Young people have a lot to say. WFA has a wealth of experience and excellent New Media tools and techniques to give young people a voice, sharing their ideas, experiences and aspirations with a wider audience through the dynamic and creative process of film-making. In the process they gain interpersonal & educational skills and become better equipped to question the staple diet of programmes fed to us every day on "the box".

The impact of WFA's 8 films under the First Light Studio Award between 2002 & 2004 is still being felt today with 'You Me and Everyones' screened at London Disability Film Festival and the Finnish Disability Film Festival in Helsinki. 'We are from Sudan' at Film4Lives in Sheffield & as an EXODUS Short during Refugee Awareness Week & 'Wanna Be Heroes' at Vallecas Purta Del Cine Festival International de Cine y Video Experimental in Madrid, Spain.

WFA also collaborated with Commonwealth Film Festival in the animation workshop 'Get Animated' and with local primary schools at Oldham City Learning Centre where the young people created films & animations themed on 'Dreams' with a screening as part of the festival.

WFA's collaboration with Creative Partnerships to give school children the opportunity to develop their potential, creativity and imagination gave rise to CLICT (Creative Learning using ICT) with teachers & children from 8 schools building the confidence and skills to use ICT ceatively in the curriculum. Chris Finn from Creative Partnerships summed it up "...children from the age of five up experiencing the high end of digital art and they've taken to it like a duck to water...it can really make the curriculum come alive".

Recognising and celebrating young people's achievement is integral to WFA's work - we offer C&G and GMOCN accreditation with awards for achievements in creative film-making & production based training. We can be flexible in meeting a range of requirements - base and outreach work with portable kits, evening and weekends, from small to large scale developmental projects, tailormade workshops for individuals or groups in a wide range of subjects including developing & delivering a project & software based training.

WFA has developed a series of In-set training days for teachers, designed to give them confidence and skills in the creative use of Digital Tools & ICT.

If you are working with young people and wish to find out more about our work, contact us for a showreel and to discuss your requirements.