Delivered by Women Over 50 Film Festival
In 2022, we are supporting Women Over 50 Film Festival’s Moving Pictures project through our Connecting People and Places Fund’s Collaborative Commissions 2022, co-funded by City of London as part of our Foundations Programme.
‘Moving Pictures’ is a DVD of short films from the Women Over 50 Film Festival (WOFFF), along with a creative activities pack. ‘Moving Pictures’ films reflect older people’s lived experience with short films made by or about older women.
These commissions will unlock further understanding on how creativity can be used to deliver arts, education, employment programming that provides creative learning opportunities, employment and leadership roles, training and fusion skills development.
They also share a commitment to developing equity in their project’s design and delivery, supporting underrepresented people’s ideas and visibility.
As we enter the third year of COVID, many older people are feeling lonelier and more isolated than ever. ‘Moving Pictures’ connects older people in residential care homes in Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest with films and creative activities.
‘Moving Pictures’ is a DVD of short films from the Women Over 50 Film Festival (WOFFF), along with a creative activities pack. ‘Moving Pictures’ films reflect older people’s lived experience with short films made by or about older women.
The short films on ‘Moving Pictures’ DVDs are subtitled making them welcoming and inclusive for many older people who are living with hearing loss.
The ‘Moving Pictures’ art activities encourage older people to tap into their creativity to design a film poster and to draw, write and talk about the films and to reminisce about a favourite film or cinema experience. ‘Moving Pictures’ connects older people with others – residents and staff in their care home, and family and friends outside care homes – in discussions and activities about the films and their reactions to them.
With partners The Barbican and The New Black Film Collective, we connect with local and national elder care organisations, care homes and elder community groups, as well as east London elder Black community groups and film audiences. Partners Walthamstow-based Kabecca Films, are developing ‘Moving Pictures’ dance and movement elements, helping care home residents create a virtual dance/movement response to the films they have seen.
WOFFF works in partnership with care homes, arts organisations, cinemas and community groups to host ‘Moving Pictures’ in elder care homes and community venues, helping to combat isolation and loneliness.
To take part, email nuala@wofff.co.uk or phone 077940 97169
Or see the website: wofff.co.uk