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.
At our first tutor training workshop in Brasil, tutors are asked to produce and star in their own film shot entirely on a mobile-phone. This helps them to understand the activities they then teach to participants in the workshop.
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 […]
A behind-the-scenes of the Kaltcha Pioneers project, run in partnership with Grassroot Soccer and funded by the UK Premier League. Meet the original team of 198 young people from Khayelitsha who used filmmaking to spread awareness of HIV prevention. What a fantastic contribution they have made!
This intro by Tanguy Viaud explains the campaign behind stop and search stories and encourages young people to contribute their own accounts of being stopped and searched. Unfortunately the website no longer exists but this intro is as compelling as it ever was
In this episode of Word Iz, the WFC team profile rapper, Loskop. Graphics and archive footage enhance the story ad message of this artist’s lyrics. Word Iz chose a local music artist from the community and produced a music video / Vlog to accompany their performance. Word Iz was broadcast on Mxit, a South African […]
In this episode of Word Iz, the WFC team profile rapper, Ncedisa. Graphics and archive footage enhance the story ad message of this artist’s lyrics. Word Iz chose a local music artist from the community and produced a music video / Vlog to accompany thier performance. Word Iz was broadcast on Mxit, a South African […]
Word Iz director, Manez Sobetwa, advertising the latest episode in the series. Word Iz was broadcast on Mxit, a South African mobile phone social network which at the time had 25 million active users. The series was broadcast every week for three months and the films were available for download
