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TWEAK: Last Call for Applications!

September 9, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in CFC Media Lab > Calls for Submission

The CFC Media Lab and the docSHIFT Initiative have joined forces to present TWEAK: an Idea-Refinement Boot Camp for Digital Documentaries. We are looking for up to 30 experienced producers, creators, directors, writers, strategists and architects with an interesting interactive documentary idea and the desire to have their idea analyzed, work-shopped and honed from both a creative and business perspective. This 2-day weekend workshop will be facilitated by a series of high level industry mentors along with UK’s Frank Boyd, former BBC Director of Creative Development and the visionary behind Crossover Labs as well as CFC Media Lab Faculty member. Selected participants will retain ownership of their project idea but must be open to working collaboratively in a group setting—sharing their idea, receiving input, and also giving valuable input on other projects.

TWEAK will run from September 25-26

Application Deadline Quickly Approaching!

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010, 5pm
Participants will be announced Friday, September 17.
Email applications/questions to Leonardo Dell’Anno: ldellanno@cfccreates.com

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
3 pages maximum (PDF). Please tell us briefly about:

1. You & your career
2. Your interactive documentary idea
3. What you want to get out of TWEAK

ELIGIBILITY:
• you have a strong interactive doc idea (mobile, web, game, multiple platforms)
• you must live and work in Ontario
• you must be an experienced and established documentary content creator (ie. producer, director, editor, writer, media artist, other) OR an experienced interactive digital media professional (ie. game developer, mobile developer, web designer, interactive producer)
• you are available weekend of September 25/26th both days, all day
• you are willing to pay registration fee of $100 (DOC Members) or $150 (nonmembers)

Please note: those of you who applied for or participated in the docSHIFT Crossover Weekend in May are eligible to apply for TWEAK. TWEAK (focused on idea refinement) has been designed to compliment and extend from the Crossover Weekend which focused on idea generation. TWEAK is both a stand alone event and a good preparatory phase for those interested in the docSHIFT Institute (see below).

For more, check out: www.doctoronto.ca/docshift

ABOUT THE docSHIFT INSTITUTE:
Four experienced creators with winning and innovative interactive documentary project ideas (games, mobile apps, websites) will receive mentorship, professional consultation and some financial support to complete their project or create a proto-type. docSHIFT Institute is part time (nights & weekend days) beginning mid November 2010 and running for approximately 5 months. Details & Call For Applications will be posted shortly.

docSHIFT is made possible with the support of the Ontario Media Development Corporation on behalf of the Ministry of Culture. It is presented in partnership with Ryerson University, Hot Docs, CFC Media Lab and the National Film Board.

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Now Accepting Applications for Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab

July 30, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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Are you a filmmaker with a passion for comedy? Want to work with the best comedic talent in the business to make your comedy feature a reality?

Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab (www.cfccreates.com/comedy) is a CFC Film Program in Collaboration with Just For Laughs (www.hahaha.com).

There’s some very heavy weight people at the Lab. Just to get their ear is difficult enough in this business. These filmmakers are in a very privileged position.

- Eugene Levy, Chair of the Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab

The Deets!

THE WHAT: The program is divided into two intensive five-day modules so it’s accessible and manageable to working professionals. New this Year: Teams selected will do their second half of the program in sunny California!
THE WHEN: Module #1 – November 2010, Module #2 – March 2011
THE WHERE: Module #1 – Toronto, Module #2 – Los Angeles
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday, August 16, 2010

For more information and criteria visit www.cfccreates.com/comedy or email Kristine Kazias, kkazias@cfccreates.com

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FREE Animation Workshop at NFB

July 29, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Interactive Industry > News & Events

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Green Screens partners films from the NFB with experts and panelists selected by the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (www.cielap.org)

REMIXING OUR WORLD: Create your own short animated film and bring your vision to life! Participants will arrange cut-out images from magazines to critically address environmental issues and superimpose them on an untouched landscape – remixing the portrayal of our environment and challenging how we think about it. A fun hands-on experience with stop-motion animation, whether it’s your first or fiftieth time!

