First Light Film Workshops are back!

Project Ability are pleased to announce the return of First Light film workshops for 14 to 25 year olds with disabilities from January 2012.

The workshops will be running on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, from 18:00 to 20:30, for 8 weeks from 10 January to 01 March 2012. The provisional date for film screenings is 10 March 2012.

Each class of 8 participants will have the opportunity to create 2 comedy shorts, up to 90 seconds in length, based on the following film ideas, created in collaboration with young people from previous film workshops:

Tuesday Class (14 to18 years)

‘Wizzy’
Wizzy and his friends are an accident prone bunch and never seem to miss trouble when they are out and about. Whether they are being locked in prison when a silly joke gets out of hand or getting lost on the bus there is always plenty of humour and camaraderie to get them out of any situation.

‘The Lowest form of Whit?’
A short sketch illustrating some comical Scottish slang, common misunderstandings and double meanings.

Thursday Class (18 to 25 years)

‘The Empty’
A comical yet cautionary tale of a house party gone wrong.

‘Disability Mockumentary – the media portrayal of disability’
A witty mockumentary style film with a light hearted look at the serious subject of how the media portrays people with disabilities. The young film makers will look at just how far the media's portrayal and public perception of disability has come in recent years and whether any real ground has been made in the representation of people with disabilities in TV and film.

The cost for the 8 week workshop is £40. Bookings can be made for these workshops by completing the attached form and returning it to Project Ability, Trongate 103, Glasgow G1 5HD by no later than Thursday 22 December 2011 (please note we can not accept telephone or email bookings).

Places are booked on a first come, first served basis and we expect these workshops to be very popular, so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Posted on 12th December 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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Xmas pound Appeal Update

In four weeks we have raised a massive £783.

This is a considerable amount of money and we are thankful to every person who has been kind enough to donate. This money will help us provide more visual art workshops and film classes to more people.

‘Gives you something to get up for in the morning, mixing with other people, gives you the opportunity to do things that if you didn't come you wouldn't take on” - participant on the Connect programme. Connect is our specialist arts and well-being programme for people with mental health issues.

“My seascape picture has worked out beautifully and I feel confident that I have achieved something.” – young person attending the Saturday Art Class.

You can help us reach our target of £2500 by donating money – cash, cheque or card or through JustTextGiving (text PABL11 £10 or any other amount of your choice to 70070), buying our original xmas cards and 2011 calendar, purchasing original art work from the gallery (Project Ability takes a 40% commission on all sales) and publications and gift items from our shop and coming along to our fantastic fundraiser on the 15th December at Mono.

“Keep up the awesomeness!” - Create participant.

Posted on 23rd November 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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Winter workshops: Introduction to Film

There will be a new block of Introduction to Film workshop for 6-12 year olds with disabilities, from Wednesday 23 November.

* Time: 18:00-19:30
* Dates: 23 November - 14 December 2011 and 11 January - 1st February 2012. Note: there will be a break in the middle for Christmas.
* Cost: £40 for 8 weeks

To book a place, call us on 0141 552 2822 and ask for a form. Places are given on a first come first served basis.

Posted on 16th November 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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The video of Clare Hume’s talk is now available

Drama artist Clare Hume spent three days in residence in Trongate 103 last June, as part of the Everyone@T103 programme. She then gave a very interesting talk about her few days here, which you can now see here.

Everyone@Trongate103 is an action research programme exploring public engagement and access throughout Trongate 103, in particular how visitors with profound and complex learning disabilities occupy and inform the space. The next talk will be by artist John Shankie on Thursday 1st September, 5pm-6pm.

Posted on 24th August 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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The Indepen-dance performance is now on video

For those of you who missed their brilliant performance earlier this month, you can now see Indepen-dance and the young Project Ability artists dancing all around Trongate 103 on video!

Once again, a big thank you to everybody involved, and a huge well done to all the dancers!

Posted on 17th August 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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Project Ability animation film wins Runner-up prize in GFT competition

In early July, a group of children aged 6 - 12 years old directed a short animation film entitled 'Remote Control and the Bird Brain Menace'. They wrote a story, created the characters and produced all the props.

Kate Burton, one of the tutors, decided to enter the film in the GFT Wee Movies competition, and the results are just in: our film is runner-up! The children have won free cinema tickets, and will have their film shown before suitable films at the GFT. They will also be eligible to win a special grand prize at Glasgow Youth Film Festival 2012.

Well done to all the children, to the competition winners, and a big thank you to our tutors Kate and Sandi!

Click here to see the winning films.

Posted on 3rd August 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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Great animation/film workshops at Project Ability

In early July, we held two animation/film workshops for children aged 6 to 12 years old.

The children learned how to make props, animated characters and backgrounds, and how to use the camera. They even did their own voice-over! Everybody had a lot of fun, and the results are great little films.

The animated film produced in the first week 'Remote Control and the Bird Brain Menace' was finished just in time to be entered in the Wee Movies competition at the GFT. Fingers crossed we get chosen!

