Boys and Girls   BOYS and GIRLS are two, fifty minute documentaries about inner city childhood set in and around the notorious Kingsmead Estate in Hackney, East London. Director Paddy Wivell strikes up intimate, funny and revealing relationships with a group of 10 and 11 year old children all attending the local primary school.     JORDAN Wivell centres on an extraordinary 10 year old called Jordan. Articulate and loving Jordan lives with his Mum, Lorraine. Through circumstance theirs is an immensely close relationship. Jordan suffers painful emotional consequences for having never known his father (now in Prison on the Isle of Wight) and for having witnessed recent and terrible domestic violence at home. He continually tries to make his world a happier place by trying to bring together Paddy and his teacher, Liza who he adores. However as time progresses and the situation at home worsens Jordan struggles to contain his fear and anguish. The violence Jordan has seen at home, he replicates in the playground. CARLA Focuses on a group of 11 year old, year six girls. This film charts their final year at Kingsmead School and their transfer from primary to secondary. This isn’t so much about school life as about the change from childhood to the beginning of adolescence. The dynamics of the group are keenly observed and three girls emerge to tell us what it means to be 11 and a girl. Maame a leader and sometime tyrant. Jade, ordinary and desperate to belong yet at times ostracised by Maame and her gang. Finally, an extremely troubled child loathed and taunted by all children. While the other girls share their childhood, Carla is forced to take refuge in her stories and with her benign head teacher Trisha. It’s a world of shifting allegiances where friendship can turn in a moment on a well-timed whisper, cut eyes or sucked teeth. It’s a film about belonging.