COMMUNITY VIDEO, PARTICIPATORY VIDEO, TRAINING AND EDUCATION

Roving Eye Community is a collective of highly skilled filmmakers and educators who have broad experience of working with the arts in the community. Videos include campaigning, awareness raising and information videos; where possible we try to enable participants to make the film themselves with our support, by training them in video production.

IN DEVELOPMENT 2009/10

VIDEO VOICES participatory video projects with children affected by war in Nepal working with animator Eleanor Meredith www.eleanormeredith.co.uk and CWIN Child Rights Nepal www.cwin.org.np a child rights organisation
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2009 Palestine in the Media

A panel debate for young people interested in the media and its approach to Palestine

2008 Step Forward Film Project 45mins

Docudrama and additional documentary on teenage pregnancy written and produced by young people not in education, training or employment. DVD available for educational work with young people.

2008 Environment Now! 30 mins

Question Time style debating panel on the environment, with members of parliament and climate change leaders. 2008

2007 Not Just Flower Arranging 2007 45 mins

Universities and College Union (UCU) campaign featuring Tony Benn to save free adult education classes in local communities.

Vanished History 2006

An intergenerational video project run by Yetunde Otuwehinmi, with young and elder people in the Hoxton area exploring the changing face of Shoreditch across the generations. Funded by Local Heritage Initiatives and working in partnership with Hoxton Hall, the Sharp End and the Geoffrye Museum in Hackney.

This is me: 2001 – 2006

Series of self portraits made with people with learning difficulties 
Roving Eye continues to work with City and Islington Centre for Life Long Learning to provide training and support for adults with learning difficulties to make films about themselves and issues which affect them

Life after Drugs: 2003

A series of short 3-5’ films made with ex-drug and alcohol users. Working with a North London rehabilitation centre Roving Eye trained a group of recovering drug and alcohol users to make short films about the ups and downs of their recovery and the effects their addictions have had on their family, friends and themselves. Screened at the Ten Feet Away Film Festival, London 2004

One Year On: 2002

One World TV 2002 Afghan Refugees talk about life in Britain one year since the west declared war on Afghanistan.

Anna’s Story: 2000

5’ portrait of an activist with breast cancer. 
Anna didn’t let losing her breast get her down, in typical fashion she decided to create an information film about her struggle with breast cancer, providing a personal insight into her treatment and emotional journey. 
Funded by Macmillan

Hackney Foster Carers 2000

A series of workshops with children in foster care, using video to tell stories and build confidence, the young people were trained to use the cameras and equipment to produce their own short films.

Working Well: 1999

12’ training film about mental illness in the work place. 
A film made with people who have a history of mental illness about discrimination in the work place. The video continues to be used as part of an awareness training package in workplaces around the country. Funded by Waltham Forest Social Services and QEST

Living With Outward Housing: 1998

30’ documentary about people with learning difficulties. 
A group of adults with learning difficulties produced their own film about living independently and making their own choices about their home. The video was used as an advocacy tool for people with learning difficulties to have a voice in policy decision making about independent living