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.
This short film produced by participants from our Level 2 documentary workshop in Morros dos Prazeres favela, Rio de Janeiro focuses on life in the favela. All footage is shot on a mobile phone and edited by the participants, producing candid interviews with some of the local individuals in the favela.
The Kaltcha Pioneers team decided that if they are going to spread the message, Get Tested, Know Your Status, then they would have to know their own status themselves. They took the brave step of getting tested together and made a film about it. What a courageous group of youth! Role models for us all.
In this episode of Kaltcha Talk, the team disucss sex in the context of relationships, how it impacts on them and changes them. They talk about ideas of love, openly and from their perspective. This episode of part of a series created during a project run in partnership with Grassroot Soccer and funded by the […]
Another really open conversation about the circumstances in which some people have sex against their better judgement, risking the spread of HIV. In a society where this subject is taboo, these young people are being incredibly couragous expressing themselves so openly and honestly. Testiment to the power of grassroots filmmaking
Filmed by students in a refugee camp in Bethlehem, Palestine. The concept was created by discussions about the difficulties of girls and boys making contact with each other in the camps.
Young men from Khayelitsha talk openly about HIV in their community, how they cope with the persistent fear of contracting HIV and how this affects their approach to sex and relationships. This open and staightforward discussion is testiment to the power of grassroots filmmaking as these men feel comfortable enough being filmed by members of […]
This film was produced by students in WFC’s Level 1 Fictional Short workshop in Ilford, East London. After getting in trouble, Mia, a teenage girl from Poland, faces the threat of being sent back to Poland by her mother. Hoping to stay in the UK, she urges her friends to shape up and make a […]
We went to two different malls and got to find out what other people think or what do they know about HIV/AIDS. Mitchell’s Plain is a Coloured township and Site B is in Khayletsha, which is predominently Black township
