A DVD drama project on the issues of racism and multiculturalism, featuring the young people from Barnados, Future Visions Youth Action Group, Govanhill Youth Project and Castlemilk Youth Complex.

This programme is in collaboration with Gara who will lead a Q&A after the film.

When Provanhall Housing Association needed to communicate their annual report to their members, they got in touch with their local youth group to help out. Now, there are annual reports and there are annual reports....

A little girl tries to understand why her autistic brother is not like other children.

Forgotten Voices, Thoughts, Ideas and Feelings, produced by the Fostering Network is a unique collaborative production from original material produced by young people between the ages of 8 and 24. The group of young people – representing children and young people in foster care, and the sons and daughters of foster carers, came together to share their experiences. The young people met and wanted to make others aware of the many complex and challenging issues they faced. They expressed themselves through writing stories, prose and poetry. Following the production of a booklet, they wanted to make a DVD. Due to legal restrictions preventing the use of any identifying photos or films of young people in foster care, the young people decided to use creative imagery instead. Working in a creative collaborative approach, with the Big Step Partnership and the Babygrand Production Company, this powerful DVD was produced. It has been used extensively throughout Scotland to train foster carers and social workers and to encourage young people to talk about their own experiences.

Document 7 will screen the following excerpts: Going Into Foster Care, Overnights, Bin Liners, Jessica’s Story, I Never Saw Her Again and Education.

Destination – A short animated film giving an insight into how unaccompanied asylum seeking children perceive Scotland and the good and bad experiences that they have. The DVD was called ‘Destination’ because Scotland was the destination where the young people found safety, but also to highlight that for some young people with negative asylum decisions, they do not know if this will be their final destination or whether they will need to return to their country of origin.

The animation was made by the ‘Young Survivors Steps to the Future’ group with the BBC L.A.B., involving young people from 9 different countries. The group celebrates it’s 5 birthday in October 2009. and is supported by the big step, Children’s Rights Service & Residential Services at Glasgow City Council and the Scottish Refugee Council.

Tall Storeys is a video project for young people under 21 years of age and presented as part of artist Lindsay Perth’s residency with multi-story, Street Level’s collaborative arts programme based in the Red Road housing estate, North Glasgow. These films premiering at Document 7…

Double Trouble, My Lessons With Super Zero, Olio, Teen Spirit, When I Close My Eyes

...are the first productions from collaborations over Summer 2009 and part funded by The Red Road Project.

Diversity Films present the latest crop of films from their brand new filmmaking programme which offers free filmmaking training, mentoring and access to filmmaking equipment in new and existing communities in Glasgow. The programme is a diverse mix of documentaries, short drama and music video made by new filmmakers aged 10 – 60+ and will be followed by a Q & A with the filmmakers themselves.

Films + panel discussion

From Kingsnorth in Kent, to Mainshill in Lanarkshire and now Hunterston in North Ayrshire, recent moves towards "new coal" are uniting environmental campaigners and local residents in a wave of community activism...

FILMS

(1) Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars (2007, 34 mins)

Narrated by Robert Redford and produced by the Redford Center and Alpheus Media, The film introduces the unlikely partners — mayors, ranchers, CEOs, community groups, legislators, lawyers, faith groups, and citizens — that have come together to oppose the construction of 19 conventional coal-fired power plants that were slated to be built in Eastern and Central Texas and that were being fast-tracked by the Governor.

(2) Kingsnorth : a local issue going global (15 mins)

Narrated by Robert Newman and documenting the fight against the building of a coal-fired power sation in Kent.

+ (3) Mystery Shorts

PANEL DISCUSSION

Including members of CONCH : Communities Opposed to New Coal at Hunterston who will explain how Glasgow is just 30 miles down-wind of a possible new £2bn coal power station and give details of the growing community campaign that is mobilising to stop the coal station from being built.

www.camcorderguerillas.net

www.conchcampaign.org

In 1969 the video portapak arrived in Europe, and for the next 10 years, Hoppy Hopkins and Sue Hall used video, mostly black and white, in a variety of situations – on the street, as art and as television, at a time when non-broadcast video was a new, undeveloped creative medium. In 1979, through their company Fantasy Factory, they established the first independent U-matic edit suite for cheap access.

This informative talk by Hoppy Hopkins and Sue Hall will show excerpts of their early work demonstrating the social uses of video for community action and development.

A collaboration with Street Level Photoworks.

Sean McAllister’s Hull’s Angel saw him return to his home city to examine the impact of an influx of 1,500 asylum seekers.

When he arrived in Hull, the asylum seekers told him about a local lady who was helping them- so McAllister found Tina, a 48-year-old former housewife who was in a relationship with a 24-year-old Iraqi.

