What We Are Doing

I'm one of the teenagers from the Mornington Community programme. We are doing a film on how two friends are fighting with each other and then their girlfriends find out about it, so they make up a plan to go down to the place were they will be fighting and they form up a group. So by the time they get down to the tunnel the girls are there dancing. I'm not going to spoil the film for you, so if you want you can wait to see it when we show it up in Queens Film Theatre at the end of April.
Chantelle Clinton Aged 14

Bridging the Divide Part 3

Teenagers from the Donegall Pass Young Men and Women's Group and Mornington Community Project in the Belfast Ormeau Rd area got together at the end of September 07 to work on a short film-making project. The project is being co-ordinated by Marion from QFT and has been funded by the Belfast City Council.

Not long after they first met up the young people went on a residential at Corrymeela in Ballycastle. It was here that they started to work on storyboards and get ideas for their short film. Then work started on improvising the parts of the characters they created. The drama coaching was done with Tom from ESC and work on the script was done with Sam from ESC.

The film is about 2 young couples, so its a kind of a love story, and also about relationships, love, hate and reconciliation. We still need to come up with a name for it....

The first scene started shooting in January 08 at Donegall Pass Community Centre, which was a dance scene. The girls enjoyed dancing the moves that they practiced over Christmas, to camera.

The next scenes will be filmed over February and March and are being filmed in a classroom and in a tunnel in the Belfast area. There'll also be a couple of scenes involving cars...!