Students, Anton Boston, Raymond Kuzhaingara, Jagraj Singh, Mason Burnett and Dimari Wilson at Willows High School, Cardiff, have won a prestigious, European-wide British Council competition to make a short film on their mobile phone cameras about diversity.
Last summer the British Council asked students involved in the Inclusion and Diversity in Education project (INDIE), and anyone else who felt inspired by INDIE, to use their mobile phone cameras to make a 3-minute film about diversity.
The winning film is a clever video to the song ‘It Doesn’t Matter’, a catchy rap song, also created by the students, that tackles discrimination, particularly race and the problem of knife crime. They were chosen as the winners because the judging panel felt that the boys from Willows High really understood the meaning of diversity and managed to express this in such a creative and talented way.
The INDIE Goes Mobile competition attracted high quality entries from across Europe, short films that deal with the theme of diversity in school and in young people’s lives. Entrants were asked to study the British Council’s European Charter and say in a short 2-3 minute film, what diversity means to them.
Kevin Higgins, Director, British Council Wales said, ‘We, like many others, believe in creating an inclusive learning environment and ensuring academic success for all students whatever their background, and the students throughout Europe who have entered this competition, through their videos, have demonstrated a clear understanding of diversity and openness.
Also having a Welsh entry come through as a winner of a European-wide competition is something we, in Wales, can be really proud of.’
Find out more at http://www.britishcouncil.org/wales-education-school-partnership-indie-competition.htm