Sickle Cell Warriors
Sickle Cell Warriors
With funding from the BBC Children in Need’s We Move Fund: Youth Social Action, The New Black Film Collective have launched their Sickle Cell Warriors project to give young Black Sickle Cell sufferers the chance to make a big impact by telling their story through film.
Join the project
Are you aged 15 - 25 and living with Sickle Cell Anaemia or a Sickle Cell trait?
Are you interested in filmmaking and media?
Join our Sickle Cell Warriors project before 1 February 2024.
With funding from the BBC Children in Need’s We Move Fund: Youth Social Action, The New Black Film Collective invite you to join their Sickle Cell Warriors project to give young Black Sickle Cell sufferers the chance to make a big impact by telling their story through film.
You will work with a range of experts for 12 months across four aspects of community impact:
Research: working with a researcher, they will create unique studies into an aspect of Sickle Cell which most interests them and is in need of discovery or innovation.
Reporting: working with a documentary filmmaker, they will learn interview techniques and how to shoot a short film to capture their journey, leading to the creation of content on the topic of Sickle Cell.
Activism: working with an experienced activist or lobbyist to advocate and petition around Sickle Cell to drive policy change and social impact.
Communications: working with a marketing expert or publicist, they will learn how to devise, build and launch a digital media campaign to educate people about Sickle Cell and raise public awareness of the condition.
Sign up
Join our Sickle Cell Warriors project before 1 February 2024.
Project Updates
Project Updates
Mercy Shibemba, Project Director, WeMove Fund at BBC Children in Need
“We’re delighted to hear that young people from The New Black Film Collective have launched their Youth Social Action project, as grantees of the We Move Fund, and we look forward to seeing how this develops over the next 12 months.” Mercy Shibemba, Project Director for the WeMove Fund at BBC Children in Need
