Reina-Marie Loader

Dr Reina-Marie Loader

  • u_rloader at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • Principal Academic in Film Production
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Biography

Reina has been conducting practice-based research for over a decade. Her work predominantly focusses on docudrama and documentary storytelling that promote movement building, reconciliation, human rights and conservation. She completed her practice-based PhD on the concept of “documemory” and the ethical representation of war trauma on screen. Her films have received several awards from international film festivals including, for example, the Durban International Film Festival. Reina also conducted extended fieldwork in South Africa entailing the socio-political value of Ubuntu – the experience of which deeply influences her practical and pedagogical work.

Reina is the editor-in-chief of a new journal entitled 'Journal of Media and Rights' (published by AOSIS, Africa's largest open-access academic publisher). The journal focuses on the intersection between media (in all its incarnations) and human rights. It also aims to provide a platform for practice-based and practice-led researchers to publish work...

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Books

Theses

  • Loader, R.-M., 2019. Children in Conflict with the Law in South Africa: Investigating Ubuntu as a viable Pathway towards Systemic Change. Master's Thesis. Universität Wien, Faculty of Law.
  • Loader, R.-M., 2011. Sarajevo: Shelved Memories - A Practical Enquiry into the Rhetoric of Docudrama. PhD Thesis. The University of Reading, Department of Film, Theatre and Television.
  • Loader, R.-M., 2007. Cutting Silence. Master's Thesis. University of Reading.

Artefacts

Profile of Teaching PG

  • Programme Leader: Producing for Film and Television
  • Unit Leader: The Producer's Development Process
  • Unit Leader: Making it Happen: Selling Creative Ideas
  • Unit Leader: Critical Media Practice
  • Unit Leader: War and Conflict Film (University of Vienna)

Invited Lectures

  • Wildlife documentary and docudrama, University of Reading, 03 Mar 2022 more
  • The Congruence of Creating Art, Ashland Arts Festival (Portland, OR, USA), 16 Nov 2013 more
  • Introduction to Documentary Development, Ashland (Portland, OR, USA), 15 Nov 2013 more

Grants

  • Children in Conflict with the Law in South Africa: Investigating Ubuntu as a viable Pathway towards Systemic Change (Universität Wien, 01 Aug 2017). Completed
  • HORN (Mark P. Terk Charitable Foundation, 30 Nov 2014). Completed
  • HORN (Mark P. Terk Charitable Foundation, 30 Nov 2014). Completed
  • Sarajevo: Shelved Memories - A Practical Enquiry into the Rhetoric of Docudrama (Arts and Humanities Research Council, 02 Sep 2007). Completed
  • Cutting Silence (Department of Women’s Affairs in the Chancellery of the Austrian Prime Minister, 19 Feb 2007). Completed
  • Cutting Silence (Department of Women’s Affairs in the Chancellery of the Austrian Prime Minister, 19 Feb 2007). Completed

Journal Reviewing/Refereeing

  • African Human Rights Law Journal, Anonymous peer review, 03 Sep 2020

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Jury: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation, Climate Change and Human Rights Youth Short Film Festival (01 Mar 2022-13 Apr 2022)
  • Child-led Conference on Mental Health (31 Jan 2022-01 Feb 2022)

Conference Presentations

  • Conservation and Wildlife Security, Combating Wildlife Crime Visually: Virtual Reality Filmmaking and the Quest to create Empathy, 20 Jun 2016, Stellenbosch, Cape Town
  • Documentary and the Environment: A One Day Symposium, The “Lived” Documentary: the Ethical Representation of Environmental Issues with Socio-Political Implications, 24 Jul 2012, Guildford, Surrey
  • Documentary Now!, Documemory: A Self-Reflexive Approach fusing the Real with the really Remembered, 27 Jan 2011, London, UK
  • Visible Evidence XVII, Blending Historical Spaces in 'Sarajevo: Shelved Memories', 09 Aug 2010, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Journeys Across Media, Documemory: Creating a Space for Re-membrance’, 17 Apr 2009, Reading, UK
  • Visible Evidence XV, Reclaiming the Real: "Battle for Haditha" and the Docudramatic Perspective:, 04 Aug 2008, Lincoln, United Kingdom

Memberships

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