mediaco-op's documentary MULTIPLE goes on tour in Taiwan in October 2009, as part of the Taiwan Disability Film Festival



The festival tours to six cities over two months, with 15 free screenings in each city.

Festival selectors praised the film's humour and spirit. "MULTIPLE is a Scottish story that reaches out across different cultures to raise powerful issues of disabled people's rights."

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mediaco-op is helping Scotland's largest independent co-op to celebrate its 150th birthday.



Scotmid has commissioned a special DVD to mark its 150th Anniversary.

In addition, a staff induction DVD and recruitment web-clips - focussing the co-operative values and principles that have survived intact for 150 years.

mediaco-op's Inigo Garrido is working with young people on a participatory evaluation DVD for "Roars not Whispers".

Roars not Whispers is an Oxfam Scotland / Scottish Youth Parliament initiative, training young people across Scotland in active citizenship and peer leadership.

Inigo is teaching one group of people with disabilities in Stirling, and another group of asylum-seekers and local teenagers in Royston, how to use video cameras to record and evaluate their own experience of the project.

'The Boy from Geogia',  mediaco-op's feature documentary in development, was selected from hundreds of proposals from all over the world for the Scottish Documentary Institute's prestigious  "Edinburgh Pitch".



Aimara Reques presented an ambitious film project to be directed by Bafta-winner Steve Sklair, unpicking the politics of charity around a Scottish woman’s attempts to rescue a disabled boy from a Georgian orphanage.

The Edinburgh Pitch took place alongside the Edinburgh Film Festival with participation from international TV channels.

mediaco-op’s documentary RED OIL has been selected for the Tri Continental Human Rights Film Festival in South Africa in September 2009.

This latest festival outing follows TV broadcasts on Channel4, Al Jazeera, SBS Australia, Norway and Finland; and packed screenings in London at a Venezuela event attended by Tony Benn.

Aimara Reques with Tony Benn, and Lucinda Broadbent at London screening.