The Canberra Project is a collaborative, multi-platform documentary project.The Canberra Project will feature collabora-tions between communities and filmmak-ers and photographers in residence. This is a unique model of engagement and participation through media. We work with communities, facilitating local people to use digital media to tell meaningful stories about their lives. The project is shaped through consultations to create portraits, digital stories and short films – full of humour and belonging. Our goal is to inspire others to connect their suburb / town communities across the ACT region.

Scope of the Project

The Canberra Project will encompass a series of mini – documentaries, digital stories and photo – media about people, places and icons which exist in the suburbs and towns of the Canberra region.

Description of the Canberra Project

Our vision is to inspire people to share their stories about their community – to create a diverse and sur-prising picture of life in the suburbs of Canberra. The result product will include a series of short films, digital stories and rich imagery – which can be presented on a web-based platform. From this platform, people will make a connection with the local heroes who care for and shape our community – to create a diverse and sur-prising picture of life in the suburbs of Canberra.

Strategic objectives, which relate to this objective

To meet every day people of our region and discover their stories, hopes and dreams; why they live in Can-berra and what Canberra means to them.Identify the main target audiencePeople of all ages and cultural backgrounds will be fea-tured in the Canberra Project and our target audience will appeal to audiences of 13+

Project ScopeProject SponsorsKris Kerehona Cole Bennetts

Project Name The Canberra ProjectClientCanberra 100Canberra Centenary committeeCreative Partner: Arts Officers ACTAndy Heaney – Strategic ManagerProject LeadersKris KerehonaCole Bennetts

Introduction

What are the intended outcomes / deliverables of the project?

The Canberra Project (which will be hosted on it’s own web platform) will include more than fifty selected suburbs and towns of the Canberra region and each suburb will contain rich mixed media including photo and video documentary of the people who live in them.

Every day people have the opportunity to tell their story and respond to a set of standard Canberra-centric questions; each sharing their views from the diverse cultural perspectives of people within our community.Other Comments

Engagement, belonging and sense of community; audi-ences will engage with the website to discover people from the Canberra community and in turn will respond with a sense of belonging to the community in which they live.

Documenting Canberra as it was in the year 2013 ; life in Canberra in the year 2013 will serve as an a valuable portal and time capsule for future generations. Not only providing historical anecdotes about the way Canberra was but also record the hopes and dreams the people who lived here.

Not only will The Canberra Project serve as an invalu-able ongoing project with a real focus on the commu-nity, for the purposes of the Canberra birthday celebra-tions, the project will also exist and live long past the celebrations for many many years into the future. For this reason the project is just as relevant in the year 2013 as it will be in the year 3013 and so on.

Our approach to The Canberra Project

contains four central elements...

INCIDENTALS FROM THE STREET OF THE LOCALS – EVERY DAY PEOPLE (cross generational, cross cultural, from sub cultures, popular cultures, civil society etc)

IN HOUSE PORTRAITS OF FAMILIES IN THEIR HOMES

IN HOUSE MINI – DOCUMENTARY VIGNETTES OF FAMILY OR INDIVIDUAL STORIES (with a series of several prepared “Canberra centric questions about life, wisdom, aspirations, what does Canberra mean to you?)

STEADICAM FLY THROUGH OF SUBURBAN POINTS OF INTEREST (to record actuality of the life in a typi-cal suburb in 2011 – 2013.

Locations/Suburbs

The suburbs are yet to be researched or determined, however, five suburbs from Canberra’s town centres will be selected;

Civic City Inner Circle Parliamentary CircleWoden, Belconnen TuggeranongGungahlin Queanbeyan

As well as incorporate the Capital Region (The distance measuring a one hour commute to Canberra) these regional centres include;

GoulburnYassCooma BraidwoodBungendore Gunning Gundaroo.

Increase the pride and ownership of Australians in their capital.

Canberra is perceived by many Australians as a boring and sterile place to visit and are not aware of what the region has to offer in terms of lifestyle, cleanliness and open green spaces. THE CANBERRA PROJECT will chal-lenge these misconceptions by documenting through film and photographic imagery the people who live in the region, the vibrant and diverse cultures and the beautiful landscapes.

Fully engage the community of Canberra, the Capital region, and the broader Austra-lian community in the celebrations.

THE CANBERRA PROJECT is a rich media platform, which contains short documentary vignettes, and rich photo media stories about the people and the suburbs of Canberra. To this end, THE CANBERRA PROJECT will engage the community via the website and social media in which the community can also engage with, interact and share their stories.

The project THE CANBERRA PROJECT will launch via a premiere film screening, which can also stream live to web and to an audience (in the style of TROPFEST in Commonwealth Park) as part of the Centenary celebra-tions. The imagery will also feature as a photo exhibi-tion, and, can also be re-purposed into a book!

Establish enduring international recogni-tion of Canberra, and its role as the capital.

THE CANBERRA PROJECT will feature some buildings and institutions of national significance if they are lo-cated within featured suburbs. The people who work in these particular organizations will have an opportunity to share their mini-documentary or have their digital story featured as part of that suburb’s story.

Build the positive image and reputation of Canberra as a city and community.

