Open Call for Filmmakers
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GOOD MEDICINE
First Nation Perspectives on Health and Wellness
‘Good Medicine’ is an experimental documentary project that will commission five (5) aboriginal Filmmakers to each produce one six (6) minute short high-definition video interpreting the question: What constitutes a healthy community from First Nation Albertan perspectives?
The goal of this project is to explore the breadth and myriad issues surrounding the concepts of health and wellness in the context of First Nation communities in Alberta. Treatment of these ideas is left open to interpretation and can include social, cultural, educational, economic and political perspectives.
Selected by jury, each filmmaker will be awarded a commission of $5000 with an additional over $3000 of in-kind support including a residency at the Banff New Media Institute, Banff Centre. Videos will be shot in High definition over the summer of 2008. High definition cameras and audio equipment will be provided. The final deliverable will be a finished six (6) minute video.
This creative opportunity is funded by Health Canada First Nation Inuit Health Branch, the Alberta Association of Colleges and Technical Institutes, the Alberta College of Art + Design, and Keyano College.
First consideration will be given to qualified Alberta-based aboriginal filmmakers/video-artists, though we encourage out of province participants to apply. ALL SUBJECT MATTER MUST BE ALBERTA FOCUSSED.
Applications should include a cover letter, resume, artist statement, 300-word statement considering what constitutes a healthy First Nation, Albertan Community, and work samples.
Hard copy applications should include CD or DVD. Emailed applications should include email quality Quicktime samples or youtube.com links.
APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER than 4:00 pm, Monday, June 23, 2008
Send applications to:
Mitch Kern, MFA
Head, Photography
Alberta College of Art + Design
1407 14th Avenue NW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4R3
Tel: (403) 338-5520
mitch.kern@acad.ca