In Our Countries

From the collection of

Yorkshire Film Archive
The Yorkshire Film Archive at York St John University save and celebrate screen heritage made in or about Yorkshire. They connect broad and diverse audiences to their cultural and socially significant collection that reflects the life, landscape, and identity of the people of the region since the 1890s. Together with their sister archive in the North East they form the Yorkshire and North East Film Archive, a unique pan-regional resource with over 75,000 moving image artefacts. They unlock the collections for artists, academics, curators, programmers, researchers, and producers to reveal compelling stories from the vaults. www.yfanefa.com

In Our Countries

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Beeston Monday Women's Club capture their community on screen as only a newcomer can.

Members of the Beeston Monday Women's Group, a support group for women from around the world who are now living in Leeds, produce a film as part of a video skill workshop looking at the differences between living in the countries they originally came from and Leeds.


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Presenting Video Vera

Seizing the means of production is the catalyst for change in these innovative feminist films.
Vera Media was a video production and training partnership founded in Leeds by Catherine Mitchell and Al Garthwaite in 1985. They specialised in participatory documentaries as a way to involve, develop and empower a wide variety of socially-excluded groups to tell their own stories through video. Participants were taught technical and creative skills, with an emphasis on giving women control of technology they might traditionally have been excluded from using. For most participants this was an empowering experience which led to increased self-confidence, but it also made a contribution to the wider community beyond the trainees. The completed works always had public showings, for both invited guests and the general public. Communities had an opportunity to see themselves, their geography or their work championed as never before - and the legacy continues in this collection.

10 videos in this collection

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Video Vera Presents, Video Vera

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Introducing Vera Media

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This City Life

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There's More to Drugs than Dying

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Women at QED

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In Our Countries

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Urban Exchange

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Culture Counts

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Obvious Women

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It's A Girl Thing

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