The Real Social Network
Documentary
Credits
- Directed Ludovica Fales, Srdjan Keca, Isis Thompson, Gavin Humphries for Quark Films
- Editor Adelina Bichis
- Animations Peque Varela
- Sound Mix Jay Price
- Music Alcyona Micks, Jon Wygens
PRESS
- Highlights at Pravo Ljudski Film Festival Sarajevo 2012
- Review on Press Tv (17th of September 2012)
- Ludo and The Real Social Network in an article on LABKULTUR.TV
- Rebellious Media Conference, London, Oct 2011
- The Real Social Network @ Vision On TV
- Take control over information @ ETC
- The Real Social Network Debate @ OWR 2012
- Anarchy in 140 Characters @ Das Cloud
- The Power of the Internet @ One World Doc Fest
- The Real Social Network @ One World Doc Fest
MORE INFO
A feature documentary following 6 months of the biggest student movement in the UK since the 1960s. Not a film about activists, but a film showing people becoming activists, getting radicalised by witnessing and experiencing the response of the government and mainstream media to peaceful protest.
This is a collaborative project using live action footage, television archive, YouTube clips and animation to highlight the use of modern technology in organising protest.
A crowd funded Indie go go project
In collaboration with NFTS, Bertha Foundation and Poisson Rouge pictures Produced by Quark Film
Filmed in the United Kingdom
Languages English. Versions with Romanian and Italian subtitles
SCREENINGS
- Occupied Skopje University, Macedonia, February 2015
- Zoom Rights Film Screenings around Bosnia Herzegovina, 2014
- Bildungsstreik 2014, University of Erfurt, June 2014
- This Human World, Vienna, Austria, December 2013
- Manya Human Rights Film Festival, Uganda, December 2013
- Festival Zomer van Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, July 2013
- Media Wave Film Festival, Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary, April 2013
- 14th of May 2013, Dom Kulture Jajce, Bosnia Herzegovina together with short films from Zoom Rights/ Pravo Ljudski Documentary Workshop 2012
- 8th, 10th, 12th March 2013, One World Prague, Czech Republick and Institut Francais de Prague
- 25th September 2012, The HUB Bucharest & One World Romania, Bucharest, Romania
- Manchester Film Co-Operative, 23rd Of October 2012, Manchester, UK
- SOAS University, 7th of November 2012, London, UK (Tbc)
- Pravo Ljudski Festival, 7th-12th of November 2012, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Shared Planet, People and Planet Conference,10th of November 2012, UK
- University of Westminster, 12th of November 2012, London, UK
- The selection at Pravsko Ljudskj FF in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina (November 2012)
- 19th of August, 2012 Historical Film Festival Rasnov, Carpathians, Romania
- September 8 2012, Social Media Film Festival in Las Vegas, NV, USA (Best Social Use of Social Media Award)
- Open City Festival London, 21st of June
- Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Arts as part of Occupy Berlin Biennale 8th of June 2012
- Cluj Cineclub, 24th of May
- University of Lincoln, UK, 16th of May
- Cronograf Festival, Chisnau Moldova, 10th – 15th May 2012
- Bread & Roses Film Festival, 7th May 2012, London, UK
- Workers Unite Film Festival NY, USA, 4th, 5th, 6th May 2012
- Docaviv, Tel Aviv, 3rd – 12th May
- Engage, social media and activism conference, Skopje Macedonia, 25th February 2012, Skopje, Macedonia
- Tempo Dokumentärfilmsfestival, Stockholm, Sweden, 6th-11th March 2012
- One World, Romania 13-18 March 2012
- Occupy Shorts. Can short films change the world? Sheffield Doc/Fest @London Short Film Festival, January 2012, London, UK
- Awa gallery, OT301, 19th Nov. 2011 Amsterdam, Holland
- Preview screening at University College London and 11 other universities across the UK at the same time, 1st of November 2011 (for the full list of preview university screenings across the world check www.realsocialnetwork.com
- Crowd funding experiences @ Free Zone International Film Festival, November 2011, Belgrade, Serbia
- Meet the radical media makers @ Rebellious Media Conference, October 2011, London, UK
- Shared Experience – How community film crowd funding works @ RAI Ethnographic film Festival, June 2011, London, UK
The Real Social Network
2012, 76 mins
Documentary
- “Go occupy the cinemas and see this film.” – i-D Magazine
- Official selection One World Prague 2013
- SPECIAL MENTION YOUTH AWARD at Pravo Liudskj 2012
- Official Selection One World Romania 2012
- BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA Social Media Film Festival 2012
- Official Selection Docaviv 2012
- Official Selection Open City Film Festival 2012
- Official Selection Tempo Documentary Festival 2012
Protest has changed. Between the first UK student protests in November 2010 and the global uprising in the spring of 2011, a new radicalism, fuelled by modern technology, has hit the streets.
Last winter, the coalition government in the UK announced sweeping changes to university tuition fees that set higher education in Britain to be the most expensive in Europe.
Students voiced their discontent in widespread protests that brought news footage into our homes reminiscent of the 70s and 80s; from horses charging marchers, to the windows of Conservative Party office being kicked in. However, one occupation’s success at holding their University and generating amazing amounts of support suggested that something different was happening here.
We have been with a group of University College London students with a passion for change since day one. We have seen them come together and organize themselves using Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to make their belief in the fundamental right to an affordable education heard across the country and around the world. Their occupation, a classic 60s sit-in with a Twitter-feed twist, has seen the beginning of the strongest student movement in 40 years.
From their first occupation right through to the huge protests across London on 26th March we have followed this amazing group of people as they turned into experienced activists, mobilised not only other students but also workers, created technology that will change the face of protest – and became friends. We believe we have a story that both captures a moment in time and will have great resonance for the future.
