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Karen Livesey started making campaign films as a community worker in Edinburgh. Her skill in directing and cinematography is reflected in an award-winning track record, with a 2000 RTS award for factual student programme, a Chameleon TV award 2001 for innovative work and a publishing award from Pavillion Publishing for a ground breaking film made in a large psychiatric hospital in Scotland. Her work is diverse ranging from: Dangerous Chemicals: Keep Out - an expose of a Chemical Factory, polluting the sea and land around Edinburgh, now used by Friends of the Earth nationally, and award winning It Could Be You, a documentary drama about patients on an acute ward of a psychiatric hospital, devised and acted by ex-patients. Taking a break from this campaign based film-making, she gained an award enabling her to study at The North Media School to concentrate on directing and cinematography and develop work of more personal nature. Since making The Chicken and the Grain of Corn, a tale of women breaking into the building industry in Nicaragua, her work has explored women entering male dominated worlds. Following in this vein, The Ladies Bridge delves into the urban myth that women re-built Waterloo Bridge.
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