Street Genius are at the frontline of youth inspiration and innovation. The UK-based initiative are 16-19 year olds setting up film, music, art etc events for their generation to showcase their skills, and all I can think is, damn! I wish I wasn't so lazy in my teens... Here's my Ctrl.Alt.Shift preview of their Southbank Sterotalk short film event:
Ctrl.Alt.Shift Preview: Stereotalk
London is set to welcome a buffet of young blood to the movie-making game with a one-off event called Stereotalk.
At 11:30am on October 25 Southbank’s BFI will open its doors to a free showcase of five engaging short films. All of the productions will be illustrating pre-conceptions of the youth of today, with hopes to flip the media’s stereotypical vision of teen spirit on its head.
Here’s proof the next generation refuse to lay wasted and undiscovered, as three out of five of the movies to be screened were created by three youth groups from Lambeth and Southwark who put together the films during BFI’s Reel Lives programme earlier this year. The 16-19 year-old directors are now prepping to unleash their artistic craft upon the capital with “Just a normal day”, “Save Spike” and “Stop” which depict today’s teenage mentality from a fresh and true perspective; all guaranteed hits by the event’s organisers Street Geniuses – a youth-talent driven scheme funded by Stereotalk sponsors SOWF (Some Other Way Forward).
Like Stereotalk host Florence Fasanya, I am sick of some of the pre-judgment and stereotypical portrayal of young people, and even as a journalist I agree with her that: “We need to tackle the problem from the source which is the media.” But Ctrl.Alt.Shift stands in anticipation and recognition of our youth that are being offered a chance to have their say at Stereotalk...
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