DIRECTOR'S BLOG

PAST EVENTS

HIGHRISE wins Canadian Urban Institute Award, HIGHRISE honoured in Global City category. on June 17 2013

CIZEK Keynote at SHEFFIELD, Keynote at Sheffield's Crossover Summit at Sheffield Doc/Fest on June 12 2013

CIZEK at ESoDoc, Mentor at Europe's premiere social documentary workshop. Nalles, Italy on May 14 2013

FLAHIVE at Nyon Festival, Flahive on HIGHRISE at Visions du Réels on April 19 2013

CIZEK at Transmedia Hollywood Conference, UCLA on digital media and social change panel. on April 12 2013

HIGHRISE at SXSW, HIGHRISE and NYT announce collaboration and present sneak preview. on March 07 2013

HIGHRISE wins Canadian Screen Award, One Millionth Tower picks up the CSA for Digital Non-Fiction. on February 27 2013

HIGHRISE at ICC, HIGHRISE on panel at annual Institute for Canadian Citizenship luncheon. Hosted by Adrienne Clarkson. on November 23 2012

HIGHRISE at City of Toronto Tower Renewal Event, A morning for researchers and practitioners to discuss how to improve conditions in Toronto's 1,189 modernist highrises. on November 23 2012

HIGHRISE at Geneva Festival, Highrise presentation at Geneval Film Fesitval on November 08 2012

CIZEK on jury at Geneva, HIGHRISE director on short film jury at Geneva Film Festival. on November 07 2012

CIZEK mentors at DOC LEIPZIG NET LAB, on November 01 2012

HIGHRISE live screening at Leipzig Doc Fest, on November 01 2012

FLAHIVE and CIZEK at MIT, HIGHRISE Senior Producer Gerry Flahive and Director Katerina Cizek visit Open Doc Lab at MIT, with workshops and exchanges across multiple disciplines and laboratories. on October 22 2012

CIZEK on panel at imagiNATIVE, Cizek on panel about new audiences for interactive works on October 20 2012

FLAHIVE and CIZEK at TIFF industry studio, HIGHRISE team discusses interactive with TIFF's studio producers. on October 14 2012

FLAHIVE on Planet in Focus Digidoc Panel, The Digidoc forecast. on October 12 2012

HIGHRISE wins HERITAGE AWARD, One Millionth Tower wins Media award at Heritage Toronto event! on October 09 2012

HIGHRISE at Glenn Gould Celebration, Cizek performs Out My Window with a live soundtrack, created by Dafydd Hughes and Joshua Van Tassel, to celebrate Glenn Gould. on September 22 2012

FLAHIVE at MIT, HIGHRISE Senior Producer Gerry Flahive on "Future of Documentary" panel at MIT in Boston. on March 20 2012 17:00

1MT nommed for SXSW INTERACTIVE AWARD, HIGHRISE:One Millionth Tower up for a SXSW Activism Award on March 13 2012

LIVE RADIO BROADCAST from "HIGHRISE", Canad's most listened-to radio program, CBC: Metro Morning, broadcasts live from the site of the NFB HIGHRISE project. 5:30 - 8:30 am on February 15 2012

HIGHRISE at INT'L CONFERENCE ON CITZENSHIP, U of T Prof. Deb Cowen, Research Consultant Emily Paradis, PhD, present early findings from our Digital Citizenship in the Global Suburbs at prestigious academic conference, "Opening the Boundaries of Citizenship" at Open University in the UK. on February 06 2012

HIGHRISE IN THE TORONTO SUBWAY!, HIGHRISE/ONE MILLIONTH TOWER is adapted to a public art installation on the screens and poster space of the TTC! Presented by TTC Pattison One Stop, curated by Sharon Switzer. 6 silent films, 4 posters. on January 01 2012

Re-Imagining Our City, screening of One Millionth Tower, and panel discussion with the people who made this documentary happen.
Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St west, Toronto, ON on December 06 2011 18:00

ONE MILLIONth TOWER at IDFA, Last year's winners of the IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling (that would be HIGHRISE) are back in competition for the this year's prize at IDFA, with a new production, One Millionth Tower. 15 entries, 4 of which are NFB. on November 16 2011

SPECIAL FRONTLINE CLUB SCREENING of 1MT, Mozilla and Power to the Pixel present "The Evolution of Cinema, Documentary and the Web," introducing One Millionth Tower. Kat Cizek with open-source cinema guru Brett Gaylor, of Mozilla, moderated by Liz Rosenthal, of Power to the Pixel. Very Limited Seating. on November 07 2011

LAUNCH of 1MT, Noew HIGHRISE documentary, One Millionth Tower, launches at Mozilla Festival, in London U.K. (and on-line too!) on November 05 2011

CIZEK at Int'l Women in Digital Media Summit, Cizek gives talk at WIF-T's Int'l Women in Digital Media Summit in Stratford Ontario. Speaking on "Media that Matters" and "Predictions 2020" panels on October 30 2011

FLAHIVE at PLANET in FOCUS FESTIVAL, Flahive represents HIGHRISE at
DIGITAL DO-GOODERS PANEL
@ The Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadel Jewish Community Centre
Visual storytellers are creating content that motivates activism as well as entertain. on October 14 2011 11:15

CIZEK at POWER to the PIXEL, London UK, Cizek presents HIGHRISE and sits on Jury at the Cross-Media Forum. on October 11 2011

FLAHIVE & CIZEK at U of Waterloo Stratford Campus, *Challenging Digital Media" conference on September 29 2011

CIZEK at NORDISK, Aarhus Denmark, on September 24 2011

CIZEK at the BRITISH LIBRARY, Kat Cizek gives a summer scholar talk at the British Library, with a tour of Out My Window, and a discussion about the digital documentary. on September 16 2011 12:00

