#ChooseHopeStory

Two weeks feels a bit like half a decade at the moment, but about two weeks into the lockdown I answered a call by Muse Storytelling to collaborate on a community film project as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. As 250 of us talked together on the first Zoom chat we realised that although we were largely experiencing this separately, there was a lot of experiences that we were encountering that were the same. The anxiety, the feeling of uselessness whilst perhaps some of our family and friends were front line health or key workers literally facing life and death. We wanted to do something, to help formulate a sense of community and hope within the panic buying and fear. And being visual creatives we felt a need to document this historic moment. However, we were all largely stuck inside our homes, unable to go outside and film. It was an intriguing problem and one that we solved together. Together we brainstormed ideas, then we each filmed 3 scenes and then sent the footage off to Oregon to be edited together into the short film above. It was a wonderful lesson in how people from all over the globe can have a common goal and work together to create something greater than each one could individually. Please watch the film and share.