Programs

Media Intensive Program: Make a movie in 6 days! Our most popular program. Available to all age groups and offers all production streams. No experience necessary.

Independent Media Producers Program: Month-long program for adults. Choose Drama or Documentary as your production stream. Prerequisite: MIP or equivalent; 18yrs +

Activist Documentary Program: A Media Intensive Program taught by leading Canadian documentary filmmakers, intended to gather and empower today's voices for positive change.

Two Week Intensive Program: AKA: The MIP2: an extended, two-week media intensive program for adults; no prerequisite required.

Aboriginal Program: A Media Intensive Program guided by Aboriginal media professionals. Write, shoot, edit: Tell your own stories.

Professional Development Media Intensive Program: Week-long program for media educators. A highly intensive course focused on providing teachers with indispensible training in teaching video production.

Weekend Intensive Program: A two-day program designed for adults interested in learning or teaching various aspects of film & video production. Our curriculum is tailored to the specific needs of participants.

Group Bookings: Off season Facility rental.

Focuses

Public Service Announcement:

Do you have an important message that needs to be aired? This course has been created specifically to provide organizations with the opportunity to spread the word to a large audience by learning h...

DVD Authoring: Learn how to put together a moderately complex DVD, from idea to disc. Bring your own edited video or use our archives. Course covers a wide range of topics
and software including DVD technologie...

Production Administration & Distribution: No film could be made without some administrative know-how. Obtain and expand your skills in the areas of pre-production, administration, fund-raising and the all-important ultimate goal: distribution...

Multi Media Editing:

Do you already have a basic understanding of editing, and want to delve further into the potentials of post-production? This dynamic course is designed to take you one step further into the ever gr...

Production:

Learn how to get a film idea off the ground and into production with this course, which focuses on the pre-production and production processes. By focusing on getting your project "in the can&...

Post-Production:

Do you already have a good understanding of story development and a few camera skills under your belt, and yet still mystified by the edit suite? Or have you been bitten by the editing bug and want...

Dramatic Video Production:

Have you ever wanted to show Hollywood how you would make movies? Here's your chance. Our most popular course, the G.I.F.T.S. drama media intensive program takes you through each step necessary to ...

Documentary:

Powerful documentaries incorporate elements of drama and journalism and use a wide range of innovative styles to tell stories about the"real world". Developed by award winning documentary...

Visual Effects and Animation: This course focuses on NEW MEDIA while teaching you the technical skills required to pursue various types of animation, and enhance video with digital effects. Students use computer graphics software,...

Professional Development:

This weekend or week-long program is primarily designed for high or middle school teachers interested in teaching media literacy, script writing, and video product...

Drama for Actors: Acting on Camera provides an overview of the actor's place in film, video and television production. We cover everything from the audition process to role preparation, character development, the techn...

Super 8 Filmmaking & Hand Processing: Our most experimental and creative session, this process-oriented course is for those interested in expanding the definition of guerilla filmaking. We discuss films and the work of filmmakers, as part...

Game Design Program: Have you ever wanted to design your own computer game? Join like-minded students at G.I.F.T.S. and make the game you've been dreaming of! Over the course of the week-long Game Design Program, you will...

Advanced Drama:

Designed for GIFTS grads (GIFTS Drama or Documentary prerequisite) who want to expand their media skills and dive right into the area of production they are most passionate about. The advanced...

Advanced Film & Hand Processing:

Prerequisite: Must have completed a Super8 film & hand processing (FLM) MIP course.

This course is an advanced version of our most experimental and creative session. This proces...

Computer / 3D Animation: We offer an intensive introduction to Maya 3D: a professional 3D animation program, which lets you create digital models that can be manipulated to your heart's content, putting you in control of the ...

Advanced Computer Animation:

This course builds on the skills developed in the Computer Animation course (prerequisite: must have completed an MIP with COA focus). Students will further their knowledge of the Maya 3D program t...

Digital Video Effects: Have you ever wondered how videos manage to merge live action, animation and special effects so seamlessly? This course is designed for students who wish to explore video as a special effects medium a...

Claymation:

A fun and intensive one-week introduction to the realm of animation, this unique hands-on course focuses on the principals of motion, technical production skills and the creative process of an...

Age Groups

Adult:

18 yrs +

We offer week-long Media Intensive Programs for Adul...

Youth:

13-18yrs.

Most of our summer MIP courses are for youth, as well as specially scheduled Spring Break programs. In fact, GIFTS' original purpose was specifically to offer an accessible and ...

Early Teen:

11-14yrs.

We offer a one-week MIP course, usually in July, for younger teens who can't wait to get busy making films!

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