All About Us 2013/14

"All About Us 2013 / 14" includes a 3-day-2-night orientation camp, outdoor shooting activities and a 3-day-2-night intensive production camp. Participants will learn from veteran film-makers and professional video artists to produce short videos. Selected videos will be screened in Secondary and Primary schools and publicly shown in Hong Kong Arts Centre.

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Creative Camps & Film Production

A creative video project dedicated to ethnic minorities in Hong Kong

This year, "All About Us 2013/14" recruited 50 participants, who are mostly from Nepal, India and Pakistan. Some of them are from Philippines, Thai, Japan, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Indonesia.

3-day-2-night Orientation Camp

Date: 8 – 10 November 2013 (Fri – Sun)

Venue: Jockey Club Tai Tong Holiday Camp

This camp aims to offer orientation to participants from different background as well as introduce the some concepts of video arts through a series of specially designed collaborative activities. 50 participants were divided into 6 groups They not only acquired some basic creative and filming skills and knowledge from 6 teaching artists who are the professional local filmmakers but also enjoyed the process of team building with the aid of social workers from the Life Workshop and student mentors from universities.

During the camp, they were encouraged to be creative. For example, in the learning activity of "A Chair is NOT a Chair", participants had to be creative and act well in order to make "A Chair is NOT Chair", "A broom is NOT a broom" and "A bottle of water is NOT a bottle of water" become TRUE! Some participants made a chair become a guitar, some made a broom as a microphone-stand and some made a bottle of water as a mobile phone. In the practical exercise of "The Copycat", participants had to imitate 3 Idiots, a Bollywood film, that shoot a similar story using shots with different angles and scenes. They tried the taste of being directors, scriptwriters, actors and cameramen in this exercise.

Film Production

Date: November – December 2013

Venue: Decided by the Teaching Artists and Participants after discussion

50 participants were divided into 6 groups. They will produce creative short videos under the guidance of 6 teaching artists to learn different skills, from planning, filming, editing to post-production.

3-day-2-night Intensive Production Camp

Date: 20-22 December 2013 (Fri - Sun)

Venue: Wu Kwai Sha Youth Village

Feedback from All About Us 2013/14 Participants

It was a pleasure to stay with all of the IFVA All About Us participants. - Mubashar Hussain (aged 15, Pakistani)

I am very thankful for all the teaching artist and social worker who supports us till the end and help us so much in editing and suggestion. I hope I can join the next year program of 'All About Us' film workshop! - Aveneina Anggi (aged 17, Indonesian)

Thanks for your support, patience and tolerance. Hope we meet and work together soon. And hope we can learn more from each other. - Shahul Hameed Nuaim (aged 16, Indian)

Thanks to Ryan, actually I didn't know many things, but I learn from him. - Muhammad Anus (aged 14, Pakistani)

They taught very well about the camera technique. - Hamza Haider (aged 17, Pakistani)

I like the my group, which includes Mo Lai, Irene Chui, Ernest. Because we're amazing. Thank you. - Kandal Satish (aged 17, Nepali)