CANADA ON SCREEN VIDEO GUIDES PROJECT | In honor of Canada's sesquicentennial in 2017, Canada On Screen was the Country’s most ambitious year long retrospective. The free programme featured moving-image installations, special events and guests, an extensive online catalogue, and screenings across the country, all based on a list of 150 essential moving-image works from Canada’s cinematic history and compiled through a national poll of industry professionals. Canada on Screen is a co production between TIFF and three core project partners — Library and Archives Canada, the Cinémathèque québécoise, and The Cinematheque in Vancouver.
I was commissioned by TIFF and these project partners to create a four part education documentary series using found and archival footage of multicultural media and film content. These four guides explore three primary topics—Canadiana Constructed (Parts 1 and 2), Female Voices, and Indigenous Voices—and investigate how Canada’s diverse, multicultural identity has been constructed in our film and media. This series is a free online resource for students, educators, filmmakers or anyone wanting to learn more about Canadian cinema. As the lead creator of the project, I researched and sourced all film and media content, wrote each script and edited thousands of clips into these four guides, amounting to almost an hour’s worth of content.
Since its launch at The Cinematheque on National Canadian Film Day in 2018, these digital guides are used by various filmmakers, educators as part of BCs school curriculum and serve as a foundation for various filmmaking, film studies and digital media literacy workshops at The Cinematheque.