Welcome to Spectacle
About Us
Spectacle is an independent television production company specialising in documentary, community-led investigative journalism and participatory media. Spectacle programmes have been broadcast across Europe, Australia and Canada and have won international awards. Spectacle also distributes independent video tapes, provides facilities to independent producers and training workshops on media studies, production and community based media.
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Training: Digital Video Production Weekends and Final Cut Pro Weekend Workshops
NEW DATES for Digital Video Production and Final Cut Pro Weekend Training Workshops.
Saturday & sunday May 26-27 10:00-16:00
Saturday & sunday July 7-8 10:00-16:00
Saturday & sunday July 28-29 10:00-16:00
Saturday & sunday August 11-12 10:00-16:00
Saturday & sunday September 1-2 10:00-16:00
Saturday & sunday September 22-23 10:00-16:00
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Shaker Aamer: A Decade Of Injustice:
Shaker Aamer is one of the 171 men still held in Guantanamo Bay and its last remaining British resident. Despite never having had a trial, having been approved for release twice and been the focus of a high-profile campaign for his immediate release, Shaker has remained in detention for more than ten years. His physical and mental health deterioration is also a prevalent concern.
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Outside The Law: Stories From Guantánamo
Telling the story of Guantánamo: torture, extraordinary rendition and secret prisons. Examining how the Bush administration turned its back on domestic and international law, rounding up prisoners in Afghanistan and Pakistan without adequate screening and often for large bounty payments. Focusing on the stories of Shaker Aamer, Binyam Mohamed and Omar Deghayes, 'Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo' is powerful rebuke to the myth that Guantánamo holds “the worst of the worst”.
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Production Services
Short film and documentary are powerful ways of promoting awareness of a particular issue or campaign. Having produced films and projects for organisations as diverse as Amnesty International, Wellcome Trust, Groundwork London, NHS, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Council of Europe and Channel 4, we have the experience to help you produce a film for a variety of purposes.
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Despite the Sun
The News of the World, part of News International, and the Rupert Murdoch empire didn't get to this point by accident. Find out how it all began when in 1986 New International was moved to Wapping, the printer's union broken and over 5,000 workers fired in one day...
Sean Cubitt: “one of the most gripping pieces of political documentary to be made in this country in the last 50 years, it’s a phenomenal piece of work.”
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Despite the City
DESPITE the CITY
A scurrilous and irreverent investigation of the City and its colonisation of London's docklands. Well researched and intelligently constructed, this is community based video at it's most powerful. Recommended. City Limits
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Poverty and Participation in the Media
Looking at opportunity and exclusion; representation, stigmatisation and stereotyping. With the wealth gap on the increase and virtual segregation of the classes creating urban ghettos - Does the media bridge or increase the divide?
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Quand les papiers arrivent…When the papers arrive...
This film is based on the portraits of the 'Paperless' ('undocumented immigrants'), ex-'Paperless' and their loved-ones, answering the main question- "When the papers arrive, what would change in your lives?"
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Our Website
We are continually in the process of uploading our extensive catalogue of video productions and archive of video footage to create a comprehensive online database of our work on this site.
On our website you will also find details of screenings and other events we are involved in, past and present, in the Events section. You can find detailed information about our projects, like the Poverty and Participation in the Media and Well London projects we are currently working on.
If there is any particular information that you are currently unable to find on this website, do not hesitate to contact us.
Elsewhere
Find out more about what we do and add your comments on the Spectacle Blog.