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

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.