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.
SEEkers: SKETCH Working ArtsThursday 3 April 2014, 00:00SEEkers was an initiative developed through SKETCH Working Arts. It was an animation training session engaging young new comer women and women who have new comer experiences between the ages of 23 to 29. Together we studied and developed storyboards, learned the basics of the camera and shooting, played with various types of materials, and co”… more |
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LIFT announces participants of Filmmentor ProgramTuesday 8 July 2014, 00:00LIFT ANNOUNCES THE START OF OUR FILMMENTOR PROGRAM MENTORING EIGHT EMERGING FEMALE FILMMAKERS OVER THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS LIFT ANNOUNCES THE START OF OUR FILMMENTOR PROGRAM MENTORING EIGHT EMERGING FEMALE FILMMAKERS OVER THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS Back Row: (L-R) Filmmentor Faciliator Mary Daniel, Laura White, Jade Blair, Jaene Castr”… more |
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Call for Applications: Filmmentor for Female FilmmakersFriday 16 May 2014, 10:00CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: FILMMENTOR Creative and Professional Training for Aspiring Female Filmmakers CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: FILMMENTOR Creative and Professional Training for Aspiring Female Filmmakers May 16, 2014—There is a dearth of women’s voices in independent dramatic filmmaking. The Filmmentor pro”… more |
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Young Diplomats: Film Program for Ethiopian / Eritrean GirlsSaturday 10 May 2014, 00:00YD’s Film Program Participants in LIFT’s Board Room. Young Diplomats: Empowering Ethiopian Youth (aka “Young Dips” aka “YD”) is a registered non-for-profit, youth-led organization committed to inspiring, mobilizing and empowering Ethiopian youth since 2006. YD’s Film Program Participants in LIFT’s Board Room. Young Diplo”… more |
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DIY Filmmaking Techniques – Residency at Artscape Gibraltar PointFriday 4 April 2014, 00:00HANDMADE MOVIES: DIY FILMMAKING TECHNIQUESResidency at Artscape Gibraltar PointJune 2014, Toronto HANDMADE MOVIES: DIY FILMMAKING TECHNIQUESResidency at Artscape Gibraltar PointJune 2014, Toronto This hands-on workshop, appropriate for absolute beginners and small-gauge film fanatics alike, will focus”… more |
Big Questions, Small FilmsWednesday 1 May 2013, 00:00Over the course of the program, participants connected with professional filmmakers, learnt career-building video production and editing skills, created short documentary films for submission to the 2013 Regent Park Film Festival, and planned a community showcase event. Most importantly, they asked, explored, and answered big quest”… more |
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 |