Filmmaking Workshop for Indigenous Students-FR

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Join Lisa Jodoin to explore cultural identity through film!

Lisa Jodoin, UNB’s Media Artist in Residence, will be holding a free workshop on filmmaking for Indigenous Students, which is open to all UNB and STU Indigenous Students. Registration is required before Feb. 7, 2020, by emailing jennifer@unb.ca or calling 453-3571.  Light refreshments will be provided.

Using her own experience and films, Lisa Jodoin will take workshop participants through an exploration of Indigenous identity using filmmaking with the goal of reflecting on each person's own personal cultural identity. Depending on outcomes of this initial workshop, the goal would be the production of individual films and/or a group film project.

This project is funded by Future Ready Wabanaki and the UNB Office of Experiential Learning. Lisa Jodoin’s residency is supported by ArtsNB, the NB Film Coop, the UNB Department of Culture & Media Studies, the UNB Faculty of Arts, the UNB VP Academic’s Office and the UNB President’s Office.

Poster attached in PNG and PDF format.

For more information, contact Lisa Jodoin (Lisa.Jodoin@unb.ca).

More about Lisa Jodoin.

Of Innu ancestry, Lisa Jodoin grew up in Toronto. Her creative and academic work focuses on Indigenous identity and embodiment, urban Indigenous experience, and decolonization.  Jodoin made her first short film, Tracing Blood, in 2014 through the ImagiNATIVE bursary (of the eponymous film and media festival). It screened at six festivals in Canada and was awarded Best Sound Design and Best Screenplay at the Mirror Mountain Film Festival (Ottawa) and is included in Cinema Politica’s prestigious First Peoples First Screens series.

Her second film In Search of Laura Fern (2015) screened at three festivals in Canada and the U.S. Jodoin currently has one short film in pre-production and is shooting a documentary project during the spring of 2018. In the past four years, among other honours, Jodoin was awarded multiple filmmaking funding grants including the Home Made Visible Archival Filmmaking Project Grant, the Short Film Venture Filmmaking Grant, the Jane LeBlanc Filmmaker Award. She has been a film mentor to Indigenous youth, a member of the Board of Directors of the NB Film Coop since 2015 as well as serving two years as a Board of Directors for the Women in Film and Television Atlantic. Jodoin is also currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at UNB. She received her MA in English and Women’s Studies from Lakehead University in 2010 and her BA from Algoma University in 2008. Jodoin has given over a dozen conferences and workshops and has published poems in a variety of literary journals.

Building: Marshall d'Avray Hall

Room Number: 235