Labourstart has produced a list of finalists from over 200 entries for this great competition.
Voting has begun to choose the first-ever global Labour Video of the Year.
The distinguished panel of judges have selected a shortlist of six films out of more than 200 submitted. They’ve found six extraordinary films.
Watching these very short videos will make you [...]
Please do take a look and take some inspiration from this fabulous 60 second creation from Unison’s Equality Unit, promoting the role of Equality reps in the workplace. Diana Veitch of Unison as always has a wonderful imagination and creative mind, and her and Lucien along with an animator have produced this absolutely fabulous 60 second [...]
Max Watson of WLRI has made this excellent campaigning video. Max recently attended the TUC course Lights, Camera, Action, which helps to teach trade unionists how to make short films for youtube, for use in campaigning and organising work. This campaigning video has been produced by Max to help ‘Save Hornsey Road Nursery’, the last [...]
I was really pleased to have an e-mail from Eric Lee of Labourstart yesterday outlining all of the wonderful things that Labourstart are sponsoring over the next couple of years, including an online Film Database , the online labour film festival site and a Labour film competition in 2010. It seems that 2010 will be the year [...]
A beautifully presented case study here from Gary Williams of Unison, Gary was one of the runners up in the TUC 60 Second Ad Contest, with his lovely animation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3VkH7jDmaQ), and Gary has continued to develop creative film for use in his work as Youth Officer for Unison. This film called ‘Workers Voices’ in which Chartwell’s [...]
This has been quite a busy couple of months for me, in addition to other things I’ve been busy delivering training for the extremely popular Lights, Camera, Action course. I have been delivering courses (film making and editing) for about eighteen months now, and the courses have produced a growing collection of films, in fact [...]
I was pleased to attend the above fringe event at TUC annual Congress this week, it really demonstrated the commitment at the most senior level of trade unions to the challenge of engaging the youth of tomorrow. The event was well attended with over eighty people, most of whom were young (and some of whom [...]
The results are in for the TUC ‘60 Second Ad’ Contest. The judging panel, which included Frances O’Grady and Nigel Stanley of the TUC and English television and film director Pete Travis, selected the following winners. These are listed below and in no particular order.
Paul Rey-Burns, musician, songwriter and filmmaker, with the film ‘Photo-booth’, ‘funny, smart [...]
What a journey it has been!
This is the first time that we have run a competition of this nature. We were wondering from the start… how well would it go? …how many entries would we receive? … We are pleased to say that the competition exceeded expectations! It has been a great success with twenty [...]