Latest posts from National Screen Institute - Canada (NSI)

Do you want to empower local storytellers to tell impactful stories and join a creative and dedicated team?

TELUS is looking to fill a full-time supervising producer role in their Original Content stream. The successful candidate will have a key role with a leading team that is passionate about storytelling. Your contribution will enable TELUS to better support filmmakers through your experience and ability to apply critical thinking throughout the process. This role will allow you to create engaging content you love and will connect you with audiences across the country.

TELUS Originals are high-quality documentaries that reflect the kaleidoscopic Canadian experience, and exemplify TELUS’ social purpose values into an ever-widening community.

Qualifications include:

• Known for your support of Indigenous storytellers, Indigenous stories and Indigenous narrative sovereignty
• Culturally mindful when working with filmmakers of colour and Indigenous communities
• Five+ years of relevant work experience or equivalent in television/film producing
• Noted as a creative self-starter with very strong interpersonal, communication, presentation and time-management skills
• An ability to bring your unique creative vision and inspiration to the TELUS Originals team, especially your expertise supporting Indigenous storytellers, Indigenous stories and Indigenous narrative sovereignty
• Demonstrated ability to provide creative feedback to develop and produce engaging stories
• Post-secondary certificate, diploma, undergraduate degree or relevant experience preferably in media, journalism, broadcast television and/or video production
• Ability to work effectively with various levels of management and cross-functional teams

Read the full job description and apply by October 31, 2020.

The post Job opportunity: Supervising Producer, TELUS Originals – parental leave (up to 18 months) appeared first on National Screen Institute - Canada (NSI).

Lisa Jackson (Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program) will serve as co-producer on an upcoming Hot Docs project called Citizen Minutes.

The Citizen Minutes project aims to support short and micro documentaries throughout the production process, with the goal of premiering the films at Hot Docs 2021. Lisa, along with fellow co-producer Lauren Grant, will help guide the creative process for each documentary.

Selected projects will receive financial, production and post-production support to create and deliver the films, including potential mentorship.

Citizen Minutes is calling for Canadian filmmakers to submit their applications before October 28, 2020. Visit the Hot Docs website for more information.

The post Lisa Jackson set to co-produce new Hot Docs initiative to support short and micro docs during production appeared first on National Screen Institute - Canada (NSI).

Congratulations to Alex Lazarowich (NSI IndigiDocs), one of the honourees of DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40. This award celebrates emerging talent in the documentary world.

Alex is an award-winning Cree producer, director and screenwriter from Northern Alberta. In 2015, Alex directed her documentary Cree Code Talker though NSI IndigiDocs. The documentary went on to win first place at the Hot Docs BravoFactual short pitch. Her most recent documentary Fast Horse won a Special Jury Award for directing at Sundance Film Festival 2019.

Along with her fellow winners, Alex will be honoured during a private online celebration as part of the DOC NYC festival.

The post Alex Lazarowich celebrated as one of DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 appeared first on National Screen Institute - Canada (NSI).