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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, which is now being supported by Sands Films, is back in full swing with actor Lily Lowe-Myers in the lead role of Ada Salter.
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 Facebook Page:
www.facebook.com/dfmcRememberingAda/
I'm on the Wild SideShare 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
Photograph by Michael Juiko Phang
Photograph by Michael Juiko Phang
Photograph by Michael Juiko Phang
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Pandora's Box Filmmaking Workshop
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No Room for Manoeuvre
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. |