Our collective method differs from project to project. Sometimes only two or three of us work together, sometimes, as with Hit Music – Rhythm of the Revolutionary, nearly all of us participate, and sometimes one or two of us join a project later on in the process, perhaps to animate a scene or help out in the editing. We have a common goal with our films, but as individuals we are different, with various strengths and skills. The point is to learn from and inspire each other – that makes RåFILM grow collectively.

Our latest production is Once Upon a Hill, which premiered at Göteborg International Film Festival in January. It’s a documentary portraying the life of four children in the Chilean coastal town of Valparaiso. The kids are shut-in in their daily life in a segregated area on the top of one hill in the city, but since a few years back they make their own magazine with reality-based comic strips. In the film we portray their everyday challenges both through interviews and their own comic strips, which have been animated into the cityscape.

It’s been an exciting and challenging production in many ways, both for us, and the children. The kids have been so brave in letting us step into their world, and now we really hope that the film will inspire other kids to use their right to express themselves. RåFILM’s website: www.rafilm.se

by Anna Weitz and Moa Geistrand