UBC Film Production announces first Phil Lind Multicultural Artist in Residence and Rogers Multicultural Teaching Fellow

Actor and director Lorne Cardinal has been named as the UBC Film Production Program’s first “Phil Lind Multicultural Artist in Residence.” This position is awarded through the Program’s recently established Rogers Multicultural Film Production Project.

While in residency during March 2011, Cardinal will meet with students, give a public lecture and teach a master class for film students across the Lower Mainland.  He will work as a consultant in a course offered in the Film Production Program as part of the Rogers Project, in which students are learning film production skills and creating digital films focusing on First Nations topics. This inaugural course is being taught by Rogers Teaching Fellow Dwayne Beaver and will culminate in a community showcase and discussion forum where students will screen their work.

Cardinal is an actor and director best known as Sargent Davis Quinton on CTV’s hit series Corner Gas. He has won two Gemini Awards for Wapoos Bay and Corner Gas.

Beaver is a writer, director and producer in feature films, television series and animation work including The Rhino Brothers, Robson Arms, Moccasin Flats, Road Hockey Rumble, Glutton for Punishment, War Planets and BBC’s The Mr. Hell Show.  He is currently an adjunct professor in the Capilano University Indigenous Independent Filmmakers Program.