John White
John White
John White is a BAFTA award-winning TV and multi-platform director and producer. He founded the video project at the Albany in Deptford in 1974, and worked there until 1980. He was for 8 years a Director of Hi8us South, one of the UK's leading participatory youth media organizations.
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00:00 Start 00:17 Growing Up 02:36 Guildford Technical College Getting into Counterculture 04:01 First contact with the Brighton Combination 04:39 The Brighton Combination in London Social work as a middle class career 05:55 First experience of Video & Meeting John Hopkins 08:37 Influence of Challenge for Change (National Film Board of Canada) 10:36 First work as Albany Video Pepys Estate 13:43 After Pepys, Importance of Community Workers 14:44 August 13th (1977) 16:46 Us Girls (1979) 18:12 Evolution of Albany Video and Channel 4 20:25 Hi8us L8r (2003-2008) 21:44 Thoughts on distribution 24:20 Learned experience Looking to the future.