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Future Creative is delivering the uScreen Champions programme in partnership with Resource Productions, on behalf of Screen South.

Set up and run by Screen South, uScreen is a cutting edge filmmaking website for young people aged 14-25, and is fully accessible to disabled young people.

This programme aims to promote uScreen in the South East to young people and those who work with them. We are training facilitators to tutor a number of young people in each area of the region as ‘uScreen Champions’ who will advocate use of the site to their peers. A bursary scheme will also support groups and individuals making films for entry into the uScreen 2012 competition.

• To develop a clear understanding amongst participants as to the functionality of the site
• To train a group of young people and adults to be able to facilitate future uScreen Champion workshops across the region
• To give the participants time and space to think about how they would facilitate a uScreen workshop to a group of young people

• 34 people trained at our Train the Trainer day hosted by the BFI and supported by Blackberry
• Booking has opened for Champion workshops which will train up to 500 uScreen Champions during the next six months

The uScreen programme is still in its early stages, and most of the sessions have yet to take place. Booking is now open for the following workshops:

• uScreen Champion training workshops across 6 counties
• Tailored uScreen Champion workshops for staff in school and youth groups
• Book at www.eventbrite.com/org/1677472684%20

Upon completion of the programme, use of the uScreen site is expected to continue and increase through a peer learning process, headed up by the uScreen champions trained at the above workshops.

At the Train the Trainers day at the British Film Institute, we demonstrated the site’s potential to a group of filmmakers, teachers and creative practitioners. The following feedback was received:

Sarah Dance
Screen South

info@uscreen.co.uk
http://uscreen.co.uk/