A LIMERICK-based social enterprise has launched the second year of its storytelling programme, The WideShot.
GORM Media, set up by University of Limerick graduate Mamobo Ogoro, will run The WideShot for the second consecutive year, which gives people from a diverse range of backgrounds a chance to tell their stories through digital multimedia.
The programme is open to people aged between 18 and 25, with a particular focus on voices from a migrant background.
Founder and CEO of GORM Mamobo Ogoro said that The WideShot aims to unify voices from all sorts of multicultural backgrounds.
“We’re absolutely thrilled for the second year of the WideShot Programme. With a growing urgency to highlight diverse stories and unify across differences through the art of storytelling this programme is now needed more than ever,” she said.
“At GORM, our mission is to unify across differences through intercultural consultancy and engagement in the creative sector, and this programme not only enables young individuals from ethnically diverse backgrounds to tell their stories through the medium of creative media, it provides pathways for an industry that needs to truly represent contemporary Ireland.”
The WideShot is supported by charity partners Doras, Limerick West Resources, as well as Screen Ireland’s Screen Stakeholders Funding Scheme, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth’s National Anti-Racism Fund and offers workshops, training, mentorship and interactive events.
Anyone interested in applying for this year’s The WideShot programme can do so on GORM Media’s website, with the deadline for applications on April 7.
