Open i: Digital Filmaking Project by Youth with Disabilities
Sponsor: Pacific Cinematheque Education Department and G.F. Strong Youth Programmes, Pacific/Yukon Studio of the NFB/Access NFB
Open i is an innovative youth-mentored digital filmmaking program for youth with disabilities between the ages of 14 and 24.
The Open i project will enable a group of youth with disabilities to communicate their ideas and experiences by providing them with media-production skills, and to provide a resource for the broader community about an issue of importance, told from the perspective of youth with disabilities. Filmmakers from the National Film Board’s AccessNFB project and Pacific Cinematheque instructors and youth mentors—both with and without disabilities—will work with participants to develop the skills needed to realize their creative visions.
Pacific Cinematheque, in partnership with the NFB Pacific & Yukon Studio, will offer six digital filmmaking programs to youth with disabilities who are engaged in different aspects of community life—arts, sports, activism, et cetera.
The final videos, along with a short documentary illustrating the process that went into making the videos, will form an omnibus piece that will be screened at a public Youth Symposium on Media and Disabilities in the fall of 2006, and will be accompanied by a study guide for classroom use. Selected pieces will also be shown at FlickStarts, BC s first disabilities-related film festival in the fall of 2007.
Contact Information
- Pacific Cinematheque
Contact: Analee Weinberger
analee.weinberger@cinematheque.bc.ca
- G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre
Contact: Duncan Campbell
dcampbel@vanhosp.bc.ca
- Youth Representative
Contact: Max
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