Films Made By Our Participants

Our facilitators have chosen a selection of the best films made by participants on our workshops

Click on the images below to watch a selection of some of our favourite films made by young people on our workshops

Evacuee Stories – Kitty

Imperial War Museums

Evacuee Stories – Kitty

Imperial War Museums

Imperial War Museum London challenged young people to find out more about the Second World War Home Front by interviewing eyewitnesses about their memories.

This film is about Kitty, who was 9 years old when the war started and was evacuated to Ipswich, Hastings and Blackpool.

This film was made over a 5-day workshop, with young people aged 15-19, facilitated by two filmmakers from Chocolate Films.

Imperial War Museum London challenged young people to find out more about the Second World War Home Front

YBL

The British Library

YBL, The British Library’s Youth Forum, Presents The British Library

The British Library

This film was was created by a team of young filmmakers from The British Library Youth Forum aged 16 – 20 with guidance from a filmmaker from Chocolate Films. The film gives an accessible and youthful insight into the British Library and what it means to them. The film was shown on the British Library website to attract young people to the Library and the Youth Forum. This film was made on a workshop over 5 workshops sessions.

This film was was created by a team of young filmmakers from The British Library Youth Forum aged 16 – 20

Granny’s Monster Machine

Pop Up Fusion

Granny’s Monster Machine

Pop Up Fusion

This short animation film was created by Bengali parents and children of St George The Martyr Primary School. The film tells the story about a young boy and his quest for an adventure despite his grumpy old Grandma.

Pop Up Fusion is an exciting animation project launched by Pop Up Festival of Stories. Pop Up partnered with Chocolate Films to create four short animation films, made by four different schools. The films cover stories that are traditional fables or tales from four cultures: Turkish, Somali, Bengali and Spanish/ Portuguese. The different groups worked with illustrators from the House of Illustration and Puppeteers from Little Angel Theatre to make the elements of the animation.

This short animation film was created by Bengali parents and children of St George The Martyr Primary School.

Samson

Royal Borough of Greenwich

Samson

Tower Hamlets – Futureversity

Samson is a reformed gang member from Ilford who found that Christianity provided a replacement father figure on his way out from trouble. Now an accomplished dancer and rapper, Sam is a positive force and role model for young urban teens.

This film was made by young people participating in Tower Hamlets Futureversity at Rich Mix Cinema over a 5-day 1000 Londoners workshop.

Samson is a reformed gang member from Ilford who found that Christianity provided a replacement father figure

New Perspectives

Imperial War Museums

New Perspectives: Psychological Impact of the First World War

Imperial War Museum

The Imperial War Museum’s ‘New Perspectives’ project challenges young people to take a new perspective on the First World War, inspired by the collections at IWM London. Young people research the archives and work with Chocolate Films filmmakers to storyboard ideas and make animated films.

The New Perspectives films now also feature in the IWM’s new First World War Galleries.

The Imperial War Museum’s ‘New Perspectives’ project challenges young people to take a new perspective

Jay

1000 Londoners

Jay

1000 Londoners

Jay is the current British Supermoto champion. In this film, he talks openly about his battle with drug addiction and the important role Supermoto plays on his road to recovery. We join Jay on the morning of the GB Supermoto at Lydden Hill, Kent, as he gets prepared for the race and talks about his hopes and fears.

This film was made by three members of SElect18 Films, all of whom were 18+, and was facilitated by Chocolate Films. It was devised over two 4-hour sessions and shot in half a day very early in the morning. SElect18 Films sourced the subject and devised the film. During the shoot they worked as camera and sound recording assistants and lead the interview. The film was edited by the SElect18 Films over 5 editing workshop sessions to produce their portrait of Jay.

Jay is the current British Supermoto champion. In this film, he talks openly about his battle with drug addiction

ARK

Wimbledon BookFest

ARK

Wimbledon BookFest

This modern-day silent film about two very different groups of girls just goes to show that appearances can be deceiving.

This film was made on a ‘script to screen’ workshop, made by four groups of Year 10 students from local schools in Wandsworth and Merton, in their last week at school before the summer.

The young people had to go through the whole process of making a film; from story development and pitching ideas in groups to the Chocolate Films filmmakers, to prop making, producing & directing. The best pitches got their films professionally shot and edited by us. It was such a treat before the summer holidays plus it meant we got to spend the day at Wimbledon Film and TV Studios (home to the set of The Bill – back in the day!).

This modern-day silent film about two very different groups of girls just goes to show that appearances can be deceiving.

