York University - Department of Film

“My Time” Campaign Challenge

As you are aware, York University’s branding includes the “My Time” campaign. This includes advertisements that feature an image of a current student, a listing of their degree program, and a brief statement that describes an innovative goal that they envision their York degree helping them achieve.

The Department of Film has been asked to contribute to the 2014-15 campaign. If you are interested in participating, please send us your speculative visions for your future careers. These will be brief snapshots of the innovative and transformative work, technology or practice that you can imagine developing out of the training you have received in your program.

To begin, imagine a time and a need in the future, and provide a summary description of your innovation and its unique impact on society. In your submission, highlight connections between your current training and how you imagine it will be transformed and applied in the future. Think of the ways, for example, that current practices in the field are being transformed by digital cinema technology. How can you imagine your current training helping you succeed in such a future?

Please send your 150 word “My Time” vision to John McCullough, Chair, Dept of Film at [email protected]. Deadline is Friday, April 25, 2014.

Attention 2nd and 3rd year Film Production Students
The 3rd and 4th year Film Production course selection process is now ONLINE, April 10, 2014, and will go OFFLINE at 11:59 pm on Wednesday, May 7, 2014.

All students requesting 3rd and 4th year Production courses MUST make their course selection online by registering through Passport York at the following link:

www.yorku.ca/ffacomp/film3rd4th

The online form should only take you a few minutes to complete and must be submitted by midnight, Wednesday, May 7, 2014.

In addition, please note that specific applications for the project courses (Alternative, Documentary, Fiction) and specialty courses (Cine I, Edit I, Sound I) must be filled out and submitted to CFT221/3 as hard-copy applications (along with supporting material, treatments, scripts, etc., as specified) by May 7, 2014.

You may download application forms for the project courses and/or specialty courses from FILM 411 website http://www.yorku.ca/film411/. The forms are under "Upper Year Film Production Course Selection Forms" under “Postings.”

Please contact at [email protected] if you have any questions regarding this selection process.


Best,
The Department of Film Staff

Dear Students,

Invitation to apply for spots in Upper Year Production Planning and Management courses!

Currently we are preparing for our studio course selection exercise. If you have completed FA/Film 2170 "Production Planning and Management" and/or FA/Film 2010 "Film and Video Production" you are encouraged to apply for a spot in FA/Film 3175 "Production Planning and Management I". If you would like to enroll in FA/Film 4175 "Production Planning and Management II" you will need the pre-requisite FA/Film 3175 or permission of the Course Director.

In order to apply for a position in these courses, you must indicate your interest online www.yorku.ca/ffacomp/film3rd4th through Passport York by midnight, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Permission to enroll in the courses will be determined by the Production Area faculty at their selection process meeting in mid May. You will be notified by email by the end of May.

Note: The current website information about pre-requisites and course credit exclusions for these courses is under review - please follow the guidelines above as regards eligibility to apply for either 3175 or 4175.

Best,
Department of Film

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Short Canadian Picks! Tonight at 8PM at Cine Cycle. We hope to see you there!

New Media scholar Wendy Chun will be giving a lecture "Habitual New Media" today Wednesday, January 8th at 3PM in the 206 Accolade West Building.

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Guy Maddin discusses his latest and most audacious project, Séances, tonight at 7PM at Innis College.

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Internationally acclaimed filmmaker and activist Alanis Obomsawin (Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance) chronicles in Hi-Ho Mistahey! the Attawapiskat First Nations campaign to draw global attention to the Canadian government’s neglect of Aboriginal youth education. Come see it tonight at 6PM at the Nat Taylor Cinema!

Hi-Ho Mistahey! Following Omar Hamilton in Conversation, Cinema Politica York presents the second event and first screening of 2013-2014 school year!

Symposium – On Our Minds: Youth Mental Health
Saturday, November 16
10:00 am to 3:00pm @ Workman Arts Theatre

Currently one of the most talked-about issues within the world of mental health is the treatment of youth. Featuring a screening of Allan King’s masterpiece Warrendale and Nuria Ibañez’s The Naked Room, this year’s symposium will be full of engaging discussions and powerful films.

Schedule:
10:00 am Keynote address
10:30 am Film Screening: Warrendale (Alan King, Canada, 1967)
12:15 pm Panel Discussion
12:45 pm Lunch (served on the premises)
1:15 pm Film Screening: The Naked Room (Nuria Ibañez, Mexico, 2013)
2:10 pm Panel Discussion
2:50 pm Closing Remarks

RWM 2013: ON OUR MINDS – YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH SYMPOSIUM | Rendezvous With Madness Currently one of the most talked-about issues within the world of mental health is the treatment of youth. Featuring a screening of Allan King’s masterpiece Warrendale and Nuria Ibañez’s The Naked Room, this year’s symposium will be full of engaging discussions and powerful films.

"OFFSHORE is a web documentary created by Brenda Longfellow, Glenn Richards and Helios Design Labs that explores the dark waters of the global offshore oil industry in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion.

We developed a site intro that acts as a short prologue to the experience. The site itself is the 3D virtual world of an imagined oil rig that provides a menacing backdrop for the story to unfold. This preview is very much a work progress and will evolve as the site gets built out."

Follow the link to experience OFFSHORE.

OFFSHORE, an interactive documentary about the next chapter of oil exploration and exploitation OFFSHORE, an interactive documentary about the next chapter of oil exploration and exploitation

At the Ryerson Image Centre the exhibtion "Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art. " is currently going until December 15th.

Ghost Dance - RIC - Exhibitions - Ryerson University Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art.September 18 – December 15, 2013Guest Curated by Steve LoftMain Gallery, University Gallery, Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall

Please join us tomorrow for CineSiege 2013: A Juried Showcase of York Film.

Film | Faculty of Fine Arts | York University Catch a wave of rising talent! Now in its 11th year, CineSiege, the annual juried showcase of York University’s Department of Film, presents a collection of shorts – riveting fiction, cutting-edge alternative works and provocative documentaries – selected by leading lights of the Canadian film and m...

Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's film "Le Joli Mai" starts a exclusive week-long theatrical run today, Friday October 18th, at the Carlton cinema. Go see it if you have the chance in memory of Marker who passed away last year.