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
There's More to Drugs than Dying
Teens speak out on drugs.
This is an educational video made by teens from Horsforth High School, Leeds, which looks at the dangers of drugs and why teens may turn to drugs in the first place. The teens interviewed talk about things like peer pressure and why understanding, education and conversation about both illegal and legal drugs are key in the decision-making process.
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.
