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.
LIFT: FilmGateSunday 1 June 2008, 00:00From June through July 2008, LIFT offered a youth mentoring project, with participants referred from various youth service organizations around Toronto. This full-time six-week program provided a group of eight at-risk youth with resources, instruction in film production and a modest stipend. The participants each produced their own short film as w”… more |
Female Eye Film Festival: Student Super 8 Filmmaking WorkshopFriday 18 February 2011, 00:00Sponsored by the Female Eye Film Festival, LIFT and ANDPVA, the Student Super 8 Filmmaking workshop allows eight emerging indigenous female filmmakers to create a film on Super 8 film. The works were overseen by mentors Jules Koostchin, Amanda Strong and Peggy Anne Burton and premiered at the WARC Gallery as part of the Female Eye Film Festival kic”… more |
Chinese Canadian National Council: Toronto ChapterSaturday 18 June 2011, 00:00Facilitated by LIFT, participants shot interviews for a public awareness campaign to challenge assumptions as to what a Canadian looks like or what makes up Canadian culture. The ten youth participants will create short videos bringing attention to the idea that who is considered Canadian and who isn’t, is often arbitrary and racist. Chinese Canadi”… more |
Media CreatorZ 2010Tuesday 14 December 2010, 00:00Participants learned basic filmmaking skills and created a short film with Media Creatorz. Workshops were hosted by Aboriginal filmmakers Miles Turner and Amanda Strong. The Media CreatorZ project involves a series of weekly workshops for ten Native youth in Toronto on the topic of contemporary storytelling. This project provided youth with f”… more |
St. Alban’s: The ShiftThursday 9 June 2011, 00:00The Shift worked at LIFT to give their youth participants an understanding of editing on Final Cut Pro and hands on learning with the software. With the help of LIFT facilities, the youth learned quickly and worked diligently to create the first cut of their own documentary they had shot the previous week. Working at individual Final Cut work”… more |
Tourette Syndrome Foundation Of Canada: It’s Your MoveMonday 2 May 2011, 00:00The Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada worked with LIFT to record voice-overs for the It’s Your Move program. Voice-over will be used online to make the program more accessible for those who learn through hearing rather than reading. The Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada worked with LIFT to record voice-overs for the It’s Your Move”… more |
Workman ArtsThursday 5 May 2011, 00:00Over three sessions, LIFT instructors taught fundamental camera, sound and lighting skills to members of Workman Arts undertaking their own video projects. Workman Arts Founded in 1988 the Workman Arts Project of Ontario (Workman Arts) on the principle that the creative process is integral to the quest for personal and spiritual development.”… more |
Parkdale Youth Festival WorkshopSaturday 1 August 2009, 00:00LIFT facilitated a cameraless animation workshop and screening for twenty youth as a part of the 2009 Parkdale Youth Festival. LIFT supplied participants with training, technical consulting and equipment towards creating cameraless animation films. LIFT facilitated a cameraless animation workshop and screening for twenty youth as a part of the 2009″… more |
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health: Rendez-Vous with MadnessSunday 1 November 2009, 00:00LIFT supported an all-inclusive Super 8 filmmaking workshop for the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health. Six participants each created a film project from start to finish. Participants learned basic camera theory, shot with Super 8mm cameras and edited the films digitally. Finished films screened at the Rendez-Vous with Madness Film Festival.”… more |
Grey Bruce Arts Collective: Meaford Youth Film StudioTuesday 1 June 2010, 00:00Grey Bruce Arts Collective facilitates a youth filmmaking course in the Meaford area. LIFT provided equipment and mentorship for participants. The students completed 15 films for this education and outreach project. Grey Bruce Arts Collective Grey Bruce Arts Collective facilitates a youth filmmaking course in the Meaford area. LIFT provided”… more |