise in collective writing initiated by Bauer, with artists based in Stockholm), re-working the format of Nora Reels (to be more COVID friendly) and just having time together. Before 2020, we really struggled to find time together as a trio, and whenever we met it we were neck deep in applications or fundraising. So Lockdown gave us time to just catch up. We got into a pattern of twice weekly zooms, checking-in with each others’ mental health, supporting each other through the peaks and troughs and adjusting to our new ways of working and living.