thu 10 September INN ON THE GREEN YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL 6–8pm Portobello Film Festival proudly presents a festival within a festival dedicated to work by young people that rarely gets a public platform. Featuring films by: The Video College, Connexions LDD, Transient Film Exchange, the EU Stranger Festival, YCTV, Latimer Films - introduced by Dominic West from The Wire. 6pm Stranger Festival A video event in Amsterdam, a European wide call for videos from young people, and a world wide website, StrangerFestival is many things! It is also a training programme for young video makers and a research project which has published Video Republic (“The explosion in audio-visual creativity is sowing the seeds for a more participative, expressive democracy…”). Anyone below the age of 26 can upload a video to the website (www.strangerfestival.com) as long as it is between 1 and 5 minutes long and self-made. Each month the videomaker with the most votes from visitors to the site is invited to Amsterdam, fares and accommodation paid, to take part in StrangerAcademy which features workshops with professional video makers, exhibitions of participants’ work, award and prizes! The UK StrangerFestival partner, ACAVA, has been working this year with Young Tate to help 12 participants to create short videos which will be shown at Portobello Film Festival 2009. A visit to the Tate Video Library gave them the opportunity to look at the many ways in which artists have worked with the medium since the 1960s. Duncan Smith the Artistic Director of ACAVA will outline the project and introduce the videos. 6.30pm Latimer Films was formed in 2001 after their first film REAL NOTTING HILL, made with a group of excluded teenagers from the Pupil Referral Unit in Ladbroke Grove was nominated for a BAFTA and won the best film at the Portobello Film Festival. Since then they have developed a unique method of creating educational dramas with and for disadvantaged young people, using improvisation and the real life experiences of the young people involved to devise films that speak authentically to their target audience. To be introduced by Nick Marq of Latimer Films and Dominic West (McNulty) from The Wire. Slipping 2009 (23 mins). A hard hitting drama about postcode wars set in west London. Kim 2009 (12 mins). A harsh look at the reality of a young women involved in an abusive relationship Street Life London (4 mins). A youth crime documentary for Government for London set on Tottenham's Broadwater Farm Estate. CANALSIDE: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 37 mins A group of young people from Canalside Activity Centre went on an expedition to Nepal to donate some learning materials and money to a local school in order to help them to build a playground fence. A TASTE OF CONNEXIONS 27 mins A programme that looks at the numerous projects undertaken by Connexions in the Royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea and its benefits on the participants. RIDE WITH ME 4 mins A music video made by young people at the Golborne Youth Centre with the help of the Youth Arts Team and Transient Film Exchange over the Easter holidays. 8.15pm FILMS by DONALD TAKESHITA-GUY: 1 - The Immaculate Conception 16 Minutes A series of 5 conversations between a sixteen year old girl and her mother on the theme of lies and secrets - Intercut with the girl performing six short songs. 2 - The Man Who Lived Upstairs 4 Minutes An experimental piece about a girl and the unwanted gifts of flowers she receives everyday from the man who lives upstairs. 3 - I’m So Lonesome 10 Minutes A fifteen minute about a girl who pretends to be Hank Williams and insists on acting out scenes from her favourite book about him. 4 - A Girl and A Gun (is all you need) 12 Minutes A twelve minute film about a female French film director who’s looking for an actress to be in her next film.. She’s a huge fan of Jean Luc Goddard and her film is based on one of his quotes. A gun and a girl is all you need to make a movie 5 - She Hated Everything 5 Minutes An experimental film about a girl who decides to spend the rest of her life in bed 6 - A New Idea 4 Minutes A short commedy film about the dangers of new ideas. The Vase Jeremy Newman 1 minute 12 In this video, a mysterious young woman clips off sunflower heads, wrecking havoc on a vase of crickets. the desperate, yet graceful movements of the inselts are a silent plea against environmental degradation. The directional manipulations evident in the work ultimately serve to question the veracity of documentary nature cinematography. Art. USA “Edge” by Yellow Mashene Natalia Babinski 7 minutes U Edge is a narrative music video for an independent, Brooklyn based duo - Yellow Mashene. It tells the story of Nick, who after being abandoned by his beloved Tania, starts to cry and cannot stop, as if infected by a strange illness, he spreads the “weeping” bug around the city of New York. Music Videos. USA Teenagers Paul Verhoeven 140 minutes 15 Beside not very commendable teenagers, there exist some others, but who are never showed ...Now, these young people can have a beneficial influence on the youths adrift. But sometimes it is necessary to agree to pay the full price, like the corn grain which must die to bear fruit... (Warning: scenes of youth nudity) Fictional Documentaries. France back to schedule