Carnegie funded digital shorts to be shown at Borderlines Film Festival

Posted on 02/26/2008

Migrant Stories, a series of two-minute digital shorts made by the Rural Media Company will be screened at the Borderlines Film Festival in Hereford on Wednesday 2nd April at 6.15pm. These short films have been produced as part of the action research work being undertaken under the RARP theme Building Inclusive Rural Communities. In these shorts, workers, friends and employers tell their own stories. In their own words. The Lithuanians who opened a village shop and the Russian who's saving for a BMW; the Polish teacher coping with loneliness and the couple who carried the hokey-cokey to the snowy wastes of the Ukraine. The purpose of Migrant Stories is to explore new ways of building understanding and social cohesion between migrant and host communities in Herefordshire. For those that cannot attend the screenings, the Rural Media Company will be producing a DVD which will be available to purchase through their website.