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Funded Projects
If you belong to a project already in receipt of First Light funding then this is the section for you.
Useful information, including how to credit First Light correctly, a downloadable version of our end card, report templates and evaluation forms can be found here.
Check out examples of work First Light has previously funded in our screening room.
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Round 16 Funded Films
Pilot Awards
Antrim Borough Council, Northern Ireland
The animation short Fast Forward will be made by 25 young people aged between 11 and 16 using £4,000 First Light funding. A magical village clock gives a select group of young people the chance to time travel. The group sees their town set in the future which proves a great place to be.
Compulsive Community Pictures, Chichester
Twenty 14 to 18-year-olds will produce the psychological thriller, Polaroid using £3,000 First Light funding. The film will focus on a man who views his life as ordinary and happy. Everything is turned upside down when a salesman visits him to show him what his life is really like.
West Lavington Youth Club, Devizes
A group of 12 young filmmakers aged between 11 to 17 will make a short digital films using £740 of First Light funding. The plot and details of the film are yet to be confirmed.
Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
School Disco Fever is a story focusing on the goings-on around and on the dance floor at a school disco. A group of 10 young people between the ages of 16 and 17 will use comedy and drama to explore the romancing, dancing and inevitably drinking involved with the disco. The film will be made with £4,000 First Light funding.
Fairbridge in Scotland, Edinburgh
Stuart…now I am sixteen, I can… will be an animated film exploring the challenges facing Stuart as he turns 16. Eight young filmmakers aged between 13 and 15 will deal with such issues as leaving school, sexual health and other topics that they themselves will have to deal with in a few years. The film will be made with £4,000 of First Light funding.
Ideal Films, Swindon
A new organisation set up to encourage filmmaking projects with young people in Swindon, will work with a group of eight to 16-year-olds to make the supernatural thriller Girl in the Pink Dress sing £4,000 of First Light funding. The out-of-this-world film will focus on a young pregnant woman who is spooked by the apparition of a girl whilst waiting for test results at hospital. Years later she sees the ghost again…
Somerset Film and Video, Bridgwater
£4,000 First Light funding will be used to make Penrose Street with a group of 15 to 18-year-olds. The film will be a 21st century take on the classic fairytale, The Three Little Pigs, investigating what actually makes a house a home.
Spring FX, Solihull
Elemental Break Up will be a rollercoaster ride of animation and fantasy made by a group of twenty 13 to 18-year-olds with £4,000 of First Light funding. The film focuses on a kids club who are sucked into a mural that depicts medieval dragons. They harness the power of the elements to destroy an evil fire demon, that has trapped everyone in this world, by breaking their bodies up into their basic elements.
Studio Awards
Tornado, Port Talbot
Through £20,000 First Light funding Tornado will make four films. Sandfield’s Story will be created by 50 young filmmakers aged between 10 and 16 who have been excluded from education or are at risk of offending. The drama piece Shakespeare Reduxwill work with twenty 10 to 18-year-olds from the Communities First areas of Bridgend, who are at risk of offending or have been excluded from mainstream education. The comedy/ fantasy Wrong side of the trax? will also be made by 20 young people who are excluded from main stream education and are at risk of offending, aged between eight and 16 from Merthyr Tydfil. The final film is It’s the Drink Talking will be a comedy created by 30 young people aged between eight and 15 as part of the Anti Drinking scheme that is run in Blaenau Gwent.
Nottingham City Museum and Gallery
The Museum and Art Gallery will make to films using over £17,000 First Light funding. They will work with a group of 12 young people aged between 14 and 18 to create Broken Journey. Two friends share the same experience of becoming refugees in the UK. The second film Photo-cyclist will be made by twelve 14 to 18-year-olds. Leo takes photographs and writes in his notebook whilst trying to learn English.
Take Art, Somerset
Using over £18,000 First Light funding Take Art will make four films. Special Delivery offers a comic and unique look at teenage mothers working with 16 and 17-year-olds. A group of seven to 15-year-olds from Hillmead Estate Kidz Club will create the horror film, Pandora’s Box. Time Machine will be made by young filmmakers aged between 12 and 16 from Williton Youth Action Group. The final project will work with young 16 and 17-year-olds, that are excluded from mainstream education, to produce Box of Mirrors.
The Video College, London
Three films will be made through £20,000 First Light funding.A group of young 12 to 18-year-olds from Lancaster Youth Club will make A Tough Choice focusing on two friends who have grown up together but as teenagers they begin to follow different paths. The drama/animation, True ID, will be produced by young filmmakers from Hammersmith Youth Offending Team, Lancaster Youth Club and Rugby Portobello Trust, aged between 12 and 16 and the poignant documentary, I’m pregnant, but my life’s not over, will be made as part of the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy Project by a group of 14 to 18-year-olds.
Dunvegan Primary School, Isle of Skye
Working with professional filmmakers, 71 pupils, aged between nine and 11, from Dunvegan Primary School, in association with three partnership schools, Dun Bheagan, Edinbane and Strun, will explore the notion of going back in time through series of films entitled Time Traveller using £12,000 of First Light funding.
East Riding School Improvement Service, Yorkshire
Using over £17,000 First Light funding, films will be made by pupils from various schools in the area. Thirty nine and 10-year-olds from Marshlands Primary School in Goole will produce the animation short, The Edge of Time. Ten pupils from Vermuyden School in Goole, aged 11 and 12, will produce another animated short with additional special effects called The Edge of Town. The final film, a documentary drama with animation simply titled The Edge, will be made by a group of 11 to 16-year-olds from Bridlington School.
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
A group of 30 young people aged 14 to 17 will produce a contemporary version of Grease. In Everyone Loves Classics everything will get an update. The second film made by 17 young 14 to 17-year-olds, One Upon a Time in Barking…, will be set in true Spaghetti Western style. Both films will be made thanks to over £19,000 First Light funding.
Chocolate Films Ltd, London
Memories, a documentary inspired by the video and film installations of New York artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, will be made by a group of 16 to 18-year-olds. A group of 30 young filmmakers aged between 13 and 16 will make the thriller ZPD. Finally twenty 11 to 14-year-olds will work on an animation called Invention with Cine Lumiere and the Science Museum. The three productions will be made with £12,900 of First Light funding.
Greenhouse Project, Liverpool
Using £20,000 of First Light funding, young people in Liverpool will make four films. Great Helmets Think Alike is a comedy made by young filmmakers aged between eight and 12 , Cereal Killer a horror created by eight to 12-year-olds, What Things Think will be an animation created by a group of 11 to14- year-olds and finally another animation Chin Snapper produced by young people aged 11 to 16.
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