Join us for Industry Bootcamp and meet professionals from various fields, companies and organizations through panels, seminars or one-on-one consultations!
Participants will pre-submit questions and project information, hosting a mix of filmmakers from various stages of their careers. Each virtual session will be held on Zoom.
Below are this year’s Industry Bootcamp sessions and the organizations involved:
This session will be hosted in collaboration with NABET 700-M UNIFOR.
We invite you to share which departments you’re most interested in, whether for current or upcoming projects, or simply out of personal curiosity. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions about your career goals and how to expand your knowledge and experience in the industry. Gain insights from their skilled members and representatives as they share their experiences, including valuable do’s and don’ts.
NABET 700-M UNIFOR has previously collaborated with productions like Kim’s Convenience and Tall Boyz, and is currently involved with Workin’ Moms, Run the Burbs, and Murdoch Mysteries.
Panelists:
Sam Rice: Senior Vice President | NABET 700-M UNIFOR
Sam Rice (she/her) has worked every job in the Costume Department over the last 10 years and is currently the Senior Vice-President at NABET 700-M Unifor in her spare time. Her favourite thing about Reel Asian’s Industry Bootcamp is getting to meet and help new folks (seriously, don’t hesitate to reach out with questions!), and the show she is still the most proud to be a part of is CBC’s hit comedy series Kim’s Convenience.
Esha Mehreen Khan: Onset/Set Dresser
Esha Mehreen Khan (she/her/they/them) is a Bengali transplant on Turtle Island retired from finance and switched to film & television production. Graduate of York University in Bachelor of Sociology and planning to begin graduate studies in 2025 in the field of Counselling Therapy to aid in bridging the mental health support gap that exists in our industry. Constant learner and believer of knowledge/skill-sharing and opening doors that have systematically been closed to BIWOC, differently abled folks, LGBTQ2SIA+ community members.
Tim Doughty: Key Grip Member
Tim Doughty has worked in TV/commercials/film for something like 20 years – in the UK, Malaysia and Toronto. His work has covered numerous roles, on both sides of the camera, pre and postproduction – but since moving to Toronto he’s found himself placed firmly in the Grip department, and is now a member of NABET and mostly works as a Key Grip. Tim lived for almost a decade in Malaysia, getting very fat and building up his spice tolerance. He decided to embrace Asian life and culture so much that eventually he chose to move to Canada and live in the GTA.
Learn more about NABET 700-M UNIFOR.
This session is a 30 minute media training workshop followed by a Q&A.
This session is intended to help underrepresented artists effectively and strategically navigate and leverage media interviews and other related PR opportunities.This tailored media training session will provide practical tools and tips for filmmakers and media artists to position and communicate their projects. This session is intended for both emerging and seasoned filmmakers and media artists, with the intention of providing strategies to use at all stages of your career. In the 30 minute media training workshop, you will learn what to expect in media interviews, how to prepare for them and how to deliver and frame your own messaging. This workshop will also be useful for emerging artists who are pitching projects to broadcasters, funders, and partners and are looking to learn best practices in creating impactful messaging.
Panelists:
Judy Lung is Vice President, Strategy, Communications & Stakeholder Relations for TIFF, where she leads strategic planning, communications, and reputation management for the organization, ensuring its status as one of the world’s pre-eminent cultural institutions. With over 20 years of experience across distribution, exhibition, broadcasting, and production, Lung is an entertainment executive and arts leader with a track record for building audiences through award-winning PR, marketing, and social media campaigns that address the present and future needs of an ever-changing industry and how it reaches its rapidly evolving audiences.
Lung is a member of the newly created Golden Globes Membership Board of Directors. Previously, she served on the board of BIPOC TV & FILM where she led efforts to incorporate the organization as a not-for-profit, as well as spearheading HireBIPOC, an industry-wide initiative created in partnership with Bell Media to transform hiring practices and increase opportunities for creatives and crew members from underrepresented communities.
An overview of the services, workshops, support and equipment offered to filmmakers and media artists at Charles Street Video.
Panelist:
Greg Woodbury has worked in the Media Arts community for over 35 years as an administrator in artist-run production centres: as a production and post-production freelancer and in his own art practice. He has produced several of his own single channel videos and installations as well as fostered the work of other independent film/video/media artists through teaching, advocacy,technical support, creative collaboration and programming.
About Charles Street Video:
Charles Street Video (CSV) is a non-profit production organization established in 1981 to help support media artists. We provide affordable access to equipment and post-production editing facilities for creating videos, films, installations and other media art forms. We offer regular workshops, training sessions and residencies.
CSV also commissions artists to create new works, and sponsors a variety of youth-oriented production programs and post-secondary scholarships. We actively participate in local exhibitions of media art through our partnerships with arts organizations and grassroots festivals.
CSV is supported by its members, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council for operating funding and by the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts for capital funding.
Learn more about Charles Street Video.
Discover SAMANSA, the global streaming platform for short films, and learn how filmmakers can distribute their projects through the platform.
Panelist:
Yunah Chung Of Texas provenance and a bicoastal upbringing in California and New Jersey, Yunah Chung is a Korean American creative executive. After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts as a film & TV major, she cut her teeth at CAA followed by MTV where she witnessed words on a page turn into pixels on a screen as a scripted series development and current programming assistant. Her lifelong love of Korean cinema (which began long before the Parasite hype!) naturally led her to blogging about it online over at Dramabeans.com where a global community of K-drama fans continue to engage in thoughtful and enthusiastic discourse. In early 2017, Yunah was selected for an inaugural comedy screenwriting fellowship from Whoop Inc. (Whoopi Goldberg’s production company) and Mana Contemporary. Unable to shake her interest in global cinema, she also developed series and analyzed scripts at Infinite Studios (local producer of Crazy Rich Asians) while completing her dual international MBA degrees in Singapore (Nanyang Technological University) and Tokyo (Waseda University). She wrapped a 3-year stint as a Development Executive at 9 Story Media Group in New York where she developed kids & family animated and live action content.
Currently, Yunah is the VP, Content and Executive Producer at SAMANSA, a Tokyo-based SVOD platform for high quality short films from all around the world; she heads up content acquisitions and originals. Yunah was mentored by Kate Lambert (EVP, Development at FX) and is giving back by serving as mentor and board member through Women in Animation (WIA) and Astoria Film Festival, respectively.
This free two day workshop seeks to demystify the process of writing for television by leading participants through the nuts and bolts of a TV writer’s room. Ins Choi will lead nine participants through the process of pitching ideas, developing stories, outlining and scripting.
Sign up for Industry Bootcamp and meet professionals from various fields, companies and organizations through panels, seminars or one-on-one consultations!
Call for Submissions for RA:X: Puncta! Part of the 26th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (November 9-20), Puncta is an in-person, multi-disciplinary exhibition that takes up explorations of fracture to unsettle dominant coded narratives of cohesion and uniform Asianness within Canadian nation-state multicultural frameworks.
Sign up for Industry Bootcamp and meet professionals from various fields, companies and organizations through panels, seminars or one-on-one consultations!
An incubator for arts organizations engaged in the presentation of arts and cultural works. Through a network and collaboration-based approach, a network of arts organizations will be working together, learning from each other and supporting each other as they explore the impact of digital technologies on the presentation of artistic and cultural productions.
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema and work from Asia and the Asian diaspora. Works include films and videos by artists in Canada, the U.S., Asia and all over the world. As Canada’s largest pan-Asian film festival, Reel Asian provides a public forum for Asian media artists and their work, and fuels the growing appreciation for Asian cinema in Canada.
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