My short film Keith was recently nominated for the Best of British Award at the Iris Prize in Cardiff. I was previously nominated in 2019 for my film Dix Pix. As part of the nomination Keith will screen on Film 4 and be available on Channel 4 online. Keith is part of the Iris Prize 2026 Coming Into Focus strand and can be viewed now until October 2027.
I have recently completed a new short animated documentary called Silence. The film is currently being sent out to film festivals (I don’t expect it to screen anywhere until next year). Below is the trailer and also a synopsis. Please get in contact if you would like to arrange a screening.
Silence is an experimental short animated documentary that looks at activism, imagery and protest when you are a mute person. Protest and activism is loud, but when you are LGBT+, disabled and mute, you need to take a different approach when getting your voice heard. Silence draws on the evocative slogans and images of protest badges and presents how they can give a voice to people.
Silence uses animation, sound, quietness and narration to tell a passionate story of defiance and disobedience when at times you cannot speak.
In April 2025 my short film Prosopagnosia was chosen to screen in the V&A Museum in Dundee. The screening was for Autism Awareness month and the short screened on a loop in the Jupiter Auditorium. I lived in Dundee for many years and left just before the museum was built. It was a very special experience to go back and see the film in a city that means a lot to me. Some photos from the exhibition are below –
Two of my short films are streaming on the ReelAbilities channel for UK Disability History month. ReelAbilities is a New York based disability focussed film festival. The festival has screened several of my films, but is streaming What It Feels Like and Coming Out Autistic specifically for UK Disability History Month. I am delighted that both those films were chosen and honoured that they are being highlighted during an important month.
My latest short film Keith was released in early 2025. Throughout the year the film screened in many film festivals and also won Best Animation Award at the Dublin Smartphone Film Festival and Best Film at the Lived Perspectives Film Festivals. Other screenings took place at the Edinburgh Short Film Festival (where it was nominated for Best Scottish Film), Cinephone – International Smartphone Film Festival (where it was nominated for Best Animation), Gaze Film Festival and London Queer Fringe Festival.
The award for the Lived Perspectives Film Festival was particularly nice, as it was woven by hand.
My short animated documentary Prosopagnosia will be screening at the Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2021 on Saturday 9 October in Glasgow. This is one of my favourite festivals and my previous film Dix Pix screened in 2019. This is also the first in person screening of Prosopagnosia.
I will also be talking at the Documentary Workshop on Sunday 9 October. Here I will present some ideas about identity in creative documentary and I will talk about making Prosopagnosia.
For the past few months I have been working on a new short animated documentary with the Scottish Documentary Institute. The title is Prosopagnosia and will have its Premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this weekend. The trailer is below along with a synopsis.
Prosopagnosia – Trailer from Steven Fraser on Vimeo.
Synopsis – Prosopagnosia is a story of identity that uses expressive animation to investigate intimacy, communication and memory.
Prosopagnosia is face-blindness and as a means of understanding this neurodiverse behaviour, the contents of a memory box are explored. Sketchbooks, photographs and diaries are intricately unraveled to tell a unique and personal story.
What It Feels Like my short animated documentary on voice hearing has been screening at several international festivals. It recently had its Scottish premiere at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival.
Here is a link to the What It Feels Like website. There is info on the film and screenings.
