FOR INDEPENDENT MEDIA ARTISTS

This two-day workshop will demonstrate typical project workflows on the latest version of Avid, from digitizing tape-based dailies (such as Betacam and DVCAM) and ingesting file-based formats (such as the EX3's XDCAM EX and RED One's R3D), to creating personalized settings, organizing bins, media management, video resolutions, effects, rough cuts, trimming, adding titles, colour correction, importing, exporting and EDLs, and consolidating projects. Students will become familiar with the industry standard Avid interface and will gain an understanding of how the Avid processes digital media.

The workshop concludes with one week of practice time so that participants can explore their new-found skills.

Basic knowledge of the Mac or Windows platform or previous digital editing experience is recommended.

***Please note: this workshop has been canceled***

INTRODUCTION TO AVID MEDIA COMPOSER
06 + 07 March 2010, 10am-5pm
08-12 March 2010, practice time
Members: $175, Non-members: $225

REGISTRATION: Please call 604.685.3841 or send an electronic message to Leanne at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 03 March 2010

INSTRUCTOR: Jean-Denis Rouette is a Vancouver-based editor and producer for the Knowledge Network.

A monthly reading + discussion group, Thought on Film aims to promote critical thought around film product and practice through community-based discussion. Open to the public, Thought on Film fosters the close reading of texts confronting issues in contemporary, cutting-edge cinematic practice and philosophy.

March’s meeting will feature a selection of theory that has influenced the practice of Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari, whose work will be showing as part of the monthly film series, DIM Cinema. We recommend, but do not insist, that you join us for the screening of Aljarfari’s work on Monday, 08 March, at 7:30pm at the Pacific Cinematheque [1131 Howe].

Part essayistic meditation, part family portrait, The Roof is an eloquent and understated exploration of physical and psychic place in the context of Aljafari’s family history. Returning to his parents’ and grandmother’s homes in Ramleh and Jaffa, now part of Israel, Aljafari uses elegant cinematography, unhurried rhythms, and fragmented narrative to convey how space, time and history have been molded by politics and Israeli institutionalized neglect. The roof of the title is an absent one, on the unfinished house where his family has lived since their resettlement in 1948, and it functions as a place of waiting marked by constant deferral.

Aljafari again draws from the lived experience of his kin in Port of Memory, following the reaction of his family when they receive an order to evacuate their home in Ajami, Jaffa's once-wealthy sea-front neighbourhood. Their lives and those of the other residents are thrown into disarray because they don't have access to the means to effectively fight back. Radically poetic, Port of Memory is a reflection on the absurdity of being at once absent and present, blending the mundane gestures of everyday life and collective memory.

We will read excerpts from the following works:

Edward Said, After the Lost Sky, "Interiors"
Robert Bresson, Notes to the Cinematographer
Ander Mazawi, "Film production and Jaffa's predicament"

Experimenting with the form of reading groups and their discussions, this month’s selection will be read out loud by participants. No pre-reading required!

If you have any questions about Thought on Film, please do not hesitate to contact Programs Manager + Curator cheyanne turions at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

THOUGHT ON FILM XXVI
reading a selection of theory related to the filmmaking practice of Kamal Aljafari
in conjunction with DIM Cinema
Cineworks [1131 Howe, back lane entrance]
Tuesday, 09 March 2010, 6pm
Free

GUIDANCE FOR INDEPENDENT MEDIA ARTISTS

Join instructors Peg Campbell and Walter Quan (from the BC Arts Council) as they delve into the domain of public funding for film and video projects, and grant writing for arts councils.

The morning session will see an overview of the kinds of funding available from the public sector for short films with up-to-date information on guidelines, expectations and application closing dates. The afternoon is hands-on as participants judge a set of three funding applications from a jury’s perspective. The participants will be divided into groups and evaluate the proposals in a mock jury style. After they have made their decisions the instructors will hold a post-mortem with the groups to discuss the results.

This workshop is a great way to see what the funders see in the many applications they receive so that you can make sure yours is among the few that stand out.

GRANTWRITING DEMYSTIFIED
Saturday, 13 March 2010, 10am-5pm
Cineworks [1131 Howe, back lane entrance]
Members: $75, Non-members: $125

REGISTRATION: Please call 604.685.3841 or send an electronic message to Leanne at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 10 March 2010

INSTRUCTORS: PEG CAMPBELL has been directing and producing award winning documentaries and narrative films since 1975.  Her latest film was 2009’s award winning Your Mother Should Know. For over 30 years, Campbell has been active since 1979 in film and video co-operatives and is currently an Associate Professor in the Film, Video + Integrated Media Progamme, Faculty of Culture and Community at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

WALTER QUAN has been Coordinator–Arts Awards Programs at the British Columbia Arts Council for nearly eighteen years.  He is a native Vancouverite who makes lanterns out of used CDs and DVDs; candles that look like sushi;  and knits madly... He is in a long-term relationship with the Queen of Saanich.