Contaminant Media worked with Pure Grass Films and The Avenues Youth Centre to create a film course for the local young people. The course culminated in this collaborative film. It was funded by the BIG National Lottery, Arts Council and Well London.
The film is serving to challenge and renew existing perceptions and relationships between the community and the police service. Contaminant Media is working to create another project with the young people.
As part of the Adobe Youth Voices scheme, Kate helped to teach a group of 13 and 14yr olds from Capital City Academy in West London how to approach making a documentary on a subject of their choice, and then held regular sessions to support them throughout this process with their teacher Miss Donald.
The short films that came from these sessions included the subjects: animal cruelty, war, discipline in school, money and pollution.
The films were shown by the British Film Institute and Offscreen at the National Film Theatre on the 27th April 2009.
Shots reviews a recent film Kate Nielson from Contaminant Media produced for Stink.
Amnesty International’s annual Secret Policeman’s Ball on Saturday saw comedians club together to prove that human rights abuses are no laughing matter. And this year some familiar names from London’s advertising and post production community got involved.
Sitting proudly among the stand-up sets from the likes of Eddie Izzard and Ed Byrne, two films from London’s advertising community sent home the meaning behind the show. Stink, Academy, Mother, Smoke & Mirrors, Rushes and Framestore pooled their talent to create the powerful spots.
The films took different elements of the Amnesty International message and brought them to the big screen. Stink directing duo DarkFibre, AKA Marc Hawker and Ishbel Whitaker, showed how a government’s use of torture leaves us all with blood on our hands. The spot features a hooded figure attached to electrical wire - similar to the now infamous Abu Ghraib torture victim photograph. The figure is slotted into everyday life, in the shape of shop dummies and children’s toys to illustrate how a government’s actions reflect on its citizens. Read more
TEA (The Ethical Agency) & The Green Party Our recent project is the development of an integrated animated campaign including TV, radio, print, advertising, PR and digital for The Green Party’s London Mayoral candidate and the national local elections on May 1st. We worked with Shroom Studio for the animation.
We created some extensive Green Guidelines with Sustainable Production
Produced for the commercial production industry (APA), which we hope will go towards starting to make the high emissions advertising industry more accountable and thoughtful of their own carbon footprints. We believe the importance of following this kind of criteria is essential if we are to make the kind of differences that are now obviously necessary. We are actively involved in lobbying the government to start to practice this kind of conscientiousness in their own activities.
Peter Gabriel commissioned Done and Dusted to make a series of short films at WOMAD in the summer of 2007 to commemorate 25years of the world music festival. We made 3 short films.
Hip Hop is from Africa
Wonder Of Malmesbury’s Amazing Drums
Directed by Larry Jordan and produced by Mali Abili
Jihad - A female perspective…
Directed by Kate Nielson
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