Community

OFVM is committed to making film and digital media more accessible. We offer highly subsidised training to those on low income and organize projects with marginalized groups in and around Oxford. We also co ordinate the Oxfordshire 'Summerscreen' film festival for young people in July and the Flash Frame 2010 learning disability film festival.

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Flash Forward Is Back!

Flash Forward is a film festival organised by and showing films made by people with learning disabilities.

This year the festival will be even bigger and brighter than ever before as in November the Vue cinema Oxford opens it‘s doors to best of Oxfordshire’s learning disabled film talent.

WE WANT YOUR FILMS!

It could be animation, documentary, drama or experimental. Films can be up to 10 minutes in duration, but its quality not quantity that our selection panel are looking for.

Click for APPLICATION FORM

To download a filmmakers pack click HERE

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Summerscreen (First full week of school summer holidays)
Oxfords annual youth film making festival festival run by OFVM.

See news crews videos from 2009 at www.ofvm.org/summerscreen

Mini Movies made by young people on BBC site

Flash Frame (and Shadowlight Artists)A professional Development programme for artists with a learning disability (October 2008- October 2010). Web - www.ofvm.org/artist

Hidden Faces (Aug - Nov 2007)
A journey of self expression through film for people with learning difficulties. Workshops around Oxfordshire have given voice to more than 30 people as they talk to camera about what is important in their lives. Final work to be shown at OVADA gallery in central Oxford (10 - 17th November 2007) as part of a Thousand Years of Oxfordshire celebration. www.ofvm.org/hiddenfaces

Flash Forward Film Festival: Aspiring movie makers got a taste of celebrity life style as they posed for the paparazzi and had their films shown to more than 100 people at the Flash Forward Film Festival on May 7th 2006 at the Pegasus Theatre in East Oxford. The success of the first Flash Forward Film Festival opened the way for a larger festival in November 2008. See www.ofvm.org/flashforward

Half Eaten Biscuit: 8 week project with a group from MIND (Oxford and Banbury). An experimental film for social workers examining attitudes of people with mental health issues. To be used as a university teaching resource.

Coping Alone. A carers journey. Carers reveal the powerful truth of what it is like to look after someone with Alzeimers disease. The production, created over an 8 day course with carers, is now being used by Brookes University and Ruskin in Oxford on their social work programme.

Age As we see it. A group of over 50's get together to tell some home truths about life for the elderly today. Produced over an 8 day course at OFVM for Brookes University Oxford and Ruskin College Oxford.