Welcome to UK Jewish Film’s exciting, new, intergenerational teaching and learning resource Hackney Roots. Designed to be used in the classroom, youth club or simply at home with your family, the activities are based on carefully chosen film clips, still images and other stimulus material portraying Jewish life in Hackney and the East End.
Central to the project is a focus on intergenerational conversation and how film can capture and represent these dialogues. We hope Hackney Roots will inspire you to experiment with film as a way to create meaning, as stimulus to developing your critical, analytical skills and as a mode of personal, creative expression.
Educators’ Notes highlight curriculum relevance and offer guidance to using Hackney Roots with young people.
Interviews with Jewish Hackney residents
Recorded interviews with members of Hackney’s orthodox Charedi community
Filmed interviews with Lord Levy and stimulus about Hackney synagogues
A gallery of images and winning films from Hackney Roots filmmaking competition 2014
The concept of representation
Sixty Six
The Vanishing Street
The Bar Mitzvah Boy
The concept of identity
From Cable Street to Brick Lane
The 10th Man
Battle of Cable Street
The concept of genre
Sixty Six
The Bar Mitzvah Boy
The Vanishing Street
Activities for young people
How to do an interview
Different types of shot used
How to edit a film
We welcome your feedback on Hackney Roots so whether you’re a teacher, a youth worker or a young person, please let us know what you think as your views will help to inform further development of this and other UKJF education projects.
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