Film Canada Yearbook (2002)

FUNDING FINANCIAL / LEGAL _ IMCHDAMFE | TALENT PUBLICISTS CREATIVE SERVICES UNIONS GUILDS ASSOCIATIONS _ EQUIPMENT SALES RENTALS STUDIOS POSTPRODUCTION DISTRIBUTION EXHIBITION y GOVT AGENCIES/ AWARDS & FESTIVALS & MORE 7 GOVERNMENT / FILM COMMISSIONS / AWARDS & FESTIVALS ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN 100 McCaul St. Toronto, ON M5T 1W1 (416) 977-6000 Fax: (416) 977-6006 Contact: Roberta Forsyth, Integrated Media Dept. ext. 330 0.C.A.D. in its education of professional artists and designers offers both fulland part-time programs. Critical and theoretical study, along with courses that offer handson experience in film production, video, animation, audio and computers create the ability to offer a full media program. Basic to advanced production courses include directing, scriptwriting, cinematography, sound recording, lighting, editing and post-production. Animation, rotoscoping, optical printing and computer-aided animation are all available. The college offers all levels of electronic image manipulation and production, off-line and online post-production and computerassisted image manipulation. Studio and field sound recording, editing, mixing and explorations in music composition complete the package. Mix all of that with the rest of the college's offerings, wood, metal, mouldmaking, photography, painting, etc. and you have a recipe for an outstanding learning experience. QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY 160 Stuart St. Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 (613) 533-2178 E-mail: flm@post.queensu.ca In its four-year BA (Honours) degree program and three-year BA degree program, the Department of Film Studies provides an integrated approach to film criticism, history, and production. A comprehensive range of courses at various levels of instruction makes possible the close study of film as art, entertainment and communication and develops a practical ability to work with the medium for expressive and communicative purposes. The fourth year of study also offers the possibility of independent study and research and of filmmaking. The Department's resources include excellent production facilities and a major film archive collection. RYERSON POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY 350 Victoria St. Toronto, ON M5B 2K3 The School of Image Arts 122 Bond St. (416) 979-5167 Fax: (416) 979-5139 Website: www.imagearts.ryerson.ca Film Studies Program The film program is designed to develop innovative film and video makers who are thoughtful practitioners of their medium, conscious of historical precedents and conversant with contemporary motion 220 picture practice, theory and technology. Building on the foundation year, students in the film option are required to take core courses in Production (producing, directing, cinematography and editing practices), Writing, Technology, Business, Visual Studies, Film History and Theory. Students undertake increasingly complex short film and video productions that illustrate the aesthetic concepts and principles being studied in the classroom. In their final year, students are required to produce a completed film or video, or assume a leadership position on a number of their colleagues’ projects. Additional electives such as Directing Screen Performance, Art Direction, Set Design, Digital Applications, Sound, Advanced Cinematography and Lighting expand students’ understanding of related professional areas and prepare them for creative success within this competitive and demanding industry. SENECA COLLEGE Digital Media Centre 21 Beverly Hills Dr. Toronto, ON M3L 1A2 (416) 491-5050 Fax: (416) 235-0462 E-mail: dmc@senecac.on.ca Website: http://dmc.senecac.on.ca Contact: Gina Bailey (416) 491-5050 ext. 4351 Intensive 16-week course taught in professional training environment equipped with Silicon Graphics Octane R10000 and O02 workstations networked to an Origin2000 server with multiple processors. DAT backup is available for student project storage and facility includes computer and video hardware for high quality final output to tape. Each system comes configured with advanced animation and visual effects software such as Softlmage 3 Extreme, Mayer, F/X and Animation and Amazon 3D paint. Classes run three times a year and topics covered will include Unix, storyboarding, modelling, character animation, lighting and textures, visual effects, 3D paint techniques, rendering, compositing tools and motion capture techniques. SHERIDAN COLLEGE 1430 Trafalgar Rd. Oakville, ON L6H 2L1 (905) 845-9430 Website: www.sheridanc.on.ca UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Innis College) 2 Sussex Ave. Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 (416) 978-5809 / 7271 The Cinema Studies Program offers undergraduate specialist, major and minor programs with 40 courses in film history, theory and criticism taught by about 30 instructors through the Faculty of Arts and Science. There are no courses in practical film production. Students include their Cinema Studies Program within either a 20-course (Honours) BA degree program or a 15-course BA degree program. Courses reflect the notion that Cinema Studies is an independent discipline within the humanities: films are the subject / object of study. In addition to corecourses in film analysis, history and theory offered at Innis College, the program offers courses on a wide range of National Cinemas: American, English Canadian, Czech and Slovak, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Quebec, ; Scandinavian, Soviet, and Spanish and Latin American. Interdisciplinary film courses are available through the Departments of Anthropology, History, Study of Religion and Sociology, and by programs in Canadian Studies, Literary Studies, Semiotics and Women’s Studies. Senior specialists take limited enrollment seminars or independent study in film. Qualified non-degree “Special Students” are welcome in most of these courses. UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 (619) 885-1211 ext. 3709 or 6923 Fax: (519) 746-4982 Website: www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/FINE/juhde/film.htm Film Studies Program offered by the Fine Arts Department. BA Honours (four-year), BA General (fourand threeyear); also minor & joint honours in Film Studies. Courses: History of Film, Film & TV Theory / Criticism, French, East European, Italian Film, Science Fiction Cinema, History of Animated Film, Religion and Film, Special Topics in Film. UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO English Dept. Undergraduate Studies University College, Rm. 182 London, ON N6A 8K7 (519) 661-2111 ext. 85796 Programs: Three-Year BA in Film Studies (Area of Concentration); Four-Year General BA in Film Studies; Combined Honours Program in Film Studies and Another Subject. Courses: An Introduction to Film, American Film, Film Comedy / Film Genres, Canadian Film, Special Topics in Film, National Cinemas: Special Topics, World Cinema, Representation of Gender and Sexuality, Avant-Garde Cinema, Contemporary Film, Canadian Cinema: Special Topics, Film Aesthetics, Film Theory, Contemporary Film Theory, Documentary Film, Film Directors / Auteurs: Special Topics, Seminar in Film Studies. 2002 * FILM CANADA YEARBOOK