Co-Presented by Ed Video: Media Arts Centre and Earth to Table: Bread Bar
Friday Nov 1, 10:30-4:30, Art Gallery of Guelph (AGG)
Free with Festival Pass
Symposium One Day Pass $45/ $35 for Ed Video Members & Students
In 2018, the Guelph Film Festival began a new initiative in collaboration with Ed Video: Media Arts Center to support local emerging and established filmmakers through small, intensive workshops that focus on the business and envisioning aspects of documentary production: producing, financing, networking, ethics, and artistry. We kicked off this new series with a workshop by New York producer Cora Atkinson (Don’t Be Nice), focused on the lessons of producing and working with sensitive subject matter.
For the 2019 festival we are expanding this successful pilot into a full day Doc Making Symposium, which runs on the first day of the festival, leading up to our opening night film (Conviction). This symposium is open to all filmmakers and filmmaking enthusiasts that want to learn more about the backend workings and art of documentary filmmaking in Canada. The symposium will revolve around three in-depth and intimate workshops that dive into a specific aspect of doc filmmaking.
The year’s symposium includes:
Session 1: Editing for Documentaries with Tiffany Beaudin (Don't Talk to Irene; Man Vs. Machine)
Session 2: Work with the NFB with Lea Marin (Unarmed Versus, What is Democracy?) and Andrew Connors (Sovereign Soil)
Session 3: Doc Creation: From Concept to Distribution with filmmakers Teresa MacInnes (Conviction, Seals of Sable) & Kent Nason (Trek of the Titans, Seals of Sable)
