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		<title>Welcome to World Film Collective&#8217;s new website!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 2012 Welcome to World Film Collective’s new website. This is the start of a new era for us where we take everything we’ve done and move it onto the next level. Up to now we’ve been a collective of &#8230; <a href="http://worldfilmcollective.com/test-post/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[April 2012

Welcome to World Film Collective’s new website. This is the start of a new era for us where we take everything we’ve done and move it onto the next level. Up to now we’ve been a collective of people who got really excited by the potential for cell phones and the internet to empower young people. Now we’re becoming a collective of the young people themselves. There’s a lot about me on this website. That’s because I’ve been working over the past four years with Founder Members to get us up to this point. But we’re here now, and it’s time for the WFC youth to take over. This is already happening in South Africa. The crew in Khayelitsha are finding people who will pay for music videos and promotional films. We’ll be doing this in the UK soon, and expanding opportunities in both countries for young people to make money from their films by running a Digital Distribution Entrepreneur Training that teaches business opportunities on mobile and online. Our goal by the end of this training is for the most entrepreneurial within the group to be earning an income from their films. 

This is particularly satisfying for us, as Digital Distribution is the final module in our comprehensive education to employment programme that has evolved over the past four years. The training began as a series of self-contained workshops in cell phone film making in genres including Fictional Shorts, Documentary Shorts, News and Sports Reporting and Video Art. With this final module, the programme will run for six-months and give a young person who is unemployment opportunities to find employment, re-enter education or secure a training placement. With support from individuals, Governments and foundations in South Africa and the UK, we will be ready to launch the six-month programme by the end of the year.

At the same time, WFC is changing the way we fund ourselves. Up to this point we’ve been supported by donations from individuals like visionary business investor, Miles Morland, grants from formidable private foundations such as The Sigrid Rausing Trust, and from the UK and South African Governments. Now we’re ready to look at what we’ve achieved and ask ourselves the same question we’re asking these young people, where are your strengths and how can you make money from them?  At WFC, we’re good at nurturing the creativity of disengaged youth, working with them to produce powerful films and building them up to become valuable employees, freelancers or active entrepreneurs. We’re good at letting them tell their own stories, guiding them to a professional standard, helping them to make films other people want to watch. We’ve also shown we can teach cell phone film making to individuals, companies or institutions that want to use this medium to reach their constituents.

However, WFC’s biggest asset is the young people who make up this Collective. These young people have enormous talents, both as film makers and as active members of society. They have experience, access, fresh opinions and a new perspective. They are resourceful and have incredible emotional literacy. We can really learn from and be entertained by their insights. The Founder Members, the Board, the Supporters and myself are really proud of everything they’ve achieved so far, and this website has tried to capture those achievements. The whole WFC team looks forward to our collective future. Be a part of it! Support us by Donating Online or Get Involved by emailing us  info@worldfilmcollective.com

Thanks <img src='http://worldfilmcollective.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> 




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