About Us
Turn Flicks
Turn Flicks is a Scottish charitable Incorporated organization with the purpose for the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture and education within the African Scottish community.
We strive to create an enabling environment where under-represented and undiscovered talents come together to try their hand at content creation, film, TV media productions, fashion, make-up, dance and new digital media.
We generate opportunities for young Black creatives that will help them gain both soft and hard skills in and out of the workplace, and offer mentoring and supportive opportunities that help them develop their confidence and creativity.
Our activities include creating cultural, educational, entertaining, inspiring and creative activities for people within the African Scottish community
We recognise that young creatives of African descent are often under-represented within the arts sector. We also recognise the many barriers that these young people face.
There is a distinct lack of diversity within the Creative Industries across all levels, and the young people who are part of our programmes simply do not have access to mentors, opportunities, and activities where they feel that their own culture, heritage and voices are represented.
Many of our young people come from areas experiencing disadvantage, and the pressure to take on other work means they feel they cannot pursue a career or interest in the creative industries. We are seeking to change that.
How do we do this?
We offer up our skills, time and leadership as creatives from African descent to create a skills exchange programme, where young people can try their hand, often for the first time, at skills such as script writing, filming, editing, and content production.
We have access to some filming equipment, and put on film productions, screenings, festivals and events within the local community. At all times, we centre the voices of our young, up and coming creatives, ensuring they feel represented and have agency within the project.
Our Mission
To advance the Arts, Heritage, Culture and Education.
Our Vision
To enable human development and wealth creation for Africans in Scotland, through the power of creativity, digital media, theatre, and film.
We deliver comprehensive projects in the form of:
– High Definition Cinema/Film, – Commercials, – Music Videos, – Documentaries, – Corporate Events Coverage, and – Personal Video's including weddings, promo and training videos.
More about Turn Flicks
We are a SCIO registered organization driven by passion for the advancement of the Arts, Heritage, Culture and Education through the formation of a network where undiscovered & less privileged talents come together to create and try their hands on Film & TV productions in order to gain practical experience in film-making, Podcasting, editing, photography, music & audio production, fashion design, makeup artistry, graphics design and digital new media etc.
Turn Flicks is the first organisation making Nollywood films in Scotland. Nollywood – a film industry based in English-speaking Africa, specifically Nigeria, established in the 1990s as a commercial alternative to the traditional Francophile cinema. A typical Nollywood film tells the story that relates directly to the daily strives of its audience.
Nollywood is the cinema of Nigeria and has metamorphosed into a $5billion industry in one of the world's poorest countries by creating something out of nothing.
We aim to adopt the Nollywood strategy to grow the African creative community in Scotland and use this medium to create wealth and improve lives of African Diaspora in Scotland.
We engage the African, Scottish and other ethninc minority groups from Scotland to tell unique African-UK based stories and showcase the diaspora in Scotland to the established Nollywood market and audience while showcasing Afro-Scottish Culture, talents and delivering positive motivating life messages. We also work closely with Scottish organizations interested in showing internationally recognised films from Africa to Scottish audiences.
As a creative organisation we use the media of film to develop and improve soft and hard skills to create career based opportunities in the creative industry and the wider community. We also use film as a tool to highlight, educate, build confidence, promote personal development and inform the community on many of the challenging issues still faced in society, as a means of confronting, challenging and empowering positive change.
In addition to our own consumer targeted UK-Nollywood film productions, we embark on film and video productions for the wider communities and individuals that is uniquely positioned through our previous and current works and our strategic relationships with creative organisations such as Africa in Motion Film Festival, GMAC skills & talent development center Glasgow, Scottish ScreenWriters, African Forum Scotland, Next Step Initiative and many other private businesses and individuals to mention a few.
We engage our relationship with these organisations to harness a pool of undiscovered talents in Scotland.
Turn Flicks is currently leveraging these relationships to deliver media services in order to build a brand, develop talented networks, and gain revenue to support future media productions. Our community based relationships help us to truly understand the needs of the businesses we work with to be able to deliver bespoke video solutions for greater impact.
We deliver High Definition cinema/film, commercials, music videos, documentaries, corporate event coverages including weddings, training videos etc.
Turn Flicks, specializes in high definition (1080p) video production for TV broadcast, internet distribution, promotion etc. Companies, Corporate Organizations, Recording Artists, Bands, Choir and Individuals world wide have fun working with us. We deliver projects on film, video, motion graphics, time-lapse, 3D animation. We also go the extra mile to carry out underwater filming to give your video the extra niche it deserves.
We engage the latest technology, tested and trusted talents with years of production experience as cast and crew members. Turn Flicks is dedicated to writing, directing, shooting, and editing feature films, commercials and music videos.
Turn Flicks understands business needs and delivers bespoke video solutions to give your investment the extra boost it deserves.