Damian James Le Bas



Films

CHUVIHONI 2014

Biography

Damian James Le Bas is a filmmaker and writer from a large Romani Gypsy family. He read Theology at Oxford, graduating with the top First in his year in 2006. Damian is a published poet, author and journalist. He is editor of Travellers' Times, the UK's only magazine for Romani people and other Travellers. Damian is a native Romani speaker and makes frequent use of the language in his work.

Together with Charles Newland and Phillip Osborne, Damian runs the nomadic film house Notown Productions. Screenings include BFI (Riley Smith: Portrait of an English Gypsy Tapdancer; Sootenna, Roma Lost), Latitude Contemporary Art Prize (Witchfinder), and Shane Meadows Short Film Competition (The Decision).


Filmography

Projects with Delaine Le Bas:

To Gypsyland: Glasgow, Peterborough, Bolton, 2013-14
Acimasko Tan (Stopping Place), 2012
Witchfinder, 2011
Chanctonbury Ravens, 2011