It features asylum-seekers and people with disabilities getting behind the camera, award-winning feminist animation, international peace-building, protests and pipers
Ground breaking social enterprise film maker media co-op has produced a new film highlighting its two decades in fighting for social justice
Twenty Years In Two Minutes is a compilation of clips from videos and aminations, campaigns and documentaries, created over the 20 years.
The new film features asylum-seekers and people with disabilities getting behind the camera, award-winning feminist animation, international peace-building, protests and pipers.
In just two minutes, the video races through clips from films for and with Scottish Women’s Aid, Scottish Refugee Council, Young Scot, MND Scotland, Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living, Maryhill Integration Network, University of Glasgow, Women’s Support Project, Pilton Community Health and St Joseph's Services.
It also features Community Infosource CIC, Rape Crisis Scotland, Borders Rape Crisis, Education Scotland, Careers Scotland, Radiophrenia, Glasgow Caledonian University, Refugee Sanctuary Scotland, Scottish Schools Pipes & Drums Trust, White Ribbon Campaign, NHS Lanarkshire, BBC and the Co-operative Education Trust.
Specialising in co-produced media, media co-op has worked with many SCVO members over the years, most recently training charities to use mobile phones to create their own films in the #EssentialSector campaign.
Heather Coady, who commissioned media co-op’s very first film in 2004, when she was at Scottish Women’s Aid, said “We were so incredibly lucky to work with media co-op as we built our Listen Louder campaign. Media co-op totally got what we wanted to do, and why it mattered that we showed the strength and resilience of the young people we were working alongside.
“The film was instrumental in shifting attitudes and achieving exactly what was needed. Media co-op really care about the projects they work on, are hugely talented, full of integrity and enthusiasm and really fun to work with.”
“The two-minute video is an emotional roller-coaster through the years”, says media co-op co-founder Louise Scott. “When we started 20 years ago in 2004, there was no YouTube, no social media, and it was the very first SCVO Gathering. Everything has changed… except media co-op’s commitment to using media for social justice.
"We’re still a not-for-profit workers co-operative and social enterprise, here to help SCVO members get their message across.”
