Children’s Rights Unit

Spill was commissioned by Neath Port Talbot Children’s Rights Unit, to train a group of young researchers in Film-making. We trained the young people on all aspects of film-making to enable them to create 3 short films on Children’s Rights.

Spill were awarded the contract after a tender process and were extremely pleased to get to work with this dedicated group of young people.

Working with the group to script three short films resulted in a “How to Guide on researching with young people”, “You know your rights-right”, a film looking at specific rights on the Convention of the Rights of the Child, and an animation highlighting the research that they undertook.

The films were shown at a screening in Neath Port Talbot College and went down a storm! Mike Mainwaring, the Children, Young People and Families Participation Officer, said of the project:

“From the start the Young Researchers saw that Spill Media were not only going to give the best product but would include young people in all aspects of the film.  They were involved in the script, the production, the filming, performance and the look of the end product. They showed great patience and understanding with insuring that the young people are involved in all aspects of the work even when this slowed the process down. I would have no hesitation to highly recommend to any organisation wanting a complete experience of film making.”