A central theme for many World Film Collective participants, this collection showcases films that demonstrate community ties, friendship and the important support network that this provides.
Students from WFC’s Level 1 Fiction Film Workshop in the City of God favela in Rio de Janeiro produced this short film using Nokia 6110 mobile phones and free editing software. “The Admirer tells the story of an unlikely romance. After a fight with her boyfriend, Alice discovers she is the object of someone else’s […]
This film was part of a twelve-part series entitled, Uyafun’undazi?’ or ‘Do You Want To Know Me?’ The series was created during a programme run in 2012 in Cape Town and funded by The Cape Film Commission. The young filmmakers chose to take a common statistic relating to the townships and profile an individual living […]
This film follows the life of a woman who was orphaned by HIV/AIDS and now looks after her brother. In ths film we hear how she won Miss Khayelitsha Beauty Contest. After making this film, the story was picked up by Glamour magazine SA. This film is part of a series produced during a training […]
Our reporters visit a local woman who cooks food for the community in her own kitchen. Watch as she serves up hearty stews and massive plates of samp and beans. And don’t worry, the food is free to those who can’t afford it.
This film was part of a twelve-part series entitled, Uyafun’undazi?’ or ‘Do You Want To Know Me?’ The series was created during a programme run in 2012 in Cape Town and funded by The Cape Film Commission. The young filmmakers chose to take a common statistic relating to the townships and profile an individual living […]
Are we born with dreams or goals? This short film focuses on interviewing locals from the Morros dos Prazeres favela, Rio de Janeiro to ask them this very question. All footage is shot on a mobile phone and edited by the participants from the Level 2 documentary workshop.
The Muslim celebration of Eid is like Christmas. In the camp however, there was a feeling of sadness as many were spending the day without their families, surrounded by squalor with dwindling hope of ever reaching Britain. Despite this, some men in the Afghan section hooked up a speaker and started to dance.
