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Join us on October 16th as a panel of CSV resident artists discuss creative process. Susan Blight, Jennifer Dysart, Gloria Kim, and Betty Xie will talk about their current projects, media art, and how they move from an idea or vision to a fully realized (and funded) project.

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Susan Blight:





Susan Blight is Anishinaabe from Couchiching First Nation. A visual artist, filmmaker, and arts educator, Susan’s films and video work have been screened nationally and internationally at such venues as Media City International Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, and the ImagineNative Festival. In addition, Susan has exhibited across North America, most notably at Gallery 44, The Print Studio, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, and the Art Gallery of Windsor. Susan is co-founder of The Ogimaa Miikana Project, an artist/activist collective working to reclaim and rename the roads, streets, and landmarks of Toronto with Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language) and in July 2013, she became the fourth member of the Indigenous Routes artist collective which works to provide new media training for indigenous youth. Susan Blight received a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Windsor in Integrated Media, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from the University of Manitoba. She is the host of Indigenous Waves radio show.





Jennifer Dysart:




Jennifer Dysart is a filmmaker who loves experimenting between the genres. Her most recent film, called Kewekapawetan: Return After the Flood won one of three master's thesis prizes at York University and will be screened at ImagineNative Film and Media Festival in 2014. Her previous film called Moss Origins (2011) was an ImagineNATIVE and CSV commissioned short and dialogue-free narrative film that was purchased by RTP2 television in Portugal, screened at Fastnet Film Festival in Ireland, The Native Cinema Showcase at the Santa Fe Art Market 2012 and Asinabka Film Festival in Ottawa. Past films include Grip (2008), Hooked Up: NDNs Online 2007 (NFB First Stories) and I'll Sing To You (2006). Jennifer has an MFA in Film Production from York University in Toronto (2014). She is a seasoned production coordinator, field producer, and is now learning the trade of Assistant Directing.





Gloria Kim:



Born in Seoul, Korea, Gloria Ui Young Kim comes from a long line of media makers. With a degree in English Lit at U of T, she worked as a journalist at Maclean’s. She attended Ryerson: Image Arts and the 2008 Canadian Film Centre’s Director’s Lab. Her short film, ROCK GARDEN: A LOVE STORY, described by Atom Egoyan as “absolutely beautiful”, has won numerous prizes including the CBC Canadian Reflections Award. Her CBC film, THE AUCTION, premiered at the 2010 Sprockets TIFF, and wonBest Short Film, the Audience Choice Award: 2012 WIFT Short Film Showcase and Children’s Jury Prize: Seattle Film Festival for Children, and is now part of the John VanDuzer Film Collection at TIFF BellLightbox. Her other works have won numerousGolds, at the Bessies, the Marketing Awards, One Club; her OAC-commissioned work, Why Do I Dance… has had over 800,000 views on Youtube since April, 2012; she was in the 2009 TIFF Talent Lab; is a mentor for youth (Female Eye Film Festival , Reel Asian Film Festival, Hot Docs). She has recently directed the Ontario Arts Council’s 50th Anniversary film, Live, Love Art…which won Best Interview Film at PR Daily Video Awards. Her script, Debra and Mona won the 2013 Telefilm New Voices Award.



Betty Xie:


As an emerging filmmaker, Betty believes that extraordinary stories are embedded in the everyday life of ordinary people, and she is on a life-long search for extraordinary/ordinary narratives. Specifically, she is interested in themes of diaspora, migration and identity. Betty has written and directed the fiction short Girlfriends, which was screened at the 2013 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and 2014 Reel World Film Festival. Currently, she is directing and co-producing the documentary The Home Promised, the winning project from the 2013 "So You Think You Pitch Competition" (emerging category) at Reel Asian Film Festival.