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uScreen Gears Up for Launch with FREE WorkshopsuScreen Gears Up for Launch with FREE Workshops

News release 09/07/2010

uScreen is a cutting edge fully accessible website, which comprises three main accessibility tools which aims to provide young people aged 14-25 years across the South East and beyond the opportunities to share, learn and collaborate on film-making. The site which has taken 6 months to build will launch this Summer at a series of workshops and film festivals across the region and an online link with international disability festival, The Other Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia.

uScreen is part of Accentuate, a transformational programme of 15 projects which seeks to change perceptions and offer opportunities to showcase the talents of deaf and disabled people. Inspired by our proud heritage of Stoke Mandeville as the birthplace of the Paralympic movement. This project is funded by Legacy Trust UK, an independent charity set up to create a cultural and sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games across the UK. Other funding bodies include SEEDA and the regional cultural agencies. Accentuate has 1000 days to create a cultural legacy. Screen South is the home of Accentuate.

Working with partners itfc (London based Audio Description/Caption), BBC Blast and BBC Regions we are offering young people a series of FREE workshops to learn about how to make film more accessible through audio description and stock frame animation with disabled animator Andy Gibbs, Magic Hour. “Buttermouth, directed by Andrew Gibbs, is a poetic and melancholy evocation of blindness” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

The workshops will take place on the following dates:

“Screen South is very excited and proud to launch this really exciting project which really raises the bar in terms of inclusivity. uScreen offers unrivalled accessible web tools to support online learning as well as a programme of live events and festivals." Jo Nolan, Chief Executive Screen South

“uScreen’s audio description functionality is a unique step to giving users the power to create more inclusive, meaningful films for a wider audience. Finally! itfc are delighted to be supporting Screen South with the rollout of this brilliant site.” James O’ Hara, Managing Editor, itfc Audio Description



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