Wales One World Film Festival
Gŵyl Ffilm Cymru a'r Byd yn Un

After a sell out screening at Buteown Community Centre in June, we're excited to be returning in October for Black History Month, with a women-only screening of the acclaimed DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST. This film was the first to be made by a Black woman in America, and the inspiration behind Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade.'

Set in 1902, it looks at the lives of three generations of Gullah Geechee women as they prepare to leave their home on the shores of Carolina. The ‘Gullah’, as they are known, are descendants of enslaved people, whose rich language and culture is composed of different West African origins which has survived centuries. Criticially praised for its rich language, use of song, and visual imagery, this is a Black feminist classic, not to be missed.

To kick off the screening, we'll be showing short extracts from Beyonce's critially acclaimed 'Lemonde' which took drew inspiration from Daughters of the Dust.

And we invite all women, as always, to come and join us for what promises to be an inspiring event, with refreshments and discussion.

Butetown Community Centre
40 Loudon Sqaure, Cardiff CF10 5UZ

TICKETS £3.50/£5.50 (includes creche)
FREE tickets for asylum seeking women
Buy tickets on the day (cash only please, no cards)

TO BOOK, phone Radha on 07539 076680
OR Email : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Gentle/Radical and WOW Film Club are delighted to host their first ‘people’s symposium', bringing together archival films, invited speakers and panel discussion around two key footnotes in British colonial history: the Partition of India in 1947, and the Palestinian 'Nakba' ('Catastrophe') of 1948.

2017 marks the 70th anniversary of Indian Independence, and the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. On the afternoon of Remembrance Sunday, this symposium invites you to remember less visible tragedies in our colonial history, as they relate to South Asia and the Middle East.

Based on a true story, this riveting tale reveals Ethiopia’s cultural complexity, where traditional customs are pitted against modern ideas of equality. In the beautiful rural Ethiopian landscape, Hirut, a bright 14-year-old girl, is on her way home from school when men on horseback swoop down and kidnap her.

FREE TECHNICAL AMBASSADORS TRAINING FOR WOMEN
(To secure a place, participants must be able to attend the whole session)

Riverside Warehouse, Cardiff, Friday, 22nd of September 2017: 10:30am-1pm

WOW Women's Film Club and Gentle/Radical are delighted to be teaming up with Film Hub Wales and the Independent Cinema Office to host a FREE workshop on the technical aspects of pop-up film projection and presentation.

THE WORKSHOP
This is a half day course, offering women the opportunity to learn and become confident in how to technically set up and use projection and screening equipment to run our pop-up film events. This will be an exciting, interactive workshop led by an experienced and highly skilled projectionist from the Independent Cinema Office and Chapter Arts Centre.

WHAT WILL THE COURSE COVER?
We are keen to develop a group of confident technicians with the skills to set up and use a projector, learn how to screen films in a pop-up setting, and fix any technical problems that may crop up during film screenings. We hope that this training will lead in the future to more paid opportunities within the Film Club for female film technicians.

HOW TO BOOK
The training will take place on Friday, 22nd September 2017 from 10:30am-1pm. Places on this half day workshop are FREE and a creche will be provided on site, for women with small children.
To register please email Radha at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery

WOW WOMEN’S FILM CLUB

Tuesday 8th December, 10.00am

Chapter Arts Centre

£5.50 / £3.50

Ticket includes film, lunch and crèche

(Free tickets for asylum seekers)

How do you learn to speak out when everyone expects you to be silent? This uplifting tale of female empowerment tells the story of the Bangladeshi women who make our T-shirts and jeans. The odds seemed stacked against feisty sweatshop seamstress Shimu when she decides to improve her lot and that of her fellow workers.

Leo is an exceptional, super-powered boy, who becomes involved in an investigation with a brave Detective. The sinister ‘Broken Face’ and his followers have created a virus to take control of the city. To save New York, Leo & The Detective must work together to avoid disaster. Come and get involved in this adventure with Leo and WOW Film Club!

