The third of seven fascinating and thought-provoking films produced by viewers of the Tyne Tees Television news programme North East Tonight presenting a range of thoughts, hopes, dreams and fears about moving into a new millennium. In this film written by Subhadassi from Newcastle who explores how the millennium has equal relevant to everyone, highlighting the diversity of people across the Northeast. A montage of people of various ethnicities walking around the centre of Newcastle coming...

The third of seven fascinating and thought-provoking films produced by viewers of the Tyne Tees Television news programme North East Tonight presenting a range of thoughts, hopes, dreams and fears about moving into a new millennium. In this film written by Subhadassi from Newcastle who explores how the millennium has equal relevant to everyone, highlighting the diversity of people across the Northeast. A montage of people of various ethnicities walking around the centre of Newcastle coming in and out of focus. A woman walking along Gosforth High Street near to Trinity Church and as she approaches the camera asks ‘whose millennium is this anyway?’ Attached to the churches sign a temporary one that reads ‘Whose Millennium?’ A stained-glass window inside a church, in the foreground a Buddhist statue changes to a young South-East Asian woman walking through Newcastle’s China Town. She turns and stares at the camera, in voiceover a woman asks is it her millennium? Pedestrians walking along Northumberland Street and a young South Asian man walking past. Again, he turns and looks directly at the camera as he passes. In voiceover a woman’s voice states that perhaps it’s not his millennium either. The pedestrians on Northumberland Street changes to the Buddhist statue seen previously and a woman standing beside a nearby Christmas tree. In voiceover the woman says that she isn’t a Christian, but if she was, she wouldn’t want to celebrate Jesus’s 2000th birthday this way. Ripples on water with the woman saying that it is midwinter and time to take a break, look back on the year’s mistakes with honesty. Blurred images of people walking past changes to the South-East Asian woman seen previously who again turning and staring at the camera. A montage of feet walking along a pavement with the woman in voiceover thinking of people around the world wishing everyone of different faiths well this millennium. Again, the South Asian man turns and looks at the camera. A final montage featuring the Buddhist statue along with the South-East Asian woman and South Asian man now staring directly into the camera. With a smile the woman on Gosforth High Street states that ‘we won’t be around for the next one to change anything’ with the film ending on ripples on water.