Filmmaking for WUSC Sri Lanka
After a successful filmmaking experience in Malawi, my partner Danielle and I are now on another assignment with World University Service of Canada (WUSC). We arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka in mid-November. My role as a “Visual and Content Creation Advisor”...
Learning from refugees in Malawi
There Is Hope is a Malawian NGO provides refugees of Dzaleka refugee camp, as well as their Dowa host community, with access to education, income generating activities and spiritual well-being. The Vocational Training Center across the road from the refugee camp was a...
Kus-Kus-Sum Video Production
Since 2022, I have been contracted to direct a documentary film on the Kus-kus-sum habitat restoration project coordinated by Project Watershed. This is a multi-year project of transforming an industrial site back to a vibrant natural part of the K’omoks Estuary. This...
Grandmother’s Garden
What a pleasure to create the film Coming Home to Grandmother’s Garden. Huy tseep q’u siem to Ken Elliot, Maiya Modeste, Dr. Shannon Waters and family for their willingness to share! And gratitude to Shawn Johnny Seymour for the Tzingquaw Dancer’s song! The film...
Bats save habitat!
While filmmaking for the Comox Valley Land Trust, I went for an evening bat survey with Tim Ennis. Tim is a conservation biologist with over 20-years of experience, and the Coordinator of the North Island Chapter of the BC Community Bat Program. Almost 40% of BC bat...
24 Hour Drum film productions
Susan Leslie was instrumental in nine important film productions for the 24 Hour Drum. As the District Principal of Indigenous Education for School District 48, Susan and I worked closely together for over a decade to document and celebrate the Indigenous youth of the...24 Hour Drum, Back Again
24 Hour Drum – Going Strong (32 min. 2021)
A “weird” school year with Covid didn’t stop the Indigenous Leadership students from finding their voices and celebrating their culture. Six schools dance, sing, drum and speak to issues of oppression, white privilege, white fragility, and...
Ecology Transforms Youth
Thanks to the wisdom and community connections of Wendy Kotilla, this documentary film highlighting the work of Wendy’s Youth and Ecological Restoration program became a reality. Young people work with local researchers and environmental groups, while learning...
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