Alex Widdowson is a London-based documentary animation director specializing in neurodiversity and mental health. He is artist in residence at the Philadelphia Association, a psychotherapy organization founded by R. D. Laing and a Masters student at the Royal College of Art studying Documentary Animation. He has written extensively for AnimatedDocumentary.com, the U.K.’s leading blog in the field, and publishes his own research on DocumentaryAnimationDiscourse.com. Alex also helps program the Animated Minds portion of the Montreal-based Au Contraire mental health film festival.
Washington D.C. Independent Film Festival