A SCREENING FOR ALL THE FAMILY!

We’re delighted to be hosting another family event at the Riverside Warehouse with a screening of PHANTOM BOY

RIVERSIDE WAREHOUSE
56 Machen Place, Cardiff CF11 6EQ

Tickets:
Children £1
Adults £3:50 / £5:50
(Free tickets for asylum seeking families)

Buy tickets on the day, cash only please, no cards

TO BOOK YOUR TICKET
Phone Radha on : 07539076680
Email : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

FOOD & FILM SCREENING AT OASIS CARDIFF

The WOW Women’s Film Club and Oasis are teaming up for their first film event in Splott!

Thursday 3rd December, 6pm

Oasis Cardiff, 69b Splott Road, Cardiff, CF24 2BW

Tickets include screening followed by food

£5 / £1 concession

We know all too well the plight of refugees in recent months. Tragic stories in the media of people – from children to elders – losing their lives trying to escape horrors at home. There has been an outpouring of support across Europe. And a strong message to our governments to do more.

But what does it mean for us here in Cardiff, a city where refugees and asylum seekers are already part of our community? What connections can we make with communities on our doorstep?

This pop-up film event is a chance for Cardiff communities and asylum seeker and refugee communities to meet – share food, watch a film and get to know each other more.

The event is a mixed family screening – men, women and children all welcome!

THE ROCKET

A Laotian family are forced to leave their village to make way for a new dam. The film follows the story of young Ahlo, who has always been blamed for the family’s misfortunes. Determined to prove he’s not cursed, he decides to win their respect in a truly remarkable way. A touching and uplifting film for all the family!

“If you aren't moved by the "The Rocket" your heart is defective”    Film.com

Winner Best Actor, Best Drama and Audience Award at Tribeca Film Festival

Short-term contract to run from October 2017 to 31 March 2018

WOW Wales One World Film Festival/WOW Film Club Liaison Officer

The contract will require a commitment of around 2.5 – 3 days a month on average but with some flexibility to take account of the reporting needs of the project.

Fee: £3000 for 15 – 20 days

WOW Film Club Introduction
A ground-breaking initiative to reach out to diverse audiences set up and run by Film Club Director, Rabab Ghazoul, WOW Film Club supports accessible film screenings, chiefly but not exclusively, for BME women and diverse communities across Cardiff and Swansea.

The WOW Film Club has established links with BME women’s networks, asylum seeker and refugee groups, and a host of community grass roots projects and organisations.

In 2017/18 WOW Film Club will deliver 18 screenings; 8 in Swansea, 10 in Cardiff.

An extremely exciting project that is finding new ways to engage new BME audiences the Film Cub will receive £53,254 of Big Lottery funding in 2017/18 (and other match funding) to deliver the following outcomes:

To enhance social well-being for minority ethnic women by providing tailored activities within safe, women-only social spaces that tackle isolation and improve social networks.

To contribute to cultural integration across diverse faith and cultural communities and so enhance understanding and communication between communities who rarely get to mix.

To enable women from diverse backgrounds to develop confidence, skills and experience through a structured volunteering programme.

To connect women to mainstream services, grassroots organisations and sources of information and signposting.

Big Lottery has awarded a grant of £153,658 for three years activity. The project started on April 1 2016 and runs to 31 March 2019.

We are now entering a different arrangement for the delivery of the project we are proposing a formal partnership agreement between WOW Film Festival and Gentle/Radical to deliver certain aspects of the project. The WOW Film Club Liason Officer has a vital role to play in ensuring the smooth transition to this new arrangement.

As lead organisation WOW Wales One World Film Festival is responsible to Big Lottery to deliver the project in accordance with their terms and conditions. The WOW Film Festival board is ultimately responsible for all aspects of the WOW Film Club project.

Both WOW and Gentle/Radical share responsibility for maintaining good relationships with funders and other partners as appropriate.

