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About The Future is you & me
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The Future is you and me is a program designed to support young women of colour to take on leadership positions in arts, cultural and creative industries.
Its goal is to engage young, creative women, and non-binary individuals to build skills, community, and confidence through mentorship and workshops facilitated by established creative professionals of colour.
The Future is you and me was founded in 2016 by Kristin Cheung and Megan Lau as a one-time experiment to address gaps in the Canadian cultural sector that marginalize women of colour. The project has since expanded to include employment opportunities for alumni, workshop series for music professionals and artists, a satellite workshop series in Edmonton, and project bursaries for women of colour. It is also a sponsor of M.A.G.E.S. Interactive (marginalized genders accessing & generating evolving systems), a series of digital skills workshops to create works of interactive fiction.
The Future is you and me is based in Vancouver, which is within the traditional and occupied lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.
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About Cineworks
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Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society is a non-profit artist-run centre, supporting independent filmmakers, media artists and arts audiences through facilities and initiatives encompassing production, exhibition, consultation, outreach, and advocacy. Cineworks was incorporated as a non-profit society in 1980.
Through programs that foster experimentation with motion-picture arts, in dialogue with their historic, current and future cultural contexts, Cineworks engages their membership and wider communities in the investigative, expressive, and transformative powers of the moving image.
In addition to their main offices, production studio, edit suites, and equipment rental store off Howe Street in Vancouver's Downtown core, Cineworks runs an analogue film lab and studio in the city's Downtown East Side. Known as the Annex, this facility features an extensively equipped darkroom and open studio with equipment for machine and hand processing photochemical film, as well as for contact printing, optical printing, stop-frame animation, and editing Super 8, 16mm and 35mm film.
Part of Cineworks’ mandate is to facilitate public participation in the development of Canadian cultural policy through discussion, research, and submissions.
Cineworks gratefully acknowledges and pays respects to the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations on whose unceded traditional territories their organization and their work is based.
