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Welcome
Remembering Ada Salter - film project

During 2018 we developed relationships and ideas for our new docudrama feature film Remembering Ada Salter about the work of Ada Salter and the social, political and environmental contexts she sought to​ influence. Following setbacks caused by the Covid-19 lockdown, the production of this film is now back in full swing with generous support from The Edith M. Ellis Trust and Sands Films.
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Our aim is to complete the film in time for it to be screened as part of the Ada Salter Centenary Week patronised by Dame Judi Dench, in Bermondsey, London, in November 2022 to commemorate 100 years since Ada Salter was elected Mayor of Bermondsey, the first female Mayor in London.

You are invited to follow our progress on our Remembering Ada Salter Facebook Page:

​www.facebook.com/dfmcRememberingAda/


I'm on the Wild Side

Share your photos, videos, poems, stories and knowledge about nature on our website
If you are under 24 and would like to post something on our website for the I'm on the Wild Side project, we would be delighted to hear from you. Simply click here Contact to let us know.
We would love to hear from organisations that work with young people and would like to help them create a post for our I'm on the Wild Side project. Click here Contact to get in touch with us.
To take a look at the inspired and inspiring contributions from young people, click here: I'm on the Wild Side
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Photograph by Michael Juiko Phang
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Photograph by Michael Juiko Phang
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Photograph by Michael Juiko Phang

Pandora's Box Filmmaking Workshop
for girls and young women in South London
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This Awards for All funded 4-day workshop took place during the February 2017 school break.
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A tremendous success 
thanks to the lively well-thought out, and highly creative contributions made by all the participating girls!

Click here to find out more about how the workshop went. 


The Pandora's Box Filmmaking Project is designed to empower young women to develop and film short video stories or reports on issues that affect women in our society or on topics they feel particularly passionate about. 

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The workshop for young women in the London borough of Lambeth and neighboring boroughs was delivered by us in partnership with the Self Empowerment for Life Foundation and the Independent Film Trust. It was made possible by a grant gratefully received from the National Lottery Awards for All. ​
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No Room for Manoeuvre
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This major project is now hovering at finishing line! We have now captured the footage to create the final montages we want to insert into the film. Some of this footage we filmed with young people at the Damilola Taylor Centre in Peckham. 
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We chose the Damilola Taylor Centre because it is a bright and happy place. It symbolises how, people can rise up from even the deepest suffering and bring new hope and happiness to those around them. Set up by Damilola's parents, it stands for not giving up in the face of adversity, not being crushed by the impact of violence or devastation, but becoming, because of it, all the more resolute in replacing violence with peace, equilibrium and happiness and this makes the centre very relevant to No Room for Manoeuvre.
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We found the nerve to make another round of  significant cuts to reduce the film's length; a challenging task since it required letting go of a lot of fantastic commentary by the featured young people.
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The journey has been a long and circuitous one, given the resource constraints we have been up against. Thank you everyone for your patience while we have been inching our way forwards, negotiating one hurdle after another, including a torrent of IT issues that complicated sharing draft project edits and led to significant setbacks on route.



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African Story Telling
Usifu Jalloh was brought up by a family of storytellers in Sierra Leone. For centuries, story telling in Africa has been a form of education as well as a way of transmitting history and cultural legacy from generation to generation.
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However, the age old tradition of storytelling is fast dying out across much of Africa. Usifu is one of a small number of Sierra Leonean  storytellers trying to keep the tradition alive and expand it's repertoire to include contemporary phenomena to maximise its educational relevance in Africa, the UK and elsewhere in the world.

Recently, we filmed Usifu recite a couple of stories.  Click here to see one of the videos we made of him and find out more.
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