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Inspiring Film and Television Production screenings at Lakeshore

The Film and Television Production screening for second-year students inspired many first-year students.
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People gathered to watch 14 documentaries made by the students of the Film and Television Production program at Lakeshore campus.

The Film and Television Production screening for second-year students was a private event hosted on Jan. 23 at Humber’s Lakeshore campus.

The students said the screening was important to them as they were able to showcase their documentaries to family and close friends.

More than 200 people attended the screening.

“I would say this is more of a gathering that people can share ideas, they can have their feelings evoked, provoked in so many ways,” said Arman Mehrian, the writer-director of The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Aline Bernardino, a volunteer at the event and in her first year of the Film and Television Production program, said she felt thrilled when watching the documentaries with her friends who are also in the first year, as they were inspired by them.

“I felt amazed just to see what they've done,” Bernardino said.

“All the documentaries there, they were, like, amazing, super professional, which inspires me a lot because next year I will be doing it,” she said.

Mehrian said 14 different documentaries with different genres were shown, where people may experience a roller coaster of emotions throughout the event as they watch each film.

The Garden of Earthly Delights was the first documentary to be screened.

“This was a really passionate project that we made, and I hope that it would have an impact on the society and humanity to […] maybe question the path that we've taken,” Mehrian said.

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The Garden of Earthly Delights crew, from left, Karen Yamamoto,  Arman Imambakiev, Arman Mehrian, Luca Ladisa, and Shane Chen. HumberETC/Annays Fernanda Medeiros Da Conceicao

“Is this a really good path that we're headed? Or maybe we should change the ways that we're looking at life?” he said.

It is a very different documentary from what one may normally expect from a documentary, said Luca Ladisa, the producer and co-writer of The Garden of Earthly Delights.

“It is a poetic doc, so there's no words, it's strictly through visuals,” Ladisa said.

Mehrian said there is no narration, which may feel odd to the audience, as most of the story is told through visuals and music, but if one has a better understanding of what a poetic documentary is, they will enjoy the show to the fullest.

Ladisa said it is a poetic documentary that touches on environmental issues while framing it through a religious perspective, which makes it stand out from most environmental stories.

“We really touch upon things like gluttony, which is a sin that really nobody talks about,” he said.

It was nice to bring this awareness to everyone, Ladisa said.

“We need to shape up and do better as a society, and especially as Catholics,” he said. 

Ladisa loves the positivity and the whole message that the documentary gives.

“We need to shape it as a society, let's do better for this planet,” he said.