ABOUT
ME
Georgia Kumari Bradburn (she/they) is a filmmaker, writer and curator, born and raised in the North West of England and currently living and working in London. Her filmmaking centres on phenomenology, sensory ethnography, movement, and metamorphosis. She is interested in how empathy and sensory association can be generated through on-screen encounters.
Georgia is a co-director of The Stimming Pool, a hybrid documentary/fantasy feature that captures the world through an autistic lens. The Stimming Pool has achieved worldwide success at festivals, premiering at CPH:DOX and screening at London Film Festival and MoMA Doc Fortnight, among others. For her work on The Stimming Pool, Georgia was longlisted for the 2024 BIFA for Best Debut Director - Feature Documentary and received the BFI x Chanel Filmmaker Award 2025 presented by Tilda Swinton and Edward Enninful. Her short films, including A Brief History of Circles and Out of Water, have screened across the world.
Through her work on The Stimming Pool, Georgia developed the Autistic Camera Manifesto, which seeks to deconstruct normative/neurotypical ways of filming and proposes an embodied, vulnerable camera that can reflect a hyper-sensory experience of the world.
In addition to filmmaking, Georgia works to increase the visibility and quality of relaxed (neurodivergent friendly) screenings, working with the BFI as a guest curator and co-founding the curatorial collective Stims. She has previously been a co-host of the Autism Through Cinema podcast.
Georgia has appeared on panels and delivered introductions at festivals such as London Short Film Festival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, Open City Docs and Cork International Film Festival, and at venues such as the Barbican, BFI, ICA, Nottingham Castle, the University of Toronto and Volksbühne Berlin.
She has a BA in Film Studies from Queen Mary University of London, and has studied abroad at the University of Texas at Austin on the Radio-Television-Film programme.