WOW Wales One World Film Festival
WOW was established on 5 December 2001 to:

Organise an annual film festival and any associated activities that benefit Wales

To provide arts and educational activity that promotes film and media from across the world to enrich the lives of people in Wales

To use film and media from across the world as a mechanism to:

Develop cultural and global understanding

Address social inequalities and to combat social exclusion
and isolation

Promote equality and mutual tolerance, and to encourage cooperation, trust, and community cohesion.

WOW Wales One World Film Festival has worked with Women’s Film Club intermittently since 2004.

Gentle/Radical
Gentle/Radical was established in January 2017 to bring together creatives, community activists, thinkers and others in order to decolonize structural mechanisms that perpetuate outdated relations of power - whether within organisational spaces, within societal and community spaces, or within cultural spaces.

The organisation aims to work in ways which foreground, make visible, and seek to realign the historical disinheritance and dispossession – cultural, financial, geographical, political - of peoples, groups and communities both local and distant, who have yet to leverage the power they have been told is available to them.

The vision of the organization is being realised via a series of co-designed and interconnected work packages. The activities of the Film Club – a long established programme of delivering films to currently underrepresented audiences, in this case women of colour - is one important work package.

Main duties and responsibilities
To work with the WOW Film Club to co-ordinate and disseminate all relevant decisions to all staff members and WOW Film Festival board as appropriate within required deadlines.

Responsible to WOW Festival Director and working closely with WOW Film Club Director

Project Support & Communication

To assist clear communication between the Film Club Director and all WOW staff
To meet to discuss the progress of the project on a regular basis (at least monthly) with the Film Club Director and WOW Festival Director
To be familiar with all aspects of the project, working practices and systems, and whether it is meeting the outcomes agreed with Big Lottery (above) and any other funders as appropriate
To help ensure that all the necessary systems are in place for the efficient delivery of all aspects of the Film Club
To gather information for reports and evaluation on all aspects of the project including box office data, screening dates & venues, audience feedback etc
To coordinate Event Reports for each screening within one month of the event to the WOW Festival Director that include relevant details of events, location, box office, ticket sales, partner organisations etc.
To provide WOW Festival Director with Box Office data (attendance & income) for screenings within three days of any event
To provide the WOW Film Festival board with quarterly reports in a timely manner
To provide all funders with relevant half-yearly and annual reports in a timely fashion
To oversee the Film Club budgets, and any relevant administrative tasks relating to Film Club activity
To oversee evaluation and monitoring, ensuring all appropriate data is collected, collated and analysed
To provide appropriate information to support any funding bids as & when appropriate
To ensure all relevant funders’ logos are included on all marketing materials in accordance with their guidelines
To attend quarterly WOW board meetings when appropriate

Knowledge and skills

Essential
Project management skills associated with community or lottery/public funded projects
Experience of events organisation and coordination
Financial management experience and an understanding of project budgets
An understanding of the monitoring and evaluation required for lottery/public funded projects
An understanding of equality and diversity issues
An understanding of volunteer programmes, policies and procedures
Excellent IT and administrative skills

Desirable/Advantageous
An understanding of working with BME women and communities, and the challenges they face
A knowledge of film, specifically independent world cinema, or a background in the arts/cultural sector
Experience of working on publicly funded film, arts or cultural projects
Experience of working with women’s community groups/networks
Experience of working within a small team
Experience of developing and implementing policies and procedures
A practical working knowledge of business and financial issues
Has current UK driving licence & use of own car

Abilities
Strong spoken and written communication skills
Excellent command of the English language
Strong inter-personal skills
Ability to demonstrate a high level of understanding towards women from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, disadvantaged and marginalised groups and individuals
Self-motivated and able to work with little direct supervision
Able to work on own initiative, prioritise workload and work under pressure
The ability to plan, co-ordinate and communicate tasks
Availability to do occasional evening and weekends work

How to apply
Please make your application directly to WOW Wales One World Film Festival Director by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Applications should include:

Your name and contact details (address and telephone number)
An up-to-date CV
A statement (of no more than two sides of A4) responding to the following:

Referring to each of the essential and desirable knowledge and skills criteria listed in the job description, please outline why you are interested in this post, and what you think you can bring to the role, providing clear examples of past experience as evidence to support this.

