Filmmaking & Media Production Workshops

These workshops offer openings for emerging documentary media producers to learn preproduction, production and postproduction skills, to negotiate the structures of funding and publicity, to develop their professional identities and to understand various forms of digital representation and distribution within a broader communications framework. The workshops challenge popular ideas about media culture as a platform for empowerment, transformation, and social progress. Years of participatory action filmmaking experience working with Indigenous, intergenerational and youth media-makers to co-produce video advocacy and media campaigns has taught me that having a “voice” and gaining visibility and recognition does not necessarily equate to securing rights and resources. This critical pedagogy approach to media production instead re-centers the process of media-making as a site of potential learning and social connection and reframes digital storytelling as a struggle for— rather than evidence of—power.