28 November 2018
MND Scotland – New Animations Launched
MND Scotland today launched the animations we made together with them. ‘You Just Have To Ask’ illustrates some of the practical, emotional and financial support MND Scotland offers to people affected by Motor Neurone Disease across Scotland. There are three further animations that are part of their new ‘Living with MND’ resource, featuring advice and […]
read more …
20 November 2018
Tax on Me selected for Together! 2018 Disability Film Festival
We’re delighted to announce that Tax On Me has been selected for the Together! 2018 Disability Film Festival. Massive congratulations to Kiana Kalantar-Hormozi who joined us last year to make her protest film to #FightCareTax. Tax On Me tells Kiana’s own story. She needs support to make her daily life possible and the Care Tax […]
read more …
12 September 2018
31 August 2018
MoJo On The Green at the Glasgow 2018 European Championships
Enjoyable, collaborative and fulfilling – that’s how the participants of the MoJo On The Green project described their experience of working to promote sport for all without fear of discrimination during the Glasgow 2018 European Championships. Thanks to Year of Young People lottery funding, the 6-strong team of 18-25 year old LGBT+ activists received training […]
read more …
17 April 2018
RTS Scotland Award Nomination!
Never Too Late To Tell an animation to train health professionals and support workers and raise awareness of the impact of childhood sexual abuse is up for a Royal Television Society Scotland 2018 award. Made together with NHS Lanarkshire, the film has been nominated in the Animation and VFX category. We’re looking forward to the 9th […]
read more …
2 March 2018
Behind the scenes with a film crew – with an average age of 83
We’ve launched our #StayMobileStayConnected campaign because its time to change the way we think about older people’s health, and older people should be at the heart of driving this change.
read more …
2 May 2017
Coveted Social Tech Seed Fund awarded
media co-op is thrilled to be selected for Nominet Trust’s prestigious Social Tech Seed funding. The grant is to develop a mobile phone App for victims of the crime of stalking. It’s technology for justice. Most stalkers are abusive former partners. We’re working with Rape Crisis Scotland, the new Scottish Women’s Rights Centre, Scottish Women’s […]
read more …
1 March 2017
Hip-hop and the Care Tax
media co-op’s new intern Kiana Kalantar-Hormozi has been busy working on her protest film about the iniquitous Care Tax project. She’s decided on the genre for her film: she’ll create a brand-new hip-hop track to fight the Care Tax. The message: being charged for assistance to move, breath, and live life is wrong. It’s a […]
read more …
8 February 2017
New intern joining us to develop a campaign film about the Care Tax
media co-op’s intern Kiana Kalantar-Hormozi is busy at work developing a short campaign film about the Care Tax. Kiana just graduated from Screen Academy Scotland with an MA in Film. Louise Scott of media co-op was one of Kiana’s mentors at Uni. The internship is funded by SCVO in partnership with Inclusion Scotland. Kiana is one […]
read more …
15 November 2016
Best Film and Future Filmmaker awards at the Haelo Film Festival 2016
media co-op’s participatory film ‘Going on to Happy’ pipped all other public sector films across the UK to the post to win the award for Best Film at the Haelo Film Festival 2016. A well-deserved win for teenagers Daniel and Dharma. They’d never made a film before and they won the Future Filmmaker award. In […]
read more …
25 October 2016
Two of our films win at The Herald Scottish Digital Business Awards
We’re delighted for Maryhill Integration Network and NHS Lanarkshire who both won awards at The Herald Scottish Digital Business Awards last week. Maryhill Integration Network’s ‘A Strong Man’ won the local Charity and Social Enterprise Award sponsored by the Wheatley Group, and NHS Lanarkshire’s ‘Trauma and the Brain’ won the Public Sector Award. ‘A Strong […]
read more …
13 August 2016
Opportunity for aspiring edit assistant with a social conscience
Aspiring edit assistant with a social conscience Opportunity at media co-op, Glasgow A good starter role for someone with a flair for creative editing, an aptitude for technical stuff, who can work well in a team and wants to learn. Glasgow. Experience Some experience of film editing using one of the main editing packages […]
read more …