The winning team of Jill Evans MEP’s DVD competition this week (11-12 July) travelled to Brussels with a Camerman and Director from the Pop Factory to film ‘A week in the life of Jill Evans MEP’- a DVD that Jill will then use as part of her presentations to schools and youth clubs across Wales. The students filmed Jill at work in a Women’s Rights committee discussing people trafficking, and they also filmed her at work with constituents attending the European Parliament.

Jessica Jenkins, from Porth Community School and a member of the winning team said:

"Making the DVD is a very exciting experience. We filmed Jill travelling from Wales at 4am in the morning to start her work at the European Parliament that day! Her working day is very interesting and has made me realise the importance of the work that she does for Wales in the European Parliament. I am the interviewer and presenter for the DVD, and I have really enjoyed the experience. We want to make politics interesting for young people."

* DVD winners Jessica Jenkins, Daniel Baker and Matthew Dentus with Jill Evans MEP, Lleucu Meinir (Director of the DVD), Tobi Davies (Camerman), and Bethan Jenkins (Jill Evans’s Political Assistant) outside the European Parliament in Brussels.

Daniel Baker, another member of the film-making team said,

"I had the chance to film at the European Parliament and it was a great opportunity. I am interested in film-making, and this experience will be very useful for me for the future. We will be filming Jill’s work in Wales, and then we will edit and produce the DVD at the Pop Factory. The DVD will show politics from our perspective, and issues that are important to young people. We did find politics quite boring before going to Brussels, but having the chance to follow Jill’s work and see what she does has really changed our minds, and made us see that we can make a difference through campaigning."

Jill added,

"I am pleased that the students are getting so much out of the experience of filming my work. It was great to see them filming in Brussels and throwing themselves in to the project. We need to be engaging with young people about politics in this creative, accessible way so that they can take part in political activities and campaigns as opposed feeling that they cannot access politics at all. I’m sure the finished DVD will be superb, and I look forward to showing the DVD to young people all over Wales."

The DVD will be completed in time for its launch at Plaid’s National Conference in September where it will be screened for the first time.

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