A documentary film by Robert Golden on the work of Nigel Osborne, composer, and Professor of Music at Edinburgh University, showing how music in the community and
music therapy help to heal children suffering from secondary war trauma in Bosnia
and other neurological and psychological problems.

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Objective Cinema. The film centres on a children’s summer camp above Sarajevo which Professor Osborne has run for the
last 12 years. Together with numbers of his students, theatre and music practitioners and other music therapists, he helps
the children to develop their own theatre piece. This leads the children into realms of creativity, it develops cognitive skills,
calms them emotionally and enhances their self-confidence. Alpha Woodward, an experienced music therapists, explains to
a group of teenagers from Srebrenica the meaning of secondary trauma and how they may use techniques and skills to help
younger children in their blighted town.

A GIFT OF CULTURE will be of interest to people involved with child psychology, music therapy and cultural development in
both the global north and south as well as giving a general audience insight about the aftermath of war. Included in this
film are three extras:
• an interview with Nigel Osborne
• an interview with Alpha Woodward
• a seminar in which Ms Woodward and Darren Abrahams, a trained singer and theatre practitioner, help a group of young
people from Srebrenica to cope with troublesome children in their theatre group