Details of the 4th annual Flipside Youth Film Festival have been announced! This year there are screenings taking place all over London over a 4 separate days. All screenings are free, un-ticketed and open to all. The Opening Gala Screening at the Old Blockbusters Video Store, Catford on Thursday 24th May from 8pm.Rioted Blockbusters Becomes Screening Site for Youth Films "From Destructive to Constructive" window screening until 27th May. BFI Southbank, NFT 3, on Thursday 31st May from 2pm-3.30pm. Prize giving to all 10 shortlisted entries on this day will be followed by some refreshments in foyer. The Cinema Museum, Kennington on 2nd June from 2pm-3.30pm. Contemporary screening set amongst the memorabilia from the glory days of film. Closing Gala Screening at the HOrse Hospital, Russell Sq on Saturday 9th June from 7.30-10.30pm. Lively closing event, screening the festival programme and accompanied by music and a bar in an avant grade arts space. Chocolate Films is lucky enough to have 5 of our education short films being screened on 31st May at the BFI. The films being screened are the following: 10-14 categoryBeef: The Truth Behind London's Youth Culture15-18 categoryThicker than WaterSprinting for DummiesCharming Southwark19-25 categoryHome Truths The Chocolate Films and Flipside team look forward to seeing you there!
0 commentsChocolate Films is teaming up with the Radio 1 and 1Xtra Academy - the stations’ biggest ever programme of social action and outreach, which will offer up to 10,000 young people across Hackney and beyond the chance to gain skills and experience and to be inspired by leading people in their fields. Opening in the run up to Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend, the Academy will feature a host of leading names from the worlds of music, business, film, radio, fashion, comedy, gaming and software and journalism. As part of this exciting event, Chocolate Films are running 3 filmmaking workshops at the Academy, from directing, filming and editing. The Academy will be open in the run up to Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend from June 1 until June 22, based at the Hackney Picturehouse. These workshops are open to anyone aged 16-19 although 14-25 year olds can also get involved. Please refer to the programme below or click here for more details about how you could take advantage of these fantastic free workshops!
0 commentsOver the last couple of months, Ally has been submitting films made within the last two years to youth film festivals all around the country and we've had some fantastic news! 1. The Rob Knox Film Festival, Sidcup, Kent - 29th MayThicker Than Water ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Flipside Youth Film Festival, BFI, London - 31st May5 films have been chosen for this festival. The categories are: 10-14 category Beef: The Truth Behind London's Youth Culture 15-18 category Thicker than Water Sprinting for Dummies Charming Southwark 19-25 category Home Truths------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. CineYouth, Chicago - 1st and 2nd June4 films have been selected to be screened State-side! The films in the following categories have been selected: Sight and Sounds:Vanguard Street (music video) Rafal's Incredible EscapeThe Way I See It: Young and Polish in LondonWorld View: The Athlete ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. BFI Refuge in Film Festival - 6th June Rafal's Incredible Escape Good luck to all the films involved! Ally will be posting the results in the next month!
0 commentsFrom Monday 30th April, Chocolate Films is teaming up with The Tower of London to provide a once-in-a-lifetime experience for young people (13 through to 17 years) to engage with the Tower of London in a heritage day and a series of creative film making workshops. Through filmmaking, 15 students from the selected schools will be involved in a five day workshop, having the opportunity to explore the Tower of London and work with professionals to produce a creative film responding to this question; “Who are we and what does our World Heritage Site mean to us?” The 3 films to come out of this week long workshops will be screened at the 2012 UNESCO World Heritage Youth Summit, being held from 27th-29th June at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. A short documentary following the process of young people at the National Maritime Museum making an app, made by our Community Filmmaker Tim Marrinan, will also be screened at the youth summit. It really is an honour and an exciting event for us to have so much of our work screened at a world heritage site. The Youth Summit is also an opportunity for participants of the project to meet other young people from across the UK and to participate in a variety of activities which will inspire them to return as champions of world heritage and ambassadors of their local site. Chocolate Films is really excited to be running filmmaking and animation workshops at the Tower of London!
