Day 163: What Does Belonging Look Like?

Tonight, we held a celebration and screening of films created by students for our SCDSB Student Film Festival. The theme this year was "What Does Belonging Look Like?".  Getting the chance to hear students explain the messages in their videos and what they learned in the process was very powerful. Some of these explanations included;

• that he hid a message in the credits about gender neutrality 
• her powerful metaphor for equity
• how in creating the video she felt that students in her school really reflected and therefore felt as though they belonged even more than before 
• how he was now belonging in his new school after creating the video about his friends before leaving his previous school 
• how he shared the message supporting others in making new friends with humour 
• how they connected with students across the world 

While we celebrated by watching the products, the real work was in the process for this Film Festival. Students all worked through a feedback cycle where they provided feedback on all the other films before the final submission date. Many students worked this feedback into their edits expertly. 

We have the very basics for next years Digital Media Festival planned. Please join us. 

If you would like to learn from the many powerful messages shared by students, please watch our videos below! Thanks to Taking It Global for supporting our Film Festival.