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.
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 […]
This film was inspired by the poem “Anti Social Behaviour Orders” written by Felix Dennis. It was created by six young people in East London in a Visual Art workshop which examined the relationship between video and written text.
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 […]
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.
Brazilians are indeed good at football, as the title of this film suggests! Find out why in this short film created by students from our Level 1 Fictional Film workshop in Rio de Janeiro.
