Coming Events:
Do you want to make high-impact visuals for social media, but find Photoshop daunting? Look no further! Join graphic designer, illustrator, and Photoshop wiz Shanthony Exum as she walks us through using Adobe Photoshop. Workshop participants will follow along with Shanthony as she creates a simple Instagram poster (see image below). All project files will be provided to make hands-on learning possible. To get the most out of this workshop, you will need a Photoshop subscription so you can create the image alongside Shanthony. Receive a 7 day free trial of Photoshop here. This workshop will be recorded, so participants can revisit the workshop to review sections any time they like.
Register here (please note you will receive the Zoom link on the day of the workshop via email). This workshop is open to all CUTV members. Concordia Undergraduate students can become CUTV members for FREE. For the general public, a CUTV membership is $20/year and comes with many perks, including access to all of our workshops and events, equipment rental, and studio use. Head to https://www.cutvmontreal.org/membership/ to sign up as a member.
Join CUTV as we speak to 3 women who are making waves in the Canadian media landscape. This conversation will be moderated by Local 514 host Savanna Craig.
Featuring:
Dre
Dre is a Latinx artist and former resident of Montreal currently based in Los Angeles. Dre is a social media director whose digital career spans 10+ years across the spaces of media, fashion, and internet art, including clients such as Gucci, SSENSE, the FADER, and Highsnobiety. She also runs the Instagram account @gothshakira, through which she created and pioneered the long-form meme genre and has amassed almost 45k followers. Dre’s content blends anti-oppressive thought, spirituality, queer culture, and surreal/deep-internet humour to create digital-first commentary, engaging image macros, and viral memes.
Eve Parker Finley
Eve Parker Finley is a noted Montreal multi-instrumentalist, comedian, and upcoming Indie Pop Superstar. Utilizing platforms such as TikTok and Instagram , her comedy dives head first into the absurdities of contemporary life, exploring topics ranging from Quebec politics, to park personalities, to independent music scenes. As a musician, she’s known for braiding a dense and deliberate web of string arrangements and classical naturalism into a former raver’s penchant for programmed beats and four on the floor grooves. Finley has been a mainstay in the Montreal independent scene for nearly a decade and her debut album, Chrysalia, was released Dec 4th.
Sofi Langis
Sofi Langis is an acadian award-winning documentary director and producer based in Montreal. She spent the first 10 years of her career focusing on geo-political conflict abroad. Her first film, Boot Camp Nation (Grands reportages, RDI), follows young Israeli Defense Forces recruits summoned to fight in the 2006 conflict with Hezbollah. In and out of military embeds, she chronicled the human stories of mandatory combat soldiers who both struggled and thrived in the military context. State of Mind (Grands reportages, RDI), juxtaposed the daily struggles of Albanian and Serbian families living in isolated enclaves in remote areas of Kosovo as tensions rose leading up to the declaration of independence in 2009. Langis spent 4 years at VICE Canada in the role of documentary producer/director and later senior producer. Her pieces aired on both VICELAND and it’s digital platform, garnering over 25 million views. These include Ukraine: Canada’s Proxy War with Russia filmed on the frontlines of a raging war in Eastern Ukraine (Best of VICE Canada, CSA-nominated), Fear and Loading (VICE Essentials CSA-winning), as well as #Metoo Hits Parliament Hill, a Canadian Journalism Award-nominated investigation into reporting protocols for sexual misconduct victims at Parliament Hill.
In 2019, Sofi Langis co-founded Impact, a women-led documentary production company based in Montreal. She has since produced Kumtor (Club Illico, Judith Jasmin Journalism Award-nominated) and is currently delivering Impact’s first 6×1-hr documentary series for Quebecor/Club Illico. Sofi Langis’s work has also been featured in TV and digital projects published by The New Yorker, TV5, and Radio-Canada.
Register below (please note you will receive the zoom link via email on the day of the event). This workshop is open to all CUTV members. Concordia Undergraduate students can become CUTV members for free. For the general public, a CUTV membership is $20/year and comes with many perks, including access to all of our workshops and events, equipment rental, and studio use. Head to https://www.cutvmontreal.org/membership/ to sign up as a member.
Thinking of starting your own Twitch show but don’t know where to start? We have the person for you! Rob Rousseau, famous for infiltrating US elections and antagonizing the alt-right, will be hosting a CUTV workshop about his live-streaming Twitch show “The Rob Rousseau Show”. Rob will bring us through his Twitch victories, failures, share some “best of” clips, and answer your questions about all things Twitch.
