Supplementing the Core Mission with Program Design: Documentaries for Change
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Documentaries for Change (DFC) aims to utilize Canadian documentaries to foster community dialogue, inspire civic engagement, and combat isolation in newcomer communities. The program has successfully conducted workshops, produced mini-documentaries, and organized screenings that reached over 1,650 people, addressing crucial social issues. Feedback from fellows indicates significant personal growth and engagement through media as a tool for activism and community connection.
Supplementing the Core Mission with Program Design: Documentaries for Change
- 3. DfC Mandate: Harness the power of Canadian documentaries across the GTAto: - Encourage community dialogue - Inspire civic engagement - Combat isolation in newcomer communities
- 4. Recruitment Fellows’ responses to “Why Me?” question (in wordle): Fellows’ responses to “Your engagement ideas” question (in wordle): Fellows’ responses to “My Story Idea” question (in wordle)
- 5. Year 1 (2014) YEAR 1
- 6. Workshops & Training • TheArt of Collaboration • Diversity of Voices • Telling Meaningful Stories • Building Trust • The Idea Workshop • Visuals and Sound in the Story • Designing Narratives & Creating Short Docs
- 7. Completed mini-documentaries: SHOW TIME 11/2015 BEATING BARRIERS BLURRED MINDS CIRQUISH UNTIL THE THIRTIETH
- 8. COMMUNITY OUTREACH - YEAR 2
- 9. EventPlanning Event planning and volunteers management Facilitation & curating discussions Blogging &Community Journalism Social Media Campaigns Subtitling Documentaries
- 10. Where
- 11. What
- 12. Partnering & Activism Violence Against Women
- 13. 24 screenings of 17 Canadian documentaries Over 11 months In 19 locations Reaching up to 1650 people by 12/2015
- 16. CHALLENGES 1. Change to teaching methodology and curriculum: community outreach before the art work 2. Understanding requirements related to creating original media work: accurate estimates of time and resources 3. Follow up: 36 individuals expressed interest in starting a film club but we were short on resources to properly guide them 4. We opened dialogues about “sticky” issues e.g. financial debt, environment, health, food and migrant workers justice, violence against women, First Nation issues and youth mental health but we could do better in terms of real engagement and taking the conversations to the next level to create system change.
- 17. Anna Genschow, Documentaries for Change Fellow, 2014-16 “This program planted seeds of positive change. I learned to be an "activist", to make a difference in community by helping to speak out for a cause or give people with little or no voice a voice. I learned to use media and social media to communicate more effectively. I learned about different organizations and understood how I can help them to promote their causes. I also learned that you can tell a simple story with a simple camera and that something as simple as that can be an initiative to bring about the change. Finally, I learned how to take a documentary I care about, contact director and organize community screening. Together we have more power than each one of us individually. And as one thing leads to another, I learned that I have a voice too, and as my confidence increased I decided I need to defend the causes I believe in and created a website! We can choose ignorance, and learn nothing. Or we can choose to learn something, and be proud of the diversity and knowledge which, in fact, enables us to make our lives better.”
- 18. Thank you DfC Fellows! AnaGenschow AshrafTawfikAbdelfattah CarolinaAlfarodeCarvalho DafinkaScatozza ElinaJabbour GordanaIlicNikolic Hasmukhlal Thakkar JanetDuckworth Jerome-RoccoSalata- Rodriguez JohnChung JhonattanBonilla-Ramirez DfC Program delivery: MCIS Language Services: Latha Sukumar, Eliana Trinaistic, Evgenia Karakehayova DOC Institute: Lalita Krishna, Adam Shamoon, Sree Nallamothu (Yr2), Vinita Srivastava (Yr1), Kiva Reardon Khaled Islaih Mahtot T. Gebresselassie Nancy (Yanyan) Qi Nilufer Savci Nino Marshania Rabila Attai Roxana Nastase Souleiman Ali Thanaporn Trakulkajornsak Thulasi Sahajananthan Zewdi Gselassie
- 19. DocsforChangeWorkshops Facilitators(Year1): AmarWala,Filmmaker ChandaChevannes,Filmmaker LalitaKrishna,Filmmaker JuanBaquero,Filmmaker MinSookLee,Filmmaker TaliaRicci,Journalist DanielLak,Journalist Technicalsupport(Year1&2): ChrisMottes,CEO,Hindenburg SystemsApS MichaelPuntis,Long&McQuade MarkDorlandt,Henry's SabreenaPeters, graphicdesigner Thank you Facilitators & Partners! Communitypartneragencies (Year2): BirchmountBluffsNeighbourhoodCentre Bloor/GladstoneLibrary CecilCommunityCentre CentralNeighbourhoodHouse Davenport-PerthNeighbourhoodandCommunity HealthCentre DorsetParkHub, HarbourfrontCommunityCentre MarkhamTamilSeniorsAssociation NorthYorkCommunityHouse ScarboroughCentreforHealthyCommunities TorontoReferenceLibrary TriovestConferenceCentre,789DonMillsRoad UniversityofToronto(St.GeorgeCampus) VictoriaParkHub WoodsideSquareTorontoPublicLibrary WorkingWomenCommunityCentre
- 20. Communityscreenings-panelistsand moderators(Year2): AmanuelMelles AmarWala AnitaBalakrishna ArleneMoscovitch BeverleyBettens BridgetPerrier DavidAdkin DianaFeliz DharshanaJayapathy Dr.GrahamHudson Dr.StephanieJ.Silverman Dr.VaragunanMahadevan EmilFeliz EzatMossallanejad HeatherMarshall JabeenFyazi JereenIgnatious JohnAnderson JuanRodriguez Thank you panelists and moderators! KarenCho KazumiTsuruoka KorrieLSilver LalitaKrishna LindaWard LawrenceJackman LyndaKosowan ManzilBacchus MelanieSager MinSookLee MiriamRoger ParamitaNath RabilaAttai ReshmaDrodia SamuelPark ShahlaZendagani ShamsoElmi ShelleyGilbert ShovaAdhikari SuboshanaSaravanapavanandan Studentmoderators (Clara’sBigRide): AaraniSahajananthan ChrisPebble EthanRope DumadeanSimpson KeerthanaAloysius YasarChowdhury
- 21. Thank you Conference Crew! Conference presenters: MinSookLee Heather Frise ObenKwabena Chandra Siddan Gordana IlicNikolic EvelynEncaladaGrez CarolinaAlfarodeCarvalho LalitaKrishna DavidAdkin ArleneMoscovitch JackXu ValentinaCova VictoriaRadvan DfCConferenceManagementTeam: • Marketing:GabrielaRodas,PrincessHew,Rachel Wu,VivekVijayapalan, • Food/Logistics:LauraZollner,AlexandreCuvelier • Volunteers:AndreaLevin,ValentinaCova • AVSupport:EvgeniaKarakehayova,LuisaCano, PaulZborshchik Consultants(surveydesign): JackieGarrow,Fe NograAbog DfCConferenceVolunteers:DavidZuniga,Hanna Reyes,JessicaChungChai Man,JocelyneCouture, KieraWoodill,MayaWorth,MelanieBlain,StaceyBoyd MCISproofreadersandeditors: GabrielaRodas& VeronicaCostea MCISdesignandlayout::JhonattanBonilla Triovestpropertymanagementteam:Rachelle PerezandElizabethJordon
- 22. Thank you!