Christian Aid UK – 9 minutes.
A film showing Christian Aid’s work in rural India, supporting a residential school for girls who would otherwise be married young or forced into bonded labour. The story of one successful student, Venkatamma, is woven into a play performed by the school girls in other villages. [link to Christian Aid]
Environment: Journeys through a Changing World
Nomad Productions for The Open University – 3 minutes each.
Series of short films about water and sanitation in Ethiopia, part of a distance learning module of the OU. Two of the films are available to view here: A "day in the life" of two women, one urban, one rural. showing the difference in their daily activities around water use.
Water in Ethiopia - Rural click here
Water in Ethiopia - Urban click here
Awarded "Highly Commended" by MEDEA AWARDS, for excellence and creativity in media in education. All five films can be viewed on iTunes U by searching for "Water in Ethiopia".
Discrimination and Denial:
Abortion in Northern Ireland
Nomad Productions for International Planned Parenthood Federation
– 12 minutes.
Short film about the culture of repression and silence that surrounds discussion of abortion in Northern Ireland. Women in Northern Ireland pay tax and contribute to the NHS, but are denied the same rights as other UK women enjoy under the 1967 Abortion Act. Campaigners and legislators, including MP Diane Abbott, argue that this is discrimination.
Can also be viewed on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/5109185
Fields of Gold
Media Trust for Fairtrade Foundation – 14 minutes.
Two U.K. women venture onto the banana plantations of St. Vincent, in the Windward Islands, to see how Fairtrade bananas are grown for British supermarkets. They each meet up with a woman farmer who shows them why they get a better deal from Fairtrade.
Shown at Toronto Environmental Film Festival. [link to Media Trust]
Freedom to Choose (DV director)
Media Trust for International Planned Parenthood Federation – 6 minutes.
This film visits two very different kind of family planning projects - one in Tbilisi, Georgia and the other in Lima, Peru - to show the work of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the biggest NGO of its kind. Both projects were in danger of losing their US funding because of the ‘Global Gag Rule’ reimposed by George W. Bush, which prohibits any abortion counselling in clinics that receive US funds.
Red Nose Day (DV director)
Comic Relief – Remedan, Mahder and Beyan; 2-5 minutes.
Three short films made for Red Nose Day, and used on Comic Relief’s schools website. Each focuses on an Ethiopian child who is supported by a local NGO and Comic Relief partner. Remedan is an orphan who lives with his brothers, one of whom is an acrobat. Beyan lives in a ‘moon’ house with his family and their goats, and attends after school tutoring. Mahder is a star pupil who hopes one day to become a doctor.
A Day in the Life of UCLH
Media Trust for University College London Hospital – 9 minutes.
Nine minutes, six hospitals, twelve interviews, no commentary - a promotional film for University College London Hospital Trust.
Local Voices, Global Choices
Christian Aid UK – 10 minutes.
Film showing disaster risk reduction work in Bangladesh and other countries, shown at an international disaster reduction forum in Panama City.
U.K. Today
Worldwide for Foreign & Commonwealth Office – 6 minutes.
Hampstead Comprehensive in north London welcomes refugee children. Many arrive traumatised and some are unaccompanied, hastily put onto planes by relatives or aid workers. In this short film, made for the FCO’s magazine programme, sixth formers show how friendship between local kids and the newcomers has enriched them both, and led them to form a charity for refugee children.
Carmen Goes to School
Abbotsbury Music – 14 minutes.
Record of a project in West Dorset bringing a professional outdoor performance of Carmen to local schools, and the workshops for students – in singing, dancing, artwork – that preceded it.
Christian Aid webclips
Short films made for Christian Aid UK – 2-3 minutes each:
Circle the City
Fundraising film made for Christian Aid Week.
Burkina Faso farmers
Trade justice film made during week of G8 summit.
Together TV
EU / Christian Aid / Discovery Europe – 1-2 minutes.
Short “commercials”, profiles of individuals from developing countries, shown on Discovery Channel Europe to introduce mainstream European audiences to development issues.
Two examples:
Karrus (Ghana) – DV Director – click here
Shakuntula – (India) – click here
Greening Eden and Walking Lightly - Your Carbon Footprint
Nomad Productions – 2 x 10 minutes.
Two short films for Open University Dept of Environment & Design, looking at reducing “carbon footprints” at the individual and institutional levels, partly filmed at the Eden Project, Cornwall. [Link to Nomad Productions]
Workers Matter
Resource Base for Institute of Development Studies – 22 minutes.
Training film about a worker-centred system for ethical & social monitoring of farms and factories supplying the global market. How can UK businesses ensure that their overseas sub-contractors are abiding by agreements such as the Ethical Trading Initiative?
Filmed at a South African vineyard and a garment factory in Wales.
Body of Evidence; The Religious Case Against FGM
Womankind Worldwide – 10 minutes.
Record of a conference in Cairo at which Muslim and Orthodox Christian clergy refuted any links between religion and the practice of female genital mutilation, and urged others to condemn it. [Link to Womankind]
Making Social Worlds
Nomad Productions for Open University – various lengths.
Short films for an Open University sociology course DVD. A sociological analysis of the modern airport, showing how it relates closely to the course themes of security, conduct and attachment, using a trip through Stansted Airport as an example. [Link to Nomad Productions]
Sounds-Write
Nomad Productions – 65 minutes.
Training film to show the new “Sounds-Write” method of teaching reading to primary school children, filmed in Milton Keynes. [Link to Nomad Productions]
Voluntary Matters
Media Trust for Learning Zone – Six x 30 minutes.
Educational series about the management of voluntary groups and charities in the U.K. Each of the six episodes looks at real organisations and how they deal with issues such as partnerships, conflict resolution, use of I.T., fundraising, and managing volunteers.
Realising Diversity
Resource Base for Welsh Development Agency/European Union – 26 minutes.
Four businesses shown in this film provide examples of diversity in small and medium sized enterprises, from doll-making to furniture design. Filmed in Greece, Ireland, Austria, and Wales.
First Light Movies – 6 minutes.
UK charity First Light Movies sponsors the making of hundreds of short films every year, collaborations between young people age 7 — 18 and professional filmmakers. This film show the activities at their annual awards ceremony, preceded by a Downing Street reception with Gordon Brown for the young filmmakers.
Myths About Madness
Mental Health Media for Dept of Health – 21 minutes.
Does the media stigmatise people with mental health problems?
In this programme, six people with psychiatric diagnoses, a journalist (Jonathan Freedland) and a psychiatric nurse attempt to overturn common prejudices. The film is aimed at professionals – teachers, health workers, police – who might deal with people with mental health problems in the course of their work.
Wired up Communities (DV director)
Media Trust for DFES – 2 x 13 minutes.
Two films showcasing the Dept for Education‘s scheme to provide deprived communities with I.T. hardware and internet connections, and to create a private television station on an east London housing estate with programmes made by residents.
Welcome to the I.A.S.
Media Trust for Immigration Advisory Service – 10 minutes.
Film introducing asylum-seekers and immigrants to the work of the Immigration Advisory Service, and showing how it can benefit them. Three people tell their stories of stalled legal cases, illegal deportations and recalcitrant British Consulates, and how the I.A.S. got to the bottom of their problems. Produced in 12 languages.
Hit the Headlines
Mental Health Media – 22 minutes.
People with mental health problems, and user groups associated with psychiatric units are reluctant to expose themselves to media scrutiny for fear of being misrepresented. This video was encourages them to participate in media coverage of mental health issues. Among those discussing strategies to avoid the “Psycho Killer” syndrome is journalist Martin Bashir.