The five-day workshop not only built friendship between the trainers and the young people, but also let us hear the boys’ dreams, reasons and difficulties of studying in a boarding disciplinary school- like loneliness, missing family members, and eagerness for freedom, friendship. We also get to know some reasons of the behavioural problems, like family violence, bullying in schools, etc

Watch their one minute video stories here.

Training-of-trainers workshop

UNICEF HK hold a two-day training workshop on 12 and 13 May at Hong Kong Baptist University. Three oversea experts of One Minutes Junior, Mr Chris Schuepp, Ms Vivian Wen Li Lin and Ms Judith Leysner came to train and build capacities of local artists with knowledge and skills, so that they could become the local trainers of a series of Believe In Zero, Make A Video camps and help Hong Kong youth to create their one minute video story.

Learn about our trainers here.

http://www.ifccenter.com/series/short-attention-span-cinema/short-attention-span-cinema-oneminutesjr/

Training for Trainers workshop
March 20-21, 2011

more videos from the junior workshop

Press
L’express de Madagascar
Film court: Des cinéastes en herbe initiés à la production

http://www.lexpressmada.com/4875/film-court-madagascar/21989-des-cineastes-en-herbe-inities-a-la-production.html

Daily Diary of the workshop from Chris Schuepp
http://www.unicef.org/madagascar/5564_7757.html

Training for Trainers workshop
One-shot, one-minute videos

Trained nine teachers from CKC and participants in the Patching Zone in how to give a 5-day One Minutes Junior workshop.
Behind the scenes of the workshop. Video by Loes Bogers.

Presentation of results from the 2-day workshop at the official opening of the Art Lab on October 28, 2010.
Videos from the participants can be viewed here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/digitalartlabckc

Congratulations to Jesse Russel’s “Pride” Pittsburgh TOMJr 2010, Nomi Leasure’s “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” Pittsburgh TOMJr 2007 and Adjaratou Coumba Deme Gueye’s “Ma Mère Mon Soufflè” Dakar TOMJr 2009.

THE SECRET LIFE OF GIRLS: CJFF Youth Media Program
Ragtag Cinema, Big Theatre
Oct. 17, 12:15PM

Filmmakers as young as 8 and from as far away as Sudan (and as close as our own backyard!), this collection showcases some of the best short films created by young women aged 18 & younger. Exploring everything from the hilarious to the heartbreaking to the sublime, all are a testament to the incredible talents of young women everywhere and several of these young filmmakers will be present to talk about their films, as will the coordinators of this program. Many of these shorts were made possible by youth programs dedicated to supporting young filmmakers and we are proud to showcase films from these fellow film lovers: Reel Girls, the European Cultural Foundation, Harvard-Westlake School, True/False Film Festival and UNICEF.

Home is a concept that is material, emotional and political. At the heart of the most recent economic collapse, the loss of homes became a major concern, not only from the perspective of people’s inabilityto secure shelter, but also in how within the context of the american dream losing a home became analogous to losing the promise of the capitalist might.

The lack of a home may be different than a lack of home; this series addresses the meaning of home and the definitions individuals, cities, nations and cultures work with when referring to such concept. Themes of displacement, (im)migration, uneven development, autonomous spaces, architecture and memory are recurring in the program.

Curated by denisse andrade

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Featuring a conversation with Rob Robinson, of Picture the Homeless, filmmakers and others TBA.

DOÑA ANA, Animation; 2min (2006)
Marlon Vásquez Silva, David Sanchez, Colombia
Ana is a woman who sells medicinal plants in the city of Medellín ,Colombia. While she eats strawberries and talks about their properties, we find out much more.

HERE TO STAY, Documentary; 7min (2008)
Mansee Kong, USA
Illustrates the effects of gentrification in Manhattan’s Chinatown as an elderly man and fellow tenants in an endangered single-room occupancy building await the results of an anti-eviction lawsuit

CUSPS, Documentary; 14min (2008)
Sara Zia Ebrahimi, USA
In this personal documentary Sara Zia Ebrahimi explores her experiences living as an urban nomad and immigrant in the post-industrial landscape of Philadelphia.

The documentary first began exploring the role artists play in gentrification.

FOUR PLACES CALLED HOME, Documentary; 4 min (2008)
Simone Viger, Canada
Do you know the history of your home? How much of the past can be read? This portrait of a neighborhood travels to four different reconverted buildings in the South West region of Montreal, presenting varied notions of home.

TACTICAL TOURIST, 14min (2007)
Dara Greenwald, USA
A DIY portrait of the squatting movement in Barcelona, Spain. A tourist walks through the city led by squatters – the tour points out buildings turned from abandoned or speculative properties into communal homes and radical cultural spaces.

DEAR NEIGHBOR, Video letter; 7min (2006)
Cristian Bermudez, Costa Rica/Norway
An ordinary house in an ordinary suburb was painted in white and fuchsia color stripes. A year later, a letter was sent to the neighbors explaining the reasons for this choice. The same letter was used as script for this film that deals with issues such as identity, immigration and the use of art out of the white cube.

