Rayna Nadeem

Rayna Nadeem is an artist filmmaker working in the public realm. She specialises in film projects within social-engagement, documentary, and site-specific practice.

Her work often involves local people and places and has a participatory element, whereby the public becomes integral to the process, whether through the re-telling of stories, sharing of memories or the inclusion of their images.

Her work is exhibited through public art projects, film festivals and screenings.
She also co-founded Blowing Up and The Clerkenwell Film & Video Festival www.blowingup.org.uk

Rayna also collaborates with artists and arts organisations, and facilitates the making of films with young people. She has worked extensively with Creative Partnerships (A New Direction), BOOM Nation and Mouth That Roars.

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Contact: rayna@dekkoproductions.co.uk or call 07946 632412

Commissioned Projects include...

	DeadLife With stirring and uplifting imagery reflecting our imagined afterlife, this contemplative film offers a fascinating insight into the workings of the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium, the largest in the UK. While critiquing our age's ghoulish perceptions of graveyards, DeadLife provides a poignant existential meditation on nature, beauty, life and death.
	Commissioned by The City of London Cemetery and Crematorium
	Underneath The Arches A film produced as a result of a two-month residency at Bushey Arches - a major transport interchange in Watford and an historical landmark. In this social-engagement film, Rayna creatively collaborated with local people to find out their views on heritage and environmental issues.
	Artist-in-residence at the Watford Museum, commissioned by Green Heart Partnerships, LANS & Watford Council
	Tales To Tell A site-specific installation and short film project about the colourful historical characters that once frequented London's Docklands area, many of whom arrived with the ships and cargo from the colonies. An homage to the characters whose lives are re-created and re-told by the present-day Docklands community. The installation project also featured a 50 metre washing line at West India Quay
	Site-specific public art commission by River Cultures Festival, screened at Museum of Docklands, funded by the Arts Council of England
	Talkback 20/20 Video Installation for Kali Theatre Company in London's Soho Theatre. Inspired by the Asian women new playwrights workshop.
	Supergrass Residency and digital film commission made at Scrattons Farm Estate, East London, working in conjunction with the residents committee and local government officers.
	Commissioned by A13 Artscape Public Art project, LB Barking & Dagenham

Education/Partnership projects include...

Creative Roleplay
Surrey Square Infants School, Southwark
A creative film project looking at nature, plants , props and creative roleplay.
A New Direction

BOOM!
Nationwide film-making touring project for young people.
Sponsored by MTV, V and Clubs for Young People.
www.boomnation.net

Our Olympics
Kingsmead Primary School, Hackney.
Documentary film project looking at the impact of the Olympics with Year 6 pupils.
Funded by CP East

My London, My Home, My School
St.Margaret Clitheroe Primary documentary film project about recyling, reducing & reusing.
Funded by Creative Partnerships London West.

We Wear Jeans
Documentary heritage film project with young women in Camden.

Tamil Voices
Creative documentary film project at Villiers High School, Southall, funded by Creative Partnership West. Winner of the Diana Anti-Bullying Award.

All About Us (B&D Young People's Film Festival)
Film-making residency tutor at Barking & Dagenham Youth Training services.

The Hood
Documentary film at Toffee Park Youth Centre, London EC1.
A Blowing Up production, funded by Awards for All.

Reflective Conversations
Professional development project with Teachers and Artists at Rushcroft School, Walthamstow.
Creative Partnerships London North