BRIGHTON Festival and the disabled charity Carousel’s Oska Bright Film Festival are presenting a special film screening event.

Lose Your Head at Duke’s At Komedia tomorrow celebrates learning disabled workers in a selection of short films from around the globe.

Carousel’s Oska Bright Film Festival is the leading international festival of films made by, or featuring, people with learning disabilities. It is produced, managed and presented by a learning disabled team.

The biennial Oska Bright runs over three days, shows 100 plus films from around the world and welcomes 3,000 people.

The next festival is in 2019.

In non-festival years Oska Bright screens its award-winning films at cinemas and film festivals around the world, showcasing the talent of learning disabled creatives.

Tomorrow, as part of Brighton Festival, Oska Bright’s lead programmer Matthew Hellett will introduce his selection of films from past festivals, responding to the theme of Hard Work, inspired by guest director David Shrigley’s book of the same title.

Matthew Hellett says: “There is a lot of effort and consideration that goes in to making films.

“Filmmaking is hard work in general, but being a learning disabled filmmaker is even more difficult.

“We’re marginalised in society and we have to carve out spaces for ourselves to show our work.”

The screening will include a short film The Mask by Sharif Persaud, a unique look at autism, identity and Al Murray which picked up the award for Best Story at an earlier Oska Bright Film Festival.

Meanwhile, in the slice of life drama Checkout (USA), Kelly is a supermarket packer who knows she deserves promotion whereas Man Without Direction (Sweden) sees businessman Dante lost in a Lynchian nightmare.

Oska Bright Film Festival puts learning disabled people where they should be, behind the camera and on the screen.

By doing this, it is hoped that people’s perceptions of who learning disabled people are and what they’re capable of will be challenged.

It is part of arts organisation Carousel, which has been championing learning disabled creative people in the city for more than 30 years.

For more information visit brightonfestival.org