- Title: People First: Colour Me Loud
- Date: 30th June 1994
- Summary: Kevin Chettle relives the harrowing experience of 20 years in hospital through his expressive paintings. His colours, as he says, used to be simply grey and black inside - and with reason. He entered hospital when he was eight years old, having lost his mother when he was four. His father died in a mining accident. Self-advocacy - the subject of COLOUR ME LOUD which was made in collaboration with people with learning difficulties - is about the qualities that Kevin and other people with these difficulties are demanding and acquiring: however, confidence and assertion, speaking up for themselves, whether in words, signs or pictures. Self-advocacy is also the key to a new vigorous movement. Up and down the country people with learning difficulties are organising a network of empowerment groups which are insisting on change.
- Description:Members of the PEOPLE FIRST organisation who have learning difficulties make their own film about helping themselves and each other.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:MENTAL HEALTH MEDIA
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:30/06/1994
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s