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About Film For Humanity

Established in July 2006, Film For Humanity is a collective of professional and aspiring filmmakers, actors, teachers and other industry types of all different backgrounds, who share a common ethos - essentially to bring people together and to share stories.
Based in London, we are a bit like a bespoke production company - having an open network with resources, and also running free filmmaking projects, particularly for those who feel socially excluded or under-represented.

As a Not-For-Profit Unincorporated Association With Charitable Interests, Film for Humanity has a board of eight trustees, and the following constitutional objects:

“To provide participants, particularly from marginalized demographics:

the opportunity to develop media skills and further general employment prospects,

the means and confidence to find and express their voices,

a comfortable environment to improve analytical abilities,

and explore how we can better live together in an increasingly pluralistic world.

The key themes are:

the promotion of equality & social inclusion,

and the celebration of diversity & common interest.”

Whilst many see the world polarized by views of "them and us", Film For Humanity gives people the means to say: “We are all ‘us’, We are all human."

Set up by Elliot Manches and Elliott Tucker, Film For Humanity is an independent initiative, and as such is not affiliated to any particular political party or religious group.

Project Directors

Elliott Tucker and Elliot Manches are both independent filmmakers living in East London.

Elliott Tucker has run numerous youth media projects, including Alien Invasion - a film workshop on ethnicity and immigration - and co-produced the National Youth Theatre’s Deptford Tales. His latest play: Yabbok, exploring concepts of identity, recently ran at the Phoenix Theatre. He is currently working with excluded young people at the Dalston Youth Project, for a film on local subcultures and youth crime, and is soon to finish Children Of The Ghetto, his feature documentary on the Jewish East End with the support of Stephen Berkoff.

Elliot Manches is an experienced teacher and youth leader, whose work has taken him across the UK, to Poland, Bolivia and Guatemala. His fiction-film work has been shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Showcase For New British Talent, BAFTA, & Sundance. His work as a journalist has been published by The Independent, and he has published notes as a Human Rights Observer, about life with the Zapatistas in Mexico. Also a consultant ethnographer, Elliot provides insight into the way people live for a wide range of research projects, often using documentary video.