A film made about Press Association Training’s first video journalism course has won an international film award.
The documentary '8 Days' features journalists from PA, the Hull Daily Mail and the Liverpool Echo as they gather footage of Cleveland police re-enacting a press conference and interviews following a bloody murder.
The film picked up the International Independent Award at the International Video Journalism Awards in Berlin, and was filmed by David Dunkley Gyimah, who ran the course for PA.

David is also a lecturer at Westminster University, and some of the documentary was filmed at PA's base in Howden.
David said of the film: "I usually shoot cold. There wasn't any prep. I rarely have time to prep, I always kind of fly by the seat of my pants.
"You have to be very disciplined and only shoot what you know you are going to use. 8 Days is about 15 minutes long and I only shot a total of about 20 or 30 minutes of material.
"When I film, it's like I'm shooting still pictures."
The film features Hull Daily Mail reporters Katie Knass and Lisa Bingham, sports journalist Charlie Mullan and photojournalist Jack Harland as well as Liverpool Echo multi-media editor John Dempsey.
David's award was one of eight handed out during a three-day festival in Berlin. All the winning films can be seen at www.videomission.com
David has worked in film and broadcast news for 18 years. In 1994 he joined digital TV station Channel One as one of the first NUJ-accredited video journalists and has since worked for the BBC, Channel 4 News, ABC TV News South Africa and WTN.
The Press Association video journalism course is the only programme in the UK designed specifically to retrain existing newsaper staff as video journalists and has attracted worldwide attention.
We have run four courses this year and plan another five in 2007.

Further information on how ‘8 Days’ was videoed can be seen on our website at www.pa-training.co.uk/storyvideolog.html.