Archive - Changing Our World: ReFrame High School Program 2010
This year we are going Underground
Archive - Friday, March 5th, 2010
Place: Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School - auditorium, MAC lab (Room 15)
and cafeteria
Who: High School students from Public and Catholic Boards of Education are invited
Cost: Full Day: $8/student (Subsidies Available)
Students should bring lunch or money to buy lunch at the cafeteria or downtown.
Please note: the Wednesday workshops have been cancelled.
Archive - Friday, March 5th, 2010: Underground: A One-Day Film Festival
9:00am: Welcome
9:30am: Six Miles Deep (Sarah Roque, Canada, 2009, 42 min.)
On February 28, 2006, members of the Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the Haudenosaunee or People of the Longhouse) blockade a highway near Caledonia, Ontario to prevent a housing development on land that falls within their traditional territories. The ensuing confrontation makes national headlines for months. But less well known is the crucial role played by the clan mothers of the community – the traditional source of power in the Haudenosaunee Nation. Six Miles Deep is an inspiring and compelling portrait of a group of women whose actions have led a cultural reawakening in their traditionally matriarchal community.
Sara Roque is a multi-talented Metis filmmaker, writer, arts administrator and activist who has been involved in a number of community-based arts and Aboriginal history projects. Her short films have screened at ImagineNative Film Festival and the Splice This! Super8 film festival, and have been broadcast on MuchMusic. She is originally from northern Ontario and currently lives in Toronto. Six Miles Deep is her first documentary.
Question and Answer with Sarah Roque (15 minutes)
10:27am Kanehsatake (Lester Alfonso, Canada, 2009, 6 min.)
Using live video mixing technology to create spontaneous visual associations to sound, Alfonso produced this film using image samples from "Kanehsatake" by filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin and fusing it with an audio track from die Baader-Meinhof Gruppe / Red Army Faction with the same name.
Lester Alfonso is a filmmaker, writer and video artist producing media art and content commercially and independently for over ten years. His work has appeared on CBC’s ZeD TV, Nickelodeon Asia, and TV Ontario. Trying to Be Some Kind of Hero, his award-winning documentary tracing the footsteps of his missing grandfather, was the official selection for more than a dozen film festivals across North America. Made in association with CBC Newsworld, Lester's film Twelve won the National Film Board of Canada’s Reel Diversity competition in 2007.
Question and Answer with Lester Alphonso (15 minutes)
10:48am RIP: A Remix Manisfesto (Brett Gaylor, Canada, 2009, 55 min. excerpt)
Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy?
Brett Gaylor is a documentary filmmaker and new media director. He is the creator of opensourcecinema.org, a video remix community which supports the production of his feature documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto. He is also the web producer of the Homeless Nation.org, a web project dedicated to bridging the digital divide - allowing everyone to participate in online culture.
11:18am Tongzhei in Love (Ruby Yan, China, 2008, 30 minutes)
Introduction: Rainbow Youth Coalition, PARN
"Frog" Cui and his friends navigate the dilemmas of being gay in modern China, torn between the lures of big city life and the stern demands of Chinese tradition. They revel in cosmopolitan Beijing and the freedoms it affords them. But can they be gay, and still be good sons?
Ruby Yang is a noted Chinese-American filmmaker whose work in documentary and dramatic film has earned her an Academy Award and numerous international awards. She lives and works in Beijing.
12:10pm: LUNCH BREAK
12:50pm Feature Presentation: War Child (Karim Chrobog, USA/Sudan, 92 min.)
Hip-hop artist Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier in Sudan's brutal civil war, fights a new battle: bringing peace to his beloved Sudan and building schools in Africa. This time his weapon is a microphone. Audiences from New York to Berlin to London have raved about this award-winning film and embraced the hip-hop artist with a terrifying past and a gentle soul. Interspersing original interviews, live concerts, and footage of Jal as a seven-year-old boy, War Child will make viewers cry, laugh, dance, and celebrate the power of hope.
War Child is Director and Producer C. Karim Chrobog's first feature film.
2:22pm Student Films
We will watch the student's films that were produced in the Wednesday March 3 workshops.
