Film and New Media Workshops

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Want to raise awareness about the crucial issues of today through the powerful medium of film? You can learn how to do so with the following 5-day workshops led by critically acclaimed filmmakers and new media artists:

For 28 years, the Summer Institute of Film and Television has been bringing aspiring and emerging filmmakers together with some of the most passionate and successful film, television and new media professionals in the country.

Register and pay for any one of the over 20 SIFT 2008 workshops by Tuesday, April 29, and receive a discount on your registration fees.

Beyond your workshop, SIFT features screenings, panel discussions, social functions and networking events scheduled throughout the week.

::Workshops Include::

• INTERVENTIONIST AND PARTICIPATORY MEDIA: Making Documentary Media that Matters
Documentary filmmaker KATERINA CIZEK (Canadian New Media Award recipient)
leads this three-day exploration into building media projects with partners that aim to change worldviews, lives, and policies. Areas of focus include understanding audiences and communities, telling hyper-local documentary stories with universal appeal, and creative financing and outreach.


• Producing for Television with Susan Alexander (Director of Drama Development – Barna Alper Prods, Little Mosque on the Prairie (season 1))
How to develop, finance and run a successful dramatic television production in Canada.

• Insider’s Edge on Producing for Film with Nicholas Tabarrok (Weirdsville, Cooper’s Camera)
Learn all the steps necessary to become a successful producer in feature films.

• Finding Your Voice: Directing for the Camera with Peter Moss (St. Urbain’s Horseman, Scar Tissue)
Work hands-on with actors and camera – learn to create believable performances.

• The Feature Screenplay with Gerald Wexler (St. Urbain’s Horseman, Margaret’s Museum)
Writing for the Big and Small Screen.

• DOCOLOGY: Transforming Ideas Into Images with Peter Wintonick
(Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media)

• Writing for Video Games with Richard Cooper (Creative Director – Artech Studios)
The insider’s guide to breaking into the video game industry.

• Hitting Your Mark with R.H. Thomson (Road to Avonlea, The Englishman’s Boy)
Explore advanced acting techniques and how to deliver your best performance.

For full details on these and our other workshops, visit: www.cstc.ca/sift

Contact information: 1.800.742.6016

Web link for more information: http://www.cstc.ca/sift/sift.asp

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