Do you have a story you really want to tell?  Could you use guidance from industry-leading IBPOC professionals on how to produce your own content?

This exclusive IBPOC Content Creator Workshop will take place online on Saturday November 9, 2024 from 10am to 6pm MT.

Featuring Ron E. Scott (Prairie Dog Film + Television), Andrew Phung (AP Entertainment), Michelle Wong (Seven24 Films) and Jennifer Irons (META Talent Agency).

This workshop will cover:

• writing
• show bibles
• showrunning
• directing
• producing
• pitching
• literary agents
• and business affairs

This workshop is for IBPOC Content Creators, who are committed to creating their own content, and have a story they’re passionate and excited to share with the world.

Space is limited.

We’re excited to share that 4 of our workshop participants will also be selected to become Creatives Empowered’s delegation to Prime Time 2025 in Ottawa (Jan 29-31)!  An excellent opportunity to network, pitch yourself and your content!

Participants must be Alberta residents, 18 years of age or older, and self-identify as Black, Indigenous and / or a Person of Colour / racialized.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9 – 10am to 6pm MT

ONLINE VIA ZOOM

APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1 at 11:59pm MT

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED VIA EMAIL BY NOVEMBER 4

ABOUT RON E. SCOTT

Ron E. Scott is an award-winning Showrunner and Director with over twenty five years of industry experience, and a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. After graduating from Vancouver Film School in 1993, he founded Prairie Dog Film + Television and has since become a prominent figure in the world of independent television production. He has been involved in creating five scripted series and his projects have been nominated for over 170 Awards, including; Best Dramatic Series and Best Dramatic Writing at the Canadian Screen Awards.

As a prolific producer and innovator, he has contributed to over 200 episodes of TV that have broadcast globally, including BLACKSTONE and TRIBAL, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video and APTN lumi. Scott has been honored with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, as well as an Achievement in Artistic Direction Award and an Ambassador of the Arts Award at the Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts in Edmonton, Alberta. Scott was also recognized in the House of Commons as the recipient of the prestigious 2015 Indspire Award for the Arts in Canada.

Scott serves on the board of the Alberta Film Advisory Council. He is a member of CMPA, ACCT, AMPIA, DGC, WGC, the Aboriginal Filmmakers Program at the NFB, and is on the CMPA Feature Film and Television Committee. He has acted as a consultant with Telefilm Canada and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Scott also volunteers his time to speak at conferences, festivals, and seminars, including; the Banff World Media Festival, DGC Indigenous Voices, Bell Media Diverse Screenwriting Program (WGC), Industry Canada (ABC), Dreamspeakers, E-Spirit, the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), Innoversity Creative Summit, Cultural Industries Training Fund (CITF), the imagineNATIVE Film Festival and the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF).

ABOUT ANDREW PHUNG

Andrew Phung is an award winning actor, comedian, improviser, writer, and host, best known for his work as Kimchee on the hit TV series Kim’s Convenience. He won five consecutive Canadian Screen Awards in the category of “Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series” for his work on the show. His recent credits include Wynonna Earp, Events Transpiring, Lucky Star, and Last One Laughing on Amazon Prime. He is currently the co-creator, star, and executive producer of the comedy series Run the Burbs on the CBC/CW/Hulu. He recently received his second consecutive CSA nomination for “Best Lead Performer Comedy”, and can be heard regularly on CBC Radio’s Because News and the Debaters.

ABOUT MICHELLE WONG

After receiving her Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Alberta, Michelle began her formal film training at the National Film Board (NFB) of Canada working with the Oscar award winning Studio D where she directed and produced her first documentary Return Home, following up a decade later with the emotionally powerful Pieces of a Dream: A Story of Gambling.

Michelle’s production credits cross all formats, from television movies to feature length documentaries, performing arts specials and features. Her most recent Executive Producer credits include the feature length documentary Close the Divide about sustainability, an indigenous feature Dusk and Dawn, and Undetectable: How Stigma Has Gone Viral in the Fight against HIV. Michelle has provided business affairs on the documentaries The Good Virus, Flashback and Peggy & Balmer.

As the Head of Business Affairs for Seven24 Films, Michelle is involved with the scripted television projects Heartland (CBC), Family Law (Corus), Wynonna Earp (CTV/Tubi), Billy the Kid (MGM+ Studios), Ride (Bell Media/Hallmark) and Jann (CTV).

Over the years Michelle has served on a number of media arts organizations and boards including the Alberta Motion Pictures Industries Association (AMPIA) as Chair of the Finance & Regulatory and the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committees, and co-chair of the Professional Development Committee. Michelle is a founding member of Creatives Empowered, an Alberta based collective of artists and creatives who are Black, Indigenous & People of Colour, empowering each other as an allied community.

Michelle currently sits on the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) as Treasurer, Women in View (WIV), and as the lead consultant and designer of a series of business affairs ‘learn by doing’ webinars for the Canadian Independent Screen Fund.

Michelle is the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for her commitment to the arts in Alberta.

ABOUT JENNIFER IRONS

Jennifer Irons, a writer turned talent agent, founded META Talent Agency, the first Black-owned film & TV literary talent agency in Canada. META’s mission is to discover, nurture, promote, and help advance Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) careers for long-term success in the entertainment industry. In 2021, Jennifer was named one of Playbacks 10 to Watch, and in 2022 was a participant of the BANFF Spark Accelerator for Women in Business, and the Reelworld Black Entrepreneur Program. Jennifer fuses her business acumen and screenwriting training (she studied at Act One Film School in Los Angeles, California) to help serve as a manager/agent for her clients.During her writing career, Jennifer was named one of Reelworld’s top 20 Emerging Canadian Filmmakers of Colour, won the Canada Telefilm New Voices Award, and received the Bell Media/Corus Entertainment Primetime TV Writing Program award. Jennifer’s short film Opportune screened at the 2019 Toronto Black Film Festival, and her dramatic feature, Intolerance: No More, screened at the 2020 American Black Film Festival, before landing distribution with Random Media. Jennifer was staffed on the US/Canada co-production television series, Pretty Hard Cases, and in the development room of the BYUtv and Marble Media co-productions, The Parker Andersons and Amelia Parker.

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