AbTeC Machinima Workshop – imagineNATIVE 2010
- Location: Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), Toronto, ON
- Date: October 21st – 22nd, 2010
- Duration: 2 Days
- Instructors: Skawennati, Jason Edward Lewis, Nancy Townsend
Overview: At the 11th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (2010), eight Indigenous youth had the opportunity to collaboratively produce short films using machinima (“machine”+”cinema”), a technique of movie making in online virtual environments where characters and locations can be produced and recorded. With the assistance of Skawennati, Jason Edward Lewis and Nancy Townsend of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT), the youth created three short reenactments of their favourite film or video clips using the “Second Life” virtual environment.
Juice. 2010.
by Cecily Jacko, Jared Robillard, & Tanis Desjarlais
This is based on a scene from the 1992 Thriller/Drama film titled Juice.
Fantastic Mr. Fox. 2010.
by Amanda Strong & Brad Ladouceur
This is based on a scene from the 2009 Adventure/Comedy film titled Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Sock it to Me. 2010.
by Judith Schuyler, Eva Rose Tabobondong, and Joan Mendowegan
This is based on the Sock it to Me music video from Missy Elliot’s Supa Dupa Fly Album released in 1997.
Nia:wen to the participants and to the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) for their assistance with this workshop.