Y'DScreen was a unique project which created opportunites for emerging film directors to work with youth dance groups to create four dance films for TV broadcast.  Four directors were selected to work with youth dance groups to create four films, which were co-produced by South East Dance and Youth Dance England, and broadcast by Channel 4 in November 2006 through its 'Three-Minute Wonder' series.

The filmmakers created four individual and remarkable films:

Sergio Cruz with Brighton and Hove's very own B3 Boys . 

Sergio Cruz's film Animalz takes the urban B-Boy skills of Brighton and Hove's B3 Boys into the city's surrounding natural landscapes. Co-choreographed by 'Strictly Dance Fever's' JP Omari, the sixteen 8-14 year old dancers were encouraged to bring out the animal in themselves in their performances. The film was shot on location at Stanmer Park, Devil's Dyke and Telscombe Beach in East Sussex. Estimated audience figures for the Channel 4 Premiere Screening were 2,000,000.

Charlotte Miles on location with 'Young Anjali'

Charlotte Miles' film Do You See Me? produced a performance by Youth Dance Company 'Young Anjali' and followed six friends hanging out in their local town - a place where pedestrian movement becomes dance, and where nothing is quite what it seems. The film offered the viewer an opportunity to see life through the eyes of the dancers through the use of 'Doggicam' - a camera body mount most recently worn by Tom Cruise in 'Mission Impossible 3'. Shot on the dancers home turf, the film brings a little Hollywood to Banbury, and challenges both perception and preconception. Estimated audience figures for the Channel 4 Premiere Screening were 2,500,000.

Craig Viveiros' Stereostep is a molotov cocktail of London's Impact and Birmingham's Tru Street Dancers.

Craig Viveiros' Stereostep unites London's Impact and Birmingham's Tru Street Dance to form a fifty-strong dance group. The film creates a literal and satirical journey through a landscape of contemporary street culture, using an apparently continuous tracking shot and a crew and cast approaching 100 people. Estimated audience figures for the Channel 4 Premiere Screening were 2,000,000.

In Susanna Wallin's Night Practice, the seven dancers from Coventry's Kombat Breakers are seen hanging out on a floodlit football pitch at night. There is no coach to be seen and the film explores the undirected energy that comes from being able to do whatever you want. Shot on a pitch in the middle of the night in Coventry, 'Night Practice' combines the structure of meticulous training with simple magical wonder. Estimated audience figures for the Channel 4 Premiere Screening were 2,000,000.

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