Now and then
Our projects never take on one approach. We always choose the medium that best suits the work and reflects how we and our collaborators want to express ourselves with the output not always defined at the beginning. All of our projects are a journey of discovery.
2024
Atuel on the wall
The documentary ATUEL was projected on the Valle Grande dam wall in San Rafael, Mendoza, on April 27th 2024, to 3000 people and a national audience and, in doing so, set a new world record for the largest projection of a feature film. In addition, segments of the ATUEL videogame, a spin-off project of the film, were projected before the main event. This includes excerpts of the Sherbourne River in Coventry, UK, from the sister project, The Sherbourne Living Landscape Project, led by the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.
2024
(ongoing)
The Coventry Archive
On taking the keys to a disused community centre, one of our collaborators, Ellie, found an archive of photographs, videos and ephemera that covered over 70 years of a community in flux. Dance lessons, choir practice, cooking and activism all feature in this stock of never-before-seen items. ALTA is currently researching the links to the existing community with a view to documenting the shift in our understanding of what a supportive community looks like.
2024
Cinema 0
A monthly secret film club which mixes communal movie watching with learning, conversation and the chance to screen a film of your choice. Curated by members for members.
The Film Liberation Project / The Tin Music and Arts
2023
(ongoing)
National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) The Research Filmmaker: Using Film in Research
Film and video are increasingly used in research as data collection tools, outputs for sharing dialogue between researchers and participants, and as a means of disseminating research results creatively. However, researchers often face issues when using film, particularly with marginalised, vulnerable, or excluded groups.
The Research Filmmaker: Using Film in Research, led by Dr Geraldine Brown, is a series of training programs to develop knowledge and skills in using filmmaking in research. The program considers how film in research opens alternative ways of knowing and doing storytelling, with opportunities for using mixed methods in data collection, capturing reflections, democratising the research process, and for research findings to be shared in a format accessible to a range of audiences.
The program was developed in collaboration with Professor Gayle Letherby, Associate Lecturer at the School of Society and Culture, University of Plymouth, Dr Emmanuel Johnson from Coventry University, Professor Geraldine Brady from the School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University and Prof Dawn Mannay from Cardiff University.
2023
Care-full Scholarship MOOC
Why should we care? Do matters of care and carefulness connect with the various realms of academia? What does care look or feel like to a literature scholar, a dance scholar or a math scholar? And is care relevant across all the different realms of academia? Who acts as a caregiver or a care receiver in a teaching or research context and how? And what does careful scholarship mean, or perhaps even more importantly, what does careful scholarship mean to you? These questions and more are explored in a unique Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Care-full Scholarship is a free connectivist-inspired course that was co-designed with RECOMS, whose fellows and a host of other expert contributors share experiences of care in their own research, teaching and practice.
RECOMS is a Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Innovative Training Network funded by the European Commission. It comprises a transdisciplinary consortium of scientists, practitioners and change agents from eleven public, private and non-profit organisations in six European Union countries. RECOMS will train fifteen Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) in transdisciplinary approaches to supporting resourceful and resilient community environmental practice.
2023
(ongoing)
The Sherbourne Valley Project
A suite of interlinked mixed-media films explores the wildlife, communities, history and restoration of the River Sherbourne. The project is establishing an urban living landscape in which people, nature and culture can thrive. The works combine film, music, VR, performance and animation to explore a varied and threatened place.
The 12.01 Project /The Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
2022
Foleshill on Film
Foleshill on Film was an experiential learning programme of story-building and practical filmmaking. 10 participants were recruited to the programme from Feeding Coventry’s Social Supermarket, based in Foleshill Community Centre, Coventry, for a 6 week programme. It focused on collective storytelling and developing ideas, and from there, scripts were used as the basis for collaborative films about the participant's loved experiences
2022
Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures (TESF)
Film for Stakeholders is a clear and concise short film course designed for stakeholders and researchers in projects and communities that addresses the role of education in climate action, decent work and sustainable cities. TESF’s work addresses inequalities relating to poverty, gender and the status of indigenous knowledge, as well as concerns for foregrounding marginalised voices and decolonising research.
