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Directed by Lucy Purdon Camera - Samantha Williams A mobility scooter, a travel ban and one man's fight for independence. Michael Clark takes on Newcastle's Metro system in a single handed protest to restore train access for mobility scooter users. This film was made through the ISIS production and training initiative. ISIS is a groundbreaking documentary production and training initiative designed to produce great human rights films and give talented women directors the skills they need to get ahead in the industry. Sixteen emerging female filmmakers were trained over three months in preparation for the production of three human rights films which were finished in May 2009. ISIS has been run by the Documentary Filmmakers Group (DFG) the UK’s leading provider of training in documentary filmmaking, in partnership with the British Institute of Human Rights.The three finished short documentaries mad e by ISIS participants deal with children’s rights, disabled access to transport and the rights of parents with learning difficulties. The initiative ran over a series of weekends in the first half of 2009. As part of the course ISIS training course, participants developed and pitched their proposal for short documentaries on current human rights issues and three were selected to go into production. The documentaries produced by participants as part of the ISIS programme were executive-produced and edited by practicing broadcast professionals.For more information about BIHR please visit: http://www.bihr.org.ukFor more information about DFG please visit: http://www.dfgdocs.com

• Release Date

  Jun 11, 2009

• Runtime

  13:23