The Deets!

THE WHAT: Green Screens Animation Workshop (for Adults 18 yrs+)
THE WHEN: AUG 4, 2010 @ 7PM
THE WHERE: NFB Mediatheque | 150 John St., Toronto | NFB.ca/mediatheque (www.nfb.ca/mediatheque)
ADMISSION: FREE! (Registration Required – Please Call: 416-973-3012)

Follow the NFB Mediatheque on Facebook: www.facebook.com/?ref=home#%21/pages/Toronto-ON/NFBONF-Mediatheque/17608843063?ajaxpipe=1&__a=17
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CFC Media Lab to Participate in Net Change Week, June 7-11

June 1, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in CFC Media Lab > Events

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Net Change Week, June 7-11, 2010

Net Change Week (www.netchangeweek.ca) Powered by MaRS will be June 7-11, 2010 held at MaRS Discovery District: 101 College St, Toronto.

Net Change Week will highlight Toronto’s leading edge activity in social technology and social change. This is much more than a social media conference. Technology is capable of taking a local social innovation to scale, across the country or worldwide. Through training, workshops, labs and public discussions, Net Change Week will provide participants with knowledge they need today, and then broaden the conversation to what we can expect in the future.

Now, I know you’re saying to yourself, “Sounds exciting, but how is the CFC Media Lab involved?”

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  • Current CFC Media Lab Telus Interactive Art & Entertainment Program Residents will participate in The Future Lab.
    WHEN: Projects will be pre-selected on Thursday, June 10. Teams will have less than 48hrs to formulate the game plan for realizing the idea out in the world. In front of a live audience, the lab solutions will be presented and a winner chosen by a panel of judges on Friday, June 11 from 2:30p – 5p.
ABOUT THE FUTURE LAB: This lab provides a unique opportunity to workshop solutions to systemic social or environmental problems. Passionate about making change but unsure where to start? Here’s your chance to suggest an idea – or a “wicked problem,” and collaborate with a room of experts to create solutions. As team leader, you must demonstrate the capacity (either as organizational or company support, or individual commitment as an entrepreneur) to realize the solution after The Future Lab.

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  • Seed (visit: seedcollective.org) Prototype* from the Telus Interactive Art & Entertainment Program will be on display for everyone to play with.
    WHEN: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 from 9a – 5p.

ABOUT: Through the use of sound and imagery, users create and populate a forest together, by dialing a particular number on the screen, each participant receives a “seed” on the public screen.

Seed explores the convergence of rich media and wireless technology in the creation of a collaborative and evolving work of art. Through sound and imagery, users create and populate a forest together. By dialing a particular number on the screen, each participant receives a “seed” on the public screen. By using the keypad on the cell phone audiences have the ability to grow their seeds, choose the type of trees they want to plant, and change their texture and color.

For additional information on Seed, check this out: stabletalk.cfccreates.com/2010/01/25/seed-exhibits-at-code-live/

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*There are no limits to what you can create at the CFC Media Lab! The application deadline for our Telus Interactive Art & Entertainment Program Fall 2010 session is quickly approaching! Applications are due June 4, 2010 so get yours in today! www.cfcmedialab.com

If you haven’t registered for Net Change week, it’s not too late! Click here: www.netchangeweek.ca/registration

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docSHIFT Crossover Weekend Calls for Applicants

April 16, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Calls for Submission > Interactive Industry

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Opportunity awaits with the Canadian Media Fund!

The CFC Media Lab has joined forces with The Documentary Organization of Canada – Toronto, National Film Board, Hot Docs, and Ryerson, to present docSHIFT: a cutting edge initiative aimed at fostering collaborations and business opportunities between interactive media producers and documentary filmmakers.

docSHIFT is currently seeking applicants interested in participating in a 2-day weekend workshop (May 8-9th 2010) facilitated by the UK’s Frank Boyd. Frank is the past BBC Director of Creative Development and the visionary behind world-renowned Crossover Labs as well as part of the CFC Media Lab’s guest faculty roster for the TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Program.