What is Twitch? Twitch is a video live streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, broadcasts of esports competitions, music broadcasts, creative content, and political/social commentary broadcasts. Check out The Rob Rousseau Show on Twitch here https://www.twitch.tv/robrousseau/about
Register below (please note you will receive the Zoom link via email on the day of the event). This workshop is open to all CUTV members. Concordia Undergraduate students can become CUTV members for FREE. For the general public, a CUTV membership is $20/year and comes with many perks, including access to all of our workshops and events, equipment rental, and studio use. Head to https://www.cutvmontreal.org/membership/ to sign up as a member.
Past events:
Join CUTV for a remote networking event on gather.town! What’s gather.town? It’s a video-calling space that lets multiple people hold separate conversations in tandem. It utilizes a 2D map reminiscent of a vintage video game that allows attendees to travel from room to room and participate in different video conversations (you can try a free demo here: https://gather.town/app/N8w4L2HdJPrRKEuf/Live%20Walkthrough ) We are creating our own networking town, stacked with industry professionals, to talk to YOU about getting started in the film and video industry. Our guests will be: -Isabelle Couture of Isabelle Couture Productions- -Ananda Nicolaïeff of RIDM- -Susana Fernandez of Festival Nouveau Cinema- -Savanna Craig and Jesse Freeston of the CUTV video news show Local 514– ——————————————————————————————————————– To Register: Description: Join TyskySour host Michael Walker as he shares some tips for hosting live shows. He’ll show and discuss clips from his work with Novara Media, which regularly reaches tens of thousands of viewers and plays a key role in setting the agenda for the left wing of UK politics. Bio: Michael Walker is a contributing editor of Novara Media and host of the weekly video podcast TyskySour. A graduate of the London School of Economics, Walker’s show focuses on global politics and UK policy, with some episodes receiving upward of 30 000 streams. To Register: Description: Join investigative reporter Isabel Macdonald as she discusses the key elements of investigative journalism. This workshop will cover investigative research methods, what makes a great investigative report, and how to access that top-secret information you’ve been looking for! Bio: Isabel Macdonald is an investigative reporter, media scholar, and educator based in Montreal. Her journalism work has taken her from interviewing undocumented immigrants who cared for the horses of Lou Dobbs (a former CNN host who repeatedly vilified such unauthorized immigrant workers as an “invasion” of “illegal aliens”), to earthquake-affected communities in Haiti, where her work helped expose major health and safety issues in an internationally-financed shelter project (and prompted the foundation responsible to commit to fixing these problems). Her reporting has been published by The Nation, The Guardian, The Montreal Gazette, and El Diario, amongst others, and has also been featured on television programs including Good Morning America, BBC World Service, and Democracy Now! To Register: Description: Join us for an introductory workshop into the world of cinematography. We will tackle technical aspects such as exposure, aperture, and frame rate, as well as artistic elements such as camera angles, framing techniques, and the importance of lighting. Bio: Sylvestre Guidi has more than 30 years of documentary film experience, filming from the top of the world—on the 2005 award-sweeping series Arctic Mission, to the bottom—on Anne Aghion’s Ice People in Antarctica. He has collaborated repeatedly with noted directors including Michka Saäl and Patricio Henriquez, and has worked on films for the National Film Board of Canada. Guidi spent ten years living in Mexico City as a cameraman and editor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, covering South America and the Caribbean. A graduate in film from Concordia University in Montreal, Guidi also studied television production at the Université of Québec in Montréal. Guidi was nominated twice for best Cinematography, and won a Gémeaux award for best director of a comedy show. He also received the Congressional Medal Of Honor from the American Congress for his work in Antarctica. To Register: Applications due Mon, 22 Feb Concordia University Television (CUTV) is Canada’s oldest student TV station and operates as a non-profit fee-levy organization. CUTV is a hub for independent media production and growing alternative media institutions. The core of CUTV’s mandate is to train and build a network of mutually supportive independent journalists and media producers. Through educational events, workshops, and equipment lending, CUTV aims to connect the community and empower the next generation of journalists. Learn more at www.cutvmontreal.org/ Core responsibilities Qualifications and Experience Additional Assets More info Reporting to the Executive director and the Board of Directors Compensation $20-$22 per hour at 20 hours per week. This position is entitled to CUTV’s group health insurance plan This employment contract is until January 2022 after which time the successful applicant may modify their roles and responsibilities and move into a permanent position. To Apply Email your cover letter and CV to jobs@cutvmontreal.org Description: Join CUTV for an interview with award-winning writer, director, producer, and Concordia alumni Aisling Chin-Yee. We will speak to Aisling about her path to directing a feature fiction film, her documentary work, and her co-founding of the #AfterMeToo movement. Aisling will be interviewed live by CUTV Executive Director Dru Jay. Send your questions to outreach@cutvmontreal.org ahead of time and we’ll incorporate them! Bio: Aisling Chin-Yee is a Canadian filmmaker known for her work on films such as The Rest of Us (director), No Ordinary Man (co-writer, co-director, editor), Synesthesia (writer, director, producer), Rhymes