what we want!

We’re delighted to announce that the magnificent Trapped, by filmmaker Gemma Clarke, has been screened at a youth film forum event in Limerick as part of Fresh Film Festival!

Read about how Gemma made her film, and watch the final short film yourself on her project page http://www-gemma.tumblr.com/

Well done Gemma!

30.03.11

The Annual short Film awards that celebrates, promotes and recognises rising and community based film makers, takes place on Thursday the 23rd June 2011.  Referred to as the Oscar’s of short films, Limelight, is an annual short film competition followed by a red carpet awards ceremony, attended by over 500 film makers, TV/ Film personalities and high profile organisations.

Last year, one of our www!ers Asha had her film Dance Fuizion was nominated for an award in the freefall category.  You can read about her experience of the glitzy awards ceremony here

Limelight Film and Arts Awards is a registered charity to promote and recognise film makers and artists, run and organised by Spotlight UK, a local Digital Video Production agency, in Partnership with Canary Wharf Ltd. Sponsored and supported by many organisations and local businesses.

There are 12 awards categories, including Drama, Comedy, Documentary, with four film nominations per category. Then there is the ‘Film of the Night Award,’ which is £10,000 production award, providing the winner with high end film making facilities for their next production, courtesy of production company Spotlight UK.

Submissions are now open, deadline 6^th May.  Visit their website  for more information on how to submit your film.

Amazing news just in, ‘Home Sweet Home’, made by Safeen, Abida and Nadeya on the last what we want! programme, is up for an award at the 8th National Young Filmmakers’ Award taking place in April as part of Leeds Young People’s Film Festival.

We’re very excited about this, and very proud of the animation the group made.

The film is a short animation about war from a young person’s perspective, watch it yourself on our YouTube channel.

Well done!

15.02.11

Emily Allchurch, one of the esteemed industry speakers that came and spoke to the www!ers during the project, has a new exhibition!

Her latest work ‘Tokyo Story’ draws from Hiroshige’s last great work ‘One Hundred Famous Views of Edo’, using her innovative style of reconstructing old works through her own digital images, Emily has created her own interpretation of Tokyo’s current social narrative.

The exhibition runs from 19th January until March 11th at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House in North London.  To find out more information please visit the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation website.

19.1.11

Very excited to announce that photos from the www! exhibition are now online for you to see.

All the www!ers from this years project

All the young peoples work is also available to view online, check out the links on the individual www!er pages links over there to the right ——> or explore our flickr and YouTube pages yourself.

We’re also delighted to say that you can buy the project photobook, a beautiful full colour book with details of all the film and photo projects, and all the incredible photos from the different photography projects.

All proceeds are split between Futureversity and the young people.

02.12.10

I’m still glowing from the amazing private view last night for the five films and five photography projects created as part of this years what we want!

The work is incredible, and I urge you all to go and see it at the free public exhibition. It’s on until this Sunday 28 November at Maverik Showrooms in Shoreditch.

Photos to follow from the event once I’ve got them!

Well done to all the www!ers, you really outdid yourself, you should all be very proud of your work!

Emma 24.11.10

(Project Coordinator)