Look under CTVT Projects to see what we have been up to with Cavendish School in Bermondsey – we are just completing our latest film project with them, and Freewheelers Theatre & Media Company in Leatherhead.
We are now well established with both and enjoying a rich seam of creative work with students and members alike.
Funding has been raised to support more filmmaking at Southwark’s Cavendish School in Bermondsey. We are delighted to continue our work with this wonderful school and its excellent young people. The current project is scheduled to run till the end of January 2017.
The national platform that is the Community Channel via crowdfunding has found a way forward, not least due to Sky giving 50% of the target figure of £300,000. Congratulations to Caroline Diehl and her team!
A Community Channel owned by the community offers a tantalising prospect: local media organisations together with local radio/TV stations could create a network across the country that feed a national platform as well as their own individual outlet. Campaigning anyone?
When you consider the disconnect shown by the Labour Party’s current difficulties over working with a leader whose popular mandate is not mirrored by the Parliamentary Labour Party, social media plus local broadcasting becomes a real player for change.
This short film, a co-production with Elevated Minds CIC, explores Stop & Search and the perennial request for respect.
Can relationships with the Met Police improve? Beautifully written and narrated by Alessandro Quao, it premiered in Brixton at the Family Summit, an event staged by Elevated Minds in October 2023.
Coming from Charterhouse Youth Club in 2004, here is George rapping his thoughts around drugs and violence and how to live life.
This film features three Southwark boys facing permanent exclusion who then created and delivered training sessions to London’s Met Police recruits.
Here is a trailer. Alternatively watch the film:
Feedback: “It’s a very important film” …“shows what can be changed with the right intervention at the right time” …”Javell made it – there is hope in your film ! :)” … “I did wonder if black kids could do some training exercises for teachers as well as for the police” … “a well told story!” … “I was encouraged and troubled by all of this” …
This film is the final output of LET’S TALK, CTVT’s 4-year project looking for breakthrough initiatives to confront knife crime and youth violence. We ran Forums in schools and youth clubs from 2019, produced discussion videos during lockdown, and in September 2022 launched “CHANGE OF THOUGHT” at Peckham & Nunhead Free Film Festival.
See also LET’S TALK Video Report 2020.
Community TV Trust [CTVT] offers media training & filmmaking in schools and PRUs and in workshops for the disabled and marginalised. Engaging young people in open-ended creative work, links Community to Education.
CTVT has worked with schools, PRUs, local authorities, community groups, companies and corporations, with mental health, disability, ex-offenders and the marginalised.
Southwark Council
Safer Southwark Partnership
Dragon Cafe / Mental Fight Club
Sustrans
University of East London
Metropolitan Housing Trust
Community Action Network
Education In Human Values
St. Martin’s Estate
Lambeth E-Learning
Newham Young People’s Organisation
Young Parents Project
Creative Partnerships
STEP Theatre
Metropolitan Police
Southwark Pensioners Action Group
TACT Ltd
Dept of Health
Tangled Feet
South Bermondsey Partnership
Freewheelers Theatre Company
Surrey SATRO/Alcohol Awareness
Penwith DC
Cornwall Neighbourhoods For Change
Bede House
Dulwich Community Council
South London Gallery
Prendergast Vale College
Somali North East Education Trust
Lewisham PCT
SLaM NHS Trust
Cavendish School
Pelican TRA
Community TV Trust from its launch in 1999 sought ways to innovative in community media. How might engagement be achieved?
Southwark.TV – a ‘horizontal’ community project – ran from a pilot in early 2003 to 2014 when the site was archived. You can find it under the CTVT Projects menu or click HERE to read it. Once you have read the report you can also browse the Southwark.TV website from HERE
It foresaw the rise of social media and online activity, shifting away from mainstream media to portable/mobile devices and citizen journalism.
