Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Thanks
I'd like to say a big thank-you for all the messages of support for Learning all the time that our fellow trainees from the Undercurrents course have been sending us over the last few days. We really appreciate it :) I think we all did amazingly. Keep on making films you guys and keep in touch!
Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Film Festival
Well the film fest's been and gone, but "Learning all the time is" still being watched around the world! We've had feedback from two families who have decided to withdraw their children from school and home educate after watching the film. That's so good to hear, good luck and enjoy yourselves. Two teachers have also taken the time to let us know that they loved the film too. One teacher in Dubai has put the film on her school's server and another has said the film completely transformed her view of home education which had been based on the myth of lonely children shut away in their homes! Thanks so much for the feedback, it's really heartening to hear that our little first attempt film is making a difference to people's lives.
We got to see our film on the Big Screen at the Undercurrents Film Fest on Wednesday which was very gratifying. I'd like to offer congratulations to the three new directors from the past years' training courses whose films for social or environmental action were judged to be the most accomplished. They were:- a film about an allotment with some lovely footage of the flowering shrubs and trees growing there and featuring a radical alternative shed made out of various bits of wood bought from B&Q (obviously better than buying a B&Q shed); a video of a man building a rammed earth wall (every home should have one, but probably not in Wales) and a pro-smoking video about giving the middle finger to the smoking ban (quite right too, smokers who care for the planet really shouldn't be forced to leave their dog ends all over the ground just outside doorways). Well done to all concerned.
After watching these three, most accomplished, films about action for social change, I'm just wondering... should I put my children back into the one-size-fits-all, brick-in-the-wall state educational mincing machine and rush down to B&Q now for some mismatched bits of wood so that I can build a rammed earth and wood shelter on my vegetable patch? Obviously to be a real catalyst for social change I would need to take up smoking too. In fact, if we all took up smoking, then between us maybe we would swell the Treasury coffers (no pun intended, honest) enough to fund another illegal war. Is this the kind of social action Undercurrents has in mind, do you think?
We got to see our film on the Big Screen at the Undercurrents Film Fest on Wednesday which was very gratifying. I'd like to offer congratulations to the three new directors from the past years' training courses whose films for social or environmental action were judged to be the most accomplished. They were:- a film about an allotment with some lovely footage of the flowering shrubs and trees growing there and featuring a radical alternative shed made out of various bits of wood bought from B&Q (obviously better than buying a B&Q shed); a video of a man building a rammed earth wall (every home should have one, but probably not in Wales) and a pro-smoking video about giving the middle finger to the smoking ban (quite right too, smokers who care for the planet really shouldn't be forced to leave their dog ends all over the ground just outside doorways). Well done to all concerned.
After watching these three, most accomplished, films about action for social change, I'm just wondering... should I put my children back into the one-size-fits-all, brick-in-the-wall state educational mincing machine and rush down to B&Q now for some mismatched bits of wood so that I can build a rammed earth and wood shelter on my vegetable patch? Obviously to be a real catalyst for social change I would need to take up smoking too. In fact, if we all took up smoking, then between us maybe we would swell the Treasury coffers (no pun intended, honest) enough to fund another illegal war. Is this the kind of social action Undercurrents has in mind, do you think?
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