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A film-making and screening project incorporating; inter-generational fictional film and documentary, music video and film events organised and curated by young people.
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In April 2007 VANLAND secured financial support Mediabox funded by the Department of Children, Schools and Families to run the Village Screen project. Village Screen was a three part series of film-making and project management workshops offering young people from rural Teignbridge an opportunity to make their own short film work and organize their own screening events. As with other VANLAND work the project had a firm emphasis on young people’s work being shown to as many people in the community as possible – generating a new energy for rural events and creating a space to share the great film work being made by young people in South Devon.
How did it work? In June 07 a series of taster workshops were held in Heathfield, Chudleigh, Bovey Tracey, Moretonhampstead and Ilsington. Then between June – October a group of young film-makers collaborated with older people aged 55+ from the district to make Crossed Lines a short film and Teenage Lives a documentary exploring the views and experiences of older people about their own teenage lives and the lives of young people today. Between September-November a group of young people from Chudleigh devised and produced Funkenstein, a music video with great local band Start Me Up (runners up in the 2007 South West Battle of the Bands U18) for their track Funky Stuff. Their work is uploaded to the Melting Pot Studio Sessions as part of The People's Republic of South Devon.  Throughout October – November young people from Chudleigh, Dawlish, Hensford Farm (WASProject) Kingsteignton and Bovey Tracey planned and marketed their own screening events culminating in a week of community evenings all with a very different flavour according to the venue and the imagination of the young organisers. The screenings showed both the work produced as part of the project and a number of other short films and animation that had been submitted by local young people and marketed as part of The View From Here – a celebration of moving image in South Devon. VANLAND Village Screen was produced by Blind Ditch in partnership with Teignbridge District Council and Coombeshead College and part funded by the European Union, DEFRA and Teignbridge Rural Regeneration Partnership. Village Screen was also supported by the Devon Youth Service, Bovey Youth Action Trust and The People's Republic of South Devon in collaboration with Melting Pot Studio sessions.  Felek Werpachowski, Director of Crossed Lines: "This was the first time VANLAND worked with a script and it was the first time we used a high definition camera. The team spent weeks scripting with Peter Snelling. Then four of five days shooting and we’ve just finished editing. I plan to keep making films and it’s been a really beneficial insight into the process and how hard it is. It’s been definitely rewarding." On receiving funding form Mediabox Cllr Anne Fry, Teignbridge Council Executive Spokesperson for Community Services said: "We have always worked closely with Blind Ditch to help them fund and deliver their projects within the community. They have proven themselves to be a superb asset to Teignbridge and I am delighted that they have secured further funding for their new project. We always aim to promote social inclusion and make sure that the voices of rural residents are heard, and VANLAND has played an important role in helping that happen. I'm sure that VANLAND: VILLAGE SCREEN will prove just as innovative, exiting and popular." 
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