The BBC reports Dec. 6 that "the director of a film about a bakery staffed by workers with Down's Syndrome and autism is to appear at the Kingussie Food on Film Festival. Yasmin Fedda won the Black Pearl Award in Abu Dhabi with her film Breadmakers, which was shot in Edinburgh and will be shown at February's event."The 2007 short documentary is available to watch online here.
The BBC synopsis says:
At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to shops and cafes in the city.The workers interact using individual expressions, repetitive speech and sign language, revealing intricate social relationships with each other and their support workers. In what can seem a chaotic workplace, there is a mix of sounds that can approach levels of white noise amidst the carefully structured everyday process of bread production.The featured bakery is part of a centre inspired by the ideas of Rudolph Steiner where the workers realise their potential for self-discovery and creativity in a social environment.