Timeline
Deadline for applications: Friday 22 September 5pm
Interviews: w/o Monday 25 September
To start: October

If you would like to discuss the role in confidence please ring David Gillam, 07974 770212

“It made me talk to people who I would not normally, in my small world, speak to” Cardiff resident, Oasis film night

“The film touch our hearts equally for both the natives and refugee. It was a film that has hope, courage, and determination” Asylum seeker from Eritrea, Oasis film night

We know too well the plight of refugees in recent months and tragic stories of people, including children, losing their lives trying to escape horrors at home. There has been an outpouring of support across Europe. But what does it mean for us in Cardiff, a city where refugees and asylum seekers are already part of our community? What connections can we make with communities on our doorstep? 

Bastards follows the true story of Rabha, an illiterate young woman who took on tradition, her family, and the Moroccan justice system for the sake of her illegitimate child: a powerful and uplifting documentary from the cutting edge of Islam.

BASTARDS is a powerful documentary made by director Deborah Perkin. We're delighted Deborah is joining our daytime screening for a Q & A.

This is the extraordinary true story of Saroo, a young boy who becomes separated from his family when he accidentally boards a train that transports him across India. Eventually he is adopted by an Australian couple, who raise him as their own. But as a young man, haunted by his memories, Saroo is determined to find his home, his mother and siblings. With a little bit of hope, and a helping hand from Google Earth, he tries to make his way back to the childhood and family he left behind...

Tickets £3.50/£5.50
(creche and refreshments included)
Free tickets for asylum seeking women
Cash only please, no cards

TO BOOK YOUR TICKET/CRECHE
Phone Rajma on: 07552 617321 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Narrated by Danny Glover, this is an extraordinary documentary about the black power movement in 1960’s and 70’s America. The film uses previously unseen footage and modern day commentary to explore the African American liberation movement at a key point in US history. With rare news footage, speeches, and interviews with key figures - including Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver and Huey Newton - this is an exceptionally powerful film - about black struggle half a century ago...in turn providing key insights into why that struggle continues today.

Butetown History & Arts Centre
Friday 3rd June, 7.00pm
Bute Street, Butetown, CF10 5LF

TICKETS £5.50 / £3.50
(no cards, cash on the night please)

Free tickets to asylum seekers

Ticket includes light Caribbean buffet after the film.

PLEASE NOTE, space at Butetown History & Arts is limited, so to avoid disappointment, BOOK IN ADVANCE to guarantee tickets. 

To book contact RAJMA BEGUM, Film Club Coordinator, on 07552 617321 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.">

This is an evening screening, open to women and men.

WOW FILM CLUB and GENTLE/RADICAL invite you to a Halloween night of food, short films and discussion for and about young people. We want to start a conversation about what young people want to see happening in our city.

How do we make spaces for you as young people?
How does our culture reflect and support you?
How can your voices be heard, how can adults listen?

This event is a chance for young people, and those who work with you, to get together and discuss what a radical future for young people might look like.

It's Halloween, so our film shorts are themed around some scary stuff: ghosts, ghouls, but also some of the scary things young people are facing today - from police checks to lack of job opportunities, from body image to Islamaphobia...

This get together is about watching short films, sharing food, and discussing your aspirations, frustrations, and how to deal with the challenges of living in a society that doesn't know how to value your voice

All young people welcome (that means up to 25, and we're flexible if you're a little older!)
6.00pm - 9.00pm, Wednesday November 1st
Riverside Warehouse
56 Machen Place, Riverside CF11 6EQ

PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU'RE ATTENDING so we get enough food in (food will be Halal).

Phone Radha on : 07539076680 or Email : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.