Claire Gellard

Behind A Mind - Creative Director

Funded by the Maudsley Charity, Behind A Mind is a project which offers short films, animations and expert talks about various mental health conditions for sufferers, their loved ones and medical professionals.

The project will explore the psychological, environmental and biological factors linked to mental health conditions and will offer experiences from a sufferer, a family member and an expert in the field to provide a fully rounded overview of the condition.

The pilot, specifically about OCD is the first in a series of future material on other mental health conditions such as depression, eating disorders, dementia, schizophrenia etc.

Film - Director

Claire is an award winning filmmaker, winning the Public Awareness Category at the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival (http://www.ocduk.org/locked) and has shot, edited and directed promotional material for a school for children with severe learning disabilities (http://tinyurl.com/lky8da3).

Television - Researcher

Claire has recently worked on 'Text Santa' (ITV's annual fundraiser) in which she was casting within a small team, for the six charity films being produced. This involved lengthy telephone discussions with very sensitive contributors and providing support to the AP and director.

She has also worked on 'The Pride of Britain Awards' as well as 'Plan It. Build It' (a new obs doc BBC daytime series), and 'Nations' Best Am Dram' (Oxford Film & TV).

Claire has been casting and self shooting on all of the productions - including filming second camera on the celebrity surprises for The Pride of Britain Awards. She has worked with a huge variety of contributors from high profile celebrities to vulnerable children and loves the challenges that all contributors bring.