For some photos of the workshops, please check our Facebook page.

Posted on 20th July 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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Bookings now open for new film and animation workshops in July

The Create Summer film / animation workshops are back! Want to learn the basics of film-making, how to use a camera and an editing programme? 

We have two workshops of one week each, for children aged 6 -12 years-old.

Workshop 1: Monday 4th – Friday 8th July, 10am-12noon / 6-12yrs 

Workshop 2: Monday 11th – Friday 15th July, 10am-12noon / 6-12yrs 

Costs: £25 per weekly workshop

To book a place, please call 0141 552 2822 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Posted on 6th June 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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Short film made in Project Ability studios screened at Market Gallery

Market gallery put out a call for people to make short movies in their neighbourhood. As part of this, people working in the Trongate 103 building from various organisations decided to make a collaborative piece, each making a one minute segment. These segments were then edited together. To make the pieces work together as a whole, it was decided that each segment should begin and end with the same image – a paper mask.

Max Mcilmunn, who regularly takes part in Project Ability film and animation projects, conceived and shot his segment of the film in our workshops one afternoon. He arrived with no real idea of what he was going to do and, once started, wasn’t sure if what he was doing was going to work but with only a very short production time, he thought he "might as well just roll with his idea and see how it would turn out". He later spent a few hours at home on post production, editing and adding voices, sound effects and CGI. The final piece is less than one minute long.

Posted on 8th March 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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Screening of Project Ability short films during GYFF

On Friday 11 February, the Glasgow Film Theatre showed a programme of short animations, selected by the London International Animation Festival, as part of Glasgow Youth Film Festival. Project Ability was offered a 15 minutes slot to show some of our recent animation films.

Ian Bruin, a young filmmaker who attended Project Ability's film classes, was kind enough to introduce the films, including his own: 'Fantastic Foxy Bingo'.

Here is what he had to say:

"Hello, My name is Ian Bruin.

I have always loved drawing on paper and on my computer. I have been doing short animations since 2008 at home on my PC.

My school art teacher got me started at project Ability in the summertime doing a film-making course.
I met Alan and Ben. They showed me how to use a camera to make an animation. I had never done this before.

There were 6 of us on the course: Cameron, Angus, James, Ewan, Adam and myself. We talked about our ideas and what we wanted to do. We talked about using plasticine to make our characters. I had never used plasticine before but I love Morph and Wallace and Gromit, so I wanted to try it. I had an idea about wanting to make animals with plasticine. I also wanted to make a little hand to play with them. I started by drawing and painting my backgrounds, and then I made my figures.

My teachers showed me how to light up my backgrounds, and how to do stop frame animation with my figures. It took a really long time to do but it was great fun. Then they put it into the Mac software to make it into a proper film.

I also liked meeting other people who liked doing the same things as me. They had really good ideas too.

I love being at Project Ability."

Posted on 16th February 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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Project Ability Filmmakers in film competition Top 10!

Three young filmmakers that are involved with Project Ability have entered a Pepsi Max competition for a chance to win a trip to the Cannes Film Festival, a £30,000 film production budget and a screening of their film at the Raindance Film Festival!

Jack and Kerr Matheson, and Max McIlmunn are all regulars at Project Ability film classes and we are very pleased to see that, along with their friend Darren, they have put their skills to great use! Their quirky video was a big success and the four guys are now in the Top 10 of the competition. The public votes have been cast (they came in 2nd), but the judges still have to vote. We will keep you posted on the results.

Fingers crossed!

Posted on 12th January 2011 by PA Editor : permalink
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Harris Burnett wins a Kids for Kids Award!

Harris Burnett, who attends our Create programme, has won an award for his film Culture Vulture!

We entered Harris's film in the "Kids for Kids" Film Festival in Durham, and the Youth Jury selected Culture Vulture! as the Best 1 Minute film.

We are all very proud of Harris, and are looking forward to presenting him with his well-deserved award!

Click here to see Culture Vulture.

Image: still from 'Culture Vulture'

Posted on 15th November 2010 by PA Editor : permalink
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Saturday visual arts classes and the Winter film class are now available for booking

We are now taking bookings for the next block of Saturday Visual Arts classes, as well as for the Winter Film class.

The Saturday classes will run from Saturday 23 October to Saturday 11 December.

We run four classes:
• 5 - 8 yrs: 10am - 11am
• 8 - 12 yrs: 11.30am - 12.30pm
• 12 -18 yrs: 1pm - 2pm
• 18 - 25 yrs: 2.30pm - 3.45pm

The Winter Film class will run from Wednesday 24 November to Wednesday 15 December , the class will break for the Christmas holidays, and will re-start on Wednesday 12 January, until Wednesday 2nd February (8 weeks total).

This class takes place on Wednesdays from 6pm to 7.30pm and is open to children aged 6 to 12 yrs.

Cost: each block costs £32.

