Dr Judith Aston
Senior Lecturer,
New Media Production, UWE
Judith Aston is a Senior Lecturer in Film-making and Creative Media at UWE Bristol, and a co-director of i-Docs – the web-hub and international symposium for discussion and debate on the rapidly evolving genre of interactive documentary. As a creative producer with an academic background in visual anthropology and interaction design, she first began working in this field with the BBC Interactive Television and Apple Computing over twenty years ago and has retained her involvement in this area ever since. She is also currently working with film-maker Jeanie Finlay on Orion: Behind the Mask, a REACT funded Future Documentary Sandbox Project and is steering the creative development of the Russian Winter, an ambitious multiplatform project inspired by Bulgakov’s 1930s novel ‘The Master and Margarita’.

Judith is a multimedia professional with a passion for live cinema, interactive documentary and digitally expanded film-making. She holds a PhD in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art and a Masters degree in Social Science from the University of Cambridge. She is Co-Founder of i-Docs.org and an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She works across academia and industry, balancing her work as a Senior Lecturer in Filmmaking and Creative Media with Producing and Directing, most recently for live multimedia events such as The Russian Winter and the Bristol Proms.​

Judith's practice and research addresses new possibilities for filmmaking brought about by convergence. At the heart of this is the human computer interface, an interest in multiple points of view, and a thirst for combining media with live experience. As a 21st century storyteller working at the cutting edge of design and media, she also has a background in anthropology. This brings a cross-cultural appoach to her work, which is reflected throughout her teaching, research and professional practice. She is an active member of the University's Digital Cultures Research Centre and Centre for Moving Image Research, and maintains a research blog at: http://21stcenturyfilmmaking.com​ ​