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.
In this sixth film the theme is soccer. The World Cup is not only about watching soccer on tv for the children in City of God. For them it’s also a moment for PLAYING football.
Behind the scenes form the recent up-skill project, sponsored by the Cape Film Commission, South Africa’s regional equivalent to the Arts Council in the UK. The team made a broadcast-quality series Do You Want To Know Me that take a common statistic relating to the townships and gives it a human face by profiling an […]
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.
World Film Collective is proud to be empowering a new generation of citizen journalists and news reporters in South Africa. Watch this space for their latest reports!
What We’ve Done hooked up with BBC1Xtra to interview the stars of their live broadcast sessions at The Hackney Picturehouse. As part of a deeper analysis into why the 2011 riots kicked of, WWD asked various celebrities their views on police stop and search. Jamie Howard and Jason Lewis are well-known comedians on the circuit. […]
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
Lidia, Alenja and Josh have made this film about the closure of the Tree House, a youth centre in Kilburn that was run by Kids Company. In the film they talk about why they enjoyed going to the Tree House and what it meant to them. They also interview a local resident to get his […]
Many young people have looked at fashion catalogues and dream of one day featuring in them. Now the rise of social media provides many young people with new opportunities to follow their dreams.
What We’ve Done hooked up with BBC1Xtra to interview the stars of their live broadcast sessions at The Hackney Picturehouse. As part of a deeper analysis into why the 2011 riots kicked of, WWD asked various celebrities their views on police stop and search. Shivz Dotz is a popular musical artist. In this episode he […]
