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Our Vision

A world in which everyone has equitable access to arts and culture and a means to express themselves creatively with power and agency in their lives and their communities.

Our Mission

To open a safe and accessible community arts and media centre in Gleadless Valley by early 2026, delivering professional media training and creative arts opportunities within a socially inclusive space for people in which we can learn, connect and develop relationships. The centre will offer high-quality creative workshops with a focus on film and photography, a media space to produce and share stories and an exhibition space and shop.

Laura Page is a fILMfAM managing director, artist, photographer, photojournalist and socially engaged practitioner.

Her artwork is a mixture of photography, film, sound and mixed media and she often collaborates with others. Much of her work explores people, society, politics, culture and philosophy.

She works as a socially engaged artist practitioner with people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities, often working with margianlised groups to co-produce high quality artwork.

She photographs and writes articles and reviews for regional, national and international newspapers and magazines.

Laura has fully qualified in all of the National Council for the Training of Journalists’ (NCTJ) National Certificate Examination’s in photojournalism. She also has BA Hons and Masters degrees in philosophy.

She won the Trevor Roberts Award for the best up-and-coming photographer at the Midlands Media Awards and the Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award which funds work that focuses on human stories with a social or political context for her Hidden Depths project. She recently won a Churchill Fellowship to research grassroots community arts in Colombia and Mexico and is currently making a documentary about the work there.

Her work has been exhibited around the UK and abroad.

Jack is a fILMfAM managing director, photographer and community artist from Sheffield, with a specialism in collaborative approaches within photography. He completed an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at University of the Arts, London in June 2024, graduating with Distinction, and now works freelance offering event, family and corporate photography services alongside his community arts practice.

Jack is expert at making photographs with people, working with both film and digital cameras in participative ways to rebalance power structures within photography and around representation more broadly. He believes photographs help us to think and reflect on the human experience, and to interrogate mainstream, reductive representations. Recent work includes The Plough & The Pick, a project exploring farming communities of the Dearne Valley, and Sent North, a collaborative zine project with young Afghan refugees living in a hotel in Doncaster.

Jack brings significant community development experience into his practice, and can offer charitable organisations and community groups a sensitive, empathetic method of working within vulnerable communities, borne out of his 20 years work on community projects around the world.

Brendan is a fILMfAM assistant director, software developer and amateur photographer/film maker.

He moved to Sheffield in 1997 to complete a BSc in Software Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University and afterwards stayed and made Sheffield his home. He moved to Gleadless Valley in late 2007 and has resided here since.

Brendan has been running his own software and web development business since 2003. Helping many small businesses with their IT and Internet needs over the years. This has covered a wide variety of sectors including hairdressers, gyms, industrial manufacturing, holiday booking and travel, and even the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

He has had deep interest in photography and film making as a hobby for most of his life, starting with his first camera when he was 5 years old. Later in 2011 joining You Tube and creating over 500 videos. Now he has joined fILMfAM to try and improve his skills and make community connections with other locals sharing similar interests.