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LOCATION: Place of Many Trees, 6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver
Join us for the first of the Creative Knowledge Mobilization Workshop Series.
Explore how film can be used as a tool for community-engaged research and knowledge mobilization. This workshop introduces the fundamentals of visual storytelling while examining how collaborative filmmaking can document lived experiences, amplify community voices, and communicate research in compelling and accessible ways.
Workshop schedule
Part 1: Introduction to Collaborative Filmmaking (10:00am – 12:00pm)
This lecture-based session introduces the fundamentals of visual storytelling and examines how collaborative filmmaking can document lived experiences, amplify community voices, and communicate research in compelling and accessible ways.
12:00-13:00 Lunch will be provided
Part 2: Project Workshop (1:00pm – 3:30pm)
This hands-on session gives participants an opportunity to explore and develop their own film or research projects with Jessica and in small groups. Participants must provide a brief description of the project they would like to workshop. Part 2 is limited to 12 participants on a first-come, first-served basis.
Presented in partnership with SFU Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) and SFU Knowledge Mobilization Hub.
Jessica Hallenbeck is the founder and documentary producer at Lantern Films as well as an independent scholar and community planner whose work bridges filmmaking and critical geographic research. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of British Columbia, where her multimodal scholarship—spanning film, writing, and exhibition—examines questions of place, history, and reparations. Her award-winning research received the Starkey-Robinson Award for graduate research on Canada and has been supported by multiple grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Hallenbeck is an alumna of the Sundance Institute and Chicken & Egg Films, and she has worked in documentary production for more than two decades.
About the series
Creative Knowledge Mobilization Workshop Series 2026-2027
How can researchers use creative methods to reach beyond academic journals and connect with broader audiences?
Join the SFU Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi), the SFU Knowledge Mobilization Hub, and the UBC Public Humanities Hub for a four-part, hands-on workshop series exploring creative approaches to knowledge mobilization. Designed for researchers, graduate students, practitioners, and community partners, this series will introduce practical skills for translating research into engaging, accessible, and impactful public-facing formats.
LOCATION: AAC 1002, Audain Art Centre, 6398 University Boulevard
Photo by Krasimira Butseva.
UBC graduate students are invited to a workshop led by Lilia Topouzova.
This interdisciplinary workshop explores documentary filmmaking as a mode of historical and scholarly inquiry. Through discussion and the screening of selected film excerpts, participants will examine how archival fragments, oral testimony, silence, and place can be translated into cinematic form. Central to the workshop will be the question of the image: how do filmmakers decide what to show, what to leave outside the frame, and when the absence or deliberate withholding of an image may be more meaningful, or even more ethically responsible, than its inclusion? Together, we will consider how visual presence and absence shape historical knowledge and the work of bearing witness.
Lilia Topouzova is an Associate Professor of History and Creative Nonfiction at the University of Toronto. Her interdisciplinary practice bridges history, memory studies, and creative nonfiction, with a strong commitment to making scholarly research public through film, media art, and narrative writing. She is the author of Unsilencing: The History & Legacy of the Bulgarian Gulag (Cornell, 2025) and co-creator of The Neighbours, a multimedia installation hailed as one of the top exhibitions at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024). Topouzova is the scriptwriter of The Mosquito Problem & Other Stories (2007) and Saturnia (2012).
