imagine NATIVE sets tour dates

The imagineNATIVE Northern Ontario Film and Video Tour will be stopping in Thunder Bay, Timmins, Moose Factory, Moosonee and Fort Albany.
Workshops will be held in all but Moose Factory and Moosonee.
The tour will provide communities accessibility to Indigenous-made work that may not otherwise be available to them, explained Jessica Lea Fleming, outreach coordinator for imagineNATIVE.
The Tour encourages youth to explore the creation of film and video through viewing the work and discussion and provides an opportunity to the larger community to experience imagineNATIVE’s Opening Night screening gala outside of the festival.
The Thunder Bay workshop – titled MySpace MyStory – is slated for March 23-24 at the Thunder Bay Indian Friendship Centre. Keesic Douglas, an Ojibway artist from Mnjikaning First Nation, will run the workshop. He specializes in photography and video.
In the workshop, five youth will create a self-portrait video using hand-held technology such as iPods, point-and-shoot cameras or cell phones.
Participants will learn how to create a script, work with lighting, sound, a crew and actors.
Fleming said with the help of the instructor, they will then edit the still photographs or video footage they’ve taken with their hand-held devices to produce a final and complete short film about identity. The completed works will be shown during the film screenings.
For more information, contact Fleming outreach@imagineNATIVE.org.