My Richmond Story: Community Digital Storytelling Project

My Richmond Story: Community Digital Storytelling is a new Festival outreach program produced by the Cinevolution Media Arts Society and supported through the Richmond Arts Centre and its new Media Lab.

This project is open to both Richmond residents and people living outside of Richmond.

All the digital stories collected during the project period will be screened and exhibited at the Richmond International Film & Media Arts Festival in July, and will be featured at the Festival website.

Download the Participation Guidelines from here: Richmond Story-Guidelines

THREE WAYS TO TELL YOUR STORIES:

1) Submission:

People can submit one Video (5 min max, documentary, narrative, experimental, animation, music video) or one Photo story.

Video must be in DVD NTSC format.

People submitting photos are required to write one page max 200-word description of the story behind the photo.

Handwriting and ethnic languages are encouraged.

Please also include these information in your package:

* Name

* Residential Area (Richmond, or other cities in Metro Vancouver, etc..)

* Email

* Contact Phone

SUBMISSION DEADLINE JUNE 30, 2011

SHIPPING ADDRESS

Cinevolution Media Arts Society

214-8140 Colonial Drive

Richmond, BC

V7C 4T7

2) Live Recording @ Media Lab

The Media Lab at the Richmond Cultural Centre is open to the general public to drop in to record their stories in video and audio on a first come first served basis. Through this process, people can have hands-on experience with digital equipment and technology at no cost. Professional media artists of multiple languages will be present to facilitate the procedure.

Schedule

Fridays (10am – 12pm) —- May 6, 13, 20, 27, & June 3, 10, 17, 24, & July 1, 8

Sundays (11am – 4pm) – May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

Sundays (11am – 1pm) — June 5, 12, 19, 26

3) Filmmaking Workshops @ Media Lab

Total 5 workshops will be led by professional filmmakers. Participants will learn the process of making a good quality film from script writing to editing. At the end of the workshops, participants will be able to create short films based on their own stories.

A special screening and community celebration will be held on July 23, 2011.

Workshop Time

1:30pm – 4:30pm on Sundays (June 5, 12, 19, 20, July 3)

Language

The workshops will be conducted mainly in English, with multilingual volunteers in presence to assist.

Number of Participants 10 max

Eligibility of Applicants

* Must be over 20 years old.

* Comfortable with computers.

* Be able to make commitment to the 5 workshops.

Application Form Richmond-Story-Application-Form

Please download and complete the Application Form and email it back to info@cinevolutionmedia.com by the Deadline.