Coming Events:
This year’s Grassroots Video Journalism is just around the corner! GVJ 101 is a full day workshop led by CUTV’s staff journalists covering all the basic concepts of grassroots journalism. If you’ve been waiting for a chance to get involved at CUTV, or wanting to get your start in community oriented journalism, you won’t want to miss this workshop.
Both a theoretical discussion and hands-on experience, this workshop covers topics including framing, ethical considerations, media literacy, and the importance of independent journalism in the current media landscape. Participants will also learn how to research, conduct interviews, cover protests, and find their voice through interactive exercises.
Free lunch will be provided!
Spaces are limited, so register early to save your spot.
Join us for an exciting talk with documentary filmmaker Ariel Nasr on April 2 from 1-3pm in PR Building room #100 (2100 rue Mackay, right next to the CUTV studio).
Ariel will be discussing his experience in the film industry, what the current state of documentary filmmaking is like in Canada; navigating funding and distribution; unique challenges faced in documentary filmmaking; ethics and conduct or how to navigate sensitive topics. Come with any questions you have about producing, directing, documentary or narrative filmmaking!
Ariel Nasr is a Montreal-based filmmaker and producer whose films include Hot Docs audience award-winner, The Forbidden Reel (2019) and Canadian Screen Award winner The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2011). Other directing work includes Good Morning Kandahar (2009), and La Mosquée (2018). As an independent producer Ariel was nominated for a 2013 Oscar for half-hour fiction, Buzkashi Boys, shot entirely in Afghanistan. As a producer at the National Film Board of Canada (2020-2024), Ariel produced and co-produced award-winning documentaries. A citizen of Canada, Afghanistan and the USA, Ariel was the recipient of the 2024 TIFF CBC-Films Screenwriter Award for his screenplay, Daudistan.
Please confirm your attendance by emailing outreach@cutvmontreal.org.
Past events:
In a time of multiple and intensifying crises, Progressive Publics is rooted in a commitment to social justice and asserts that both the academy and the media are public goods that have crucial and entwined roles to play in critical analysis and knowledge mobilization and dissemination.
This project triangulates three sectors—independent media, the academy, and the broader public—through connecting crucial questions of the present and how to live collectively in more just relation to media and scholarly communication to promote access, social justice, and community engagement.
The second Progressive Publics Symposium will take place in Montreal on February 28th and March 1st, hosted by Dr. Shama Rangwala (YorkU) and Andre Goulet (Harbinger) and featuring interviews, academic panels and a live variety show with scholars and the independent journalism community in conversations exploring surveillance and prison abolition, Canadian media and Palestine, data justice, the future of journalism and more.
DAY 1: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1
FRIDAY, February 1st at 1pm FREELANCE JOURNALISM WORKSHOP
(Room 1.605, EV Building)
Presented by The Canadian Freelance Union & Community University Television
- featuring The Rover editor Savannah Stewart and guests
FRIDAY, February 1st at 2pm INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM SUMMIT
(Room 1.605, EV Building)
- Featuring Pivot, The Rover, The Breach, L’Étoile du Nord, Ricochet, À bâbord, La Converse, Unrigged, The Inspirit Foundation and others
Bringing together independent media organizers and journalists, researchers, and funders to share their strategic proposals for independent media in Montreal, responding to the particular media ecosystem and its challenges and opportunities.
