Coming Events:
New dates and times announced for the remainder of the summer journalism meetups! The final three meetups will be on:
- July Meetup: Interviews
- Date: July 15, 2025 4-6pm
- Discussion of considerations for preparing for and conducting interviews. Practice coming up with interview questions and interviewing each other.
- August Meetup: Editing
- Date: August 12, 2025 4-6pm
- Basic editing tutorial in Premiere/DaVinci for cutting together videojournalist projects.
- September Meetup: Feedback session
- Date: September 9, 2025, 4-6pm
- Watch finished projects as a group. Share reflections, give feedback.
Thanks to everyone who has come to the first two workshops! We can’t wait to see your finished projects!
Summer Journalism Meetups
We’re launching a new program designed to provide more mentorship and training to new journalists. Each month we’ll be holding mini-workshops to help develop the skills you need to make videos, and supporting you to develop your own video project. Over the course of the series, you’ll be working independently or with a team to bring your own project to life.
Monthly meetups happen on a drop in basis. You do not need to come to every meetup and you can always join later in the season! Meetups will consist of two parts, a pitch meeting, where you are invited to bring story ideas or choose one from our staff, and a skill development session, where we’ll do a mini workshop and some exercises to practice skills needed in making video journalism projects.
We encourage you to work in pairs to support each other, but you can also work independently, or with a larger group. The program is designed to help facilitate the completion of one video project over the summer, but you are welcome to take on more video projects if you finish one and have time for more.
Past events:
May 29, 2025 Calling all members! Join us for an open meeting where members, staff, and community will help shape the future of CUTV. We’ll start with an overview of what CUTV does—journalism, training, screening, equipment lending, studio, livestreams, projects—and a few things it could do—pitch sessions, programming. Then it’s your turn: share your thoughts on what’s working, what’s not, and where we should go from here. This meeting will help guide the board in planning the next three years of CUTV’s operations. Come dream, reflect, and strategize with us! Meeting ID: 891 131 0238 Passcode: 828 Can’t make it to the visioning meeting? Have your voice heard by filling out our survey about what projects we should prioritize this year. We’re launching a new program designed to provide more mentorship and training to new journalists. Join us for our new monthly journalism meetup series, where we’ll be holding mini-workshops to help develop the skills you need to make videos, and supporting you to develop your own video project. Over the course of the series, you’ll be working independently or with a team to bring your own project to life. Monthly meetups happen on a drop in basis. You do not need to come to every meetup and you can always join later in the season! Meetups will consist of two parts, a pitch meeting, where you are invited to bring story ideas or choose one from our staff, and a skill development session, where we’ll do a mini workshop and some exercises to practice skills needed in making video journalism projects. Meetups will take place at the CUTV studio (2110 rue Mackay, 4th floor) from 12-2pm on Tuesdays each month. May Meetup: Pitch and Research June Meetup: Technical Training July Meetup: Interviews August Meetup: Editing September Meetup: Wrapup Questions? Send us an email at outreach@cutvmontreal.org. CUTV and L’Organe will be co-hosting a screening of mathilde capone’s feature documentary, Éviction, followed by a Q&A with the director. mathilde is a feminist, anti-colonial, lesbian and queer activist, documentary filmmaker and popular education facilitator. We invite you after the screening to stay for drinks with CUTV and L’Organe to celebrate the end of the semester. Doors open at 6pm, screening starts at 6:30. The film will be in french with english subtitles. Q&A in french with whisper translation to english. Film synopsis: Since 2010, Parthenais has held within its walls the life of a whole queer community. They are gay, lesbian, trans, and they live together in Centre-Sud in the heart of Montreal, in a triplex that is falling apart. Between the parties that sometimes welcome more than two hundred people until the wee hours of the morning, the collective dinners, the great joys and the small despairs, this old flat has transformed the lives of its tenants. Twelve years later, the building is bought by a wealthy family who wants to live there, gentrification being the order of the day. This marks the end of a mythical space that has transformed Montreal’s queer scene for a decade. The boxes are too small to contain all the stories that have taken place within these walls. EVICTION is the story of this turning page, as the distraught residents search for a new place to call home in the midst of a housing crisis and land speculation. Join us for an exciting talk with documentary filmmaker Ariel Nasr on April 2 from 1-3pm in PR Building room #100 (2100 rue Mackay, right next to the CUTV studio). Ariel will be discussing his experience in the film industry, what the current state of documentary filmmaking is like in Canada; navigating funding and distribution; unique challenges faced in documentary filmmaking; ethics and