2022
Atuel video game
Atuel is a surrealist documentary game in which you explore beautiful, dreamlike landscapes inspired by the topography and wildlife of the Atuel River Valley. Shapeshift into different animals and elements of Atuel’s ecosystem while listening to real-life interviews. These interconnected perspectives weave together to tell a historical narrative about people’s intimate relationship with the land they live on and the effects of the global climate crisis.
Atuel has won multiple international awards, including “Most Amazing Game” at MAZE, Berlin, the Impact Award at IndieCade 2022, and the Best Narrative Award at BITBANG Fest 2022. It was exhibited at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 and Now Play This 2024 at Somerset House, London.
The 12.01 Project / Matajuego
2021
Social Impact Toolkit
The Social Impact Toolkit is a structured multi-media repository of useful information, tools, and indicators to help understand social impact and outcomes associated with the work of Community Food Businesses. It can also be considered a framework to assist in understanding how social impact can be achieved and visualise the various pathways that can be followed to both instigate and evidence impact at the community scale.
The 12.01 Project / Luke Owen, Zero Waste Scotland /Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) / the Real Farming Trust (RFT) / Community Food Businesses (CFBs)
2020
(ongoing)
The Film Liberation Project
The Film Liberation Project (or FilmLib as it’s known) is part of the ATLA community. Unlike other film courses, The Film Liberation Project mixes the theory of film with the practical skills and techniques to make them. Both these things are the complementary ends of the spectrum of knowledge that is needed to be an effective filmmaker. Access to filmmaking, even with the increase in digital technology, is often limited by finance, personnel and location. What is expected from the process and the outcome of it is defined by those who have already established themselves in filmmaking and the filmmaking industry. The entire system appears as a closed circuit to those outside it, and alternatives are limited.
The Film Liberation Project is exactly that, an attempt to liberate filmmaking from this. In terms of its creation and its embodiment, it is trans-disciplinary, transformational, collaborative and sustainable. Instead of the usual teacher/student dynamic, The Film Liberation Project is hosted by filmmakers who share their experiences, learn and work together with the participants. From its very foundation this course is built on the learning of trans-disciplinary collaboration and the creative experience of working outside your usual sphere of knowledge and application, principals which will be then repeated in participants’ creations.
The Film Liberation Project / The Tin Music and Arts / The Arts Council
2020
Atuel
Mendoza, Argentina: The Atuel River rises in the Argentine Andes and disappears into the desert. Its precarious and threatened existence supports the lives and livelihoods of 100’000’s of people. The 1201 Project became the first people to journey the entire navigable Atuel River bearing witness to a pressured ecosystem and the stories and solutions that the people who live along it share. The film was awarded a Declaration of Social Interest by the Argentine Government.
The 12.01 Project
2018
The nearby solution
Yucatan, Mexico: Sometimes, the biggest solutions are closer than we think. A group of Mexican scientists have found a way to replace imported soya in animal feed with a combination of local, sustainable, and drought-resistant plants. The impact is social, environmental, economic and global. But it faces challenges.
The 12.01 Project / Coventry University / Autonomous University of Yucatan
2017
Towards life -
South African Biosphere Reserves
Dragonflies decrease poverty. A township food garden cleans the water in your taps. Reserves without fences reduce poaching. The South African UNESCO Biosphere Reserves combine the contradictory to create solutions to social development and environmental preservation.
The 12.01 Project / UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
2017
One Young World - Ambassador Impact
Bogata, Columbia. Every year, the One Young World summit brings together the world’s brightest young leaders from over 195 countries. We selected 26 of them, investigated their work, and provided tools to help expand their impact.
The 12.01 Project
2016
(ongoing)
The 12.01 Project
The 12.01 Project is part of the ATLA community. It is a production company for social change, producing high-quality investigative multi-media documentaries and providing the tools necessary for viewers to take action. It draws together a wide range of skills under one roof: film production, research, interviews, web design, animation, illustration, podcasting and music.
They have worked across Southern Africa, Latin America and Europe. Their resources and networks allow them to be extremely cost-effective and deliver services quickly, focusing on existing research and solutions and defining success as creating actionable outcomes.
Work with us
There’s a range of different ways you can work with us, if you have an idea or a project you’re excited about then there’s a good chance we’ll be excited to hear from you too. Our collaborations always start with a conversation.