Thank you!
On behalf of Alex, Bing, Chelsea, Stacey, and Tj, thank you to everyone who donated their time and effort to help make this screening and exhibition a reality! We would like to personally thank everyone at the CFMDC, especially Genne Speers and Aimee Mitchell for donating their time to us so we could screen the dozens of films needed to make our programmes. We would also like to thank Maria, the Ryerson Audio Visual Librarian, for helping us secure prints for our screening from the University of Waterloo, the University of Toronto Media Commons, and York University.
Much of our exhibit was based around what was written and presented in the Canadian film magazine Take One, and without the help of the Ryerson Special Collections Archive we would not have had access to their extensive collection of Take One issues. Every issue and digital image presented in the exhibit came from Special Collections, so we would like to personally thank Alison Skyrme for showing us the Take One collection and Cassandra Rowbotham for aiding our digitization efforts.
We also could not have made this screening and exhibition a success without the efforts of the faculty and technical support staff of the Image Arts department, as well as from our own Film Preservation and Collections management program. The lessons we have learned from you over the last two years have prepared us for the challenges that we faced while working on this exhibition and for future challenges we will face as film archivists and curators.
A thank you note could not possibly be complete if we did not acknowledge the tremendous efforts of the filmmakers who were featured in this exhibit. Your skill, drive, and curiosity as filmmakers helped to usher in a new era of independent filmmaking in Toronto and Canada, and for that we can not thank you enough. Your generous contribution of time and past histories in our interviews make this exhibition all the more richer, and it is impossible to imagine this exhibition without your involvement.
Finally, we could not have put this exhibition together without the patience and guidance of our professor, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof. A film curator in her own right, her experience was an invaluable resource throughout the gestation and realization of this exhibition.
Much of our exhibit was based around what was written and presented in the Canadian film magazine Take One, and without the help of the Ryerson Special Collections Archive we would not have had access to their extensive collection of Take One issues. Every issue and digital image presented in the exhibit came from Special Collections, so we would like to personally thank Alison Skyrme for showing us the Take One collection and Cassandra Rowbotham for aiding our digitization efforts.
We also could not have made this screening and exhibition a success without the efforts of the faculty and technical support staff of the Image Arts department, as well as from our own Film Preservation and Collections management program. The lessons we have learned from you over the last two years have prepared us for the challenges that we faced while working on this exhibition and for future challenges we will face as film archivists and curators.
A thank you note could not possibly be complete if we did not acknowledge the tremendous efforts of the filmmakers who were featured in this exhibit. Your skill, drive, and curiosity as filmmakers helped to usher in a new era of independent filmmaking in Toronto and Canada, and for that we can not thank you enough. Your generous contribution of time and past histories in our interviews make this exhibition all the more richer, and it is impossible to imagine this exhibition without your involvement.
Finally, we could not have put this exhibition together without the patience and guidance of our professor, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof. A film curator in her own right, her experience was an invaluable resource throughout the gestation and realization of this exhibition.