The focus of World Film Collective has primarily been on young people. The workshop format has been taken to schools and communities around the world, creating a valuable, transcultural insight into the experience of youth.
This film was created by students in World Film Collective’s Level 1 Documentary workshop at the Bint Al-Wazir school in Ramallah, Palestine. The girls at this school face a serious problem at break time, as the hierarchies that develop in any school prevent the younger girls from accessing the canteen.
The teaser to the series, Stopped & Search, which featured interviews from celebrities on the subject of police stop and search. This was part of a project analysing the causes of the 2011 youth riots in Britain, during which the young filmmakers identified stop and search as a major contributing factor.
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 by Taya includes interviews with staff members from the Tree House youth centre in Kilburn, north London. The Tree House was run by Kids Company. This films give s a real sense of the emotional impact of the closure of the centre and what it meant to the people who worked there and […]
