Coming Events:
Are you interested in starting a live-streaming show, or want to up your production quality? Want guidance about what camera to use, what software to purchase, and how to capture great audio? Gary, head of video at Novara Media, has you covered! In this technical how-to workshop, Gary will go over both browser based streaming as well as hardware/software streaming and provide a run down of necessary equipment and how to make a great set-up.
Gary has served as head of video at Novara Media since 2016, during this time he oversaw two livestreamed politics shows (The Fix + TyskySour) and numerous outside broadcast specials. Alongside his work at Novara he freelances as a video producer and livestream producer for clients as diverse as Google, Nintendo, The Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress.
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. If you are not a member yet, head to https://www.cutvmontreal.org/membership/ to sign up.
If you are a CUTV member, sign up here (please note you will receive the Zoom link via email on the day of the event)
Are you passionate about social movements and interested in providing documentary coverage of demonstrations? Learn how with our resident experts Stefan Verna and Jesse Freeston. These experienced video journalists will walk us through framing techniques, equipment must-haves, and on-the-ground interview tips to provide quality coverage of protests and events, as well as answer your questions.
Stefan Verna
Stefan Verna is Montreal based filmmaker whose creations explore many genres such as documentary, fiction, music videos and dance films. His deep interest in Hip Hop Culture, Black Cinema and Politics fuels his body of work. ‘Poeticizing our pain’ describes both his process and the impact he seeks with his filmmaking. In 2016, he co-founded Black on Black Films, a collective for Black filmmakers in Quebec.
His previous films are: Ice Storm Cabaret , Chocolate City, Poetry in Motion, Diversidad: a Roadtrip to Deconstruct Diner, Drawing Blank, MONtreal: Jazz Stories. Metamorh. He is presently completing his second documentary feature called NOMAD’S LAND: a documentary Rhyme, directing NIGHT WATCHES US at the NFB and in developing a feature film On Thin Ice with Loaded Pictures.
Jesse Freeston
As a freelance shooter-editor he has worked for a variety of platforms including: Vice News, La Planète S’invite au Parlement, Politico, 60 Second Docs (Winner of the 2019 Webby Award for Best Documentary Video Channel) and as a member of the media team of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. As a filmmaker, Jesse is an active member of the Makila co-operative where he co-organizes regular story development incubators, the annual Cuban Hat Pitch at the RIDM, and contributes as a shooter or editor on the projects of fellow filmmakers. Ever since the 2009 military coup d’état Jesse has worked extensively in Honduras where he directed two independent documentary films: Revolutionary Medicine: A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital and Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley. Before falling in love with cinema Jesse worked as a video-journalist for teleSUR and The Real News Network. When not behind a lens or in front of a screen, Jesse is a devout basketball player, mediocre improv performer, and co-host of the podcast Where Is Now.
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:
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. 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. We warmly invite you to join us for a virtual petition launch and hear from our three speakers on why McGill must divest from the Coastal GasLink pipeline in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en nation.We stand with the demands of the Hereditary Chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Nation that call upon the ceasing of construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline, the immediate withdrawal of the RCMP and associated security and police forces from Wet’suwet’en territory, and that Wet’suwet’en self-determination is honored by respecting their decisions, laws, and governance structures.Come hear from Marlene Hale from the Wet’suwet’en nation, as she describes the current situation and the need for immediate action in solidarity with the nation; from Kasim Tirmizey who will explain the links between McGill investment in the colonial and destructive pipeline; and a speaker from the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment who will detail how the ongoing construction of the pipeline has brought the pandemic into the Wet’suwet’en territory. Stefan Christoff will be moderating the event and the subsequent question period.This event will also serve to launch the petition demanding immediate divestment by McGill university from the pipeline (see petition here: http://chng.it/z5jZcbfYhZ). PLEASE REGISTER FOR THE EVENT BY FOLLOWING THIS LINK: https://mcgill.zoom.us/…/tZwocuGtqDksHNZnNyDWrdqFsgUsm1… Brought to you by Divest McGill, CKUT, CAPE, The Indigenous Students Alliance, McGill Nurses for Planetary Health, Free City Radio, and CUTV 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. Do you want to gain experience while contributing to local community organizations, but don’t know where to start? Join SEIZE and CUTV for our “How to be an Excellent Board Member” workshop! We will cover the fundamentals of Board of Director governance structures, various roles and responsibilities, and common challenges organizations encounter. This event is Presented by SEIZE and CUTV. 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 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
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
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
