July 2010

Thank you everyone who made Refuge in Films such a wonderful festival:

Thanks to Mamuna and Victor for your hard work and commitment throughout the whole process of creating the festival!

Thanks to the curators: Diana C, Saleem, Misky, Muna, Mamuna, Victor, Kaleb, Ismail, Salwa, Alpha T, Djamila, Hassan, Alassan, kate, Peter, Kylie, Federico, Adrien, J.P, Susanna, Hinda, Fatma, Alfie, Nune, Chloe, Kate, Junior, Biruk, Jawid, Pacome, Tope, Alpha B, Ali and Alpha T, for your good eye and for being truthful to the principles of Refuge in Films you did an amazing job with the programme.

Thanks to the filmmakers:

Radouane, Mariam, Salwa, Ismail, Victor, Hinda, Ibrahim, Alassan, Hassan, Mamuna, Diana C, Salam, Muna, Saleem, Junior, Kate, Lucy, Hassan, Sharmake, Jazmin, Ali, Jawed, Riaz, Nune, Radwane, Leyla, Liban, Victor, Alpha, Djamila, Chloe, Junid, JP, Iman,  for your creativity passion and patience... our films are great! Thanks to the musicians for Stop and Search: Kylie and Mateo: amazing original tunes!  And a big big thanks to Nike, Jon and Rebecca for giving us their time, talent and commitment and for allowing us to make our ideas become films!

Thanks to Diana G for an amazing design of the programme and Leaflet and to Jawid Jamili for allowing us to use his art on it.

Special thanks to Mamuna for arranging the screening of the film challenge! You were late due to your work but we could confirm that you have a great talent as curator, and a combination of it and your hard work will take you to the moon!

Special thanks to:  Victor, Muna, Radouane, Saleem, Hassan, for presenting the festival and the films on the opening in a very clear and fun way; Special thanks to all the young filmmakers from other projects who came to present their films; Latin American Youth Forum, DOST, the Refugee Council Smile Project and the Media Trust.

Special Thanks to Federico and Nike, for handling all the technical stuff in the delegates centre, you made a great job; the opening everything ran smoothly... even the Stop and Search made honor to its name! 

Special thanks to Peter, for taking a list of random events and make them into a structured programme for an amazing opening! You are a great talented compare!

Thanks to Eman, Rhiannon, Djamila and Alpha for serving the food

Congratualtions to all the Jack Petchey awardees!

Thanks thanks and thanks to the fashionistas:  

Fatma, Mariam, Asha, Chloe, Symone, Misky, Muna, Nike, Salwa, Mamuna, Alpha T...   and the models: Muna, Diana G, Misky, Ayan, Alassane, Fatma, Hamid, Rhianman, Beatriz, Pacome, Chloe, and Salwa. The opening was a blast! We looked really good. The amount of creativity and fun invested in the fashion paid off!

Thanks to the Music Crew:

Pacome, Moussa, Ibrahim, Biruk, Peter, Chloe, Diana G, Abera,  Alassan, Mariam, and Federico, we did it! We created something special and the Wednesdays were a lot of fun! Keep up the drumming at RY!  Special thanks to Ismail and Benjamin for helping us creating the performance!

Super Special thanks to Saleem for sharing his inspired Poem and to J.P. for the amazing guitar that went with it!

Special thanks to JP for supporting us in all the music adventures that the festival took, Limbo Song, Saleem's Poem, Music performance... and thanks to Elijah for lending us his dad.

Special thanks to Misky, Moussa, Panchita and all the spontaneous dancers that make the environment so special at the BFI!

To the Electrocumbia dancers, Panchita & Andres for a fabulous performance!

Thanks to Adam and Barbara from Magnificent Revolution for providing the Pedal Power, thanks to Jimmy for arranging it for us!  Thanks to the volunteers that pedalled to give power to the music! 

Thanks to Romina and Andreas, that came all the way from Geneva to support us in this adventure!

Thanks to all the artists who created the exhibition, Miski, Jassin, Jawed, Aisha Junaid Abbas Chloe Lucy Fordus Riaz Fatma Diana Leonardo Ali Nike Ibrahim Mustafa Salwa Jammal Hamid Biruk Asha Hassan Jawed Hinda Saleem Pacome, Ismail Guled Muna Hani Liban Hally Radouane Nune Iman Mariam Arwa Abera Kate Zainab Sara and Salam; your talent and creativity have no limits! And thanks to Chris Ofili for inspiring our art project through his exhibition at the Tate gallery.  

Lucy and Leo: keep up the art! We want Mooooooooooooore!

And last but no least thanks to the people who mounted the exhibition: Leo, Lucy, Diana, Romina, Salwa, Nike, Hamid, Junaid, Djamila It was really beautiful!  

Thanks to everyone who helped out with all the bits and bobs like Jas, Tony, Alexis and Mhari, Naomi, Coco and Panzon

Big big thanks to the workshop facilitators:

Jon  Orlando and Junaid with the green screen: The laughter around your screen was non stop!  

Ingrid and Federico you made us film stars!  Every year photography gets better!

Chloe, Asha, and all the people who chipped in like Constanza, Diana G, to make the most beautiful and fun space of face painting and crafts!

Diana, Leo and Romina, thanks for making a fun workshop despite of the technical difficulties!

Thanks to Craig for the story telling, the children were hypnotized!

Thanks to Leo, Radouane, Victor, Ingrid and Nike for taking pictures during the whole event!

Super special thanks to Susanna, for being back and ready for every job, evaluation forms, welcome table, fedding us, taking care of children you name it, she did it!

Thanks to Mamuna, Muna, Victor, Jawid, Diana C and Hinda for introducing the films, and leading the Q&As! You made an amazing Job...

Thanks to Kaleb, Nike, Hinda, Susana and Mamuna for helping with the evaluation forms.

Thanks to Susana, Muna, Salwa, Mariam, Lucy, Simone and Misky, for being in charge of the children while the mums where at the cinema!

Super Special thanks to Lucy for keep us fed the whole weekend and for solving little problems and dilemmas during the whole weekend in her fast efficient and full of love way! 

Super special thanks to Nike for filming, taking pictures, handling technology, welcoming filmmakers and generally multitasking more and more during the whole weekend!

Super special thanks to Mamuna for being the first in and the last out at the BFI during the whole weekend, welcoming filmmakers, presenting films and handling the public!

Thanks to RY Trustees for being there supporting in the whole process!

Special Thanks to Lucy's mum for always being there for RY and for lending us her daughter!

And super duper massive thank you for Beatriz for her passionate belief in Refuge In Films and young people, and for working on it non stop 24/7 for the whole year!!

Monday 28th June:

12 onwards: Team meeting - to map out the project, activities, roles and responsibilities for the summer programme

6pm: Drama residential planning - lets figure out how to bring our play back to life for some summer performances  

Tuesday 29th June:

10am: We will be attending a seminar on mental health and refugee communities

Wednesday 30th June:

Thursday 1st July:

Join us for basketball in the park