The screening will take place Wednesday, March 21 at 280N 91��ɫ Lanes, Keele campus. A light lunch will be served starting at 12:30pm with the film beginning at 1pm. It’s free and open to the entire 91��ɫ community.

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is an award-winning film that challenges viewers to re-examine how they think about race. The film follows youth leader and motivational speaker Anthony McLean as he runs a groundbreaking mentorship program for black teens in Brampton, the most demographically changing Canadian city. In doing so, McLean is forced to re-examine his own identity. The film deals with issues of racism, stereotyping, identity and what it really means to be “black” or “white”.

Following the screening of Colour Me, Sherien Barsoum, the film’s director, and McLean will lead the audience through a discussion, as well as answer questions about the film and its messages about diversity and identity.

International Day for the Elimination of Racism is observed annually on March 21, because it was on that date in South Africa in 1960 that police opened fire and killed 69 people as they were peacefully demonstrating against Apartheid.

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Above, toasting their success, from left, Reihaneh Shankaie, Fatima Panju, Maisam Halabi, Derek Wilson, Jason Gregor, Mark Sever, Luba Bryushkova and Mihiret Kedida. (Dana Aljawhary is taking the picture.)

Gregor, who is supervised by 91��ɫ chemistry Professor and Canada Research Chair , placed first in the biological/medical category for his talk, “Investigating the Binding of Vancomycin Resistance Associated Regulator Protein with mutated DNA using Atomic Force Microscopy”.

Panju placed third in the same division for her presentation “Functional Analysis of a Chromatin Remodeling Protein in Tetrahymena thermophila”. Panju was supervised by 91��ɫ biology Professor .

Gregor and Panju, both in fourth year, based their presentations on their fourth-year chemistry research projects. Accompanying them to SOUSCC on 91��ɫ's eight-member team were Dana Aljawhary (supervised by Prof. ), Luba Bryushkova (supervised by Prof. ),  Maisam Halabi (supervised by Prof. ), Mihiret Kedida (supervised by Prof. ), Mark Sever (supervised by Prof. Sylvie Morin) and  Reihaneh Shankaie (supervised by Prof. ).

Hosted this year by the University of Waterloo, the conference attracted 117 participants from Ontario universities. The conference provides undergraduate students with an opportunity to present their undergraduate research projects and network with other chemistry students. Nest year's conference will be held at the University of Guelph.

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and 91��ɫ have launched Change Inc., a collaboration that will incubate and invest in promising innovations to tackle complex social issues and build capacity in 91��ɫ Region.

Daniele Zanotti, CEO of United Way, and Stan Shapson, vice-president research & innovation at 91��ɫ, made the announcement at Deloitte’s head offices in Vaughan as part of United Way Week (Oct. 4 to 8).

“We are proud to announce Change Inc. − a critical strategy in United Way’s impact agenda − in collaboration with 91��ɫ and our advisory group of business leaders,” said Zanotti.  “For our region to be great for all residents, we need a new infrastructure to incubate ideas and shift the way we solve social problems.”

“Change Inc. is transformative for 91��ɫ, for United Way and for capacity building in our community,” said Shapson. “Change Inc. will provide seed funding, space and support services to social innovators and entrepreneurs. It will provide better access to 91��ɫ’s research, graduate students and the programs − such as knowledge mobilization − that support their work with the region. It will match social innovators with business-leader mentors. This approach advances and broadens 91��ɫ’s innovation agenda, builds on our strong partnership with United Way, and engages 91��ɫ Region’s corporate leaders in social innovation, which is a persistent gap in Canada’s innovation agenda.”

Change Inc. will work with its Innovation Advisory Board, established in June, to actively develop a sustainable strategy. Co-chaired by Zanotti and Shapson, its current members include:
·         Charles Beer, board chair, United Way of 91��ɫ Region.
·         Anthony Gallo, vice-president, Social Media, OpenText
·         Pat Horgan, vice-president, Manufacturing, Development and Operations, IBM
·         Debora Kelly, editor-in-chief, 91��ɫ Region Media Group
·         Young Park, sector vice-president, CGI
·         Avi Pollock, head, Applied Innovation and Strategic Planning, RBC

“Change Inc. builds on the United Way’s Strength Investments announced earlier this week,” said Zanotti. “Together with our current program funding, Strength Investments and Change Inc. provide a continuum of support for people, groups and agencies doing good work across 91��ɫ Region.”  Information about the .

