Hi8us South Project Overview

East End Stories:
Working with Primal Pictures, Parallax Independent and the Rich Mix Cultural Centre, five short films involving international directors together with young people in local communities.

Tag Map:
An interactive youth consultation project looking at physical regeneration and change in urban areas, supported by the Carnegie Trust and piloted in the Olympic Regeneration area.

New Londoners:
A digital media and arts project working with young refugees and asylum seekers in Lewisham working in partnership with The Albany, Art of Regeneration (National Theatre at the Albany), Refugee Youth and South London Refugee Partnership.

L8r:
An interactive teenage pregnancy web project, funded by the Department of Health and broadcast by the BBC. Participants watch L8r episodes and vote online to determine what action the characters take next.

Big Screen Science:
A national project for secondary school teachers and students to explore the moral and ethical issues of science through filmmaking, working with scientists, educators and filmmakers to produce six short films.

The Loop:
An online initiative in partnership with Mental Health Media enabling young people to create two minute digital stories about their experiences of mental health issues for an awareness-raising website.

Modern Painters:
A series of contemporary artist’s profiles made by the Channel 4 Art Show.

Skin Deep:
A BAFTA nominated Hi8us/APT short drama shot in the Crossways estate in Tower Hamlets, reflecting the internal struggle of a young, mixed race man growing up in the 1970s.

Shireen Comes Clean:
A drugs education video for school, youth club and community use. Commissioned by the London Borough of Wandsworth through the Art of Regeneration and made with young, non-professional actors who devised the stories.

Sex Love and Video Diaries:
Commissioned by Channel 4, a training programme for SRE teachers.

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