THE CANBERRA PROJECT will focus on the many positive aspects and characteristics of Canberra; the architecture, urban design, suburbs, culture, religion, street art etc. Our intention is to produce a diverse mix of portraits of people and also documenting the built and natural environment.

Build lasting legacies of community value through memorable celebrations and high quality projects.

THE CANBERRA PROJECT not only provides informa-tion about the diverse region of Canberra but also documents life in Canberra in the year 2013, leaving a long lasting legacy for many generations to come

Applying THE CANBERRA PROJECT to CANBERRA100 GOALS

What are the particular aspects of the project?

The Canberra Project documents one suburb a fortnight Seeks backstreets and beauty 50 suburbs explored over 24 monthsPhotography Places and peopleVideoPeople in their homes

Video of particular points of interest in the suburb.

Proposed project timeline

The Project lifespan 24 months

Phases Date/time

Phase 1: Scoping and feasibility 5 weeks March / April 2011

Phase 2: Planning 5 days April

Phase 3: Implementation 24 months Commence 2011 – March 2013

Phase 4: Launch / Premiere 4 weeks

Phase 5: Evaluation 1 week

Proposed budget

Wages /Contractor payments $120,000.00

Website $20,000.00

Marketing $20,000.00

Agency $20,000.00

Contingency $16,000.00

Admin $4,000.00

Equipment in kind

Total $200,000.00

Producers Statement (Kris Kerehona)

The Canberra Project is a unique web documentary project created by the Canberra based documentary film producer Kris Kerehona, founder of the Canberra based collective, Tribal Films.

The Canberra Project is an ongoing weekly produced project, which includes a series of mini – documen-taries, digital stories and photo-media about people, places and icons within the Canberra region. The aim of The Canberra Project is to inspire people to share their stories about their community - to create a diverse and surprising picture of life in the suburbs of Canberra.The result is a series of short films, digital stories and rich imagery - which can be presented on a web-based platform.

We hope to inspire people to make a connection with the local heroes who care for and shape their commu-nity - to create a diverse and surprising picture of life in the suburbs of Canberra.

The Canberra Project was also inspired

by the following projects...

ABC OPENABC Open is a program which brings producers and the community together to create digital video stories.

http://open.abc.net.au/projects/now-and-then/series-1

EGAWAUEMONhttp://www.youtube.com/user/egawauemon

52 SUBURBShttp://www.52suburbs.com/

The best way to visually describe The Canberra Project is found here;

http://www.bigstories.com.au/

Applying THE CANBERRA PROJECT to CANBERRA100 GOALS

BIOSKris KerehonaCreative Producer/Videographer

Kris Kerehona is a SPAA nominated emerging producer based in Canberra. He has professional experience in all areas of video production and works with production houses, creative agencies and cultural institutions. His portfolio contains a diverse range of content including multimedia, gallery exhibition film, documentary, short film and corporate video. Kris has a passion for the arts, cultural heritage, history and multiculturalism.TRIBAL FILMS supports grass-roots film making and works along-side the Canberra Short Film Festival, ACT Filmmakers Network, Short Story Big Screen and Step into the Limelight.

Cole BennettsPhotojournalistwww.colebennetts.com

Cole Bennetts Photography is a photographic service based in Canberra, with a major focus on editorial, commercial, people, places and pictures.

Cole Bennetts Photography works across all major sec-tors of publishing including: advertising, newspaper, magazine, government and private sector commissions. Cole is a photographer with many years of experience, with his work being published internationally across newspapers, magazines and web.

In Canberra, Cole works as a photojournalist with the worlds largest digital media brand – Getty Images and Canberra lifestyle weekly magazine, Canberra Weekly. Cole is also, an accredited member of the Common-wealth Parliamentary Press Gallery.

Outside of photojournalism and commercial photogra-phy, Cole has held several solo and group exhibitions receiving critical acclaim.

ABOUT TRIBAL FILMS

Tribal Films is a production team of producers, direc-tors, writers and DOP’s based in Canberra ACT and Sydney NSW Australia.We boast a diverse collection of films and programs which display our shared passion for cultural heritage, personal history and the arts. Tribal Films develops concepts, writes books and is engaged in the develop-ment and production of several of its own in-house pro-ductions for the internet, television and film festivals.Our portfolio contains a diverse range of content including gallery exhibition film, documentary and short film. Our work has appeared in the 2011 National Film & Sound Archive’s Black Screen & 2010 Big Screen programs and awarded official selection at national and international film festivals. Our film Captain of the Team has also featured on Nine’s 60 Minute’s Great Flag Debate.Tribal Films also supports grass-roots film making and have also managed film festivals such as Short Story Big Screen and Canberra Short Film Festival and the ACT Department of Education’s Step Into the Limelight Film Festival.We also selectively accept commissions for educational and documentary works. Tribal Films have also founded the successful multicul-tural filmmaking project Short Story Big Screen

Tribal Films have also founded the successful multicul-tural filmmaking project Short Story Big Screenhttp://www.tribalfilms.com.au/ - 1136075/Short-Story-Big-Screen

CONTACT

Kris KerehonaMobile: 0411 675 306Email: info@tribalfilms.com.auWeb: www.tribalfilms