OUR STORIES

A Community Filmmaking Program

 What is Our Stories?

 

Our Stories  is a community filmmaking program that works with youth organisations, councils, community groups, and NGOs to help people tell their own stories through film. Using cellphilming ( the practice of making short films with mobile phones) the program gives communities the tools to represent themselves, rather than being represented by others. The program is grounded in research on public sociology and participatory visual methods.

 

It is designed to be accessible to everyone no prior filmmaking experience is needed.

 

 

 

What Communities Get Out of It

Participants develop practical filmmaking skills they can continue to use independently. Groups build lasting connections through the shared experience of making something together. The program produces a set of community-made films that can be screened, shared online, and used by the organisation to tell its own story.

 

Who Is This For?

The program is designed for any group that works with communities and wants to support creative self-expression, community cohesion, or cultural storytelling. It works well with young people, CALD communities, older residents, migrant and refugee groups, and mixed community groups. Sessions can be adapted to the age, background, and interests of each group.

Cost

The program is offered at no cost to community organisations, councils, and NGOs. Delivery costs are covered through small grants programs. Where organisations wish to co-fund the program to expand its scale, duration, or reach, this can be discussed.

 

The Program: Five Sessions Over Ten Weeks

Our Stories  is delivered as a five-session program, one session every two weeks, each running for two hours. The program culminates in a community screening where participants share their finished films with family, friends, and the wider community.

 

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