Low-paid women workers from UNISON stormed the Scottish Parliament, with the results of their own participatory research on the impact of low pay. UNISON activists used a game show devised by Fair Pley to make their point, with MSPs taking part and mediaco-op filming the fun.

Sean Connery featured in CO-OPERATING ON SCREEN, mediaco-op's celebration of the UK’s first-ever Co-operatives Fortnight, with a screening of our film about the Scottish co-op that gave Sean Connery his first job.

"There IS an alternative" was the theme of the event at Glasgow Film Theatre, presented by Alison Peebles

Sponsored by Glasgow worker's co-op Green City and the Co-op Group.

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Behind the scenes in the Glasgow Film Theatre projection booth.

Rape Crisis Scotland held a special preview of their new DVD by mediaco-op, MAKING RECOVERY A REALITY.

"It's fantastic, absolutely brilliant" commented participants. The DVD summarises Rape Crisis services, with testimonies from women who have got their lives back with the support of Rape Crisis centres across Scotland. "I was so moved and just bowled over by the professionalism of the DVD. They really know what they're doing, these mediaco-op people !"

mediaco-op's Aimara Reques is one of five Scottish-based producer attending the 2010 Hot Docs in Toronto, the biggest international documentary festival in North America. Aimara was selected to participate in Interdoc- a UK programme for documentary producers to access and pitch ideas to the international market

Hillpark School’s Young Co-op teamed up mediaco-op to make a short movie for the UK Film Council’s prestigious ‘First Light Movies’ scheme. Half the pupils are from the school's Autism Unit, and thier film "I Know Her Kind" dramatises the misunderstandings faced by teenagers on the austism spectrum.

They told us they found film-making with mediaco-op's tutors “awesome, inspiring, spectacular, fab, exciting, amazing and fun”.


Julie MacRae, Hillpark teacher and the Young Co-op’s facilitator said "Teamwork can be difficult for young people on the autism spectrum, but the partnership with media co-op gave us a wonderful opportunity to do something much more ambitious than we could have done on our own." The film is due to premiere in June 2010.