Community and Youth Projects
LIFT provides a space for communities to produce representations on their own terms. Each community collaboration works with LIFT’s professional equipment, facilities and member resources to assist social justice, education, arts and other non-profits in training their constituents to make media and produce the media content they need within often limited budgets.
The Cree Regional Youth Film and Video Collective: Conference and WorkshopSaturday 10 August 2013, 00:00Eight artists will travel to Wemindji, Quebec in northern Quebec to work with Cree youth from the region. Participants will work alongside the artists to harness the power of storytelling and collectively create an original script and make a short film. The artists will share their work and stories with the youth. Shirley Cheechoo a well establishe”… more |
EXTENDED DEADLINE—Indigenous Routes 2013: Call for Native ParticipantsTuesday 2 July 2013, 00:00Call for Participants for Indigenous Routes: Natives OnlineOnline and Mobile Development Commission The Indigenous Routes Collective is currently looking for two Ontario-based indigenous artists for a commission to produce new web or mobile-based applications, games, and/or sites reflecting native culture. This project is open to all ind”… more |
Springtide Resources Inc: Family MattersSunday 14 April 2013, 00:00This 3 week program brought together queer and trans spectrum youth to explore and express their relationships to family – real or imagined, of origin or chosen through art-based activities; particularly looking at the impact family experiences can have on our ability to form and sustain healthy and loving relationship to self and others through di”… more |
ReelWorld Film Festival: ReelYouthWednesday 10 April 2013, 00:00LIFT partnered with ReelWorld to present ReelYouth, a media literacy workshop for elementary school students, lead by Sarah Rotella. ReelYouth includes short film and animation screenings, as a means for encouraging young minds to think and speak about issues like diversity and identity in an open and creative environment. Dedicated to bringing cin”… more |
Female Eye Film Festival: 4th Young Filmmaker Development WorkshopWednesday 24 October 2012, 00:00The 4th Young Filmmaker Development Workshop brought together eight emerging indigenous female filmmakers to create Super 8mm films. LIFT provided equipment, technical support, and workshop space. Leslie Supnet facilitated Super 8mm and digital editing workshops. Projects were overseen by mentors Leslie Ann Coles, Jules Koostchin, Elizabeth Lazbeni”… more |
Ekran Polish Film Festival: Intensive Film WorkshopSunday 21 October 2012, 00:00This 3 day intensive hands on workshop run by local filmmaker Rafal Sokolowski covered screenwriting, cinematography, and post-production. Throughout the workshop participants collaborated on the production of a short film that was screened at the Closing Gala of The Toronto Polish Film Festival. This 3 day intensive hands on workshop run by local”… more |
Resonate: Youth Multimedia ExhibitionThursday 18 October 2012, 00:00Presented by imagineNATIVE, Gallery 44 and curated by Amanda Strong, Resonate: Youth Multimedia Exhibition brings together four unique Indigenous youth collaborations between Media Creatorz, 7th Generation Image Makers, New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), and Presented by imagineNATIVE, Gallery 44 and curated by Amanda Strong, Resonate: Youth Mult”… more |
7th Generation Image MakersMonday 6 August 2012, 00:00Over the course of one month eight indigenous youth were mentored in photography resulting in a series of self-portraits. Through Gallery 44 and LIFT facilities youth participants were exposed to photography basics, conceptual process and developed software skills in Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. The process provided a space for participants t”… more |
Media CreatorzSaturday 2 June 2012, 00:00Seven Indigenous youth were invited to create short Super 8 films. Participants worked with mentor filmmakers John Hupfield, Amanda Strong and Miles Turner to write, direct, shoot and edit a short film on Super 8mm film and edited with Final Cut provided by LIFT. Workshops took place over the course of four weekends. Seven Indigenous youth were inv”… more |
Indigenous RoutesTuesday 12 June 2012, 00:00The Indigenous Routes Collective coordinated an eight-week intensive training project partnering professional media artists with seven indigenous youth to collaboratively produce an interactive documentary for web-based dissemination. LIFT partnered with Indigenous routes to provide training and facilities. Participants included, Cheyenne Scot”… more |