WELCOME TO CLAPPERBOARD UK LTD
a innovative, charitable, non-profit making organisation
Clapperboard UK is now in its 8th year delivering a highly successful youth led industry supported film-making project. Our aim is to bring creativity into all aspects of education, handing the whole process from script to screen, over to young people and their communities. Our films are issue based, radical and thoroughly researched. Clapperboard believes in honest and challenging processes which lead to a better and more cohesive society Our practice is aligned and informed by Asset Based Community Development where experts are on tap and not on top with a belief that all individuals and communities have a role to play in helping themselves and others. Our young Active Citizens Panel is instrumental in evaluating, monitoring and researching our project and deciding film topics while bringing much needed youth voice and democratic processes into their lives and other excluded communities. Clapperboard's young Active Citizens Panel is instrumental in deciding film topics through a democratic process
We also deliver a wide range of initiatives including:
- Creative workshops including drama, script development, design and make-up, etc.
- Behind the scenes, opportunities to learn how to use technical facilities including camera, sound, editing, etc.,
- Short film-making courses;
- Writing Groups for new and established writers (theatre, film and television);
- Clapperboard Presents..a monthly special fundraising screening with industry professionals at Picturehouse@fact
- Corporate films at community rates which can be made by young people and local community groups
- Technical film-making equipment for hire at community rates
- Event Management at community rates
- ‘Youth’ and ‘Media’ Consultancy
- Safe Social Networking Consultancy.
You can now make a donation to Clapperboard UK Ltd by using Just Text Giving. To make a donation text CBUK01 to 70070 with the amount you wish to donate and make a difference today. We thank you in advance for all donations.
Future Events and News
CLAPPERBOARD PRESENTS……
In partnership with picturehouse@fact
BACKBEAT
with Liverpool actor Scot Williams (Pete Best)
Monday 14 November 2011 6.45pm (Running Time 100 mins)
Picturehouse@fact, 88 Wood Street, L1 4DQ
BACKBEAT made in 1994, chronicles the early days of The Beatles journey from Liverpool to Hamburg, Germany. The film is based on interviews conducted by the writer/director Iain Softley with Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voormann in the spring of 1988. Scot Williams plays Pete Best. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe (played by Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (played by Ian Hart), and also with Sutcliffe's German girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr (played by Sheryl Lee), Chris O'Neil plays George Harrison and Paul Duckworth plays Ringo Starr.
Scot Williams will participate in a Question and Answers session with the audience after the film, Chaired by Liverpool writer, poet and Journalist Peter Grant . A complimentary after show drink will be sponsored by Matthew Clark at 3345 Parr Street.
Income raised from Clapperboard Presents…will go toward the Clapperboard Youth Project. Ticket prices are £11 each with concessions £8.00 direct from FACT box office on 0871 902 5737.
If your organisation would like to sponsor an evening or for any further info please contact Maureen Sinclair on: 07973783140 or info@clapperboarduk.com
Clapperboard Presents Q & A sessions DVD now available for £5, Includes interviews with Willy Russell, Margi Clarke and Nick Powell, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Rita Tushingham, Jimmy McGovern, Christine Tremarco, Colin McKeown and Gillian Kearney and Alison Steadman. To order email info@clapperboarduk.com
