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22 October 2009
Dream it Large St Austell! St Austell becomes the location of a new film about teenage pregnancy this autumn. Young people from ‘The House’ youth facility at Polkyth Leisure Centre have been working with Blind Ditch to research, script and storyboard a film on the issue, with a two-day shoot taking place on 26th and 27th October. On the run up to the shoot, the young people produced a storyboard of the film from which 10 images were selected and reproduced on a large scale to be erected across town. The story boards are a great advertisement of the project to the local community, not only to show off the young people’s work but also to gather interest from any members of the public who want to get involved either as cast members, extras or crew!   Dream it Large St Austell is being facilitated by Blind Ditch for young people at The House. The project is funded by Groundwork, the Terrence Higgins Trust via the National Lottery Big Lottery fund. Read more about Dream it Large St Austell in Past Projects  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 27 April 2009
Pembroke Street Youth Project make Relay Relay is a brand new music film exploring the sites and sounds of Devonport through the eyes and ears of young people who live there. Made by young people from Pembroke St Youth Project during workshops over February half term, the finished film was screened twice to an enthusiastic local audience on 22nd April at the youth centre in Plymouth.   Relay was facilitated by Blind Ditch and PMZ and commissioned by Zest Arts for Health with funding from the Devonport Regeneration Community Partnership. View Relay and read about the work in Past Projects  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 February 2009
Vanland workshops VANLAND will be running workshops in film drama as part of Coombeshead College’s annual year 8 Film Week. This year’s theme is Macbeth. Hubble bubble toil and trouble… Gruesome. for more information contact Rae Hoole - Community Media Arts Officer, Coombeshead College, Newton Abbot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 26 November 2008
View From Here screens My House You’ll probably recognize the creators of My House as part of the Exminster Youth Club team who made the award winning The Bridesmaid and Tunnel of Doom in the 2006 VANLAND workshops. They’ve been joined by some new collaborators to make this short, sharp psychological thriller as part of the View From Here workshops 2008. My House premieres at the Young People’s Screening event, 1st December, Carlton Theatre, Teignmouth 7pm as part of at the 2008 View From Here rural film festival.  View From Here is organized by a committee of representatives from Teignbridge District Council, Devon and Cornwall Film, Coombeshead Theatre Trust and Blind Ditch. The 2008 young people’s workshop programme was funded by the Helen Foundation, Teignbridge Youth Council and Teignbridge District Council.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 20 May 2008
Funkenstein hits the big screen See Funkenstein on the big screen as part of the Appledore Visual Arts Festival Film Shorts programme. This great music video for Start Me Up's Funky Stuff has been accepted as part of the daily screening at The Glove Factory, Appledore at 6pm on Thurs 29th, Fri 30th and Sat 31st May.  On set with 'Start me up' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 18 February 2008
Vanland animating in Torquay VANLAND has just completed a 2 part project commissioned by the Children’s Society in Torquay. Different groups of young adults have produced an animated interactive DVD and short drama aimed at helping other young people with the issues they face on entering and leaving the care system. For more information about the process of making The Young People’s Guide to Entering Care and Me, Myself and I contact Cat Radford from Blind Ditch.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 05 January 2008
Crossed Lines wins award The short drama Crossed Lines made by young people from VANLAND Village Screen won the audience award for Best Young Person’s film at the Exeter Phoenix Two Short Nights Festival. After being shown at the hugely successful week of Village Screen events held throughout Teignbridge at the end of November, Crossed Lines was chosen to be screened as part of the Young People’s element of the festival where the audience voted for their favourite film. Felek Werpachowski the young director of Crossed Lines said: "It was quite a surprise to win the award and it shows all the hard work that everyone put into it paid off. I’m glad that it was voted by the audience which makes it more meaningful – that we’ve made something that people want to watch.” Jonas Hawkins Manager of the Exeter Phoenix Media Centre said: “It was the first time that we’ve held a young peoples event as part of the Two Short Nights Festival and the high standard of films submitted shows the amount of budding talent there is in the region. The young people’s films were very diverse in content and style. Dealing with the themes of teenage pregnancy and difficulties in communication between the generations can result in films that are quite clichéd but Crossed Lines was a fresh approach and extremely watchable.”  Felek Werpachowski and Jonas Hawkins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 25 November 2007