Parkour Music Video

Watermans

Parkour Music Video – Urban Ambush

Watermans

The film was made by 6 young people aged 13-17yrs on a week long GoPro filmmaking working together with a parkour workshop, as part of Urban Ambush at Watermans in summer 2015.

Participants were given GoPro action cameras and were tasked with experimenting with the unique vantage points that the camera can provide. We worked with the young people to encourage them to be as active as possible by attaching the camera to their bodies using headbands and chest straps to capture the thrill of fast movements. We explored a variety of music video styles as well to encourage the participants to think about how the footage could be edited using effects, fast and slow motion and beat matching with the music. The group worked together with a Parkour workshop which was taking place at Watermans Art Centre at the same time to formulate a music video, directing the parkour group to get the shots that they needed.

The film was made by 6 young people aged 13-17yrs on a week long GoPro filmmaking working together

The Ugly Vegling

One KX

The Ugly-Vegling

One KX

This film is part of a series of stop motion animations made by a group of young people at One KX in the summer of 2013. Filmmakers from Chocolate Films facilitated the group and gave them the brief of making a short animated film on the subject of the future of food to tie in with Y Touring Theatre Company’s Future of Food project 2013/14.

The Ugly Veg-ling asks us to think again about how picky we are about how our food looks. Food waste is a huge part of our growing problem to feed our population, yet still we throw away tonnes of food each year which though edible, looks unappetising.

This film is part of a series of stop motion animations made by a group of young people at One KX

Ominous Shadows

Parmiter’s School

Ominous Shadows

Parmiter’s Schoold

This lightbox animation was made by Year 7 students at Parmiter’s School. They won a competition to write a short story for Halloween and turned their story into a short film with the support of a professional filmmaker from Chocolate Films. The film was made on a 1-day workshop.

This lightbox animation was made by Year 7 students at Parmiter’s School. They won a competition to write a short story

Sehnsucht Nach Mehr Meer

Kieler Kinderkulturburo

Growing up with HIV

Kieler Kinderkulturbüro

This animated film was created as part of the project ‘Framed: Film + Museum’. Under the guidance of a Chocolate Films’ professional filmmaker, students from Ostseeschule – Regionale Schule Ückeritz transformed their ideas into moving images. They found inspiration for the film at a workshop on the life and work of Max Pechstein at the Pomeranian State Museum Greifswald.

The children took the lead role in bringing these stories to life using stop motion animation. Over a two-day workshop, Chocolate Films facilitated the young participants to create their animation. The films were screened in a series of premiere screenings in each district of Northern Germany.

This animated film was created as part of the project ‘Framed: Film + Museum’. Under the guidance of a Chocolate Films facilitator.

We Can Be Heroes

BAC Beatbox Academy

We Can Be Heroes

BAC Beatbox Academy

Chocolate Films teamed up with an ensemble of young human beatboxers and supported them to make their own music video at Battersea Arts Centre.

Over four workshop sessions, the teenage participants were introduced to a short history of music videos, how to visualise a video from music, storyboarding, using professional DSLR cameras and editing using professional software.

Chocolate Films teamed up with an ensemble of young human beatboxers and supported them to make their own music video

Drone

Futureversity

DRONE

Futureversity

It’s all work and no play for this young professional, in this short film made by young people in the ‘Intro to Filmmaking’ course, run by Futureversity at Spotlight in Poplar, Tower Hamlets.

This Easter holidays project was a 5-day intensive filmmaking course for anyone aged between 15-25 years old. Over the course of the 5 days, the participants got hands-on experience in all aspects of filmmaking; from ideas development and scriptwriting, to shooting, directing and even editing their own films. The workshop ended with a mini, celebratory screening of all the films made during on this workshop.

It’s all work and no play for this young professional, in this short film made by young people in the ‘Intro to Filmmaking’ course

Magic Tree Of Treats

The Magic Tree of Treats

One halloween night, a group of friends went into the woods to find the magical tree to ask for lots of treats… This is a short animation created by young people on a green screen workshop at Chocolate Films.

One halloween night, a group of friends went into the woods to find the magical tree to ask for lots of treats

Crime Today

Roundhouse

Crime Today

Roundhouse

The Crime Today studio has gone bust! With crime reducing in the local area, what will they come up with to keep their ratings up?

Crime Today was created by 13 aspiring filmmakers aged 14-19 years on a week-long project with Chocolate Films as part of the Roundhouse’s creative programme for 11-25s.

The Crime Today studio has gone bust! With crime reducing in the local area, what will they come up with