Expressions of Intent for International Polar Year 2007-2008 Activities

Expression of Interest Details

PROPOSAL INFORMATION

CANADA #169: Yukon Regional Travelling Film School and Film Festival  (Yukon Travelling Film School)

Outline
Objectives: 1.Develop films with youth and adults in Yukon communities that illustrate and record local landscape use. 2.Express local community perceptions of landscape and stewardship to other Yukon communities. 3.Communicate, via film media, the bearing northern resource values have on community health. Process: A small media communications team will travel to participating communities and hold a series of workshops over the course of a year (January through to October) on the use of film equipment, film production and film editing. These workshops will be provided to small groups of community youth and adults, up to the discretion of the communities. Participating individuals will be given digital film cameras to take images and videos. Objectives listed above will be achieved when these images and videos are presented to participating communities at a travelling film festival (November – December). The best films (up to the discretion of the community participants) will be submitted for presentation at the IPY Circumpolar Film Festival.

What significant advance(s) in relation to the IPY themes and targets can be anticipated from this project?
Films produced by community participants will serve as records of the current state of the Yukon environment (Theme 1), and human societies and cultural attitudes towards this landscape (Theme 6). These films will help define IPY projects in future years in terms of highlighting present polar environmental issues (Theme 2), and the evolution of these issues over time will form a basis for discussion for future IPY’s.

What international collaboration is involved in this project?
The final goal of this project is to have participants travel with their best films to an international IPY Circumpolar Film Festival (*the international IPY Circumpolar Film Festival project has been submitted separately).

FIELD ACTIVITY DETAILS

Geographical location(s) for the proposed field activities:
Yukon communities: Dawson City, Pelly Crossing, Ross River, Burwash Landing, Carmacks, Teslin, Whitehorse.

Approximate timeframe(s) for proposed field activities:
Arctic: 01/07 – 03/08            
Antarctic: n/a

Significant facilities will be required for this project:
Large van to transport cameras, laptop and other editing equipment.

Will the project leave a legacy of infrastructure?
Cameras, and the associated skills developed to utilize them, will be left with communities to continue their communication of environmental and social needs to other communities. All of the fore-mentioned communities already have computer infrastructure, but will benefit from computer film editing programs left behind for future use. If infrastructure can be defined to include an archive of films, then the legacy of this project will be invaluable to the work of future IPYs, particularly given the rapid rate at which the Yukon environment is changing.

How is it envisaged that the required logistic support will be secured?
Own support
Other sources of support

Has the project been "endorsed" at a national or international level?
This pre-proposal has been reviewed and is being submitted by the Canadian Steering Committee (CSC). Ongoing discussions will integrate this pre-proposal into a larger network of related national and international initiatives. The CSC has initially sorted this pre-proposal into: THEME: Education, Outreach & Communication SUB-THEME: Conferences & Workshops

PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND STRUCTURE

Is the project a short-term expansion (over the IPY 2007-2008 timeframe) of an existing plan, programme or initiative or is it a new autonomous proposal?
New

How will the project be organised and managed?
I, Kate Bartel, will organize materials and participating organizations and community educators to produce an efficient timeline to achieve objectives outlined above.

What are the initial plans of the project for addressing the education, outreach and communication issues outlined in the Framework document?
This project is an education project that relies on outreach and communication between participating communities to achieve its stated objectives. The best of the films produced from this region (Yukon) will be communicated to other IPY participants and interested parties at an International IPY Circumpolar Film Festival.

What are the initial plans of the project to address data management issues (as outlined in the Framework document?
Individual community participants will be responsible, with the help of provided educational support, to edit and produce their own films on a recognized schedule to meet the project objectives and present at the IPY Circumpolar Film Festival.

How is it proposed to fund the project?

Is there additional information you wish to provide?
None

PROPOSER DETAILS

Kate Bartel
P.O. Box 31803


Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
Y1A 6L3
Canada

Tel: (867) 667-7458
Mobile: no
Fax: (867) 393-6738
Email:

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