Community

OFVM is committed to making film and digital media more accessible. We offer highly subsidised training to those on low income and organize projects with marginalized groups in and around Oxford. We also co ordinate the Oxfordshire 'Summerscreen' film festival for young people in July.

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Summerscreen 2007 (28 July - 5th Aug 2007)
Oxfords youth film festival reached new heights this year thanks to the support of MediaBox funding. Festival news crews were out and about during the week catching the latest from the mini movies, animation creations, screenings and Harry Potter tours with stories going up live on the festival web site each day. For the first time young people were also involved in the publicity, marketing and general running of the festival. "Summerscreen goes from strength to strength - it just shows there is such enthusiasm for film amongst young people around Oxfordshire" said Geron Swann. Festival Co ordinator. Go to http://www.ofvm.org/summerscreen for all the Summerscreen news

Hidden Faces (Aug - Nov 2007)
A journey of self expression through film for people with learning difficulties. Workshops around Oxfordshire have given voice to more than 30 people as they talk to camera about what is important in their lives. Final work to be shown at OVADA gallery in central Oxford (10 - 17th November 2007) as part of a Thousand Years of Oxfordshire celebration. www.ofvm.org/hiddenfaces

Summerscreen 2006:(22-30 July 2006). OFVM's third festival of film, fun and fantasy for young people around Oxfordshire. Without doubt the most successful festival run so far involving over 20 partners and reaching 2000 people countywide (46 days of workshops, 6 screening events, 3 tour venues). Aardman animations, special effects workshops, BBC mini Movies, Harry Potter in Oxford tours, outdoor screenings and a packed Phoenix Picture House finale were just some of the most popular activities and events. For more details on festival programme. www.ofvm.org/summerscreen

Flash Forward Film Festival: Aspiring movie makers got a taste of celebrity life style as they posed for the paparazzi and had their films shown to more than 100 people at the Flash Forward Film Festival on May 7th at the Pegasus Theatre in East Oxford. The success of the first Flash Forward Film Festival now opens the way for a larger festival in 2007.

Half Eaten Biscuit: 8 week project with a group from MIND (Oxford and Banbury). An experimental film for social workers examining attitudes of people with mental health issues. To be used as a university teaching resource.

Summerscreen 2005. Over 1500 young people from around Oxfordshire enjoyed screenings, workshops and film and TV tours over the first week of the summer holidays. The high points of the festival were the massive turn out to screenings in Memorial park in Wantage and to the Best of the Fest Screening at the Phoenix Picture House in Oxford. Alongside the usual BBC Minute Movie workshops, special effects, animation and dance for film workshops the festival extended the ever popular Harry Potter Oxford tours and also introduced exclusive visits to the ITV studios in Abingdon. www.ofvm.org/summerscreen

Coping Alone. A carers journey. Carers reveal the powerful truth of what it is like to look after someone with Alzeimers disease. The production, created over an 8 day course with carers, is now being used by Brookes University and Ruskin in Oxford on their social work programme.

Age As we see it. A group of over 50's get together to tell some home truths about life for the elderly today. Produced over an 8 day course at OFVM for Brookes University Oxford and Ruskin College Oxford.