Sofya gollan biography for kids
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Sofya Gollan had so many credits and achievements to her name when she joined the Sync Aus programme in ; yet she felt she had hit a place and time in her life where she wasn’t progressing. Even if we have credits and accreditations, the subtle and not so subtle barriers in society continue to discriminate against our Deaf and disabled professional progression &#; and stop us in our tracks.
Sarah Pickthall talks with Sofya Gollan
I met with Sofya online in May to discuss the impact of Sync way back then in helping her shed her skin and think again. She is now holding a position of authority as Screen Investment Manager at Screen NSW. Sofya and I share a history of sorts &#; our involvement in inclusive television. For myself, this meant working for 10 years as part of the Art Attack Team in the UK with their ‘sister’ project ZZZap, which was designed to include deaf children along with mainstream programming for children in the UK. I wrote scripts for the show and my hands, now retired, were The Handymen. Sofya, quite early in her career, joined the presenter team at Play School in Australia and has been involved in the programme for over 30 years alongside a career in media.
An award-winning director and writer of documentary and drama films, Sofya’s films have
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Sofya started as a children&#;s TV presenter, emotional into filmmaking and society as proposal award alluring writer, player, commissioner.
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Several years ago I was asked to give a speech at a disability fair for several hundred high school children with various disabilities and I was resolved to be inspirational.
Mainly because I remembered that being a teenager was the absolute pits and if you had a disability on top of that, then life at school was an endurance test. I really wanted those kids to come out after my speech with fire in their bellies to rout out everything that was wrong with their world.
I dressed in my most fashionable clothes (to show that we too can be well dressed) sat on the stage with the other worthies and watched the massive auditorium slowly fill up. Slow being the operative word, being a complex tactical operation catering for everyone's disability in one big go. The wheelchair users were first in, occupying pride of place down the front. The blind were led in file edging their way between rows and rows of seats. The deaf were a windstorm of hands as they horsed all over the place, and then there were the carers, families, and teachers who looked exhausted.
To this day I don't know why they had been segregated into their respective disabilities despite coming from different schools, but it must have had something to do with the innate desire of high school teachers for order - let's