"REACH" shortlisted for Small Axe Radical Short Film Award

We're very pleased to announce that our #Shake2013 film "Reach" has been shortlisted for the Small Axe Radical Short Film Awards in the Best Activist Film - Factual/Documentary category at this year’s Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival.













The Small Axe Short Film Competition is a brand new initiative for radical filmmakers being launched at the inaugural Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival in July 2014.

Young people, students and activist filmmakers from all over the world were invited to submit short films that are "rebellious, angry, radical, revolutionary, socialist, anarchist, militant, progressive or subversive"!


The Small Axe screening and awards event will take place on the morning of Sunday 20th July in the Vintage Mobile Cinema on the festival site of the Tolpuddle Festival in Tolpuddle, Dorset.

Short-listed films will be screened between 10.00-12.30 with the winners being announced between 12.30 and 13.00.

Congratulations to all our young film-makers: Nathaniel Chapman, Enayet Mannan, Umaru Saidu, Khadiza Shahid, Minhas Wariz! And also to Richard York and Hannan Majid (The Rainbow Collective) and Derek Richards from Hi8us South for their facilitation and support.

You can watch "Reach" and our brand new film "Remember" on our YouTube channel and further videos here.

Latest Shake! Film: Reach

This poetic documentary set out to explore issues of aspirations, social cohesion, capitalism, gentrification, and the UK's growing economic divide, as identified by the young film makers.

The second Shake! film of the year was made by:

Nathaniel Chapman
Enayet Mannan
Umaru Saidu
Khadiza Shahid
Minhas Wariz

It was devised in a day, shot over 2 days and edited in 3 days by young participants of the August 2013 workshops at the Bernie Grant Art Centre. The film making was facilitated and supported by film makers Richard York and Hannan Majid The Rainbow Collective and Derek Richards from Hi8us South.  This arresting film is testament to all their incredible talent.

Film Makers Q & A

The film was so sophisticated. Stunning. - Jane 

The film was absolutely incredible- Audience member from Shake Showcase

"Very sophisticated touches, the juxtaposition of the ticker tape of share prices and the fingerprinting news story, could easily have been missed, but matched the larger image of the HSBC building towering over the estates. Great film."- Sarah

Coming to a #Shake2013 Showcase Near You Soon!

Coming soon...!

Here's the atmospheric trailer for the forthcoming new short created by participants on the summer #Shake2013 one-week intensive course:


The theme for our summer Shake! was #PowerPropagandaPerceptions and this teaser gives a flavour of what to expect from the final film - you'll have to wait our showcase for that so stay tuned for the date of that exclusive release.

The Summer Shake2013 filmmakers are: Nathaniel, Khadiza, Umaru, Enayet and Minhaz who worked to cut this trailer in the last 2 hours of the workshops with Hi8us facilitators Hanan Majid & Richard York aka The Rainbow Collective.

Few words from Zena post Shake!"13 @ BGAC

Zee grooving to Lucas Kelly's poem "Messy Python"

                                           
I am speechless. I can't even talk about tired after an intensive week of youth arts and activism because I've been so inspired by the voices of the young people on the this weeks Shake course. It has been empowering, emotional.... oh I could go on and on but I'm supposed to be speechless the resonance of the participants voices run so deep there are no adequate words (don't really cut it.)

Thanks to Farzana Khan, Edward Lewis, Sai Murray, Derek Richards, Marcina Arnold and Hannan and Richard from the www.rainbowcollective.co.uk for making it soooo easy to bring this dream project to fruition and to aaaaall the young people who invested so much of themselves to produced some incredibly powerful poetry and film. Am feeling blessed and honoured. I know I keep saying it but I must again - "I love my job!"
Big Love and Thanks to all.