The window displays of the Tehran clothing shops catch the interest of passersby who stop and linger. Gradually, the onlookers meet the stares of the grotesquely mutilated mannequins- disturbing caricatures of the female figure.

The mannequins, redefined by the regime, have become a metaphor for Iranian Women’s veiled and covered bodies. In the 1980’s they disappeared from shop windows altogether, reappearing only after the war between Iran and Iraq. First the male mannequins reappeared, then the female- but "modified" by the manufacturers in order to minimize their feminine characteristics: like a warning call sent to Iranian women and to society, an absurd totem intended to perpetuate the established order.

The journey of a young Indian woman’s hair, donated to the Temple to be then converted into exquisite hair extensions in Italy. This same hair will then return to India to satisfy the whim of a successful career woman in Bombay.

A story of the cult of beauty in the era of globalisation. An original view of today’s India with its contradictions- a kaleidoscope of modernity, economic expansion and ancient traditions.

Korea is a divided nation. The psychic scar shared by families divided during the Korean War in the 1950s is symbolized by the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing communist North from capitalist South. Along this infamous border, filmmaker Min Sook Lee begins a revelatory, emotion-charged journey into Korea’s broken heart, exploring the rhetoric and realism of reunification through the extraordinary stories of ordinary people.

Lee joins one man’s quest to prove the tiger, a symbol of resilience in Korean mythology, still lives in the DMZ. But Lee delves deeper than symbols, asking the crucial question—how will the two Koreas be put back together? In the South, we meet elderly Koreans waiting for news of relatives and young defectors haunted by memories of escape. In the North, we visit an inter-Korean economic project and gain unprecedented access to a state-sanctioned family reunion.

An eloquent tale of longing and hope, Tiger Spirit is an unforgettable portrait of Korea at a crossroads.

Lisa, an experienced doctor with a normal professional career, is drawn to the idea of providing hospice care for terminally ill patients. One day by chance she gets an urgent call to treat a case of terminal cancer among the homeless of Moscow’s Paveletskaya train station. When she arrives she doesn’t find an individual patient- but a whole parallel world of sick and needy homeless people who live there...

Wednesdays At The Station captures 7 months of Lisa’s encounters, setbacks and achievements as she tries to help people who live well beyond the margins of normal society.

A verite snap-shot of life in South Africa capturing the rising tensions in the months preceding the outbreak of xenophobic violence in May 2008.

In a community put under severe pressure by poverty, lack of resources and frustration at corrupt officials, Danny Turken examines the complex motivations of a people who have nowhere else to turn in the face of a national government that seems to have forgotten they exist.

South Africa, 2008: Ernesto Alfabeto Nhamuave, a Mozambican national, is burnt to death by a xenophobic mob. The media dubs him "The Burning Man".

Nigerian filmmaker Adze Ugah tries to understand who Ernesto really was, what the events were that led to this atrocity, and how it could have happened in the post-Apartheid South Africa of the Rainbow Nation... A South Africa where countless people- like the perpetrators as much as the victim of this crime- still live in poverty.

This film seeks to give "The Burning Man" back the dignity of his own name.

A journey through a region which is always in the glare of the world’s media, yet one which few of us really know. What is the music that forms the backing track to this mythical place? Who are its most iconic musicians and how do they live? What do they think of the unique conditions in which they live and how is that reflected in their lyrics and their melodies?

From the neon and the billboards of Tel Aviv, to the poverty and desperation of the occupied territories of the West Bank and the vast concentration camp the Gaza strip has become, we will share Checkpoint Rock with very different musicians, going from town to town- and from checkpoint to checkpoint- in a journey that will change the way we see these people in conflict.

Cocais is a poetic documentary film made with patients and employees of an asylum town in the interior of São Paulo province. This is the story of a town that reinvented itself through a movie, or the story of a movie invented by a town.

Mikhail Morozov is a Russian patriot, a good Christian and a successful businessman. He owns Durakovo - the "Village of Fools" - 100 km southwest of Moscow. People come here from all over Russia to learn how to live and become ‘true’ Russians.

When they join the Village of Fools, the new residents abandon all their former rights and agree to obey Mikhail Morozov’s strict rules. "What we have here is a society that respects vertical power, this is what our country needs most of all, " says Morozov, quoting his idol President Putin.

Filmmaker Nino Kirtadze attains unfettered access as political and religious leaders gather at the castle to meet with Morozov and dream of a glorious future where Russia is devoid of foreigners. Purposefully restrained, yet cunningly subversive, Durakovo: Village Of Fools provides a chilling glimpse of fascist ideology on the rise.