Richard Butchins

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Richard Butchins is a British filmmaker. He has worked as presenter and director of arts and current affairs documentaries, and as an investigative filmmaker, for television programmes such as BBC One's Panorama , Channel 4's Dispatches and ITV's Exposure . Having had an arm paralysed by polio as a child, [1] [2] and through also being neuro-diverse Butchins "uses his own experience as a disabled person to make work which addresses disability". [3]

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His controversial and independently made, The Last American Freak Show [4] won the 2010 Merit Award at the Superfest International Disability Film Festival and the Best Director Award at the Moscow Breaking Barriers festival. [5] His collaboration with four non-verbal autistic artists in Osaka Japan, The Voice of the Unicorn won the 2018 Sheffield Doc/Fest Alternate Realities Interactive Award. In 2022 he won a British Journalism Award and SCOPE disability Journalist of the year

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