Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Katerina Cizek
On Wednesday, April 2nd, at 7 pm in the New South Film Screening Classroom, Canadian filmmaker Kat Cizek will be screening and discussing short films which she has produced as part of the Filmmaker in Residence Program at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Through close collaboration with doctors, nurses, administrators, health care workers, social workers, police, and patients, Kat has created short documentaries illuminating aspects of urban public health.
The Filmmaker-in-Residence program is an alternative model of media-making. This collaborative initiative is the National Film Board of Canada's effort to reach out to communities and places media creation into the hands of citizens--the agents of true social change. In this pilot project, Katerina Cizek is Filmmaker-in-Residence at St. Michael's Hospital, working with partners on the front lines: doctors, nurses, researchers, and patients.
Sponsored by the College Film and Media Studies Initiative, the Program in Justice and Peace, and CNDLS
