April 2011
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March 2011
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www! goes international
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
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Limelight Film & Arts Award 2011 - submissions...
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...
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February 2011
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www! film up for an award!
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...
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January 2011
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Emily Allchurch: Exhibition
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...
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Reprezent radio, London’s youth radio, came...
December 2010
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Photos from the www! 2010 exhibition
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...
November 2010
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Private view last night!
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...
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spraymounting galore!
Lots of last minute spraymounting and chasing of photograph prints has been happening the last few days in preparation for putting up the exhibition on Monday.
Everything looks amazing that’s come in, and the Lulu books look fantastic too. Ben from Chocolate Films bought the finished films in this week, and they’re incredible. I can’t wait for everyone to see them.
Only four...
Exciting news from Pascale!
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Ladies and Gents
You can catch me next week wednesday between 5pm - 6pm on Brent Youth Radio with the wonderful Arna walts!! Will be talking about The Film (A Lifeless Life) and other possible projects!! http://www.brentyouthradio.com/
K&K
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Public Speaking training
Last night, the www!ers met together again for the first time since post-production for public speaking training from Jonathan Drew Training. This is in preparation for the private view of the exhibition where they will be presenting their films and photography projects to friends, family, funders and special guests.
The evening was a great success and we heard the beginnings of some great...
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Have a read of the www!ers projects in their own...
See those links to the right? ———> they go out to the www!ers own project pages, where some of them have been blogging throughout the duration of the project. I’ve picked out some highlights myself, but explore them yourselves to find out how they’ve got on.
Pascale blogs through the post-production of his film, including lots of photos from the shoot:...
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Post-post-production!
Phew! And the manic post-production week is over! I’ve been so impressed by everyone’s efforts over the past week to get everything done, and seeing the projects take shape has been really exciting.
Well done to all the groups, the finished results are incredible and should make for another brilliant www! exhibition. Don’t forget you can see all the work at the public exhibition...
October 2010
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Photos from post-production
Check out some shots of the www!ers hard at work during post-production at CLC in Tower Hamlets. The film and photo projects are looking really great, can’t wait for you all to see them at exhibition.
The exhibition takes place at Maverick Showrooms from 23-28 November. See our events page for more details.
27.10.10
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Post Production has begun!
This morning saw all the www!ers gather at Tower Hamlets CLC centre to begin their intense week of post-production. With some of the groups at different stages, a lot of hard work is needed to get the finished result. I had a sneak peak at everyone’s work, and what I saw was incredible, I can’t wait to see it progress over the week.
Good luck everyone, we’re all rooting for...
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Behind the scenes photos from shoots
With production on this years www! projects fast coming to an end, we’re getting photos back taken on set during recent shoots.
Check out our Flickr page for a behind the scenes look at the different www! projects.
Sahai and Laura photoshoot
Pascale & Subhan film shoot
Syanne photoshoot
Jemma, James, Luke & Denzie film shoot
Bradley, Natalie and Luso photoshoot
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Pascale & Subhan- www!: 13th!!! →
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Day 1!!
Day started off like hell!! Actor calls me in the morning at 6 O`clock and tells me he cant make it, he is sick and his throat is closing up. Was going to start panicking but I guess I wasn`t expecting a perfect day.
went to train station met up with Khan 1 and Khan 2 + Aaron my runner…
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Film industry meeting - 2
Last night saw the last of the industry meetings organised as part of the what we want! 2010 project, and did we go out with a bang! The evening saw inspirational and advice laden talks from Matt Delargy and Larry Lamb.
Matt is a film producer, and recently co-produced the massively successful Nowhere Boy, all about the early years of John Lennon’s life. With many films under his belt,...
September 2010
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Photo industry meeting - 2
On Tuesday 28th September Emily Allchurch, a photography artist volunteered her time to come in and speak with the photography www!ers. Emily’s work is all about post-production, producing intricate lightbox pieces that can be seen on her website www.emilyallchurch.com.
The students who attended got 1:1 advice from Emily about their own projects, with Emily looking at some of their work...
