Dear Future is a home for forward-looking filmmaking projects, led by artist and filmmaker Rebecca E Marshall.
Rebecca’s filmmaking begins with an attention to everyday life, embraced as a quiet rebellion.
Her work dives into vibrant, intimate, and unexpected moments of cinema. She uncovers possibilities of meaningful connections.
She offers artist-led workshops supporting filmmakers of all ages and abilities to find their spark and develop their vision, using resources we already hold.
Her practice-based PhD in film examined Michel de Montaigne, a Renaissance writer who turned everyday life into a way of exploring what it means to be human. She brings his curiosity, attentiveness and humour to her work and teaching.
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Rachel Pearson supports Dear Future as a creative advisor, with artistic input and strategic guidance.
Together, Rachel and Rebecca co-founded the award-winning Electric Palace Cinema in Hastings, where they curated innovative film events year-round for over twenty years. Dear Future continues in this spirit as a Community Interest Company, inspired by generations of film lovers and filmmakers.
Rachel is highly skilled at grass-roots project management and forging large-scale community development projects.
She is a practising jewellery maker, working with found objects such as bones, metal, and shoreline stones. A registered Mudlarker, she draws inspiration from the everyday and from what is to hand, finding stories in what is lost, found, and transformed.
We welcome collaborations with educators, musicians, filmmakers, artists, scientists, writers and poets.
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Dear Future is a legacy community interest project that brings creativity to work with film and moving image, with a core aim of making filmmaking exciting, accessible and inclusive.
Responding to the needs of a diverse society
Ensuring equality of access and opportunity
Maintaining financial transparency and ethics
Reducing our impact on the planet and its climate
Creating the conditions where imagination, experimentation and risk can thrive
