Interview with Catriona Smith, founder of Mini Schmidt Productions
Catriona Smith is a writer, curator and artist based in London & Glasgow. In 2018, she founded Mini Schmidt Productions with the aim to create work on what she feels society around her needs to hear most about. She has recently produced a series of sex positive events for those who would like to know more about sex positivity, equality within sex and consent. The project is a collaboration between Sex+ Zine and The Empowered Woman Project , led by Kim Loliya and Mandy Rose Jones. What can you tell me about Mini Schmidt productions? My own company is a bit of a mish mash, I started off as an actor and became quite disenfranchised with the profession. It’s quite daunting, specially, for women regarding things like aesthetics and weight. I think it’s quite soulless and I just sort of thought, “I’d like to be in charge of the projects that I want to do, I want to be my own boss, I’m tired of bubbling around people”. In the acting ...