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Its the day before Yousaf flies out to New York.  We are…

Its the day before Yousaf flies out to New York.  We are scouting for container park locations down by the river Thames in Barkingside in East london.  I put a couple of questions to him  about what he hopes to get out of going to the Tribeca festiv…

Recce video at the Giantlands.  Just trying out uploading stuff…

Recce video at the Giantlands.  Just trying out uploading stuff from yesterday’s visit to the Giantlands location.  More to follow, plus Yousaf blogging from New York where he should be touching down soon.

This is the video slugline to kick off our blog about the making…

This is the video slugline to kick off our blog about the making of the film Giantland.  It is a  Yousaf Ali Khan script written in in collaboration with Andy Porter, for Yousaf to direct. Its just won the only UK  All Access Award at the Tribeca Fe…

Vault wraps

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Four great new short films for East End Film Festival’s Vault programme are now complete. This year we worked to the East End Film Festival’s chosen theme “Aspire”. With access to athletes likely to be competing in 2012, Hi8us South also asked the participants look at ways in which the Olympic aspirational goals are reflected in their own communities.

MyView Films all around

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The films produced by the young people on the MyView project are fulfilling the expectations set by the effect they had on all who saw them at the plenary workshop and Channel 4 earlier this year.

BBC & Barbican showcase Vault

Vault at the Barbican

Young participants in year one of Vault, the Olympic filmmaking project delivered by Hi8us South for the East End Film Festival, presented their films to huge acclaim at a prestigious event at London’s Barbican Centre…

MEE TV DVD Launched

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MEE TV, our Extended Schools project for the Mile End East area working in St Paul’s Way Trust School reached it’s climax yesterday with a special screening event at Café Reconnect.

New L8R Episodes on BBC TV

Scene from L8R Youngers

Our latest work for broadcast, L8R Youngers, will be aired on BBC2 next Monday 22nd March at 10.30am.

MyView participants raise the bar

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We expected much after weeks monitoring the participants’ discussions on the blog, but nothing prepared us for the quality and unique vision of these films.

Recent Posts

  • Make Town of Runners a massive hit

    The box office returns on opening weekend of any film is a major driver for its success. Following the sell out premier at Rich Mix, Town of Runners, an independently produced documentary, opens in no less than five cinemas on its opening weekend. We’re encouraging all our friends to get out there between the 20th and 22nd of April to see it.

  • Put the number in your phone!

    With Stop & Search well and truly back with us and the security measures being touted for the Olympics it’s important that young people in the East End in particular check out this short piece we’ve made for Newham Monitoring Project featuring Benjamin Zephanania.

  • Town of Runners

    Town of Runners is the latest work from our chair Jerry Rothwell. It’s a feature documentary about young runners from Bekoji – an Ethiopian highland town which has produced some of the world’s greatest distance athletes. It tells the story of two young girls as they try to run their way to a different life.

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