Last Christmas
This film project I worked on with a wonderful group of young people and the fabulous arts team at the Brady Centre in Tower Hamlets.
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Suffrage Tales
I made this film last summer with a group of young people and the education team at The National Archives. We kept it under wraps until February this year, so that it would tie in with the 100 year anniversary of the Representation of the People’s Act. The film has been nominated for a Medea…
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For November 2016 to April I worked with Tower Hamlets Youth Council on a Youth Information Film about Nude Selfies. We developed the film by first looking at how other agencies and organisations had tackled this subject. The youth council members also met with a Police Officer who explained the legal side of this phenomenon to them. At…
Continue reading →Medea Award Winner 2017
Somme Tales has just won the user-generated media prize at the Medea Awards 2017 You can watch the ceremony here: http://www.medea-awards.com/home – the announcement is at about 22 minutes 30 seconds. Fantastic news!
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I first met with Education Manager Rachel Hillman and her team in February 2016. At the meeting they set out that they wanted to make a film about the Battle of the Somme with young people in schools. After spending a few weeks thinking over the project. Which included looking at videos on You Tube,…
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During the summer I met with Jai Tyler, education manager at The Photographers Gallery. We met at the gallery which is situated in a great position just behind Oxford Street, in Ramilies Street. Jai asked me if I could devise a workshop for young people interested in using their DSLRs for film making. My approach was to keep down the…
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