Hello! My name is Saara and I’m
going to be helping with the continuity workshops at Shake! Particularly with
the monthly film screenings. I am really excited to get involved and learn from
everybody! I recently graduated from
Leeds Uni in International Development and Spanish and am now a freelance
journalist and learning to make my own documentary films. I think the film
screenings will be a great opportunity to get together and share ideas, whilst
also getting the chance to see really interesting films. I look forward to meeting you all :)
Here is a review I wrote of Riots
Reframed by Fahim Alam. We watched this as part of the Shake! continuity program at
Platform.
Riots Reframed demonstrates the
power of documentary in its true form. Raw and intelligent, it challenges the superficial
mainstream analysis of the 2011 riots. We were told that a swathe of ‘mindless
criminals’ took to the streets, a bunch of dangerous rebels running wild
without a cause. Mainstream coverage created the impression that we as a
society should point the finger at these young rioters, and that they alone
should be blamed for what happened that August.