for Young Ghouls (producer), The Saver (producer), and Last Woman Standing (producer). To register: If you have a moment, please fill out our workshop survey below. If you have a moment, please fill out our workshop survey below. CUTV is looking for a graphic designer to update its visual identity! Please pass this along to any designers experienced in typography and logo design who might be interested. About CUTV Founded in 1969, Community University Television (CUTV), based at Concordia University in Montreal, is the oldest campus-based TV station in Canada. It has over 1000 active members, and provides support, training and equipment to independent video producers, both on and off campus. The station also has a mandate to provide independent grassroots coverage of underrepresented communities, movements and social issues in Montreal. To help that mandate move forward, the station is seeking to update its logo, colour scheme, and font choice. Objectives We’re interested in conveying the energy and possibility we feel about creating media that amplifies and empowers movements for social and economic justice. Our new visual identity should maintain some continuity with the past, but communicate that the station is taking a new approach that will meet the needs of 2020. Past visual identities CUTV has maintained the same logo typography for over a decade, but the visual elements around it have changed from three dots (red green blue — circa 2011) to a clenched fist holding a camera (circa 2012), to the old fashioned TV (circa 2018, see our current web site). We’re not attached to any of it, but we’d like to build on the strength of the block lettering typography that survived several iterations of the station. Target Audience We’re interested in reaching Concordia students, a category which includes youth from many backgrounds, but also many mature students. Equally, we want to reach grassroots and community activists in neighbourhoods all over Montreal. Timeline Ideally, we’d like to have the basic design finalized by December 15, 2020, and the final product delivered by Jan 5, 2021. Deliverables We’re looking for proposals that cover: Budget CUTV has up to $2500 to spend on its visual identity revamp. Submit a proposal To be considered for this project, please prepare a short (<150 words) statement outlining your approach and your experience. Please also include a portfolio (a link is fine) that specifically includes typographical work and logo design, along with any other work. The above can be send in the body of an email to dru@cutvmontreal.org Overview CUTV is partnering with Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS) to produce a four-month pilot of a news show covering underrepresented communities in Montreal. We are seeking to hire a journalist-coordinator to take the lead on production of this (as yet unnamed) pilot program, and conduct journalism trainings for people in Montreal’s community sector (including grassroots groups, activists and organizations). The journalist-coordinator would work in collaboration with CUTV members and staff to create and implement the pilot program, which will set the precedent and standard for future CUTV news coverage. Time frame: 18 week contract, between November 23, 2020 and March 26, 2021 Hours and compensation: 35 hours/week, $25/hr Qualifications Requirements: Assets: How to Apply Send your CV and a cover letter outlining your qualifications and what you see as the possibilities for a Montreal community news show, to info@cutvmontreal.org. Put “VIDEO JOURNALIST” in the subject line. Deadline: November 21st, 12pm About CUTV Founded in 1969, Community University Television (CUTV), based at Concordia University in Montreal, is the oldest campus-based TV station in Canada. It has over 1000 active members, and provides support, training and equipment to independent video producers, both on and off campus. The station also has a mandate to provide independent grassroots coverage of underrepresented communities, movements and social issues in Montreal. 
Isabelle has worked in the film industry and television production since 2005. After ten years of working in companies such as Films de l’Isle and Esperamos, she pursued her freelance career as a producer, consultant, and screenwriter. Isabelle collaborates with various production companies in Montreal on fiction and documentary projects for television as well as for the big screen. She produces content for Quebec, English Canada, and the international market.
Several of her productions have won awards at home and abroad, such as the 2020 film Antigone by Sophie Deraspe, which was selected to represent Canada in the 2020 Oscars race and which won several awards at TIFF, the Whistler Film Festival, the Canadian Screen Awards, and the Gala Québec Cinéma.
Isabelle serves on the Hot Docs board of directors, America’s largest documentary film festival. Until early 2020, she served as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors for the Documentary Association of Canada, an organization that advocates for the interests of the documentary community. She was also president of the association’s Quebec chapter, DOC Quebec.
Ananda is the project manager of the Forum RIDM. For the past six years, she has worked in project management and programming for cultural organizations and international festivals in Latin America and Africa before moving to Montreal. She joined the RIDM team in 2019.
Born in Spain, Susana studied visual arts and sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Madrid. After her studies, she worked in creative advertising for Canal + Spain and as a storyboard teacher. In Montreal since 2011, she has worked as a designer, editor, and artistic director for various projects. In recent years, she has worked for several festivals and is currently working as coordinator of the Festival Nouveau Cinema Forum, the professional activities platform of Montreal Festival du nouveau cinéma.
Part time – term / contract
Compensation $20-$22 per hour at 20 hours per week, includes health insurance
