Author: awesomekris

Awesome Title: Get on the DOC Bus!

Email: [email protected], [email protected] (Mandy)

Phone number: 250-361 6761

Your Location: Victoria, BC

Company or Affiliation: Media Rising, EnviroSpeak Media

Website: www.mediarising.tv , www.envirospeakmedia.com

Your Awesome Shit:

To raise awareness about the growing crisis in documentary funding, technology and distribution, Get on The DOC Bus will drive a customized, camperized school bus across the country that is the birthplace of the documentary. A fundraising tool for the 2011 Documentary Organization of Canada ‘Save the Doc’ campaign, this dynamic odyssey will literally bring the art and business of documentary to Canadians, educating, entertaining and inspiring film lovers from coast to coast.

The DOC bus will be customized to accommodate the small crew and provide a studio production office. The 4-month summer tour from Mile 0 to St John’s, Newfoundland will include planned indoor screenings and impromptu outdoor guerilla screenings of Canadian docs; visits and interviews with local filmmakers, film lovers, decision-makers and change-makers; a jog south of the border to pick up Michael Moore in Flint Michigan; and a full-on social media campaign that will take an international audience on a virtual Canadian Documentary Odyssey. Along the way, this awesome project will document and explore the documentary industry’s changing landscape.  Get on the DOC Bus! Are you on board the vehicle for change?

Your Bio:

Inspired by her love of film and it’s power to inspire change, Mandy Leith has worked internationally on the cutting edge of broadcast media and documentary production since 1984, winning awards and a reputation for excellence as a communicator, editor and storyteller.  In 2003, Mandy founded OPEN CINEMA, a non-profit society dedicated to film as a tool for community engagement through regular screenings of thought-provoking documentaries followed by open forum discussion with invited guests in cafe style venues.  Mandy currently works as a freelance media producer, director, editor, educator and consultant in Victoria, BC. Her newest passion is exploring the innovative ways that social media can be used as an effective storytelling and marketing tool.

Nicole is the visionary behind EnviroSpeak Media, a socially focused company that builds web tools for environmental change. She co-founded One Net Marketing, an online agency, that specializes in SEO,  social strategy, and online media campaigns. Nicole has 6 years of social marketing and interactive web platform development for companies all over North America. In addition, Nicole is an accomplished new media filmmaker.  She has produced several mini-docs and activist videos on the environment, social justice, culture, and international conflict for Current.com, TheRealNews.com and Al Jazeera. Nicole is also the Director for a feature length documentary on the war in South Thailand scheduled for release in late 2011.  As a a social Entrepreneur and experienced storyteller in print and web, she enjoys envisioning, managing and marketing interactive community and multimedia platforms. In her spare time she volunteers for Ocean Networks Canada, and teaches new emerging filmmakers how to shoot engaging video for social movements.