2 HOME MOVIES, Experimental documentary; 9min (2009)
Masha Godovannaya, Russia
One can say with some certainty that all of us,with cameras–
have shot home movies in their lives.Now, imagine how a home movie would look like if it was shot inWarsaw Ghetto at the beginning of 1940s by a German worker during this vacation…

NO PLACE LIKE HOME, PSA. 1min (2009)
Supafriends, Global Action Project; USA
A public service announcement focusing on homelessness among LGBTQ youth.

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ICIT ET LA-BAS (HERE AND THERE), Documentary; 20min (2003)
Natalia Rodriguez, Colombia
A n immigrant couple in France see their daughters becoming French. In this home of double culture, hopes of going back still exist.

THE COST OF SEPARATION, Documentary, 9min (2009)
Liz Miller Canada

“The Cost of Separation” highlights the daily effects of prolonged separation from family members on three parents with refugee status in Canada.

STILL, Documentary; 18min (2009)
Alana Kakoyiannis, Cyprus
A poetic documentary reflecting on the notion of home through
the lens of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriotdisplacement on the divided island of Cyprus. The testimonies of twofemale voices living on opposing sides of the Green Line combined with the filmmaker’s own observations of the present day, capture the potency ofthe political conflict through personal perspectives.

DISILLUSIONMENT, Video portraits;12min (2007)
Voices of Women Media, The Netherlands
Migrant women flee their homelands in search of a new country offering security,freedom and peace. They leave families and their cultures behind for a chance to improve their political and personal situations.

In February 2007, undocumented migrant women residing illegally in a housing shelter in The Netherlands were given media tools to create six intimate videoportraits offering a brief glimpse into this transient period oftheir lives.

STEEL HOMES, Documentary; 10min (2008)
Eva Weber, UK
A poetic exploration of memory and loss, Steel Homes takes the viewer inside the world of a self-storage warehouse, uncovering the hiddent treasures and secrets behind closed doors.

WARM PLACE TONIGHT, Documentary, 7min (1996)
Nic Bettauer, USA
This film documents two homeless men’s Sisyphean struggle to safe the life of their friend on the streets of downtown Los Angeles. The film expresses the men’s feelings of helplessness, hopelessness and powerlessness tied to their grief, loss and homelessness.

LEAVING EL BARRIO, Documentary, 5min (1997)
Beni Matias, USA
A look at what happens when a family loses their home in Spanish Harlem.

In 2007 richtten Vivian Wenli Lin en Pooja Pant de stichting Voices of Women op. Afkomstig uit de Verenigde Staten en Nepal zijn ze nu woonachtig in Amsterdam. Beiden zijn al jaren actief op het gebied van mediakunst, feminisme, gender-issues en activisme.

Voices of Women ontstond met als insteek om de stigma’s die uiteenlopende vrouwelijke arbeiders omringen weg te nemen. Het is een organisatie in ontwikkeling. Na hun eerste project ‘Dissillusionment’ in 2007 waarin ze migrantenvrouwen de kans boden zelf te vertellen over hun bestaan en soms extreme werkomstandigheden zijn ze in 2010, met steun van Mama Cash, begonnen aan een uitgebreid en gelaagd nieuw project onder de noemer ‘A day in her life’.

Dit project omvat verschillende elementen. In eerste instantie is het een workshop voor zowel sekswerkers als slachtoffers van mensenhandel, waarin ze vrouwen de vrijheid en mogelijkheid bieden om te praten over hun leven en daarbij op creatieve wijze gebruik te maken van media als radio, video en fotografie. “Het gaat er niet om dat de deelnemers hun ‘ware’ identiteit prijsgeven. Maar we willen hun dagelijks leven, hun dromen en hoop vastleggen.” Omdat juist deze verhalen vaak niet gedocumenteerd worden, niet gehoord worden willen Vivian Wenli Lin en Pooja Pant met hun werk een zo divers mogelijk publiek bereiken.

Het uiteindelijke resultaat verwerken ze tot een videoinstallatie waarin de verhalen van de vrouwen te zien en te horen zijn. Bezoekers kunnen kijken en luisteren naar de ervaringen en levens die gedeeld worden. Verder richten ze een fototentoonstelling in, met foto’s van alle vrouwen. Door zowel vrijwillig werkende vrouwen als slachtoffers van mensenhandel aan het woord te laten, ontstaat er een rijkheid aan stemmen die laten zien dat dit werk niet eenduidig te interpreteren is.

Vivian en Pooja willen ruimte maken voor de menselijke aspecten van het werk dat deze vrouwen doen. Dat vrouwen die vrijwillig werken het recht hebben te beslissen wat ze met hun lichaam doen, die keuzevrijheid is essentieel. En dat vrouwen die slachtoffer zijn geweest, meer zijn dan alleen dat, slachtoffer.

Voices of Women wil vrouwen zelf letterlijk de middelen bieden om hun eigen verhaal te vertellen en zodoende zichzelf te versterken en hun eigenwaarde te vergroten.

Het werk van Voices of Women is op dit moment nog in ontwikkeling. Tijdens het LOVER-debat over de rechten van sekswerkers, op 23 juni in Utrecht, zal een deel van het werk te zien en te horen zijn. Meer informatie over het debat volgt.