Write 2 Film is brought to you through a partnership with CSIF - the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers. Click the link to find out more about CSIF! |
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WhenJuly 13th - July 18th, 2025 Full Week
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WhereSR1 Site (Formerly Kamp Kiwanis) 241001 Range Road 42, Rockyview, Alberta, T0L 0K0 |
WhoGuest Instructors thus far: Rawd Almasoud
Special Guest Presenter: Cody Lefthand Our Super Supers: Elise Leske Lead Super Joey Lucius Eli Smart More TBA! Write 2 Film Coordinator: Anna Cooley YouthWrite Director-Coordinator: |
Guest Instructors
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YOUTHWRITE INSTRUCTORS: THE CREAM OF THE CROP!
Throughout YouthWrite's history, we have prided ourselves on the calibre of our fine instructors. YouthWrite invites superbly talented and reputable instructors who represent the many facets of the performing, visual, musical, dance, film, and written arts. |
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Rawd Almasoud
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Anna Cooley
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Miranda Martini
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Gillian McKercher
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Kaz Nakajima
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Miranda White
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Bruce Thomas Miller
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The Amazing Supers
Handpicked and multi-talented, YouthWrite Supers are the centre of our camps. As artists, teachers and mentors, they bring the X-Factor to YouthWrite.
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Elise LeskeElise Leske is a past YouthWriter who now dabbles in comedy, camerawork, and crossword puzzles. When she’s not on set or doing stand up, she likes painting and crushing her opponents in board games (she often loses). She is also Gail’s favourite. |
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Joey Lucius - Lead SuperJoey Lucius is a Canadian Comedy Award-winning performer and has been a staple at Edmonton’s Rapid Fire Theatre since 2007. He’s also a real life certified teacher! As a writer, Joey is a contributor to the online Beaverton, and is currently developing a project about the Filipino-Canadian experience that received a letter of interest from the CBC. He thinks birds are cool! And he knows he is Gail’s favourite! |
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Eli SmartEli Smart (He/They) is a local award-winning director/writer/producer from YYC. He started writing prose at the age of 9 which, in turn, kickstarted his filmmaking and theatre journey, which he began at age 15. Eli’s passion for filmmaking has given them many amazing opportunities, and shown him that the best part about the arts is the community surrounding it. Whether it’s staying up late with your friends trying to finish a project, or sharing ideas while juggling the ones you already have, being in the arts is one of the greatest joys in the world, and Eli is honored to be a part of it!! They are also eager to become Anna’s favourite! |
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Write 2 Film CoordinatorAnna CooleyAnna Cooley is thrilled to be back as coordinator of Write 2 Film! She is passionate about championing the next generation of storytellers, and very excited about the talented group of instructors and supervisors who have been assembled to guide campers through the filmmaking process during camp. Anna is an award-winning filmmaker, born and raised Mohkinstis (Calgary). Her directing credits include feature films Faultline and A Sauropod Abroad, short films Garden Shark: there are some things dementia can’t touch, See Me, BrokeHer and Sleepwalker, and web series Gender? I Hardly Know Them, Abracadavers and Scout. Her cinematography credits include Living Without Menace, The Goats of Monesiglio and Clebs. |
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YouthWrite Director- CoordinatorGail Sidonie Sobatis a multi-award-winning teacher and author, with twelve books for children, teens and adults, and a number of educational and academic articles. A Global News Woman of Vision and an Arts and Culture Citation Award recipient, she is the YouthWrite creator/ coordinator, an international presenter, an instructor in the professional writing program at MacEwan University and in the Faculty of Education at U of A. Gail was The Writers’ Union of Canada Regional Representative for Alberta, NWT and Nunavut, and writer in residence with the Metro Edmonton Federation of Libraries. She has moved forty times in her life from Badlands to Siksika Nation Reserve to hideous suburbs to Istanbul to the Sunshine Coast to her writer’s garret in a century-old temperamental house. She adores all of her Supers & Coordinators equally, and loves YouthWrite like a madwoman! |