IRIS PRIZE LGBTQ+ FILM FESTIVAL - with Lewis Bayley

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 163 - Iris Prize LGTBQ+ Film Festival - with Lewis Bayley

In this special episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, we speak with Lewis Bayley, Industry Coordinator for the Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Lewis invited us to speak with him about filmmaking earlier this year, and what you’ll hear is that recorded conversation. We had the pleasure of discussing many topics with Lewis, such as the overall importance of film festivals and our longtime efforts giving back to younger generations of filmmakers. Additionally, we share a few work stories from our long careers, Roger gives a preview of what to expect in his upcoming memoir, Reflections, and James reveals the game she played with director Martin Scorsese while we were shooting KUNDUN in the Moroccan desert. The Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival is hosted annually in Cardiff, Wales with talks, panels, and screenings of shorts and features highlighting the myriad of experiences within the global LGBTQ+ community, and we were happy to be a small part of their 19th edition.

This episode is sponsored by Aputure & Sandstorm

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Season 2 of the Team Deacons podcast,
0:07.0	a collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.0	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:21.9	This episode is sponsored by Aperture and its new Storm XT-52, the industry's most
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0:52.2	aperture.
1:04.1	This episode is sponsored by Sandstorm, the Technodali specialist now based at Ealing Studios in London.
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1:33.9	Today we're sharing a conversation with Lewis Bailey of the Iris Prize Film Festival.
1:40.1	It was a conversation that covered many topics and we thought it would be fun to have an episode where the tables are turned on us and we get asked the questions.
1:47.0	Thank you so much for joining us and being a part of Iris Prize this year. Very happy you said
1:51.8	yes. What made you want to say yes to being involved with the festival this year? Well, because we
1:58.2	could, number one, that's the big thing. Why not?
2:01.3	We enjoy communicating with people, different people in different parts of the country.
2:07.3	And also, it's wonderful that there are film festivals, so we like to support our festivals.
2:12.7	Absolutely.
2:13.7	I think as well, Iris, kind of a big part of Iris's short films as well. And so you get a lot of emerging voices and unheard voices that haven't shared films or stories before. And they only really get made because they're passion projects. You know, no one's really getting paid to make a short film. And there's no guarantee that anyone's going to even see it or have the opportunity to have a platform to share it with people.
2:35.3	So it feels like an exciting space to kind of share and share films and meet people and uplift each other and build that community as well.
2:44.5	I mean, festivals, I think, are very important for young filmmakers that are unknown to be able to move forward.
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