Empowering Creators for Community - BC Program
APPLICATIONS CLOSED
Deadline: June 17, 2024 at 11:59pm PT
STORY MONEY IMPACT LAUNCHES The EMPOWERING CREATORS FOR COMMUNITY PROGRAM
The Empowering Creators for Community program fosters a supportive environment for nine documentarians dedicated to community-focused storytelling to spend 10 hours together. Through peer-led knowledge sharing, curriculum created and supported by three senior artists, community of practice groups, final reflection and sharing sessions, we aim to equip nine independent media makers with the tools and insights needed to create content that transcends entertainment, inspires audiences and effects positive change within and for their communities. Artists currently working on a project will be given priority.
MEET THE SENIOR ARTISTS
These three Senior Artists have all had experience with creating documentaries that are deeply connected to a community. While all their work has made positive impacts, their process of creation and dissemination is varied. These three artists will share their learning and experiences in hopes of fostering a larger community of practice and wisdom for creators who want to make content for positive change.
Tamo Campos
Media maker, impact practitioner and extreme sports athlete. His films include The Klabona Keepers (2022), Ru-Tsu (2020), The Radicals (2018), A Last Stand For Lelu (2016), Northern Grease (2013) and over fifty shorts. Tamo embeds himself in the community wherever he goes, and is dedicated to combining filmmaking and social impact with his adventures in sport, activism, and filmmaking. His previous projects have had a strong outreach focus that collaborated deeply with participants within his films. His work has focused on Indigenous land defense, Indigenous health models, climate justice and anti-racism. He is also the co-founder of the nonprofit collective Beyond Boarding, a board member of Rediscovery International, and holds a Masters from York University with a focus on Canadian Impact Practice.
Kent Donguines
Kent Donguines is a Filipino-Canadian narrative and documentary filmmaker who runs Aimer Films Inc. based in Vancouver, BC. He supported the award-winning films Iridescence, This Ink Runs Deep, which premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, and Watershed, which was featured at Los Angeles Comic-Con. He also created the short documentary Kalinga (Care), which had its world premiere at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. In 2021, Kent was named as one of Playback's 10 to Watch as he continues to champion Filipino-Canadian and underrepresented stories. He is also an alumnus of the 2021 Norman Jewison Film Program/CFC - Producers Lab.
Charlene SanJenko
Charlene SanJenko is an Indigenous Storyteller, Impact Producer, and Media Visionary. Born in Splatsin [pronounced SPLAT-seen] Tribe in the Shuswap Nation, Charlene is a two-time founder and a veteran in the social impact space. Charlene recently directed and was a featured participant in her short film, Coming Home for the Children, as well as a featured participant, co-writer, and producer of a feature documentary, s-yewyaw | AWAKEN. Charlene's next project, a full-feature film, NIKA + The FireDancers is currently in development. Through her second company, reGEN impact media, Charlene is exploring where the vehicles of media-tech and inclusive innovation intersect to lift society and shift our future’s narrative through the return to the sacred art of storytelling fuelled by the power of media and highest use of technology’s tools.
ELIGIBILITY
BC Residents Only
This program is exclusively available to residents of British Columbia. We strongly encourage applicants from all regions within the province to participate. If you reside outside of BC, please explore our other programs tailored to a wider audience. Nine participants will be selected for this inaugural program.
Experience
Applicants should have at least one director credit on a film and currently be working on a new project. This ongoing project should be authentically connected to the community it hopes to positively impact.
Availability to Participate
All sessions will be conducted virtually via Zoom. Participants must be available for the following online sessions:
July 13th from 10:30am to 4pm PT – Full Community Gathering (5 hours + 30 minute break)
Week of July 22-28 – Smaller Community of Practice Discussions (3 hours)
July 29th from 10am to 11:30am PT – Final Full Community Gathering (90 minutes)
HONORARIUM
Participants will receive an honorarium of $300 for their time upon completion of the program.
DEADLINE
June 17, 2024 at 11:59pm PT.
Participants will be notified of selection by June 24th.
PROGRAM INFO SESSION
Please join our info session on June 11, 2024 at 11am if you have any questions or want to learn more about this new program.
RSVP for the info session at the button below.
DIVERSITY
Filmmakers with present and historic barriers to access are especially encouraged to apply. This includes, but is not limited, to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA2S+. If the application form is itself a barrier, please email smiely@storymoneyimpact.com to explore an alternative approach.
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