19yearold Sadie from East Cleveland takes us along a journey from poor mental health through recovery, by documenting images of her travels and her music. After taking a downward spiral during her last year at sixth form college, she recounts how traveling on buses gave her the space to rethink her future and helped her decide to continue living and learning on Teesside.

About the Real Tees Valley Project

Real Tees Valley was a film project run over a year across the five boroughs of the Tees Valley, encouraging young people to use the medium of film to tell their own stories around their experiences of living in the area.

Our young prospective and developing filmmakers worked alongside six professional filmmaker mentors, including a lead mentor filmmaker to make the short films which vary in length from one to ten minutes.

The project explored what place and culture meant to this group and wrote a new narrative for the Tees Valley, away from the traditional headlines of industrial boom and decline, through using real voices to illustrate life in contemporary Teesside directly from those who might carve out its future.

The Real Tees Valley Project was funded by Great Place Tees Valley a Great Place Scheme funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England, working with Historic England run by the Tees Valley Combined Authority on behalf of the communities of the Tees Valley.

Find out more about the Real Tees Valley project here:
https://www.teesvalleyarts.org.uk/pro...

Find out more about the Great Place Tees Valley programme of activity here:
https://www.teesvalleyarts.org.uk/pro...

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