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The National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) and TELUS STORYHIVE are pleased to bring free training workshop Finding Your Online Audience (And Helping Your Audience Find You) to Kelowna, Red Deer and Fort McMurray this April.

If you’ve got a story to tell – on screen, stage or the written page – the workshop will help you find and connect with your online audience.

This interactive workshop will provide you with a new way of thinking about audience development for current and future projects. You’ll get practical steps for identifying and locating target audiences online using social media and other tools, evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of a project in terms of discoverability, and building actionable strategies to help you find your audience, and let them find you.

• Develop a framework for discoverability that works for all genres and budgets
• Understand industry best practices and case studies
• Find links to free monitoring and tracking tools to measure and optimize results
• Identify the five steps of every successful audience development strategy
• Networking opportunities

Workshop dates and locations

• Saturday, April 14 – Kelowna
  Rotary Centre for the Arts, 421 Cawston Avenue
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• Sunday, April 15 – Red Deer
  Scott Block Theatre, 4816 50 Avenue
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• Sunday, April 22 – Fort McMurray
  Redpoll Centre at Shell Place, 1 C.A. Knight Way
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All workshops run from 1p.m. to 6 p.m.

Workshops are free of charge, but registration is required.

The workshop is presented by Magnify Digital and features an opportunity to meet representatives from TELUS STORYHIVE and National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI).

About STORYHIVE

STORYHIVE is a community-powered funding program designed to support content creators in BC and Alberta through production grants and distribution on TELUS Optik TV On Demand and online.

About the National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI)

Renowned for having given many emerging filmmakers, television writers and producers their first breaks, the National Screen Institute provides training and production support through courses like NSI Totally Television, CBC New Indigenous Voices presented by NSI, NSI Features First, NSI Business for Producers, NSI IndigiDocs and TELUS STORYHIVE Web Series and Digital Shorts.

NSI also offers exposure through the NSI Online Short Film Festival and provides resources and support to those in the film, television and digital media industries at nsi-canada.ca.

National Screen Institute – Canada (NSI) operates with ongoing funding from Core Funders: Manitoba Sport, Culture and Heritage, the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council; Benefactors: TELUS, Telefilm Canada; Patrons: Bell Media, CBC; Builders: APTN, Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries; Strategic Sponsors: Directors Guild of Canada, Entertainment One, Super Channel, Corus Entertainment, Blue Ant Media; Friends: Manitoba Film & Music, RBC Emerging Artists Project, The Winnipeg Foundation, The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation, ZoomerMedia, Breakthrough Entertainment, Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development (CAHRD).

All media enquiries

Laura Friesen, Manager, Communications & Alumni Relations
Tel: 204.957.2999 or email: laura.friesen@nsi-canada.ca

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Yorkton Film Festival has announced the first round of nominees for this year’s Golden Sheaf Award Competition and lots of NSI grads have made the cut.

The second round of nominees – digital media and craft category nominations – will be announced mid-April.

Main Entry Categories

Children’s and Youth Production

• Kid Diners from directors John Barnard, Chris Charney and producer Kyle Bornais (all NSI Features First)

Comedy

• Mohawk Girls: White but A’right from director/producer Tracey Deer (NSI Storytellers, Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program) and producers Christina Fon (NSI Global Marketing), Catherine Bainbridge (NSI Global Marketing), Ernest Webb (NSI Aboriginal Cultural Trade Initiative) and Cynthia Knight (NSI Drama Prize)

• Must Kill Karl from director/producer Joe Kicak (NSI Drama Prize) and producers Karen Moore and Ryan West (both NSI Features First)

Documentary Arts & Culture

• Looking at Edward Curtis from director/producer Marie Clements (Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program, NSI Storytellers)

Documentary History & Biography

• Run As One – The Journey of the Front Runners from director/producer Erica Daniels (CBC New Indigenous Voices)

Documentary Series

• Looking at Edward Curtis: 16 SHORTS from director/producer Marie Clements (Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program, NSI Storytellers)

• Manitoba Barns: Our Hometown Rinks from producer Joy Loewen (NSI Totally Television program manager)

Documentary Social/Political

• Birth of a Family from writer/director Tasha Hubbard (NSI IndigiDocs, Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program)

Drama

• Frigid from director Joe Kicak (NSI Drama Prize) and producer Alex Molenaar (NSI Features First)

• The Undertaker’s Son from directors/producers The Affolter Brothers (STORYHIVE animated shorts)

Accompanying Category Awards

Indigenous Award Nominees

• Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier from directors Lisa Jackson (Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program) and Shane Belcourt (NSI Totally Television, Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program) and producers Chris McIvor (NSI Business For Producers) and Jeff Peeler (NSI Global Marketing)

• Looking at Edward Curtis from director/producer Marie Clements (Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program, NSI Storytellers)

• Run As One – The Journey of the Front Runners from director/producer Erica Daniels (CBC New Indigenous Voices)

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