WORLD FILM COLLECTIVE

Over the past four years, World Film Collective (WFC) has shown that it can engage young people with limited access to employment, education and/or training in the craft of making films on cell phones, working with these young people to distribute their films through new media networks to audiences of thousands across the globe. [read more]

WFC SA, Khayelitsha, Cape Town

Following on from the success of the Premier League / Grassroot Soccer project, World Film Collective has partnered with NOKIA to produce a daily, 5min show for Cape Town Community TV in the run-up to World AIDS Day. Five filmmakers were selected from the training programme to produce films throughout November containing four key HIV messages: 1) Get Tested and know your status 2) Take precautions against contracting HIV  3) Support those living with HIV  4) Don’t stop taking ARVs if you have HIV.  The team have been using NOKIA Pure View 800 camera phones, HD-quality with depth of field and built-in stability function, to produce over fifteen fantastic films so far. The Kaltcha Pioneers are broadcasting to audiences of over 1.5 million people via Cape Town Community TV everyday, as well as building up an online community through Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Mxit. To watch their films and hear their stories visit www.youtube.com/kaltchapioneers. A massive thanks to NOKIA for pioneering cell phone filmmaking with us

WFC SA, Khayelitsha, Cape Town

Funded by the UK Premier League as part of its global commitment to youth, World Film Collective partnered with Grassroot Soccer to deliver a training program to 20 young people from Khayelitsha township, Cape Town age 17-24. The programme took Grassroot Soccer’s highly effective method of using foootball-related activities to teach simple HIV messages and expanded upon it to spread those messages to other young people through cell phone filmmaking and digital distribution. The students made fantastic progress, producing over 30 fiilms and building an online community of over 3,500 people. A big thank you goes out to The Premier League for believing in the potential of youth. For a write-up of the project on The Premier League website, please visit: Premier league projects taking fight to hiv

WFC UK, Hackney, London

WFC recently concluded the second part of their project, What We've Done, exploring the causes of the UK riots. The young people identified Stop and Search as a major factor and interviewed a number of famous artists about their experiences. These included actor/director Adam Deacon and actor/writer Noel Clarke best known for the cult youth classic, Kidulthood. Students of the programme were recruited through The Princes Trust and supported by members of the film industry including award-winning producer, Tendeka Matatu and Brick Lane director, Sarah Gavron. The young people organised an event on the anniversary of the riots (10th August), proving that young people can communicate issues effectively through creativity instead of violence. For more information on this event and the project itself, visit www.whatwevedone.co.uk

WFC SA, Khayelitsha, Cape Town

World Film Collective recently worked in collaboration with the Pearson Foundation on a training programme to produce Public service announcements. The film they produced tackled the issue of literacy amongst township adults. It was screened at the Pearson Southern Africa Strategy Meeting and was received with high acclaim from many of the delegates in attendance.

WFC SA, Khayelitsha, Cape Town

World Film Collective recently added 14 new cell phone film makers to their Khayelitsha production team following a training programme sponsored by Cape Film Commission. The result was a 12-part series, Uyfun'undazi? in English ‘Do You Want To Know Me?’ that takes a common township statistic and gives it a positive human face by profiling an individual living in those circumstances.

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In four years we have trained 364 young people to make films on mobile phones. Our aim is to be the most successful training organisation in the world that teaches young people, especially the disadvantaged, how to make first class films in the new broadcast era. Cell phone film-making has already brought the horrors of the clashes and injustices in Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen onto TV screens around the world. We want to expand the ways that young people can make media, which changes attitudes, perceptions and lives by bringing visual images made by youth across the globe to worldwide audiences. Since starting in 2008, we have championed the voice of the youth around the world. Now we want to anchor a permanent place in the fast advancing digital media space for cell phone films with revolutionary teaching methods.