Viewfinder

The Beacon Films 40 Films Festival

Here are the films that have been made during the online filmmaking workshops. Our 40 Films Festival is releasing one film per day for 40 days between 16th October and 24th November.

To see the films menu, click the icon at the top right of the video window!

Thank you to our project funders for their support:

Viewfinder: General Information

Viewfinder is a talent development programme for filmmakers with learning disabilities, autism and additional needs.

1/ Filmmakers develop professional digital and filmmaking skills

2/ Filmmakers use those skills to volunteer and work for other organisations

Currently our Viewfinder programme (2022-2025) is supported by Reaching Communities and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Are you interested in taking part in Viewfinder as a filmmaker?

Are you an organisation that wants to find what our filmmakers can offer your organisation and community as film volunteers, employees, and role models?

Viewfinder is supported by Spirit of 2012: a funding charity, established by the Big Lottery Fund with a £47m endowment from the National Lottery. Spirit was founded to continue and recreate the spirit of pride, positivity and social connectedness that people experienced during the London 2012 Games. Spirit funds projects that bring people together – to learn something new, do something different, or experience something unique – and that leave behind a social legacy of increased wellbeing at an individual level, as well as happier and more connected communities. For more information as well as up-to-date news on all Spirit’s projects and funding opportunities, go to www.spiritof2012.org.uk.’