CriaAtivo Film School | Rio de Janeiro

Capacity Building

Creative Wick, in partnership with Brazilian NGO Instituto Cultural Pólen, is delivering its first Olympic Legacy project in Rio de Janeiro, less than a year after the RIO2016 Olympics.

CriaAtivo Film School is a project funded by the Newton Fund Institutional Skills 2017 program from the British Council, intended to provide, during the course of a year, professional qualifications within the film industry to 165 young residents from territories/favelas affected by mega event led regeneration plans.

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Tradestars

In November, we partnered with Tradestars to commission local artists, with strong connections to HWFI, to create permanent artworks on the walls inside their new co-warehousing buildings located in Fish Island, giving formerly blank walls a distinctive mark to express the unique energy of this space. The Artists: Burrito (@burritoconluces_tattoo) I am Burrito, an artist…
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Creative Wick Film School

In April 2016, Creative Wick, Alias Hire, a Hackney Wick based film equipment hire company and Open Vizor, with the support of the Wick Award, delivered a free film school for 12 young people from Hackney Wick and Fish Island and the surrounding communities of East London.  The film school was based at Hub67.
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