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Film industry meeting - 21/9/10
Last night saw the first of our film industry seminars, with three fantastic guest speakers volunteering their time to come and talk with the www!ers. With fascinating stories from different sides of the industry, the www!ers soaked up the advice and stories of the speakers.
Tom Linay – Development Producer
Tom currently works with Ed developing his next feature film, and has previously worked as...
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Photo www!ers visit gallery
Tuesday 14th September saw the photo www!ers take a trip to the The Photographers’ Gallery to see the incredible Sally Mann exhibition.
The lovely Brenda took us around the exhibition, talking about Sally’s work and answering questions, a special thanks for staying after opening hours to give us the tour.
Seeing another artists work in exhibition, and the different styles of...
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Asha's account of Film Festival
As recently reported, Asha’s film Dance Fuizion was nominated in the recent Limelight Film and Arts Awards. Read Asha’s account of the night below and see some of her photos capturing the night:
After finding out that I’d have my film at the Limelight Film Festival I was well excited and got all my mates together in our red carpet clothes, which was weird for some of them being suited...
August 2010
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www! 2010 begins!
After many, many hours of interviews, this years hopeful applicants were whittled down to the final five photo and five film projects, which will make up www! 2010. The standard and range of the applications we received was incredibly high, making it even harder to select the successful applicants.
We’re really excited about this year’s projects and will be updating the blog...
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www! 2010 is recruiting now!
If you’ve been inspired by what you’ve seen on these pages, now’s your chance to get involved. www! is recruiting again for five more photography projects, and five films. If you’re aged 13-19, this could be your chance to learn how to produce, direct, fund, edit and showcase/exhibit your very own film or photography project about a subject you feel passionately about.
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July 2010
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www! at Limelight Film & Arts Awards 2010
Congratulations to Asha who’s film ‘Dance Fuizion’ was nominated in the Freefall category at this years Limelight Film & Arts Awards. A glitzy awards ceremony at The Troxy in Tower Hamlets saw hundreds of people from across the film industry turn out to celebrate the achievements of filmmakers across the country. Performances from up-and-coming stars provided the...
June 2010
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May 2010
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Check out the incredible projects of this years...
All the projects are now available online on our YouTube and Flickr pages. Have a look on each of the individual www!ers blog pages to see their projects too!
Enjoy!
27.05.10
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All www! 2009 films are now online!
Check out the incredible work of this years www!ers on our YouTube page!
20.5.10
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Limelight Film and Arts Awards 2010 - £5,000...
For any budding film makers out there, the Limelight Film and Arts Award 2010 is now open for submission. Limelight is the ground breaking annual short film competition, followed by an Oscar style, red carpet awards ceremony held in the Capital, open to all living, working or studying in London. The event is visited by hundreds of film makers, as well as celebrities, distributor’s, funders,...
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Showcase photos!
Wow! What a night! The www! showcase this year, held last Friday 30th April at Oxford House, was such a fantastic evening.
Hosts Hamim and Charley
Two hectic days were spent putting up the exhibition by Sally from Futureversity, Lorna and Steph from Oxford House and myself. Lots of on the spot problem solving put our resourcefulness to the test as we struggled with fishing wire, velcro,...
April 2010
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Showcase tonight!!
We’re working from dawn till dusk to get ready for the showcase tonight, so it’s all very exciting as the www!ers work is showcased.
All the finished projects are incredible, and we’re very proud to be showing them tonight for the first time in public.
Don’t forget, you can see all the work at the free exhibition running at Oxford House in Bethnal Green from Sat 1st -...
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Showcase meeting with www!ers
As the post-production deadline gets closer and closer, Sally and I are off to meet with the www!ers at Oxford House to prepare their presentations for the showcase at the end of the month.
Don’t forget, you can see the amazing work created by the www!ers this year at the FREE exhibition running at Oxford House from 1-15 May 2010.
A big shout out of thanks to Mark Whelan for volunteering...
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Samantha's report from BT Seen and Heard Awards,...
