Creative Director for Creative Partnerships BDR
Brigidin is an educator and a filmmaker with a background in the creative industries and corporate communications. She holds a Masters in International Cinema from the University of Sheffield as well as a first degree in English and History. A qualified teacher of English, Drama and Media, she set up a TV studio in her first school and established a modular multimedia performing arts GCSE course, before joining Bedfordshire LEA Inspection and Advisory service as an Advisory Teacher.
She subsequently worked as a presenter and producer for BBC Radio and then spent 7 years in Corporate Communications internationally, working on multimedia campaigns and digital showcase products including web and DVD. She has filmed all over the world from Harvard University to the Red Cross in Geneva, directing unusual IT campaign films (Human Genome Project), special features and creative profiles of artists, entrepreneurs and scientists, as well as web movies and showcase films for a wide range of global blue chip companies in the IT, Telecoms and Biotech sectors.
In 2001 Brigidin was contracted to set up 'Developing Creativity', a programme with Sheffield schools to access the Creative and Digital Industries (CDI) sector. Over 350 students were offered placements and attended 'Biz Days'. The programme, showcased in a dynamic digital film, was highly successful in pioneering school/business links within the CDI sector and was supported by the Local Authority.
Brigidin joined Sero, a specialist education consultancy operating in the CDI sector, in early 2005 and leads the company's work with schools and creative industries. In September 2006, a partnership of Music Factory and Sero was appointed to run the Creative Partnerships programme in Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham area and Brigidin was appointed Creative Director. Andy Pickles, Deputy Chair of the Music Factory Entertainment Group, is the Executive Director for the programme.
