Thursday | OCT. 15 WORKSHOPS & PANELS FREE Miles Nadal JCC, 3rd Floor Industry Series Sponsored by
10:00 – 11:45am New (Media) Ways to Tell and Fund Our Stories Who said tradition is in the past? This panel focuses on the ongoing evolution of Indigenous storytelling and the new technological media currently being harnessed by both urban and rural artists. Using interactive production practices, Web sites, virtual reality portals and mobile technology, our panel will provide insight on how artists can fulfill their creative visions in new ways and for new audiences, and how traditional funding bodies can help assist in getting new media projects off the ground. Moderator: Cheryl L’Hirondelle Inter/multidisciplinary Artist and Musician Lisa Baylin Project Manager, Bell New Media Fund, Cogeco Fund, Independent Production Fund
the Gemini Award-winner for Best Writing for the television movie The Many Trials of One Jane Doe; and episodes for dramatic series such as Showtime’s flagship “Queer As Folk” USA, “The Eleventh Hour,” “What It’s Like Being Alone,” “Straight Up,” “Drop the Beat” and “The City.” Karen was named one of Variety magazine’s Top Ten Writers to Watch in 2000, and her accolades include awards from the Toronto International Film Festival, the Canadian Comedy Awards and the Gemini Awards. Karen is a graduate of the Feature Film Screenwriting Residency programme at the Canadian Film Centre, and is currently working on scripts with some of the world’s finest young directors and producers, including Mike Dowse, John Hazlett and Jean-Marc Vallée.
12:30 - 3:00pm Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Road Youth Craft Workshop: Animation for Teens The National Film Board Mediatheque, in partnership with imagineNATIVE, is proud to offer an exclusive, handson animation workshop for teens. Students will have the opportunity to create a short film that explores the theme of self acceptance while experimenting with stop-motion animation using mixed media.
Kevin Burton Filmmaker and Programmer Kat Cizek Documentary and Media Maker, NFB Filmmaker-in-Residence Jason Lewis Digital Media Artist, Software Designer, Founder, Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media Archer Pechawis New Media Artist, Director, Horse
12:00 – 1:45pm Harold Greenberg Screenwriting Workshop: Creative Solutions for a Successful Script Presented by
2:00 – 3:45pm Meet the Buyers: The Inside Scoop Featuring visiting international and Canadian buyers attending this year’s imagineNATIVE Festival, this panel gets down to business to find out exactly what Buyers do and how they work with filmmakers—what programming they are looking for, how much they will pay, what rights they want to secure, where distribution is headed and how it is changing in the digital age. Ending with an informal “meet n’ greet,” this is a great opportunity to learn and ask questions about maximizing your film’s longevity, and revenue for your next work. Moderator: Jason Ryle, Writer, Director, Programmer, imagineNATIVE Board (Chair) João Garção Borges, Programmer and Buyer, ONDA CURTA (Short Wave), RTP2 (TV Public Service of Portugal) (www. rtp.pt) (Portugal)
Lead by multi-award-winning screenwriter Karen Walton, this workshop explores the dramatic screenwriting process from idea to finished script, the challenges of developing the piece into a produced work, and tools to creatively critique and advance a script to completion. Using the experiences from both our presenter and attendees, the workshop aims to foster artistic comradery and creative solutions to bringing a great idea to the screen.
Jeff Forster, VP Production and Station Enterprises, Detroit Public TV Detroit (USA) Georgiana George Lee, Assistant Director, Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc. (www.nativetelecom.org) (USA) Susan Petersen, VP Global Film Sales & Business Development, Shorts International New York (USA) Desiree Single, Manager of Programming, Central Region, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (www.aptn.ca) (CANADA) Shirley Sneve, Director of Radio and Television, Native American Public Telecommunications (www.nativetelecom. org) (USA)
Karen Walton, Screenwriter
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Karen Walton is multiple-award-winning screenwriter whose credits include Canadian cult horror-film hit Ginger Snaps;
For an up-to-date list of our attending Buyer panelists, please visit the “program” section of our 2009 website, www.imaginenative.org
