A selection of youth-focussed films made in collaboration with Changing the Story
Changing the Story is a 4 year Arts and Humanities Research Council/Global Challenges Research Fund Network plus project that uses arts-based and participatory methodologies to organisations that work with young people to help them shape post-conflict societies. We're currently working in 14 countries and one of the things many of the groups we've worked with like to do is to make films. This work has also allowed us to work with other fascinating projects, including the Cross-language dynamics: re-shaping community Open World Research Initiative Project, led by the University of Manchester.
This is the best place to go to get a full overview of all the stuff that Changing the Story gets up to.
https://changingthestory.leeds.ac.uk/
To find out more about our project have a look at our website
A short showreel from just a few of the projects we've worked on in the last couple of years.
https://vimeo.com/316284194
Or if you want to have a quick look at some of the film projects we've been involved with, have a look at this showreel.
Bishop Simeon Trust website
http://www.bstrust.org/
Over the last few years we have been working with the Bishop Simeon Trust, a South African Charity that supports vulnerable young people in townships across Ekurhuleni, near Johannesburg.
The page gives you the story of how we developed our project with the Bishop Simeon Trust, a project that uses filmmaking as a way of developing leadership skills.
http://yarncommunity.com/stories/691
You can find out a lot more about this work on this yarn page.
Phendulani is a young man who comes to Lethi'themba Safe Park. Find out more about his story here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4FR5tPGkVw
Some of the films we've made with young people as part of our work with the Bishop Simeon Trust
The young people at Bonisiwe Safe Park share their ambitions and dreams of the future. Filmed with and by them in Magaluga Heights, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng South Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWgSLv_l-_Q
The Youth Committee members at Bonisiwe Safe Park talk about the challenges they face and how their Safe Park helps them. Filmed on location in Magaluga Heights, Gauteng Province, South Africa. Find out more at www.bstrust.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN5MljkVE38
One of a number of films made by young people at Tshepo Hope Safe Park in in Tsakane, Kwa Themba with students from the University of Leeds.
https://vimeo.com/173015817
One of a number of films made by young people at Tshepo Hope Safe Park in in Tsakane, Kwa Themba with students from the University of Leeds.
https://vimeo.com/173022626
One of a number of films made by young people at Tshepo Hope Safe Park in in Tsakane, Kwa Themba with students from the University of Leeds.
https://vimeo.com/173100960
One of a number of films made by young people at Tshepo Hope Safe Park in in Tsakane, Kwa Themba with students from the University of Leeds.
https://vimeo.com/173101333
One of a number of films made by young people at Tshepo Hope Safe Park in in Tsakane, Kwa Themba with students from the University of Leeds.
https://vimeo.com/173102512
Find out more about this OWRI project here.
http://projects.alc.manchester.ac.uk/cross-language-dynamics/
In Lebanon, we've been working with the British Council, the the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, and young people living in and around Beirut to think about the legacy of violence in the city on their lives today (work funded by the 'Cross-language dynamics: re-shaping community' Open World Research Initiative, led by the University of Manchester)
This was a film we made right at the start of the project, designed to give an overview of our intentions.
https://vimeo.com/292590344
One of the films made by some of our participants in our Lebanon project.
https://vimeo.com/342977693
One of the films made by young participants during our Lebanon film project.
https://vimeo.com/338081345
One of the films made by young people during our Lebanon film project
https://vimeo.com/338091234
One of the films made by young people during our Lebanon film project.
https://vimeo.com/338046369
One of the films made by young people on our Lebanon film project.
https://vimeo.com/347753963
One of the films made during our Lebanon project.
https://vimeo.com/347753781
To find out more about this project, have a look at this yarn page.
http://yarncommunity.com/projects/25
We've also run a project in collaboration with other colleagues at Leeds, looking at how vulnerable young people negotiate the legacy of dark pasts on their lives today, working with groups in Brazil, India and South Africa.
This film gives you an overview of the project, including some extended clips from the films the groups made.
https://vimeo.com/241709406
This film gives an overview of the project we've been working on in Cambodia and clips from some of the films the students have made.
https://vimeo.com/268822879
In Cambodia we've been working with the Documentation Centre of Cambodia and student teachers to explore the legacy of the Khmer Rouge.
Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba amplifies the voices of young South Africans telling the stories of the Karoo. Between 10 and 20 young adults from Graaff-Reinet will be recruited into a “co-creator collective” (CCC). The CCC will use the video equipment and training provided by the project to source, film, edit, and analyse community stories about the land and its stewards in order to produce digital media, theatrical performance, and research outputs that form part of a new youth-led environmental justice activist programme under the aegis of the local #BanFracking campaign of the Support Centre for Land Change (SCLC) and in partnership with the existing youth group “Youth-in-Power” in Graaff-Reinet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=p1VUJDBLso0
Meanwhile, also in South Africa, other people from the Changing the Story community of projects have also been working with young activists to engage with civil society and make their voices heard.
An overview of the Kosovo strand of the project.
https://vimeo.com/339739790
In Kosovo, young people have been using film, text and music to explore the legacy of 1980s music and what this can tell us about the politics of today.
Young People in Lincoln Green, Leeds challenge the bad reputation of their community.
https://vimeo.com/299103393
And lately we've also had the opportunity to work with groups of young people in the UK to see how they want to represent themselves and their communities.
Young People in Hebden Bridge try to connect with the town's radical past.
https://vimeo.com/320962049
A group of young people think about what Hebden Bridge means to them today.
https://vimeo.com/321610840