January 23, 2014
We are pleased to announce the launch of an exciting digital archive project (Better) Believe It: Big Journeys, Untold Stories that will see Counterpoints Arts collaborating with filmmaker, Sue Clayton and her colleagues at Royal Holloway University. Creativeworks London under their Creative Voucher Scheme is funding the pilot stage of this project. (Better) Believe [...]
October 7, 2013
Isaacs has an astounding gift for getting people to open up to him and he uses film the way a very skilled artist uses paint. The result is beautiful, heartbreaking and profoundly humane. Times Online Join us for a Moving Worlds’ mini-season of acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Marc Isaacs, and a One Stop Doc workshop titled [...]
October 1, 2013
We recently had the opportunity to see ‘Girl Rising’ and meet the Executive Producer, Kayce Freed Jennings. It’s an extraordinary film that uses a whole range of storytelling tactics to launch a truly innovative global campaign for girls’ education. Here’s how this mammoth project is described: Girl Rising is a global action campaign for girls’ [...]
October 1, 2013
‘Using Film to Reach Beyond the Choir’ – an interesting interview with Ellen Schneider, Director of AV Story Lab at Active Voice, San Francisco. Here Ellen talks to the Communications Network in the US, exploring why it’s important to harness good storytelling and character-driven films to change the public discussion on immigration referring to the [...]
October 1, 2013
Storytelling potential of creative documentary – Hamedullah: The Road Home -‘One Stop Doc’ Workshop One Stop Doc @ Counterpoints Arts is running a workshop at the forthcoming Platforma Conference in Manchester on 1 November – details here. We’re also planning to run a longer workshop with Sue Clayton in London – dates to be confirmed. [...]
September 4, 2013
Barbican in association with Moving Worlds at Counterpoints Arts presents World City: Insights on Migration in London A Film programme and ScreenTalk Join us on September 26th for a ScreenTalk with editors Russell Crockett and Herbert Hunger, chaired by Sukhdev Sandhu; and a programme of films including Cosmopolitan London (1924), The Vanishing Street (1962), Sampling [...]
April 9, 2013
Since Counterpoints Arts is located on Hoxton Street, we’re finding like-minded folks and complimentary projects happening just next door and up the road. Here’s a tiny sample of how the street and surrounding neighbourhood is being re-imagined through collective archiving, creative mapping, participatory arts, free learning, social justice education and much more. Check out Dustin [...]
February 25, 2013
Imaginative, brave and feisty storytelling is at the heart of these five initiatives, where young people lead the way in challenging broken immigration and social policy and use their collective agency to steer public conversations towards youth oriented perspectives stemming from diverse, and deeply personal experiences. We encourage you to look, listen and take note [...]
February 8, 2013
Unlike academic circles where the ‘impact agenda’ has caused a good deal of rancorous (arguably myopic) debate, social documentary filmmaking takes ‘impact’ pretty much for granted. So much so that ‘impact evaluation’ is increasingly being considered as an integral component of the storytelling process – at least in some quarters. A Center for Social Media [...]
February 7, 2013
What a wonderful name for a project that soothes (potential) tensions, misunderstandings and competing expectations for filmmakers and funders! Socially engaged filmmakers interested in documentary as a vehicle for social change agendas often attract the interest of foundations. At least funders increasingly persuaded by the potential for documentary film to act as a powerful catalyst, [...]