Three months ago BBC East Midlands ran a competition to find five budding film-makers with a story to tell. We asked for ideas which reflected the people and communities of the East Midlands - for stories which would give us a glimpse of the East Midlands Untold. Each film-maker was paired up with a BBC mentor who helped them plan, script and storyboard their film. They then worked together to film and edit the two minute stories you can see here. Each film gives a glimpse of people and communities who rarely have a voice on air. The films air over five days from Monday April 16 at 1.40pm on BBC1 and as part of BBC East Midlands Today at 1830. They will also be screened at local cinemas, the Metro (Derby), the Phoenix (Leicester) and the Broadway (Nottingham). The five films are: Nottingham's Child | | A Nottingham child tells his story |
Nottingham's Child explores a moment in time, when each of us comes into the world, kicking and screaming. We all remember the date, of course, but everything else is up for grabs. The untold stories. The day of the week, the time, the place, the weather; what was on TV, in the news or in in the charts? In Nottingham's Child, members of the Lace Market Youth Theatre, aged 11-17, tell us their untold stories, in two minutes and in verse. Living on Board | | Welcome aboard |
Recreation and wildlife - the River Trent provides these in abundance. Less well known is the habitat the river offers a community of liveaboards – people who make boats – their home all year round. Liveaboard is filmed at Beeston Marina, Nottingham, on a wet winter's day in near flood conditions. Welcome aboard! Spinney Hill | | Oscar Frank at Spinney Hill |
Spinney Hill is a poem inspired by Oscar Frank's memories of leaving his Island home of Barbuda, a small island paradise in the Leeward Islands in the Eastern Caribbean and immigrating with his family to Leicester. Enclosed and unaccustomed to the 'Concrete Jungle' of life in the city streets, Oscar and his friends found a little reminder of their former home in Spinney Hill Park's green open spaces. Those memories of his youth went on to inspire the poem 'To Spinney Hill' which Oscar wrote and performs in this film. Italian rootsArt teacher Thomas Galli may look and sound English, but he was born in Italy to an Italian father and English mother.  | | Tom with his friends |
Brought up in the East Midlands, he's always felt his Italian roots strongly. He says there's no problem being both Italian and British, in fact he thinks his life is richer because of it. Enjoy the sights, sounds and passion of Nottingham's English-Italian community. Who am I?Who am I? That's the question asked by community film-maker Dharmista Panchal.  | | Dharmista |
Dharmista - who grew up in, was educated in, and now works in Leicester - asks what is her identity. She's British, but she also has Indian heritage. Just to complicate matters, her older relatives (mum, dad, uncles aunts) speak Swahili Gujarati….because THEY all grew up in East Africa - many leaving Uganda in 1972. So is she British? Indian? African!? In her film she tries to work out just WHO she is! | 