conduct or how to navigate sensitive topics. Come with any questions you have about producing, directing, documentary or narrative filmmaking! Ariel Nasr is a Montreal-based filmmaker and producer whose films include Hot Docs audience award-winner, The Forbidden Reel (2019) and Canadian Screen Award winner The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2011). Other directing work includes Good Morning Kandahar (2009), and La Mosquée (2018). As an independent producer Ariel was nominated for a 2013 Oscar for half-hour fiction, Buzkashi Boys, shot entirely in Afghanistan. As a producer at the National Film Board of Canada (2020-2024), Ariel produced and co-produced award-winning documentaries. A citizen of Canada, Afghanistan and the USA, Ariel was the recipient of the 2024 TIFF CBC-Films Screenwriter Award for his screenplay, Daudistan. Please confirm your attendance by emailing outreach@cutvmontreal.org. This year’s Grassroots Video Journalism is just around the corner! GVJ 101 is a full day workshop led by CUTV’s staff journalists covering all the basic concepts of grassroots journalism. If you’ve been waiting for a chance to get involved at CUTV, or wanting to get your start in community oriented journalism, you won’t want to miss this workshop. Both a theoretical discussion and hands-on experience, this workshop covers topics including framing, ethical considerations, media literacy, and the importance of independent journalism in the current media landscape. Participants will also learn how to research, conduct interviews, cover protests, and find their voice through interactive exercises. Free lunch will be provided! Spaces are limited, so register early to save your spot. In a time of multiple and intensifying crises, Progressive Publics is rooted in a commitment to social justice and asserts that both the academy and the media are public goods that have crucial and entwined roles to play in critical analysis and knowledge mobilization and dissemination. This project triangulates three sectors—independent media, the academy, and the broader public—through connecting crucial questions of the present and how to live collectively in more just relation to media and scholarly communication to promote access, social justice, and community engagement. The second Progressive Publics Symposium will take place in Montreal on February 28th and March 1st, hosted by Dr. Shama Rangwala (YorkU) and Andre Goulet (Harbinger) and featuring interviews, academic panels and a live variety show with scholars and the independent journalism community in conversations exploring surveillance and prison abolition, Canadian media and Palestine, data justice, the future of journalism and more. FRIDAY, February 1st at 1pm FREELANCE JOURNALISM WORKSHOP (Room 1.605, EV Building) Presented by The Canadian Freelance Union & Community University Television FRIDAY, February 1st at 2pm INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM SUMMIT (Room 1.605, EV Building) Bringing together independent media organizers and journalists, researchers, and funders to share their strategic proposals for independent media in Montreal, responding to the particular media ecosystem and its challenges and opportunities. FRIDAY, February 1st at 6pm LIVE VARIETY SHOW (Reggie’s Co-op Bar, Hall Building – 2F) Featuring Pivot editor-in-chief Claire Ross, independent journalist Rachel Gilmore, Harbinger Media broadcasters Megan Linton and Paris Marx and the New Feeling music journalism cooperative SATURDAY, March 1st from 11am-5pm ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM (Room 1.605, EV Building) Panels connecting public scholarship, journalism and independent media curated by the Data Justice Hub, le coop de solidarité Pivot, Montreal community journalists The Rover and La Converse, Palestine advocacy organization Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, think tank le Institut de recherche et d’informations socioéconomiques, journalism advocacy group Femmes Experts and investigative journalism publisher The Breach We will be facilitating weekly drop in coworking sessions focused on writing projects. Applying for grants? Writing a script? Come cowork at the studio, body double, and get feedback on your writing from CUTV staff and your peers. Snacks provided! Sessions will take place weekly on Thursdays from 12-2pm. L’Organe’s Nathan Pupo-Greene will lead a walk through on how to use the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K. This training is mandatory if you want to book the Blackmagic camera as a CUTV member! There are two dates currently offered in February: Wednesday, February 12 1:15-2:15pm Thursday, February 20, 1:15-2:15pm Nathan will be offering trainings on alternating Wednesdays and Thursdays going forward. Email him directly at production.organe@cutvmontreal.org It’s a new semester, and another great time to get involved at CUTV! Come visit us at the studio for a tour, chat with staff and volunteers, and make new connections. We want to hear about the projects you want to make, and the ways you want to get involved! We’ll be livestreaming the Concordia Student Union’s special general meeting TONIGHT on Youtube, starting at 6pm! If you’re a Concordia student, get to the Hall building to vote! Watch here on our Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CUTV
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The schedule and workshop topics:
DAY 1: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1
DAY 2: SATURDAY MARCH 1
