Overcome paths   [Caminos superados]

The social services of Sant Joan de Déu Valencia care for homeless people and persons at risk of social exclusion, promoting improvements in their quality of life.

Together with ten users of these services, we developed a Participatory Video workshop entitled «Generating Collective Identities for People in a Homeless Situation».

For two weeks, the participants learned the basics of filmmaking. And through various collective dynamics, they worked on concepts such as motivation, self-esteem, self-representation and teamwork in a space of cohesion and security.

The process was very enriching, allowing them to share narratives and images and to shape their own stories and messages to give to the rest of society.

All this work led to the writing and filming of a short documentary, in which the participants were directors, cameras, sound engineers and characters. They titled it “Overcome paths”.

Organization:  Sant Joan de Déu Valencia

Participants / Directors:  Ionel, José, Celia, Alexander, Jorge, Adama, Carlos, José and Claudio.

Facilitator:  Iban Colón

Assistant:  Diana Gurgu

Production:  Juanma Rodilla, Alberto Quiles, Laura Molla

Language:  Spanish