For more information or to book a place, please contact us on 0141 552 2822 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Posted on 12th October 2010 by PA Editor : permalink
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First Light Film Screening at GFT

First Light Premieres !

Join us on Saturday 16th October at the GFT to see the masterpieces produced by the young people that attended the First Light Film class.

There will be four short films, written, directed and produced by young people:

-Gasoline of Delusion
-Robert Smith: a Biography
-Slightly Naive
-Wizzy Goes to Prison

Doors open at 11am for an 11:15am screening

Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB

Admission is free. There will be a donations box.

Posted on 6th October 2010 by PA Editor : permalink
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First Light films in post production!

The four short films, funded by First Light, that were shot over the summer by young Project Ability filmmakers are now in post production!

The young film makers have been coming to Project Ability on Tuesday and Thursday evenings in order to edit and finish up the films. They will also market them and organise a screening in October.

The films are: 
Wizzy and the week of Prison
The Restaurant part 1 and Part 2
Robert Smith: An Autobiography
Slightly Naive

Make sure you check the website to know the date of the screening, it's an event not to be missed!!

Posted on 8th September 2010 by PA Editor : permalink
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The first series of Summer Film Workshops just started!

Today is the first day of our Summer Film Workshops! The week-long workshops are the perfect place to learn the basics of film-making, from setting your scene and using the equipment to editing your final film.

This week's workshop is full, but there are still some spots available on next week's one.

Open to children aged 5-12yrs, the class take place Monday to Friday from 10am-12pm in the Project Ability workshops. Siblings, parents and carers welcome!

Cost: £20. To book a place call 0141 552 2822. 

Posted on 26th July 2010 by PA Editor : permalink
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Wanted - young filmmakers

 We have recently received funding from First Lights to produce four films and we are looking for young disabled film-makers to work on these film projects over the summer.

 We encourage anyone to apply, whether they're interested in acting, camera-work, animation or editing, whether they are a beginner or have lots of film-making experience.

For more information and an application form please contact us before 30^th April:

Posted on 15th April 2010 by PA Editor : permalink
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Two films shortlisted for Glasgow Festivals ‘One Minute Movie Competition’

Hot off the press!   Two Project Ability films shortlisted for the Glasgow Youth Film Festival 'One Minute Movie Competition' 2010!

‘Wizzy and friends on the subway’.   Film by Cameron Black.    Wizzy the grumpy wizard is travelling on the train and goes to complain to the driver but when he gets there finds the driver has gone. Can he save the train?

‘NCRPF’. Film by Drew Daly, Daniel Campbell, Cameron Black, Euan Stewart, Harris Burnett.   Downloading is a crime! Serious warning from NCRPF (National Copyright Police Federation).

Don’t forget the Co-operative Film-Makers screenings and free workshops on Saturday 13 Feb...for more info

Posted on 10th February 2010 by PA Editor : permalink
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Free taster film workshops

Free taster film workshops are on offer to young people and schools or youth groups who attend the Co-operative Young Film Makers Screening on the 8th or 13th of February.

The workshops will take place at Project Ability at the following times:

Mon 8th
1 - 2pm
2.15 - 3.15pm

Sat 13th
1.30 - 2.30
2.45 - 3.45

Booking essential. Contact us for more information.

Details of the film screenings click here

Posted on 19th January 2010 by PA Editor : permalink
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Co-operative Young Film Makers Screenings

Glasgow Film Theatre

Recommended for ages 8+

Each year The Co-operative encourages young people to express themselves and make a short film. The result is the Co-operative Young Film-Makers Festival.  Join us for these special fun and educational screenings of Scottish films made by young people aged 8 – 22, which were entered into the Co-operative Young Film-Makers in 2009. The screenings are hosted by Project Ability and The Co-operative Membership Scotland. 

Come and see the talent and imagination of young film makers in Scotland including animations, documentaries and dramas. Watch films that are funny, fantastical, thought provoking and creative.

This is the start of a Scotland wide tour of the films. Over the year the screening event will travel to Edinburgh, Inverness and Dundee.

For more information about the Co-operative Young Film Makers visit www.youngfilm-makers.coop

GFT Screening times

Mon 8^th February 10.15 – 11.15am – for schools and groups

Saturday 13^th Feb 12 – 1pm – open to the public

Both screenings are free.

Booking required for Mon 8^th screening see  http://www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/youth for more information.

Posted on 6th January 2010 by PA Editor : permalink
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Project Ability films achieve top awards at UK Film Festival!

Project Ability won two awards at the 2009 Oska Bright Film Festival.

Hughie McIntyre won best animation for his film “The Story of the Beatles”  while Doreen Kay won Best Overall Film with her animation “Young at Heart” based on the pop song of the same name by Glasgow band The Bluebells.

Well done Hughie and Doreen!

Doreen receiving her award from Stephanie Fuller, Arts Council England (South East)

Posted on 8th December 2009 by PA Editor : permalink
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