Background
The Clapperboard Youth Project was initiated by BAFTA North and Creative Partnerships, Merseyside in 2004 and is delivered by Clapperboard UK, a not for profit organisation.
The Clapperboard Youth Project and Creative Partnerships work together to give school children the opportunity to develop their potential, their ambition, their creativity and imagination through sustainable partnerships with creative and cultural organisations, businesses and individuals.
To date, professionals from the industry of film and television industry have participated in the project including BAFTA Award Winning Writers Frank Cottrell Boyce, Jimmy McGovern, actors David Morrissey, Ian Hart, Ricky Tomlinson, Gillian Kearney.
The aim of the project is to bring creativity into academia and this year writers Joe Ainsworth, Leigh Campbell, Eric Christiansen, Marc Gee, Collette Kane, Neil Jones, and David Mault, developed 7 scripts with seven schools across the Greater Merseyside area: Alsop High School, The Academy of St Francis of Assisi, Holly
Lodge Girls’ College, Shorefields Technology College, South Wirral High, Sutton High Sports College and Weatherhead Media Arts College. The project is pupil led and the young people engaged in the project are aged 11-17.
The Production of this year’s films was headed by Sol Papadopoulos of award winning film production company Hurricane Films.
Mersey Television have been instrumental in delivering and supporting a series of Careers Advice and Skills Workshops. The young film-makers were able to gain an insight into the career opportunities and skills required for careers behind the scenes of the moving image industry.
Maureen Sinclair
DIRECTOR, CLAPPERBOARD UK LIMITED
The Board of Trustees of the Clapperboard Youth Project are:
Cllr Warren Bradley, Leader, Liverpool City Council
Alex Chapman, Partner, Bermans Solicitors
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Award Winning Writer
Gill Henderson, Director, FACT
Sean Marley, Managing Director, Mersey Television
Brigid Marray, Lecturer
Jamal Dermott, Youth Worker
Roger Webster, Dean, Liverpool John Moores University |