Bovey Tracey’s heritage Bovey Youth Action have been running a year long project investigating the pottery industry history of Bovey Tracey. VANLAND worked with a group of young people from Bovey Youth Café to document the project and find out more about Bovey Tracey’s heritage. The 20 minute documentary and accompanying time travel short The Potter’s Key will be screened as part of the celebration evening on 15th December at 6pm Bovey Tracey Town Hall.  The project was commissioned by Bovey Youth Action and run in partnership with Bovey Youth Café with funding from the Heritage Lottery Young Roots Fund.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11 November 2007
VANLAND FILMS screening as part of Two Short Nights 07, Exeter Phoenix Young Film Makers Screening, Friday 6th Dec 5-6pm - £3.50 (£2.50) The following VANLAND films will showing as part of the annual Two Short Nights International Film Festival: Crossed Lines, Cheese, The Bridesmaid and Funky Stuff. See www.twoshortnights.co.uk for more details of the festival. To book tel: 01392 667080 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8 November 2007
Crossed Lines and Funky Stuff premiering as part of VILLAGE SCREEN  Still from Crossed LinesBrand new VANLAND films will be premiering in a week of exciting Village Screen events as part of The View From Here – celebration of moving image in South Devon Nov 26th – Dec 1st. Every event in Village Screen is being run and curated by young people and will have a completely different range of film and animation showing in very adventurous venues. Each event will feature Crossed Lines. Shot on great quality High Definition - Crossed Lines has been scripted from research with older people in the district and will be shown with the accompanying documentary about teenage life in rural Teignbridge past and present. The groovy new music video set in Chudleigh for Start Me Up’s Funky Stuff will also be shown alongside a live gig with the band as part of the Village Screen 5. event at Chudleigh Youth Millenium Centre on December 1st.  Still from Funky Stuff------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10 October 2007
Village Screenings Nov 26th – Dec 1st The Village Screen filmmaking is well underway and has involved young people and members of the community from Chudleigh, Chudleigh Knighton, Bovey Tracey, Moretonhampstead, Dawlish and Kingsteignton. The finished films will be premiered as part of the brand new View From Here – a celebration of moving image in South Devon Nov 26th – Dec 1st. Village Screen organizers are also looking for young people’s films up to 10 minutes long to screen at events throughout the festival. For more information visit Devon and Cornwall Film.  Shooting Crossed Lines in Teigngrace July 07------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 26th June 2007 SIGN UP NOW! PLACES ARE LIMITED. Blind Ditch have received major funding from www.media-box.co.uk funded by the Department for Education and The first workshops running in July and August will bring together young people and older members of their community to make a short film about teenage life in Teignbridge past and present. Facilitated by Blind Ditch and award winning script writer Peter Snelling, the project will be based in real-life research and is open to people aged 12-20 or 55+. The first sessions will be held on Thursday 5 th July and Saturday 7 th July in Teignbridge (Teigngrace Village Hall) with further sessions for scriptwriting on the weekend of the 14 th and 15 th July. A five day film shoot will be on 26 th, 27 th, 30 th, 31 st July and 1 st August in Teignbridge. In September and October we will be working with a local unsigned band to make a music video for screening live at gigs and to be available online. In November the results of all this hard work will be screened along with other local work in a series of Village Hall events across the district organized and marketed by a group of young producers! If you are aged between 12-20 or 55+ and would like to participate as a film maker, actor or be interviewed about your teenage experience, if your band would like to work on video with local young film makers, if you would like to curate and manage your own village hall event - please contact Blind Ditch on 07754 232285or contact@blindditch.org
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30th January 2007
VANLAND short listed for South West Media Innovation Award Just under 30 creative companies from across Devon and Cornwall have been nominated for 11 categories in the Media Innovation Awards 2007, which will be presented on 1st March at a gala ceremony in St. Mellion, Cornwall. More than a thousand creative industries practitioners from Devon and Cornwall and their clients were invited to enter the prestigious awards competition to find the star innovators in the region. The VANLAND project has been nominated in the installation/ exhibition category - to recognise creative, editorial, technical or commercial innovation for projects produced for installation or exhibition (this includes digital stills exhibited in a gallery or published, and interactive museum installations making use of a range of technologies and platforms). The nominations in this category are: Explorocean - Pyramid for the National Marine Aquarium (Plymouth) Motion Plymouth - Motiongrafik in association with South West Screen, Arts and Business, Plymouth City Council, City Centre Management and BBC South West (Plymouth) Purple Planet - HMC Interactive in association with Event, New Angle, Clement and Street, Electrosonic, HB Source, Fixel for Cadbury World (Plymouth) Vanland - Blind Ditch in association with Teignbridge District Council and Coombeshead College with funding from Arts Council England, DEFRA, Teignbridge Rural Regeneration Project, EAGGF of EU and Teignbridge District Council (Newton Abbot)  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4th January 2007
