MISSION STATEMENT

AllAboutUs filmfactory was founded by Willy Smits, director of Youththeatre Stella the Hague in 2003 together with Anna Spohr.

AllAboutUs FilmFactory supports adolescents in the development of becoming active, authentic media citizens that influence the media as  much as the media influences them. AllAboutUs is a media school for young people, aiming at connecting them interculturally.
AllAboutUs includes marginalized groups, they become their own heroes in their own films.  Apart from thorough media education, young people get the chance to control the film medium in their own way and complete their first documentary with the support of film professionals.
Developing individual empowerment runs parallel with learning the necessary technical skills. Social discipline and acquiring an open, yet critical understanding of the media world leads to a series of highly individual films, that truly represent the world of young people. AllAboutUs connects the first time-filmmakers to an interested bigger public.
The AllAboutUs FilmFactory films are being used at schools, are shown at international film festivals and on Dutch TV. Since 2005 AllAboutUs FilmFactory receives structural funding from the Dutch Ministry of Education and Science.

The best way to get an impression of what we do, who we are and what we believe in is our trailer, music and lyrics written for and with us by Nuclear family/ Kernkoppen! see the trailer

A suitcase. Five cameras. Two editing computers. A filmmaker who is also a teacher. A bunch of films made by young people for young people.

These are the ingredients of the AllAboutUs FilmFactory.