CIZEK keynote @ Open University, UK, Keynote lecture at the International Visual Methods Conference at Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K. on September 13 2011

HIGHRISE at OPEN VIDEO CONFERENCE, NYC, One Millionth Tower, our latest HIGHRISE production, to be discussed at a multi-day summit of thought leaders in business, academia, art, and activism to shape the future of online video. on September 10 2011

HIGHRISE at OOSTENDE FILM FESTIVAL, Evening with Highrise's Kat Cizek on September 07 2011 20:00

CIZEK @ ESoDoc, Mentor at workshop, in Belgium. on September 03 2011

OMW nominated for GEMINI AWARD, HIGHRISE/Out My Window nominated for Gemini Award for Interactive non-fiction. All six nominees are NFB related! Oout My Window also cited in the NFB's special Gemini Award for Digital Media. on August 30 2011

CIZEK @ ESoDoc, Mentor at ESoDoc workshop. Northern Italy. on July 03 2011

CIZEK @ FITC STORYTELLING X.1, Toronto: Digital Storytelling X.1 is a one day symposium exploring how digital technologies are changing forms of storytelling today. on June 20 2011

HIGHRISE nominated for WEBBY, Out My Window up for "best use of photography" category at the Webbys. Consider voting for us in the people's choice award. on June 13 2011

HIGHRISE nominated for BANFF MEDIA AWARD, in competition for Interactive Rockie Award, in the best online program - documentary category. on June 13 2011

CIZEK @ BANFF WORLD MEDIA FESTIVAL, Banff Panel: Factual Online: Incubating a Multi-screen Approach
Time: 11:30-12:30 | Location: Baron Shaughnessy on June 13 2011

HIGHRISE in MEXICO, Michelle Van Beusekom (Assistant Director General of English Program, NFB) represents HIGHRISE at the World Forum of Public Broadcasting in Mexico. on June 09 2011

OUT MY WINDOW live cinema screening, in Montreal, as part of the DNA Symposium. Live music score improvised by Sam Shalabi, Michel F Coté, and Alexandre St-Onge. on May 14 2011 19:30

CIZEK at DNA conference, Keynote at international symposium on database narrative.
Concordia University on May 12 2011

HIGHRISE at Toronto the Good Party, This party brings together a broad cross-section of Torontonians who are interested in the City and in city building. Follows the Toronto Tower Renewal Symposium, at Hart House. on May 12 2011

HIGHRISE UP FOR A ONE WORLD MEDIA AWARD, U.K.-based One World Media Awards recognize the unique role journalists and filmmakers in bridging the divide between different societies and raising awareness of vital development issues. on May 10 2011

HIGHRISE nominated for FITC AWARD, Please vote for us in the audio category, for the People's Choice Awards! on May 02 2011

EMMY NOMINATION, Out My Window nominated for International Digital Emmy in the Non-Fiction category. on April 04 2011

BAKAFORUM CROSS-MEDIA PRIZE, Out My Window wins the Bakaforum cross-media prize in the youth category. on March 28 2011

HIGHRISE at SXSW, featured in IDFA DocLab's New Documentary Narratives, 1:30 pm, Alamo Ritz, 2320 East 6th St, South by Southwest Festival on March 14 2011

TWITTERVIEW with Bird's Eye View Film Festival (London U.K.), Twitterview with Katerina Cizek
#BEVHighrise on Sat 12 March,
4pm GMT (11am EST) on twitter, @katciz
on March 12 2011

HIGHRISE wins Education Prize, Out My Window is the winner of the BAKAFORUM Cross-Media Prize for School and Youth Education

We were also nominated for the Youth Jury Prize
on January 29 2011

CIZEK at NYC Producer's Institute, Mentor at Bay Area Video Coalition Producer's Institute for New Media Technologies in New York City, co-presented with Tribeca Cinemas. on January 07 2011

FLAHIVE does iLUNCH, Interactive Ontario's panel on Multiple partnerships: Can It Work? on December 10 2010 12:00

OMW LIVE SCREENING, Out My Window live screening in IDFA cinema w/ NFB's testtube and Welcome to Pine Point on November 21 2010 22:00

OUT MY WINDOW PREMIERE, Live screening and Gallery Installation @ IDFA DocLab, Amsterdam on November 18 2010 19:00

1000th Tower on Panel, Tower Renewal Symposium
Hart House, University of Toronto on November 08 2010

OUT MY WINDOW sneak preview, Panel at Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto on November 06 2010 13:00

OUT MY WINDOW nominated for, Sheffield Doc/Fest Innovation Award on November 05 2010

SOCIAL MEDIA TELECONFERENCE, Join an open conversation
with the director of HIGHRISE on November 04 2010 14:30

FLAHIVE at INfocus LUNCH, DocShift Lunch Series, Toronto on October 27 2010

CIZEK at EsoDoc, Sicily, Cross-media tutor, teacher on October 03 2010

CIZEK at IGNITE! Toronto, *The Suburbs: it's not what i thought* on September 05 2010

CIZEK at IN2010, Toronto, Digital Storytelling on September 03 2010

FLAHIVE at POSSIBLE WORLDS, Australia, HIGHRISE: Trans-media talk on August 05 2010

CIZEK at NxNe, Toronto, Panel on *The Lost Art of Storytelling* on June 14 2010

1000th Tower ar Harbourfront, Toronto, Toronto the Good event on May 26 2010

1000th Tower PREMIERE,, Toronto City Hall on May 12 2010

CIZEK at HotDocs, Toronto, Panel on interactive docs on May 09 2010