If you are an experienced interactive digital media professional (games, mobile, web, AR) looking for opportunities in the burgeoning interactive documentary genre, this weekend should not be missed! Through participatory creative group exercises, the workshop is designed to break down walls between professional silos, develop common languages and perspectives and establish best practices for working together and ensuring success.

The docSHIFT Crossover Weekend is a pre-cursor to a five-day residential lab this Fall where select projects will move into development with the CFC Media Lab’s incubation support with Ryerson University.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 21ST, 2010

For full details and application information, please click HERE.
Any further questions regarding docSHIFT can be directed to Coordinator Kyree Vibrant: kyree@doctoronto.ca

To download the official docSHIFT flyer, please click HERE.

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Design with Dialogue to Expand Solution Space at April Workshop

March 31, 2010 | Kimberly Dean | Posted in Interactive Industry > News & Events
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Design with Dialogue (DwD) explores leadership in the co-creation of positive organizational change facilitated by conversations for meaningful action.They are a group of practitioners that gathers monthly (second Wednesday of each month) to convene dialogue as a practice in social design to engage the organizations, projects, and civic communities to which they’re committed.

The next DwD workshop explores the structured approach of viewing a problem from multiple defined perspectives to expand the possible solution space.

Where: sLAB (Strategic Innovation Lab, Room 600) OCAD, 100 McCaul St. Toronto, ON
When: Wednesday, April 14, 6-9 pm
Homework: Participants should come prepared with a personally significant challenge from their work so that they can unpack issues that really matter. This might be a strategic question, a client problem, an organizational or political situation, or a career challenge.

To register for this event, click HERE.

Last week, five of our CFC Media Lab TELUS IAEP Residents attended DwD’s Bodystorming workshop with Dennis Schleicher. To view a video of this workshop and to find out more about DwD, click HERE.

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Now Accepting Applications for Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab

July 30, 2010 – 10:26 am

Are you a filmmaker with a passion for comedy? Want to work with the best comedic talent in the business to make your comedy feature a reality? Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab (www.cfccreates.com/comedy) is a CFC Film Program in Collaboration with Just For Laughs (www.hahaha.com). There’s some very heavy weight people at the Lab. Just [...]

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FREE Animation Workshop at NFB

July 29, 2010 – 11:22 am

Green Screens partners films from the NFB with experts and panelists selected by the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (www.cielap.org) REMIXING OUR WORLD: Create your own short animated film and bring your vision to life! Participants will arrange cut-out images from magazines to critically address environmental issues and superimpose them on an untouched [...]

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CFC Media Lab to Participate in Net Change Week, June 7-11

June 1, 2010 – 12:42 pm

Net Change Week, June 7-11, 2010 Net Change Week (www.netchangeweek.ca) Powered by MaRS will be June 7-11, 2010 held at MaRS Discovery District: 101 College St, Toronto. Net Change Week will highlight Toronto’s leading edge activity in social technology and social change. This is much more than a social media conference. Technology is capable of [...]

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docSHIFT Crossover Weekend Calls for Applicants

April 16, 2010 – 10:29 am

Opportunity awaits with the Canadian Media Fund! The CFC Media Lab has joined forces with The Documentary Organization of Canada – Toronto, National Film Board, Hot Docs, and Ryerson, to present docSHIFT: a cutting edge initiative aimed at fostering collaborations and business opportunities between interactive media producers and documentary filmmakers. docSHIFT is currently seeking applicants [...]

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Design with Dialogue to Expand Solution Space at April Workshop

March 31, 2010 – 10:24 am

Design with Dialogue (DwD) explores leadership in the co-creation of positive organizational change facilitated by conversations for meaningful action.They are a group of practitioners that gathers monthly (second Wednesday of each month) to convene dialogue as a practice in social design to engage the organizations, projects, and civic communities to which they’re committed. The next [...]

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