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HQ in Burbank and the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. In January 2018, she finished her first international project in Japan, titled 'Shakespeare in Tokyo', which combined a workshop and professional work experience for six Japanese people with Down syndrome. Shakespeare in Tokyo was
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In 2009 Clay-Smith co-founded the not for profit organisation Bus Stop Films, and she co-founded Taste Creative in 2010. She has been forging pathways for inclusion in the film industry. She has campaigned for the need to incorporate more inclusion and diversity on the film screen and within the
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In 2016, Clay-Smith was invited by the NSW Minister for the Arts to join the Arts and Culture Advisory Board Committee, to advise the government and help influence policy on matters pertaining to developing and promoting the arts and culture of NSW.  
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ScreenAbility initiative. She received an AMP Tomorrow Makers grant in 2016 which enabled her to spend 18 months writing Bus Stop Films' Accessible Film Studies Curriculum and turning it into an online resource.
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She is an alumnus of the Foundation for Young Australians, Young Social Pioneers (YSP) program, where she received a 12-month scholarship to be mentored and trained in social entrepreneurship in 2010.
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in Broadmeadow. As an actress in the local children's theatre called the 'Young People's Theatre,’ she was cast as Nancy Cakebread in the Australian feature film, 15 Almore (1998).
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media. She has forged a partnership between BSF and AFTRS, facilitating Bus Stop's students with intellectual disabilities access to the film, television and radio industries.
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100 Women of Influence Award, where she was recognised as the overall winner in the Young Leader category for her contribution to creating inclusion within the film industry.
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In 2018, Clay-Smith and her husband Henry Smith accepted the Optus My Business Award as Taste Creative won the Media, Marketing & Advertising Business of the Year award.
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Clay-Smith's career as a writer and a film director began in 2009 when her film, starring a man with Down syndrome, won Australia's largest short film festival,
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University of Technology Sydney Young Alumni Award Australian Directors Guild Award Best Direction in a student film for 'I Am Emmanuel
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In 2017, she was the winner of the Entrepreneurial Award in the B&T 30 under 30 awards.  In the same year, she was awarded the
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Human Rights Award for Community Organisation, presented to Bus Stop Films, under the leadership of Genevieve Clay-Smith
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Optus My Business Awards - Taste Creative won Media, Marketing & Advertising Business of the Year
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Telstra Australian Business Women of the Year Awards: New South Wales Emerging Leader Award
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Telstra Australian Business Women of the Year Awards: National Emerging Leader Award
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Screen Australia's Women in Film Gender Matters Project Development Grant recipient
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In March 2018, Clay-Smith was invited to deliver the closing keynote speech at the
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Westpac and Financial Review 100 Women of Influence Award Winner for Young Leader
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launched at the international film festival Short Shorts Film Festival with the
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Human Rights and Arts Film Festival award - Best Film for "The Interviewer
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Human Rights and Arts Film Festival award - Best Film for "I Am Emmanuel"
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in 2018, with all proceeds being donated to the Humpty Dumpty Foundation.
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Clay-Smith won the award of Young Australian Filmmaker at the 2014
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University of Technology Sydney Social Justice Media Award
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100 Women of Influence award for Diversity and Inclusion
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Clay-Smith was a stakeholder and consultant of the 2017
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to support her professional work. This is an award of
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Australia
Hunter School of the Performing Arts
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Screen NSW
BBC Manchester
Extraordinary Film Festival
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike
Toronto International Film Festival
Byron Bay International Film Festival
Australian Financial Review
Westpac
NSW Young Australian of the Year
Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship
The Australian Financial Review
"Meet the boss: Filmmaker Genevieve Clay-Smith"
"Inclusive Storytelling"
"He's my Tropfest brother"
"Bus Stop Films"
"Women of Influence have a gender agenda"
"Taste Creative"
15 Amore
"Our History - Bus Stop Films"
"Genevieve Clay-Smith – AMP's Tomorrow Fund"

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