“Congratulations to United Way, 91��ɫ and the business advisory board for disrupting the status quo with the announcement of Change Inc. − an opportunity to research, try and scale new ideas to address social challenges,” said Lorrie King, partner, , and member of the 2010 United Way Campaign Cabinet. “Deloitte is a champion of United Way and a champion of innovation. At Deloitte, innovation is at the very cornerstone of our corporate strategic directions, and our own leading-edge research, across all sectors, clearly identifies innovation as the driver of long-term success and sustainability.”

Over the coming months, Change Inc. will announce its office location and release information about a community innovation summit, pilot projects and funding opportunities.

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CineSiege, 91��ɫ’s annual juried student film festival, is often the harbinger for success at festivals around the world. After, the winner of the CineSiege Best Sound Award in 2009, is the latest good news story. Inspired by Dennis Cooper’s poem "After School, Street Football, Eighth Grade", After is a humorous and dark coming-of-age film that visualizes three teenage boys’ fantasies about an older teenage football player.

Right: A scene from Mark Pariselli's short film After

Directed by Mark Pariselli (BFA Spec. Hons. '09), this short film is one of only two Canadian works shortlisted for the prestigious Iris Prize (the most valuable single prize lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender [LGBT] short film competition) and has screened at high-profile festivals all over the world, including in the cities of Paris, Athens, Montreal, Seattle and Chicago, and at festivals in Germany and Switzerland.

At the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film & Video Festival that took place May 20 to 30, Pariselli received an honorable mention for the Best Up-and-Coming Toronto Film or Video Maker ward.

is the feature film debut by director Andres Livov-Macklin (BFA Spec. Hons. '04) and producer Hugh Gibson (BFA Spec. Hons. '04). The aluCine Toronto Latin Media Festival presents the Toronto premiere of this documentary film, screening July 9 to 12, at 7pm nightly at The Royal.

Above: A Place Called Los Pereyra tells the story of a tiny community in the Argentine jungle

It tells the story of how life in a tiny community in the Argentine jungle is unexpectedly changed by a visiting charitable mission. Subtle, sweet, often humorous, but also poignant, A Place Called Los Pereyra examines adolescence, charity and the clash of two worlds.

The two alumni will attend each screening and be available to answer questions after the film concludes.

Another 91��ɫ film duo picked up prizes at Toronto’s Worldwide Short Film Festival June 1 to 6 for their work on , a six-minute dance film shot in a women's change room. The Best Experimental Short Prize was won by director (BFA Spec. Hons. '06) and the Kodak Award for Best Cinematography in a Canadian Short went to cinematographer (BFA Spec. Hons. '07). Choreographer (BFA Spec. Hons. '87) is part of the creative team for Slip, which also includes (BFA Spec. Hons. '06) as producer and several 91��ɫ dance alumni in the cast.

Left: Slip is a six-minute dance film shot in a women's change room and features the choreography of 91��ɫ alumna Yvonne Ng

(BFA Spec. Hons. '96) is the winner of the 2010 Astral Media Mentorship, coordinated by the Foundation for Women in Film & Television-Toronto (WIFT-T). The mentorship is a national competitive program that gives one Canadian female or male producer who is a visible minority, Aboriginal or an individual with a disability the opportunity to develop their marketing strategy and hone their pitch and presentation skills in preparation for the Banff World Television Festival, which took place June 13 to 16. Lau received a festival bursary and a five-day pre-festival mentorship that included meetings with Astral Media and three intensive workshops with industry consultants.

“This mentorship is so important at this time of limited resources within the industry,” said Sadia Zaman, WIFT-T executive director. “During day-to-day work there are few opportunities to simply build presentation skills and to focus on career development. Our partnership with Astral Media will allow Mishann to do just that."

Lau has been writing, directing and producing independent short films for the past 12 years. Her films have screened at the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, the International Women’s Film Festival in Cologne, Germany, and the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. She was also selected to create shorts for the 1997 On the Fly Festival, the 2004 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and the 2007 Pride Video Launch.

On the faculty front, three professors have had recent festival success.

Visual arts Professor Katherine Knight’s documentary about Newfoundland-based performance artist Colette Urban, , which made its Toronto premiere at the Reel Artists Film Festival (see YFile, Feb. 25), won a special mention at the in Rhodos, Greece – its first international screening.

Film Professors John Greyson and Ali Kazimi’s film Rex Vs. Singh picked up the prize for best Canadian short film at Inside Out. (For more info on this experimental exploration of Vancouver history and human rights, see YFile, Aug. 20, 2008.)

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