Vee-TV
Inside story
Set in internet cafés
in Birmingham, Glasgow and London, VEE-TV combines documentary, drama
and entertainment in an ambitious new format. The new series is a co-production
between two award-winning companies, Maverick
and Resource
Base.
The VEE-TV production
team brings deaf and hearing together in a new way of working. We’re
committed to opening up opportunities for as many deaf people as possible
to get involved in the programme, on and off screen. The programme fuses
diverse strands from news to entertainment, drama to debate, from chat
to comedy.
Starting at the Orange
café in Birmingham on 24 February, the series runs for 12 weeks.
In each venue, we’ll involve presenters, regulars, guests and locals
in exploring ideas, debating issues, commenting on short films and features
– and simply being there.
The series has three
film strands. Each week there is a short film from the frontline of contemporary
Deaf culture. These films focus on young deaf people and their experiences
from comedy to clubbing, drugs to depression, style to survival, business
to backpacking. Each week this site will follow up these issues.
Then there’s
the Pulse strand, which gives new film-makers
an opportunity to develop film ideas and see their work broadcast for
the first time. The twelve Pulse films offer strong personal perspectives
on anything and everything explored through animation, documentary, drama
– and signed pop video.
VEE-TV also has its
own regular drama strand in 12 episodes. Rush
follows a group of deaf students in a mainstream college as they deal
with their relationships, sexuality, emotional difficulties, politics
and culture. Rush explores the choices they face: between success and
failure; between a career, a job, and no job at all; between the Deaf
and hearing worlds.
Contact VEE-TV at
comments@vee-tv.com or check
out the message
board and have your say.
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