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• Plenty of Oscar buzz in Brock Film Series lineup

  Friday, January 12, 2018 | By Brock University

  MEDIA RELEASE: 12 January 2018 – R00009

  Scott Henderson is equal parts movie buff and Oscar prognosticator.

  As a film professor at Brock University, Henderson is one of the faces behind the Brock University Film Series, which kicks off its 2018 season at the Pen Centre’s Landmark Cinemas on Wednesday, Jan. 17.

  For more than 40 years, Brock’s Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film has hosted the film series to bring some of the best in international, independent and Canadian cinema to St. Catharines.

  Now part of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Film Circuit, the selection committee of professors Henderson, Anthony Kinik, Liz Clarke and Peter Lester has access to many of the most hyped films during award season.

  “These are buzz films out of TIFF and ones that are getting a lot of interest,” Henderson said. “It’s a chance to see some of these hotly tipped films. Many of them are smaller films that might not come to cinemas in Niagara, so it’s a great way to see them on the big screen, the way they’re meant to be seen.”

  The BUFS schedule kicks off next week with a screening of the French comedy C’est la Vie! and continues every Wednesday at 7 p.m. until April 4.

  Henderson said there are many Oscar-hyped films on the roster this year, but pointed out the Italian coming-of-age drama Call Me By Your Name being shown March 7 is a particular highlight.

  “It came out last summer and I started seeing buzz about it right away and said ‘we have to get this.’”

  On Feb. 28, BUFS is hosting a special Oscar night where all of the Academy Award nominees for the Best Live Action Short Film category will be screened.

  “They’re always great little films and a lot of them are from up-and-coming directors who go on to direct big films the next year,” Henderson said.

  Tickets for each screening are $10 for adults and $5 for Brock students and can be purchased in the lobby of Landmark Cinemas each Wednesday night. Season tickets are also available. For more information, see the BUFS website.

  2018 Brock University Film Series Schedule:

  Jan. 17 – C’est La Vie

  Jan. 24 – The Divine Order

  Jan. 31 – Human Flow

  Feb. 7 – The Square

  Feb. 14 – Beach Rats

  Feb. 21 – The Florida Project

  Feb. 28 – Oscar Shorts – Live Action

  March 7 – Call Me By Your Name

  March 14 – No film (March Break)

  March 21 – TBA

  March 28 – TBA

  April 4 – Meditation Park

  For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

  * Dan Dakin, Media Relations Officer, Brock University ddakin@brocku.ca, 905-688-5550 x5353 or 905-347-1970

  Brock University Marketing and Communications has a full-service studio where we can provide high definition video and broadcast-quality audio.

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• The power of photovoice research method the focus of Métis scholar talk at Brock

  Thursday, January 11, 2018 | By Brock University

  MEDIA RELEASE: 11 January 2018 – R00008

  A picture is worth a thousand words — especially if it gives a voice to someone who might not be heard otherwise.

  Robert Henry, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary, is speaking at Brock University Monday, Jan. 15 to share his experience of how photography and photovoice methods have shaped his research on Indigenous street gangs.

  Photovoice is becoming a frequently used research method that engages research participants by having them document their experiences from their own perspectives through photographs.

  A Métis scholar originally from Prince Albert, Sask., Henry uses photovoice to explore the ways in which Indigenous men and women engage in street lifestyles, where, as he describes it, “the street gang becomes a site of survivance, challenging settler colonialism.”

  “Photovoice is a grassroots approach to photography that empowers participants to share information and tell their stories through pictures,” says Nicole Goodman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and organizer of the speaker series in which Henry will present.

  Goodman says there are many benefits to this type of research method, ranging from increased awareness and reflection for participants to possible policy influence and change.

  “The impacts and benefits are bigger than those that often result from traditional social science research methods, which typically solely benefit the agenda of the researcher,” she says.

  Henry, whose research areas also include Indigenous masculinities, Indigenous and critical research methodologies, and youth mental health, frequently works closely with community partners. A collection of narratives from his PhD research, Brighter Days Ahead, was published in 2014.

  “Henry’s use of photovoice in the context of Indigenous gangs is community-based and participatory, treating men and women previously involved in these organizations as equal research partners instead of research subjects,” Goodman says.

  “Social science can learn a lot from this approach to research.”

  Henry’s talk, part of the Department of Political Science Speaker Series, is jointly sponsored by the Departments of Political Science, History and Sociology, and McMaster University’s Indigenous Research Institute.

  What: Re”imagin”ing Indigenous Gang Involvement Using Photovoice Methods

  Who: Robert Henry, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary

  When: Monday, Jan. 15, 10:30 a.m.

  Where: Plaza 600F, Brock University

  For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

  * Dan Dakin, Media Relations Officer, Brock University ddakin@brocku.ca, 905-688-5550 x5353 or 905-347-1970

  Brock University Marketing and Communications has a full-service studio where we can provide high definition video and broadcast-quality audio.

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