I attended the BT Seen and Heard awards to collect an award for my film Depression Diary. We arrived at the Houses of Parliament, the place was surrounded with guards and they scanned my bag and coat just like at airports. The musician from my film was already there and came and introduced herself to me, I had not had a proper chance to talk to her since the first screening of my film last year....
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Samantha's report from the Wood Green Film...
The 4th Youth Film Day took place as part of Woodgreen’s 8th International Short Film Festival at a Cineworld. My film Depression Diary was screened alongside fellow www! filmmakers; The Special Ones, Life No More and Misconception.
Chatting to a woman in the lobby I told her a film I made was being screened, ‘What in the actual cinema? You’re a film maker! That’s fantastic’ she replied, all...
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New behind the scenes photos from www!er shoots
Hot off the e-mail press I have some stunning photos of the www!ers out on their shoots, taken by Roger from Shake Ur Arts who are the mentors on the project. We’ve got behind the scenes photos from shoots with Greg, Asha & Thaya, Siama and Tatyana, Bisi & Lara.
Tatyana and Bisi interviewing the public.
Check out the flickr page to see the rest of the photos.
8.4.10
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Catch up with the www!ers latest blog entries
All the www!ers have been hard at work leading up to post-production to get their projects ready for edit. Check out the latest blog entries from some of the www!ers to see what they’ve been up to:
Charley and Ming do their final shoots.
Matt and Gareth shoot in a meat market and horse around a bit (very bad joke I know).
Some on set shots from Greg ‘s film shoot.
Asha provides a...
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Post-production has begun!
Well done to everyone today for turning up to the first day of post-production! A few hiccups with equipment but things soon settled down for everyone to get stuck in and begin to craft their final project. Thanks to everyone at Central Foundation Girls School for being so accomodating and letting us use their facilities, particularly Ben, Tina and Tomasz and the premises staff.
Moo cards for...
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Depression Diary wins another award!
Samantha’s film Depression Diary enjoyed even more success at the Youth Film Day during the Wood Green International Short Film Festival. The audience voted her film the best of that session, and she won a mini HD camera and other camera related goodies! Amazing news!
Sam getting her award
All the groups that went had a great time and got certificates for their films. A report from...
March 2010
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Further exhibition plans in the pipeline.....
We’re currently working on some very exciting plans for further exhibition works in an amazing public space in June. Should be able to update soon….
18.3.10
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More www! film success at film festivals!
Four www! films from 2008-9 have been selected to appear at the 8th Wood Green International Short Film Festival as part of their Youth Film Day - fantastic news!
Life No More, Misconception (My Opinion), The Special Ones and Depression Diary will all screen at the Cineworld in Wood Green on Saturday March 27th between 10.45am-12.30pm. The Youth Film Day allows young filmmakers to celebrate...
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Photography students to meet exhibition...
All the www! photography students are set to meet the Exhibition Co-ordinator at Oxford House tomorrow to creatively explore how to display their work in the final exhibition.
This will be a great session to get a feel of the size of the area their work will be displayed in and should hit home the reality that their work will be displayed to the public for a whole 2 weeks!
Information about the...
February 2010
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Reports back from the BFI 3rd Future Films...
Recently we were very excited to have two films from last year’s www! project included for screening at the BFI 3rd Future Film Festival. Both groups had a great time at the festival seeing their films. Shah, who was part of the group who made The Special Ones, said, “..it was a really good feeling to see our documentary on the big screen”. Samantha, whose film Depression...
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Showcase and exhibition venue secured!
We’re delighted to confirm that this years www! showcase and exhibition will take place at the wonderful Oxford House in Bethnal Green. After the brilliant event and exhibition there last year we’re very excited to be returning, with an even bigger and better event planned!
This year we’ll have the entire gallery space to display the work in, as well as the expertise of the...
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Help us shape Tower Hamlets Summer Uni!
Tower Hamlets Summer University (soon to be FUTUREVERSITY) is the charity behind the what we want! project, we put on FREE courses in the summer holidays and all year round for people aged 11-25. Opportunities range from the www! media grants scheme, to Job Ready, Youth Ambassadors, Nang! and the summer programme with over 130 courses in sports, arts and business.
Tower Hamlets Summer Uni...