FRIDAY, February 1st at 6pm LIVE VARIETY SHOW
(Reggie’s Co-op Bar, Hall Building – 2F)
- Panel curated by L’Étoile du Nord and À bâbord
- Live show curated by Unrigged and the Harbinger Media podcast community
Featuring Pivot editor-in-chief Claire Ross, independent journalist Rachel Gilmore, Harbinger Media broadcasters Megan Linton and Paris Marx and the New Feeling music journalism cooperative
DAY 2: SATURDAY MARCH 1
SATURDAY, March 1st from 11am-5pm ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM
(Room 1.605, EV Building)
Panels connecting public scholarship, journalism and independent media curated by the Data Justice Hub, le coop de solidarité Pivot, Montreal community journalists The Rover and La Converse, Palestine advocacy organization Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, think tank le Institut de recherche et d’informations socioéconomiques, journalism advocacy group Femmes Experts and investigative journalism publisher The Breach
- Light refreshments provided from Nilufar Catering
- Masking is welcome -masks and sanitizer will be available at the door
We will be facilitating weekly drop in coworking sessions focused on writing projects. Applying for grants? Writing a script? Come cowork at the studio, body double, and get feedback on your writing from CUTV staff and your peers. Snacks provided!
Sessions will take place weekly on Thursdays from 12-2pm.
L’Organe’s Nathan Pupo-Greene will lead a walk through on how to use the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K. This training is mandatory if you want to book the Blackmagic camera as a CUTV member!
There are two dates currently offered in February:
Wednesday, February 12 1:15-2:15pm
Thursday, February 20, 1:15-2:15pm
Nathan will be offering trainings on alternating Wednesdays and Thursdays going forward. Email him directly at production.organe@cutvmontreal.org
It’s a new semester, and another great time to get involved at CUTV! Come visit us at the studio for a tour, chat with staff and volunteers, and make new connections. We want to hear about the projects you want to make, and the ways you want to get involved!
We’ll be livestreaming the Concordia Student Union’s special general meeting TONIGHT on Youtube, starting at 6pm!
If you’re a Concordia student, get to the Hall building to vote!
Watch here on our Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CUTV
This workshop will discuss the steps in the Pre-production/Production/Post Production stages of making a first film or documentary. Covering topics from logistics, to finding the right collaborators, to production agreements and clearing copyrights of anything that people use but did not create. We will conclude with some info about film festivals as a platform to have your work seen.
The workshop will be led by CUTV member Seema Arora. Seema has directed and co-produced 10 short films that have won in total more than 50 awards internationally. Her most recent bilingual rom-com film Histoire de Love was selected amongst 900 films as the only Canadian film to be selected for a screening in an international film festival in Avignon, France. She is currently working on episodes 7 and 8 of my her webseries Fun with French. Seema has recieved support from CUTV for her past films, and we are so excited to have her!
To reserve your place in this workshop, please email outreach@cutvmontreal.org
Join us for a holiday potluck December 12 from 7-9pm (1440 rue Mackay) for some food, drinks, and time with fellow CUTV community. We’ll have cool CUTV merch to give away, a special showing of a historic CUTV Christmas Special, and your favourite equipment depot guy DJ Fraser will be spinnin’ mad tracks. Come celebrate the end of the semester and 2024!
New location: EV1.615.
CUTV will be holding a special general meeting on December 5, 2024 in EV1.615 (EV Building 1515 St Catherine St W). There will be free food! We encourage all our members to come out and participate.
The room will be open at 6:30pm, and we will start promptly at 7:00pm. The meeting will be hybrid, and you can join the Zoom room starting at 6:45pm, by following this link. (Passcode 844732)
We are looking for new board members! If you are interested in joining the board, please fill out this form prior to the SGM.
Board candidates will be asked to read their bio at the SGM; if you are not able to attend please send your bio to Hana at outreach@cutvmontreal.org before the meeting.Friendly reminder that you must be a current CUTV member to vote at the SGM, and you must sign up for membership 14 days in advance of the SGM. Student memberships are valid until 8 months after the first class of your last semester, and community memberships are valid for one year. You can sign up or renew your membership here.
CUTV community member Silas Goodman will be returning this year for another in depth wireless lav mic tutorial. Join us on Thursday November 28 from 6-8pm at the CUTV studio to learn about wireless mics and sound recording from an expert!
Interested in volunteering at CUTV? Want to shoot and produce your own videos? Join us on Thursday November 21 from 6-8pm at the CUTV studio for a hands-on beginner workshop to learn how to use some of our most popular items at CUTV.