0 commentsDuring the Easter holidays, Chocolate Films ran 2, very fun and action packed, animation workshops at Genesis Cinema in Stepney Green to coincide with the release of the new Ardmann animation 'The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists!'. Children as young as 4 got involved in animating sequinned pirates, blowing up pirate ships, and battle scenes. The lucky animators also got the chance to watch the new Ardmann film in the cinema after the session. Having learnt the process of animation, they could see how the professionals do it! A perfect way to keep the children happy during the Easter break! Here is a combination of the 2 workshop sessions all in one film. Enjoy!
0 commentsChocolate Films worked with a group of 15 refugees aged 15-16 years living in the London Borough of Wandsworth to prepare a unique, fully-immersive, interactive cinema event. The group participated in a 10-week programme where they developed their own audience participation elements, designed and prepared the set design and prepared marketing materials. The group hosted their own screening last night at The Brick Box in Tooting Market for the wider community and another youth group who will be preparing to do the same for our next Out of the Ordinary event on 12th May. Despite the miserable whether, we still had a full house who came to the see the main feature, Shutter; it the whole audience hooked! Once again, we supplied our guests with plenty of popcorn, hot water bottles and blankets to keep warm/hide behind. Aoife is looking forward to curating the next Out of the Ordinary popup cinema event, with the students of Graveney School in Wandsworth as part of the Wandsworth Arts Festival. Check out the photos from the event here:
0 commentsOn Monday, Tim and Ally were off to the Essex countryside, Cardfields in Hatfield Peveral. This is a large country house, affiliated with the London Borough of Islington. This has been the base for the London/Essex residential for the Touch project. Not only has the partners all come together but they have each bought a gang of young people from their respective youth centres (40 people on this residential in total!). It is the first time that young people from London, Bradford, Graz and Cologne have all met each other so there has been a bit of a buzz around this residential. Activities for the week included, outdoor games such as archery and trebuchet, an afternoon trip to South End (showing our Northern and European friends where a typical Londoner would go to the seaside!), canoeing, and numerous social activities such as camp fires at Cardfields. The end of the residential saw the whole group descend on London's Southbank, to the BFI. Here we screened 2 of the education films from Bradford and Islington, as well as 2 segments of the research documentary from the first trips to Graz and Cologne in June and July last year. Check out the photos from the residential and the screening.
0 commentsThe next screening event to put in your diary is 18th April at the Brick Box in Tooting market. It's another horror evening, curated by the young people at the Refugee Home School Support Project in Battersea. Weekly workshops took place from February with the young people of RHSSP who were interested in curating their own film screening and interactive event. They came up with the programme, designed the marketing materials, organised interactive games and worked on the production design for the screening. The details for this event is as follows: 18th April 2012, doors open at 6pm, Screening begins at 6.30-8.30pmFilm: 2 shorts; Chatter & Spectre. The feature film of the evening is Shutter. FREE! If you are interested in attending, then please RSVP to Alessandra Cocksedge on alessandra@chocolatefilms.com who will put you on the guest list. Check out the flyer for more details!
0 commentsThese Boots Were Made For Walking is a young people's participatory project focusing on Ealing 'then and now' in the wider context of the city and the London 2012 Games. Chocolate Films will be running the weekly workshops and have been invited to document the final event. Working with artist Daniel Wallis, young people from Ealing Youth Action Group will explore their local community through a range of creative and physical activities inspired in part by the Olympic tradition. The EYA group will devise a walk, retracing Sir John Soane's footsteps, 8 miles from the Pitzhanger Gallery in West London to his main residence in Central London (Holborn) - a journey he would regularly take when Ealing was set in fields of countryside. During the sessions, the young people will have the opportunity to learn practical orienteering and mapping skills, and experiment creatively as well as looking at ways of physically engaging with the urban environment (e.g. parkour). They will use these experiences to plan and structure the final walk. These Boots Were Made For Walking is about a West London community representing itself to the wider world and setting up a dialogue with other West London boroughs. After the project, the group will hold an exhibition at PM Gallery & House showcasing the working processes and creative outcomes of their walk, which will be on show to the public during the 2012 Games.
1 commentsStudents from Archbishop Tenison's School worked with Tim at Chocolate Films and the Garden Museum to investigate the historic green space of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and modern parks and gardens; the benefits of connecting with nature, as well as the negative experiences. As a result of this investigation, an alternative, art inspired documentary has been made and will be screened on Wednesday 14th March, 3.30 - 5.30pm at the Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7LB.
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