Never Give Up
From the collection of
The Bradford Festival Mela 1998
- Bradford
- 1998
Never Give Up
The dramatic campaigns against violence against women in West Yorkshire, from the early 1970s to the present day.
The film uses the Conference on Responses to Male Violence against Women and Children in Leeds in 2000 as a fulcrum to explore issues around violence against women. It is dedicated to all the women who've worked long and hard for many years, highlighting the different climate during which the campaigns took place in the early 1970s to the situation presently. While 1970s Leeds was a very different place - one without rape crisis centres or women's refuges, and held in the grip of the Yorkshire Ripper attacks - progress has been made with better support systems in place and changes in police policy. But twenty years on, and in the wake of the #MeToo movement, it's clear there's still much more work to be done.
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Yorkshire at the Millennium
Snapshots of a region's life.
"Do they realise that in 50 or 100 years the films that are being made now will be curiosities... all of which are of value to the present generation, but how much more will they be to the men and women of the future?" (Views and Film Index, 1906).
In the late 1990s, the Yorkshire Media Consortium was set up as a result of an innovative YFA/National Lottery/Arts Council/Yorkshire Television collaboration from 1997 to 2000, which commissioned 37 new programmes from community filmmakers across the region. It was designed to give independent filmmakers freedom to reflect the concerns of local communities and people across the region, while also creating a valuable new resource, a record of life a century on from the first pioneers of the moving image.
The resulting collection encourages individual voices to emerge from across Yorkshire and enables today's audiences to glimpse into people's homes and lives at a key moment in history at the turn of the millennium.
28 videos in this collection
1
The Bradford Festival Mela 1998
2
Bradford Interchanges
3
Curry City
4
Mills and Healers
5
A to B
6
Roots
7
Three for a Pound
8
Angels from Alcatraz
9
Art in the Park
10
Connected
11
Home Grown
12
House of Changes
13
Taming the Tigers
14
Warwick Within
15
Weekend Nights
16
Building Foundations
17
Hands and Voices
18
Play On
19
Scarborough
20
Saying Their Prayers
21
Young Hearts and Growing Pains
22
Never Give Up
23
The Rhubarb Triangle
24
Two World Famous Things About Batley
25
Yorkshire from the Aire
26
The Borrowers
27
Meat Crazy!
28