Sickle Cell Warriors

With funding from the BBC Children in Need’s We Move Fund: Youth Social Action, The New Black Film Collective launched their Sickle Cell Warriors project in 2024 to give young Black Sickle Cell sufferers the chance to make a big impact by telling their story through film.

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With funding from the BBC Children in Need’s We Move Fund: Youth Social Action, The New Black Film Collective’s Sickle Cell Warriors project gives young Black Sickle Cell sufferers the chance to make a big impact by telling their story through film.

  • Research: working with a researcher, participants created 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, participants learned 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: worked with an experienced activist or lobbyist to advocate and petition around Sickle Cell to drive policy change and social impact.

  • Communications: worked with a marketing expert or publicist, they learned how to devise, build and launch a digital media campaign to educate people about Sickle Cell and raise public awareness of the condition.

“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.