‘Scholieren FilmLab’ (Student Filmlab) is an activity in collaboration with the ‘Nederlands Instituut voor Filmeducatie (NIF)’ (Dutch institute for film education) and commissioned by the Ministry of OCW (the department for education, culture and science) and the Dutch Film Fund. See http://www.film-lab.nl
The ‘Hey Mum Tour’ was aimed at bringing mothers and daughters together who come from different cultural backgrounds through the screening of our film "Hey mum, tell me". This film was made in 2006 in cooperation with the ‘Koorenhuis’ and the ‘Hofstadcollege’ in The Hague.
What is a hero? Who in your direct surroundings deserves to be called this? Frits Wielders and AllAboutUs FilmFactory organised the Master Class Film with the following theme: ‘Reachable and unreachable heroes’. This course was specifically set up for students and teachers at the Media College in The Hague.
In June 2007 AllAboutUs FilmFactory made an entry in Paris, as the Dutch representative to participate in the YEFF! Network. In joining representatives from eleven different countries; AllAboutUs FilmFactory is the Dutch YEFF! partner.
During the Realness Festival a huge variety of film screenings, media workshops and expert meetings was presented. There were gigs by established artists and some gigs by young and upcoming artists, all related to ‘realness’. The Realness Festival is a young people’s platform for national and international documentaries, radio and new media productions. During the different expert meetings a new European Media network for young people was formulated and the need for a new Dutch media Fund was vocalised.
Eight young people from the Dutch city of Groningen ( and the theatre company NNT) and eight young people from Newcastle UK (Northern Stage-theatre) created the theatre play: On Top of the Town. Starting point: Even though we’re young and we receive the same TV channels and the internet seems our mutual home-base, we don’t just understand each other.
AllAboutUs FilmFactory created an educational project featuring debates around the film ‘Hey mum, tell me…” in collaboration with the ‘Koorenhuis’ (centre for the arts and culture) and the ‘Hofstadcollege’ in The Hague. The ‘Hey Mum Tour’ was aimed at bringing mothers and daughters together who come from different cultural backgrounds through the screening of our film "Hey mum, tell me". This filmic exploration of two generations of women and their self-image portrays their self-images from adolescence into adulthood. Now and later. Yesterday and today. Mothers and daughters. From old rituals nearly forgotten to rituals that are very current. Young girls, both Muslim and non Muslim are discussing their mothers. ‘Hey mum, tell me’ was made by Nisrin Ebnoulfakir, Fatma Yalcin, Precenta Turfkruier and Efza Ustuner with Anna Spohr as a coach and mentor.
A film project for and by young deaf people
The XL project ‘ noise in my head’ is a film project by four cleverly opinionated young deaf people.
Bart (21), Jascha (17), Marie (16) & Daniël (21)
This international project was created in a collaboration between the youth theatre ‘Stella’ in The Hague and AllAboutUs Film Factory (Anna Spohr) and took place outside of The Hague, outside of the Netherlands and even outside of the borders of the old Europe: Latvia. The goal of this project was to gain a young perspective on what Europe meant to their citizens on a direct personal level. The films that were created were made by young film makers from Latvia and supported by peer-educators from Holland as well as a professional filmmakers who were specifically trained in working with young people. The whole project had an educational character and was dedicated to a vision of the future. The way the film was created for and by young people (age 13 to 22 years) proved to give astonishing and authentic insights into worlds unknown to us. The project was highly innovative on several levels, with regards to the media used, the educational perspective, the international cooperation, the video-art and the peer educator ship. Flotsam Europe 2004 has set up a database of information to be used as a platform for future debates led by young and for young people. The concept of the European Union that remained abstract in the minds of our young creators was eventually translated into the direct, personal experiences with regards to the issues of human rights, freedom of word, liberty, drug policy, welfare, migration, environmental issues etc. These themes were filmed by young filmmakers from Latvia and shown in the Netherlands .
Young people from The Hague making films about their life.
Whuzzup is a Dutch video collective, led by film maker Anna Spohr. The project provided media access to young people in the South Bronx area in order to explore and question life through film making. The films are sometimes harrowing and sometimes inspiring, the results are brilliant little gems of self-expression.
Whuzzup goes Bronx happened over the summer of 2001 and connected three young filmmakers from Amsterdam to young artists of the South-Bronx. They all created very different and very individual films through interacting with one another (see for more info www.eurogenie.com/whuzzup). The cinematographic description of their personal world was shown at the Green Reel Film Festival in Los Angeles, at the Shadow Festival and at the ‘Breakin’ Walls’ Festival in Amsterdam as well as at several Video Festivals in New York City.