Community TV Trust recently completed a new promotional film for Bede House to assist with their massive fundraising programme for the new centre they are having built.
Category: Video Productions
A selection of videos created by CTVT and associated projects.
Breaking Bonnie
Here is a crime drama, a single 52 minute film, produced with Freewheelers media group via the services of Chris Haydon who has worked as their media tutor since 2006. This complex story of drugs, corruption and redemption was produced in eighteen months. As is the custom, dialogue is improvised after lengthy discussions and planning over plot and character.
Ems Dooley, who came up with the story, plays Supt. Bonnie De’ath whose drug habit leads her astray. Redemption comes at a price, with a significant sacrifice.
Bede House at 70 documentary
Newly uploaded is our 2008 film celebrating seven decades of work in Bermondsey for Bede House. Old stories, archive film and photographies, valuable historical testimony from the main players some of whom are no longer with us …
The commission came from Nick Dunne who is still Bede’s Director these several years later. He wrote and narrated the film.
LET’S TALK Knife Crime Project 2019-2022
LET’S TALK, CTVT’s four year project looking for breakthrough initiatives to confront the scourge of knife crime, has been producing discussion videos since Autumn 2020. They feature a range of young people and professionals. Lockdown with Covid-19 caused the loss of one scheduled Forum, at Dulwich College in the 2020 series. The other five events involving schools and youth clubs took place as planned.
Local organisation Elevated Minds has developed a campaigning project with local teenage boys who want to create change for the better between their community and the Police. The last three LET’S TALK videos have been dedicated to this work. Check these out on the Films page of the LET’S TALK project website.
These young people have generated links at New Scotland Yard!
Students in the last two 2020 Forums spoke passionately about racism in the Police and in schools. Tougher sentences were wanted, and some students called for the reintroduction of the death penalty.
We published a full video report compiled via Zoom with a number of our regular panel members reflecting on all they had heard from the schools and youth club visited. See LET’S TALK Video Report 2020.
Community TV Trust [CTVT], in schools and PRUs and workshops for the disabled and marginalised, offers media training & filmmaking, engaging people and young people in open-ended creative work, linking Community to Education. Featured above is a scene from a musical drama about knife crime created by Year 9 students at Harris Academy Peckham.
Partnering CTVT in the second year of LET’S TALK were Ark Walworth Academy, Blue Elephant Theatre, Highshore School, Dulwich College, plus Surrey Square Primary School and Bede Youth Adventure Project returning for a second year.
CTVT has produced a large number of film dramas with the students at local Southwark schools, primary and secondary, and youth clubs, and shot many films including a one-hour documentary, “It’s A Cavendish Thing”, with students and staff at Cavendish School in Bermondsey.
Chris Haydon, who founded Community TV Trust in 1999, worked in broadcast TV as a director and producer, learning his trade as a documentary filmmaker on 16mm at Granada TV in Manchester.
CAVENDISH FILMMAKING
CTVT raised funds in early 2014 for a filmmaking project at Southwark’s special Cavendish School which works with young people from all over London. Students usually come from very difficult backgrounds and have found formal education problematic. Over the course of ten weeks, a film drama was created of which all were proud. Chris Haydon led the project with Siren Turner as writing coach.
We have run an extended project from January 2015 at Cavendish School, combining workshops for student films with a long term documentary production which is now due for completion in October 2015.
CTVT 2011 Update
The Travellers heritage DVD commissioned by Southwark Council was launched at Tate Modern in June 2011 in the presence of the Mayor of Southwark; films inspired by Yinka Shonibare’s Fourth Plinth ‘Ship In A Bottle’, made by students at St Saviour’s & St Olave’s, were screened at South London Galler on 23 March; CTVT Director Chris Haydon was commissioned to write the Media curriculum for 2011’s The Challenge, a national summer project for young people; we planned our next educational DVD, on gangs and gang culture in south London, and forged links with a new partner for this project.