Interventionist Media

What happens when a hospital and a filmmaker collaborate with homeless youth, medical staff, police officers and cyclists? In this pilot project, Katerina Cizek, is Filmmaker-in-Residence at St. Michaels hospital, working with partners on the frontline: doctors, nurses, researchers and patients. From local projects at the Inner City Health Unit, to global ones, FIR partners media with medicine in innovative ways. Katerina sits down with National Film Board Senior Producer, Gerry Flahive and St. Michaels Hospital Assistant Professor Dr. Katherine Rouleau and discusses the global innovations that emerged out of this collaborative effort to reach out to communities and put media in the hands of citizens the agents of true social change.

Video Resources:
Filmmaker-in-Residence http://filmmakerinresidence.nfb.ca/
Dignitas International www.dignitasinternational.org
Challenge for Change www.onf-nfb.gc.ca
Highrise Project www.onf-nfb.gc.ca

Background:
In October 2009 delegates from across Canada and beyond joined Artscape in Toronto for our third Creative Places + Spaces: The Collaborative City conference. In a packed two-day program inspirational keynote speakers and ground breaking projects made the case for the power of collaboration to solve complex multi dimensional challenges and to fuel innovation. www.creativeplacesandspaces.ca

Over the next few months "The Campaign of Ideas: Video Knowledge Exchange" series will bring you a regular diet of conference highlights focusing on the major themes of the conference and some of the tools for collaboration that were presented.

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