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uScreen offers young deaf & disabled people the opportunity to make films online using a range of free accessible film-making tools with live showcases and workshops.
uScreen is about giving young, deaf & disabled people a voice in our increasingly digital online world. As well as free accessible group editing and storyboarding tools, uScreen provides British Sign Language, subtitles, visual captioning and audio description which can be added to the films created by the website’s participants so that everyone can enjoy them.
uScreen also offers a programme of live workshops and screenings alongside a training and professional mentoring opportunities. Many young people continue to benefit from bursaries which have supported them to Make Show and Share their film and ideas with old and new friends as well as develop potential career pathways.
After taking part in one of our uScreen programmes disabled young person Stephanie Howell commented:“uScreen has helped me get across what I’ve been wanting to say and how I have felt for years…uScreen made me feel that I have a voice.”
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uScreen is about giving young, deaf & disabled people a voice in our increasingly digital online world. As well as free accessible group editing and storyboarding tools, uScreen provides British Sign Language, subtitles, visual captioning and audio description which can be added to the films created by the website’s participants so that everyone can enjoy them.
uScreen also offers a programme of live workshops and screenings alongside a training and professional mentoring opportunities. Many young people continue to benefit from bursaries which have supported them to Make Show and Share their film and ideas with old and new friends as well as develop potential career pathways.
After taking part in one of our uScreen programmes disabled young person Stephanie Howell commented: “uScreen has helped me get across what I’ve been wanting to say and how I have felt for years…uScreen made me feel that I have a voice.”
uScreen was a semi-finalist in the 2012 National Lottery Awards.
For more information about uScreen visit the website.
Are you associated with this project and wish to give us more info? Please get in touch
You may also be interested in…
9Bach
9Bach are a talented world/folk band based in Wales. They were awarded funding from the National Lottery to represent Wales on the international stage, taking their music to the Folk Alliance Conference in Toronto in February 2013 and developing international links.
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The DamnedNations music project, supported by National Lottery funding, brings together the two seemingly unconnected cultures of Egypt and Wales, who have both experienced a profound impact on the lives of their communities through the building of dams.
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