An Artist-in-Residence with Sport Calgary has resulted in a wonderful exploration of what sports can give athletes beyond the usual glory and fame associated today’s pro athletes. Thank you to all the local amateur athletes who shared their thoughts and feelings.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE Grade seven students learn life skills through documentary filmmaking Date: Tuesday, March 19, 7-9 pm Location: Langevin School (107 – 6A Street NE), Calgary After five months working with Calgary 2012 Artist-in-Residence Chris Hsiung, 120 grade seven students from the Langevin School are showcasing their best documentary short videos at a school-organized film festival. The film festival will be taking place tonight from 7 pm to 9 pm at the Langevin School (107 – 6A Street NE). Two [...]
The last five months I’ve been teaching the entire Langevin School grade seven contingent on how to make a short documentary video. With four classes of thirty students each giving me roughly 120 students and 4 teachers to work with, this has been a challenging and exciting project. This article captures some of my learning from the experience in case others want to do the same. The Goal As before with the Alice Jamieson School, I wanted to see [...]
Reality on the reserve is difficult to talk about directly, but after just one week of film training, aboriginals on the Eden Valley Reserve produced a fictional story with enormous heart, truth, and hope. Keep in mind that prior to this, no one had used a camera, boom mic, or acted before. The story, I discovered later, was authentic. Hidden Story Productions provided the equipment, training, editing, and direction. This workshop was held as part of the employment training program run [...]
Over the last couple months, I’ve been recording speakers engaged with a variety of significant topics. Urban design, public art, child soldiers, early childhood development, new monetary systems… these are the reasons I got into documentary video in the first place. It affords me the pleasure of exploring subjects we often ignore in our day to day lives. But more significantly, the issues we are facing are systemic, and so it will take a systemic approach. We can no longer [...]
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