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Catalin Brylla is Principal Lecturer in Film and TV and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and Social Justice at Bournemouth University. He researches how media representations can strategically reduce the stigma of marginalized social groups. He is currently leading a British Academy project on media engagement for wellbeing in the visually impaired community and has worked on an AHRC project on disability and media advocacy in Tanzania. He has made documentaries about misrepresented communities, such as The Terry Fragments, June’s Patchwork and Zanzibar Soccer Dreams. His books include Documentary and Stereotypes: Reducing Stigma through Factual Media, Documentary and Disability, and Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film (with Mette Kramer). He chairs the DEI Committees of Visible Evidence and the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image.