KAMLOOPS – Award-winning filmmaker and photojournalist Elaine Brière, whose photographs have appeared in magazines and newspapers in Canada, the US and abroad, and whose film, “Bitter Paradise: The Sell-out of East Timor” won Best Political Documentary at the l997 Toronto HOT DOCS! film festival, will conduct a two-day workshop at TRU next week.

Aimed at teaching the fundamentals of long-form photojournalism, the workshop, Making it Work and Making it Pay, to be conducted over two days from 9 am to 5 pm Feb. 10 and Feb. 11, will enable students to create a documentary project of their own from start to finish.

Students will explore how the immediate and personal nature of documentary work allows complex political and social issues to be expressed in a vital and accessible manner, and will learn how to workshop story ideas and define the parameters of a project when working without an assignment, how to structure a visual narrative, including fundamentals of storytelling, shooting strategies and editing procedures, how to access subjects, including gaining official permission and the importance of building relationships, how to fund personal work, including media publication, grants and foundations and working with NGOs and other non-traditional sources, and how to publish in today’s marketplace, including: print media, book industry, film industry, the Internet, galleries and exhibitions.

The workshop, non-credit TRU continuing education course, is offered at $25 for students and $150 for community members. Those wishing more information may call 371-5516. To register, call 828-5035 or 828-5041.

For more information, please contact Shawn Thompson at 371-5516.