Empowers youth to conceive, plan, shoot, edit, and screen short animated films that speak about their lives and their community.
Alert Bay
Alert Bay is 350 km and a forty-minute ferry ride north of Nanaimo. The town’s main street has some of the best whale watching in the world. Its long ocean-side walkway passes old pastel houses, totem poles set in the grassy Namgis burial grounds, and the renowned U’Mista Cultural Centre with its display of Kwakwaka’wakw masks. The T’lisalagi’lakw School is a short walk up hill from the U’Mista Cultural Centre.
“The Unexpected Hero” was animated by Mrs. Dawson’s Grade 4 class. “Bajoolahoop” was animated by Mr. Kalnay’s Grade 7 class.
httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EE1D06E442289345
Duncan
Duncan is a city on southern Vancouver Island. Students at a summer camp created “Cowichan Pride,” which provides a birds-eye view of the community and its activities, including a memorial service, a pow wow, and a soccer game.
httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B25A999C58C7BBEC
Gold River
Gold River is located in central Vancouver Island 90 kilometers west of Campbell River. This area is the traditional territory of the Mowachaht and Muchalaht people of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation. Students from the Ray Watkins Elementary School and Gold River Secondary School created these videos about Luna, inspired by the film “Luna: Spirit of the Whale.”
httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=400E6D749A8B8EB6
Masset
Masset is a village in the Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), located on the northern coast of Graham Island. Students in Grades 5, 6 and 7 at Tahayghen Elementary School created these videos with the help of their Haida Language teacher and elders.
httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D00F5A15646F5AF5
Penticton
Penticton is a city in the Okanagan Valley of the Southern Interior of British Columbia. Artists in residence at the En’owkin Centre created these videos.
httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CC5A599C18C24ED8
Seabird Island
Seabird Island is 120 kilometers east of Vancouver, near Agassiz, in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley. Sq’éweqel is a village at the northern tip of Seabird Island. The name is Halq’emeylem for “turn of the river.”
httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D133CC98D21CE168
Squamish
Squamish, which means “Birthplace of the Winds” in the Coast Salish language, is located at the head of Howe Sound, 60 km north of Vancouver. Grade 3 and Grade 7 students at Squamish Elementary School created these videos.
httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3269B6CB69318242
Vancouver
httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6354986BF49B0A5B
Zeballos
Zeballos is a village on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Grade 7 students at Zeballos Elementary School created “The Nootka and Captain Cook” about the first cultural exchange between Europeans and the Mowachaht/Muchalaht people. Grade 8-12 students created “Anytown, BC.”
httpvp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7588BF7B19FE40B3
