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Awra Amba Virtual Village trailer

This is an interactive trailer, when watching it you will need to display the tags ‘on’ on the left hand side of the screen. Alternatively scroll over the image with your mouse while it’s playing and you will be able to click on stuff.
September, 2010
 
Write This Down Crew returns to Awra Amba

The Write This Down Production team has just finished a shoot in Awra Amba in preparation for a new interactive Web Doc ‘The Virtual Village’, with support from Screen South (UK Film Council).

The project has been developed at the Pixel Lab (www.powertothepixel.com) 2010.

View here what Brian Newman wrote about it: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2010/07/28/awra-amba-documentary-and-transmedia-activism

and watch our new interactive trailer below (note that you need to turn the tags ON from the left hand side)

More to come soon…
August, 2010
 
New Thorns and Silk educational DVD with extras

Write This Down has just released a new DVD collection together with Institute of Development studies and Animal Monday. The DVD package includes Thorns and Silk and a brand new extra film featuring the characters’ reactions to their own films as well as a short from Brazil called A Vida Politica.

This DVD can be purchased from the IDS bookshop or online here: http://www.ntd.co.uk/idsbookshop/details.asp?id=1167
May, 2010
 
Paulina talks about Awra Amba on BBC World News

Paulina was interviewed on BBC World News about her new film ‘Awra Amba’.

To watch interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke1vSq0EJDE
February, 2010
 
Awra Amba documentary and website launch

Our new documentary‘Awra Amba – Utopia in Ethiopia’ tells the story of a young Ethiopian woman who has escaped her violent husband and is trying to become a member of a unique, self-help community in the hills of Northern Ethiopia. In Awra Amba women and men are equal, there is no religion and work is equally shared.

The film had its UK premiere on the 5th of March in London’s Frontline Club and was screened to worldwide audiences online on International Women’s Day, 8th of March.

We are now selling the DVD – please visit the official website www.awraamba.com for more details
December, 2009
 
Write This Down Productions involved with film training in Malawi

Paulina has just returned from Malawi where she and her colleague Juan Reina from Nairobi ran a week-long documentary film training for young Malawian filmmaking talent. The pair trained 23 participants in scriptwriting, directing and producing as well as technical filmmaking skills, such as editing and cinematography. A Finnish Government funded programme, the training was [...]
October, 2009
 
Thorns and Silk World Premiere at Birds Eye View Film Festival

Paulina’s new documentary ‘Thorns and Silk’ tells four fascinating stories from Palestine, featuring women who work in jobs conventionally associated with men. More details on www.thornsandsilk.co.uk
June, 2009
 
ESoDoc participation

Paulina has been selected as a participant on the EU Media funded ESODOC (European Social Documentary) 2009. She will attend 3 week-long workshops, held over a 5-month period in 3 countries.
Find out more about her project and profile on www.esodoc.eu.
May, 2009
 
Elevator Music to be screened at more than 200 UK cinemas for a year

Serdar Ferit managed to beat off stiff competition to scoop a place in the finals of national short film award, Virgin Media Shorts 2008. His film Elevator Music got into the top 12 and will be screened at over 200 independent cinemas in the UK for a year. This was a huge achievement as more than 7,000 film makers from across the UK registered for the competition, which received more than film 1,400 entries. At the Gala event, where Serdar received a 35mm print of the film, he received personal praise from Kevin Spacey, whose exact words were “I love that movie”.
October, 2008
 
Serdar goes to Hollywood

Elevator Music was one of only 20 films (from nearly 3000 entries) to be screened at global film festival Pangea Day, which was watched by more than 10 million people around the world. Serdar, who was one of only two Britons to have his film screened on the day, was flown to LA for the event, where he brushed shoulders with Hollywood stars such as Cameron Diaz and Goldie Hawn
May, 2008