Oska Bright On The Road
We are the Oska Bright steering committee and in this blog you will find about our experience of taking our film festival across the UK and abroad. Go to the dao directory for a link to the Oska Bright website. You can also read about the next Festival, which takes place in November 2009, and find details of how to enter your own film.
5 January 2012
Announcement for 'Gold Run'
Happy New Year to you, we hope 2012 is really good for you! It’s Sarah and Matthew here from the Oska Bright Committee – we have some exciting news for you. Over the last year we have...Comments: 0
15 November 2011
Oska Bright Presentation at “Conquering Public Spaces” Conference, City Library, Prague
By Matthew Hellett We went to this conference from 11 - 13 November in Prague that was put on by one of our past partner festival’s in Prague, Czech Republic – The Normal Festival....Comments: 0
16 September 2011
Oska Bright go 'On The Road' to Hastings
By Sarah Watson and Matthew Hellet On 15th September 2011 we did a presentation at the Stade on the Old town seafront in Hastings. It was a lovely beautiful day and we smelt the sea. How...Comments: 1
27 May 2011
Oska Bright On The Road –Upstream, Brighton, 24th-26th May 2011
By Matthew Hellett, Maggie Dadswell and Sarah Watson This week we have been showing films at Upstream, part of Brighton Festival 2011. We've been promoting our work, and showing films that are...Comments: 1
14 April 2011
Oska Bright On The Road – Reel 2 Reel residency project in partnership with Tutti at Clare, South Australia
We've had an enjoyable week with a lively and enthusiastic group of young people. They had loads of ideas and loads of energy – we had to keep thinking of lots of new ideas to keep them all...Comments: 1
2 April 2011
Oska Bright On The Road – Reel 2 Reel residency project in partnership with Tutti at Barossa Valley, South Australia
Wow! We've just finished the best film making week with a lovely group of people in Barossa valley. We worked at Nurootpa Library with 8 people with a learning disability from Barossa Leisure...Comments: 0
27 March 2011
Oska Bright On The Road – Reel 2 Reel residency project in partnership with Tutti. Week 4 of our work here by Matthew Hellett
Wow! Our time here is going really quickly! This week on Monday we met up with Jackie Saunders from Tutti, to make an interview with her for a TV station in Melbourne that broadcasts all over...Comments: 0
20 March 2011
Oska Bright On The Road – Reel 2 Reel residency project in partnership with Tutti at Minda Campus, Adelaide
Tuesday 15th March until Friday 18th March 2011 By Matthew Hellett We have just finished our second residency – it was very successful! The 14 young people that we worked with were really...Comments: 0
12 March 2011
Oska Bright On The Road Australia – Reel 2 Reel residency project in partnership with Tutti
By Matthew Hellett We have just finished a very successful week of our film making residency. 11 young people with a learning disability attended the training from across Adelaide – there were...Comments: 0
3 March 2011
Oska Bright On The Road – The Launch of Reel 2 Reel project in partnership with Tutti at Adelaide International Film Festival
5 March 2011 at Mercury Cinema, Adelaide It was a really great day! We got to Mercury at 11 am ready to set up. Simon sorted out our audio description with the technician there, whilst we rehearsed...Comments: 0
17 February 2011
Stephen Firschman reports on Oska Bright at 'Picture This...' Film Festival, Canada 2011
I arrived in Canada and the first thing that I saw was the snow – it was quite slippery but I enjoyed looking at it. On Saturday 12th February I went to the Picture This ….. Film...Comments: 1
10 December 2010
Oska Bright at St John’s College, Brighton
By Adele King, Sarah Watson and Matthew Hellett We arrived at St John’s College and set up in the Youth Centre there. They had a new plasma screen to show our films on. We started off by...Comments: 0
9 December 2010
Oska Bright at Learning Disability Today, Islington, London
By Sarah Watson and Matthew Hellett It took a long time to get to the Business Design Centre – we ended up having to get a taxi from St Pancras Train Station because there were too many people...Comments: 0
29 November 2010
Oska Bright On The Road – Liverpool
We arrived in Liverpool on Tuesday 23rd November at 5.30 pm ready for Dadafest 2010. We checked into the Travelodge central, just across the road from the fantastic World Museum where were going to...Comments: 0
9 November 2010
Oska Bright presenting an Award at the Flash Forward Film Festival, Oxford on 7th November 2010
We had a really good day out at this Festival. It was an afternoon screening at VUE cinema. There were lots of films that we liked seeing, in particular: “Let Me In” by Arty Party was a...Comments: 0
27 September 2010
Oska Bright put on an event in Jubilee Square, Brighton
By the Oska Bright Steering Committee On Saturday 18th September some of us put on a fund raising event in Jubilee Square in the centre of Brighton. We were trying to let more people know...Comments: 0
30 July 2010
Oska Bright July 2010 news
Oska Bright July news by the Oska Bright Steering Committee We are getting ready to go to Liverpool to show Oska Bright films and run a master class at DaDaFest International 2010. The films will be...Comments: 0
29 June 2010
Oska Bright On the Road – Unity Festival, Cardiff, 28th June 2010
By Matthew Hellett, Sarah Watson and June Hall This year in Cardiff at Unity Festival 2010, we worked with our friends at Disability Arts Cymru, Unity Festival and HiJinx Theatre. We showed some...Comments: 1
22 April 2010
Oska Bright go On The Road to the Hull Film Festival, April 2010
By Maggie Dadsbury and Sarah Watson Maggie and I arrived at Ferens Art Gallery at 9 am. It was sunny but very very cold. We waited ages for them to open the doors so that we could get in to set up...Comments: 1
15 March 2010
Oska Bright On The Road - Cornwall Film Festival, March 2010
By Stephen Firshman and Sarah Watson It took us ages to get to Truro – there were lots of diversions on the roads and we had to be very patient. When we got here we were all...Comments: 0
21 February 2010
Oska Bright On The Road – at See Documentary Film Festival, Brighton, 21st February 2010
By Matthew Hellett, Sarah Watson, Chris Love, June Hall and Maggie Dadswell It was really, really early on a rainy Sunday morning and we made our way to The Old Ship Hotel in Brighton to show some...Comments: 1
10 February 2010
Oska Bright On The Road – Dublin, axis arts centre February 2010
By Matthew Hellett We arrived at Gatwick and flew to Dublin, going to a part of Dublin called Ballymun. We went to axis arts centre as soon as we got there to check out the venue and...Comments: 0
20 January 2010
Matthew Hellett gives a talk at the Independent Cinema Office at the British Film Institute, London
Today I went to the British Film Institute to do a talk about Oska Bright Film Festival for the Independent Cinema Office, who were running a training course there that was called, “Cultural...Comments: 0
4 December 2009
Oska Bright On The Road in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland
By Chris Love and Sarah Watson We are feeling great! Our Festival On The Road in Ballina, County Mayo was very successful. It was a very busy festival. The people at Arts and Disability Ireland...Comments: 0
27 November 2009
Oska Bright Film Festival 2009
Oska Bright Film Festival 2009 17th, 18th and 19th November 2009 By the Oska Bright Steering Committee We are really shattered, spent the whole weekend in bed after the festival but we are very...Comments: 0