Latest Vanland workshops for young people Between Easter and September 2007 VANLAND will be running a programme of workshops in film making and exhibiting for young people across Teignbridge. For more information contact Paula or Cat email contact@blindditch.org or text 07881 862714 with your contact details.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 21st November 2006
'Bridesmaid' wins audience vote at Vanland wrap party  Prizes of cinema tickets were given to the young people involved in making the short film ‘Bridesmaid’. This was voted audience favorite at the Vanland wrap party on Sunday 19th of November, held at the Shaftsbury theatre, Dawlish. Click here to view the film (You will need the free quicktime plug-in to view all films on this site). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 16th November 2006
VANLAND - IT’S A WRAP! On Sunday 19th November young people from all over Teignbridge will gather with their families at the Shaftesbury Theatre in Dawlish for a glamorous grand screening full of local film making talent. This gala event is being held to celebrate the successes of the VANLAND mobile media project and will be a marathon showing of most of the 25 short films that have been made throughout the three years it has been running. True to grand screening form there will be huge projections, vox pop video interviews with audience members and a prize for the film voted audience favourite. Although places are very limited there will be a small number of free tickets available to the general public. Please contact Cat Radford on 01803 861783 to book or email contact@blindditch.org before 17th November.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 17th October 2006
Motion Plymouth Festival The VANLAND exhibition van will be screening this years short film work at the new Motion Plymouth Festival on November 16th 2006. Check out the Motion Plymouth website for details of workshops and film events at this brand new 3 day festival. www.motionplymouth.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 30th July 2006
VANLAND is Transforming! Vanland is teaming up with The Centre for Contemporary Arts and the Natural World (CCANW) in Haldon Forest Park near Exeter, to facilitate creative video making projects for older people (55+) and women from the rural Teignbridge area. Read more in this press release (.doc). Email CCANW for more information about this exciting opportunity.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6th July 2006
VANLAND 2006 exhibition tour VANLAND 2006 exhibition tour launched at Kingsteignton Youth Club. Present were some of the young people involved along with parents, Teignbridge Councillors and members of the Teignbridge press and film community. Click here to download the press release.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 20th October 2005
VANLAND presents TIMETRIP An excursion in to Devon life past and present. Christow Hall, Devon, 7.30pm Weds 26th Oct. Come to TIMETRIP and see how things have changed in rural Devon. Archive film screenings. Record your own memories for inclusion in the South West Film Archive. Listen to Devon music from the past and be involved in making a live music video with a local young band. There will be good food and drink available all evening. Everyone is welcome & Entrance is free. Dowload the TIMETRIP poster here. TIMETRIP is one of the events during VANLANDs VISIONSWITCH week. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 30th September 2005
VANLAND presents VISIONSWITCH LIVE VISION MIX your own TV PROGRAMME make a MUSIC VIDEO produce your own FICTIONAL SHORT FILM make a DOCUMENTARY about your community and a RADIO PROGRAMME ready to BROADCAST! Click here for details.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the layout of the Mobile Film Festival
Check out the cut-away diagram of the van to see how an ordinary caravan has been converted into a clean white gallery - which has proved perfect for showing films. More info.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7th July 2005
Press release Blind Ditch have published the 2005 VANLAND press release. Download it here. The project has recently been featured on the BBC Online website, Devon Today magazine, and the Mid Devon Advertiser. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7th July 2005
VANLAND 2005 launches in Chudleigh The brand new VANLAND 2005 exhibition opens at Chudleigh Youth Millenium Centre on the 15th July. Present will be some of the young film-makers involved with the project, as well as council representatives, sponsors, and the organising performance group Blind Ditch. Click here for the 2005 tour dates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15th June 2005
Blind Ditch export VANLAND to Ireland Over a series of workshops during 2005 and 2006, Teignbridge young people will have the chance to collaborate with young people from Kildare on a film about the perception and reality of their respective landscapes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10th April 2005
Blind Ditch present VANLAND paper at the Interfacing research and Practice Symposium - University of Exeter Film Dept - Panel for Alternative Viewing Spaces Blind Ditch members and VANLAND producers Paula Crutchlow and Volkhardt Müller gave a lecture about the importance of VANLAND in the context of young people's situation in rural Devon. Click here to download the presentation notes (.doc). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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