100 PEOPLE: A PORTRAIT OF CO-EXISTENCE
93mins, 2023, English Language with English Subtitles
Set in Shieldfield, a small neighbourhood on the edge of Newcastle upon Tyne, 100 People celebrates the resiliance and co-ordinated action between ordinary people, often overlooked within our media representations, to reveal a collective model of what could be and how we might get there.
100 People: A Portrait of Co-Existence is a feature film that combines conversations between residents and workers, diverse in age, ethnicity, and economic background to present a collective spirit of everyday solidarity emerging in the residential neighbourhood of Shieldfield.
Directed by Andrew Wilson, filmed by Evripidis Karydis, and with an original score from cellist Ceitidh Mac and composer Anna Hughes, 100 People is a poetic, funny and often moving reflection on our industrial past, precarious present, and the potential of an everyday collective-resistance.
As well as a feature film, the 100 People project has produced an exhibition, a folk song, an experimental and democratic protocol for recording/archiving, and a community archive collectively owned and managed by the community co-operative Dwellbeing Shieldfield.
FEATURING:
Ada E Kennedy
Albie Porter
Andrew Wilson
Father Allan Marks
Bara Albaqali
Caitlin Jones
Cheung Kwan-Lam
Colin Gray
Dan Russell
David Foggo
Edyta Czarnecka
Elaine Robertson
Emily Paxton
Gail Morgan
Hannah Kirkham
Hannah Paxton
Helia Chapiru
Ian Jackson
Jack Hutchinson
Jill Holder
John Armstrong
Jon Rippon
Jude Navolu
Kaltouma Hassaballa
Katy White
Ken Mallon
Kim Fewell
Klayton Da Silva Batisa
Lucas Ferguson-Sharp
Lydia Hiorns
Mahamat Younis
Maria Baronowska
Mia Simmonds
Mick Davies
Michelle Cathey
Mike Jefferies
Rebecca Huggan
Sharon Bousfield
Sophie Paxton
Summer Jenna-Willis
Susan Richrdson
Titi Navolu
Val Middleton
Victoria Doyle
Vit Svarc
Yvonne Marie Hinckesman
DIRECTED, EDITED & PRODUCED BY: Andrew Wilson
FILMED BY: Evripidis Karydis
COMMISSIONED BY: Shieldfield Art Works
MUSIC COMPOSED BY: Ceitidh Mac and Anna Hughes
MUSIC RECORDED BY: Sam Grant at Blank Studios
SOUND MASTERING BY: Callum Howard
ADDITIONAL FILMING FROM: Craig Hawkes and Susie Davies
CREATIVE GUIDANCE FROM: Andrea Luka Zimmerman
ARCHIVAL GUIDANCE FROM: Ali Atkinson-Phillips
ARCHIVAL DEVELOPMENT WITH: Dwellbeing Shieldfield
FUNDED BY:
Arts Council England
Shieldfield Art Works
Newcastle University Engagement & Place Fund
DEDICATED TO THE LOVING MEMORY OF:
John Armstrong (11 Jan 1925 - 14 Sep 2023)
100 People: A Portrait of Co-Existence is part two of the wider 100 PEOPLE project led by artist Andrew Wilson and developed with support from Shieldfield Art Works and Dwellbeing Shieldfield.
As well as a feature film the 100 People project has produced an exhibition, a folk song, an experimental and democratic protocol for recording/archiving, and a community archive collectively owned and managed by the community co-operative Dwellbeing Shieldfield.
As writer, historian and activist, Rebecca Solnit observes: ‘We are not very good at telling stories about a hundred people doing things’
100 PEOPLE asks: ‘What if we tried?’
