Creative Professionals 40+ - Ageism in Industry - Documentary
I'm going to say the quiet bit out loud: the creative industry has an ageism problem, and it's getting worse.
I hear it every week from the people I mentor. Directors, designers, strategists. People with twenty and thirty years of craft behind them. People who've shaped work you've actually seen. Products you're actually using. And they're being frozen out.
Not with a memo. With silence. With ghosted applications, with roles that mysteriously "went in a different direction," with the slow dawning realisation that the industry they gave their career to has decided they're the wrong age to keep contributing.
I'm tired of hearing these stories in private. I think they deserve to be heard properly.
So I'm making a one-off short film about it. Not a think piece. Not a LinkedIn carousel. A proper documentary with real people telling real stories about what ageism in creative work actually looks like from the inside.
If you're a creative over 40 and you've got something to say, I want to hear from you. DM me. We can talk about how you want your story told, on the record or off, and take it from there.
This one matters. Let's make some noise.
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