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 charming short film charts the World Film Collective workshop with young people from Casarao Cultural Centre, Morro dos Prazeres favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It gives a unique insight into the various stages of the workshop, and includes interviews with participants about the three week course.
We returned to Cape Town in June, 2009 to deliver a Level 2 Documentary Workshop to students from the New Africa Theatre Association. Several of the participants have been putting their new filmmaking skills to good use since we last saw them. Find out what they have been up to and watch as they create […]
This film is a behind the scenes look at WFC’s Level 1 Fictional Shorts workshop delivered to students at Niekerksrus Agricultural school in Free State South Africa. The students produced a poignant final film about the effects of alcoholism on their families.
Get to know the students from our Level 1 Documentary Workshop in Nablus, Palestine. The students worked together to create three wonderful films examining important issues in their communities.
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.
Some say that during the recent London riots in the summer of 2011, many of those looting and rioting were being opportunistic, seizing the chance created by others to steal a pair of new trainers. In this film, Justin, a young man living in a hostel and on job seekers allowance, faces a moral dilemma. […]
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.
