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Manchester College Students ‘Videos against Homophobia’

Voting now open for best video!
 
In October 2011, first year media students at The Manchester College were asked to create a 30 second video to promote The Lesbian & Gay Foundation’s 'Enough is Enough! - ACTION against Homophobia' campaign, as the campaign goes into its third year, on International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on May 17th 2012.
 
The Manchester College Students have spent the last six months writing, researching and producing their own videos to highlight the importance of taking action against homophobia. Now the public is being asked to judge the best videos for the 'Enough is Enough! - ACTION against Homophobia' campaign!
 
Each of the students who wrote, devised and filmed these short films are aged between 16-19 years old. There are 8 videos in total and the 2 that are voted the most popular will be used to promote the 'Enough is Enough! - ACTION against Homophobia' campaign from 17th May throughout the next year.
 
LGF Chief Executive, Paul Martin OBE says: “We are incredibly pleased with the standard of the student’s work and it will be hard to pick the winners which is why we want the public to pick the ones that they feel best represent the 'Enough is Enough! - ACTION against Homophobia' campaign. The Manchester College students have shown their commitment to taking action against homophobia and we hope people will be inspired by their work to take action too.”
 
Vice Principal of The Manchester College, Teresa Farran comments:
"The Manchester College is an inclusive college and we are committed to developing our learners academically, emotionally and socially. This was a great project for our students to work on, giving them valuable experience of working on a live brief and teaching them to challenge ignorance in an innovative way. We're extremely proud of our students' work."
 
The student’s themselves have also welcomed the opportunity of discussing the issue of homophobia after being involved in the project.
 
Juno: “When I first got the project I was very excited. I was aware of homophobia as I have friends who have been victims. I wanted to target parents rather than young people. I was very pleased with the work we had done.”

Robert: “I really liked the idea of working on the Enough is Enough project, It was something that I felt very passionate about. I was able to tackle a very serious subject. I suppose homophobia could be a tender subject but I like the fact that we all got be hind it, we've have just gone "This isn't right, lets do something about it"
 
Ben: “I didn't know what I was going to do for the project. When I first got the brief I wasn't sure about the subject matter but once I researched and got to work I really enjoyed the topic and the project.”

Zack: “I thought the project was very interesting, I didn't realise that homophobia was such a big problem. It was great opportunity to work with an official charity to help combat homophobia.”

Heather: “I was quite interested in the project it was something that I have never really looked into as it has never affected me. It was interesting to find out what support there is out there for people who are suffering from homophobia.

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Published: 3-May-2012: (1274)