Fogo Island - Then and Now On June 1, 2010, the NFB, along with the Shorefast Foundation and the Fogo Island Arts Corporation, will be celebrating the opening of a new e-cinema on Fogo Island in Newfoundland. This e-cinema (an all-digital community theatre) is the first theatre ever to exist on the island. It also marks the NFB's return to a community that 40 years ago, put the Challenge for Change program on the map. Challenge for Change was a program that allowed communities to use film and video to incite social change. By recording people talking about the issues, and then playing those recordings back to the community, everyone was able to get a global view of what the problems were and work together towards resolving them. The 9 films included in this playlist were part of the original Newfoundland Project, aka, The Fogo Island Project. They demonstrate, in a very concrete way, how the Challenge for Change program worked. The films were all directed by Colin Low, one of the founders of IMAX and one of the NFB and Canada's most famous documentary filmmakers. Now, in 2010, more than 40 years later, the NFB is returning to the Island to honour a longstanding commitment to the community. In addition to the opening of the e-cinema, we are working with the Shorefast Foundation and the Fogo Island Arts Corporation to offer media literacy workshops to the island's youth, providing them with the opportunity to tell their own stories, in their own way. We are also establishing a film residency partnership, offering artistic training to the Island's citizens in collaboration with 3 artist residents – Andrea Dorfman (Flawed), Bruce Alcock (Vive la Rose) and Yassine Ouhilal, who will be working with the NFB for the first time. In much the same way that the NFB began its relationship with the residents of Fogo Island, it is now continuing that tradition, encouraging their passion for the arts while simultaneously using film and video to bring about change, both to the community and the economy. Other films from the Fogo Island Project Andrew Britt at Shoal Bay Brian Earle on Merchants and Welfare Citizen Discussions Dan Roberts on Fishing Discussions on Welfare The Fogo Island Improvement Committee The Founding of the Cooperatives Jim Decker's Party McGraths at Home and Fishing The Mercer Family The Merchant and the Teacher Some Problems of Fogo The Songs of Chris Cobb The Story of the Up Top Thoughts on Fogo and Norway Tom Best on Co-operatives Two Cabinet Ministers William Wells Talks About the Island Learn more about Fogo Island and the Newfoundland Project Lunch with Colin Low (An interview with director Colin Low) The Shorefast Foundation Newfoundland Project (original poster and information sheet) The Children of Fogo Island (original poster and information sheet) Fogo Island Film and Community Development Project Colin Low, Fogo Island Communication experiment Fogo Island Project submitted by B. Nemtin and C. Low The Pegram Lectures, Colin Low Additional Resources Tales of Fogo Island Old Photos of Fogo Island (on Facebook) Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism (on Facebook)
On June 1, 2010, the NFB, along with the Shorefast Foundation and the Fogo Island Arts Corporation, will be celebrating the opening of a new e-cinema on Fogo Island in Newfoundland. This e-cinema (an all-digital community theatre) is the first theatre ever to exist on the island. It also marks the NFB's return to a community that 40 years ago, put the Challenge for Change program on the map.
Challenge for Change was a program that allowed communities to use film and video to incite social change. By recording people talking about the issues, and then playing those recordings back to the community, everyone was able to get a global view of what the problems were and work together towards resolving them.
The 9 films included in this playlist were part of the original Newfoundland Project, aka, The Fogo Island Project. They demonstrate, in a very concrete way, how the Challenge for Change program worked. The films were all directed by Colin Low, one of the founders of IMAX and one of the NFB and Canada's most famous documentary filmmakers.
Now, in 2010, more than 40 years later, the NFB is returning to the Island to honour a longstanding commitment to the community. In addition to the opening of the e-cinema, we are working with the Shorefast Foundation and the Fogo Island Arts Corporation to offer media literacy workshops to the island's youth, providing them with the opportunity to tell their own stories, in their own way.
We are also establishing a film residency partnership, offering artistic training to the Island's citizens in collaboration with 3 artist residents – Andrea Dorfman (Flawed), Bruce Alcock (Vive la Rose) and Yassine Ouhilal, who will be working with the NFB for the first time.
In much the same way that the NFB began its relationship with the residents of Fogo Island, it is now continuing that tradition, encouraging their passion for the arts while simultaneously using film and video to bring about change, both to the community and the economy.
Andrew Britt at Shoal Bay
Brian Earle on Merchants and Welfare
Citizen Discussions
Dan Roberts on Fishing
Discussions on Welfare
The Fogo Island Improvement Committee
The Founding of the Cooperatives
Jim Decker's Party
McGraths at Home and Fishing
The Mercer Family
The Merchant and the Teacher
Some Problems of Fogo
The Songs of Chris Cobb
The Story of the Up Top
Thoughts on Fogo and Norway
Tom Best on Co-operatives
Two Cabinet Ministers
William Wells Talks About the Island
Lunch with Colin Low (An interview with director Colin Low)
The Shorefast Foundation
Newfoundland Project (original poster and information sheet)
The Children of Fogo Island (original poster and information sheet)
Fogo Island Film and Community Development Project
Colin Low, Fogo Island Communication experiment
Fogo Island Project submitted by B. Nemtin and C. Low
The Pegram Lectures, Colin Low
Tales of Fogo Island
Old Photos of Fogo Island (on Facebook)
Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism (on Facebook)