Participatory Media and Filmmaking
My background as a scientist, researcher, and filmmaker has shaped how I use media as a tool for engagement and change. I am particularly interested in participatory media, where communities and participants are involved in creating the stories and knowledge they want to share.
My work has included participatory video, photovoice, digital storytelling, documentary and educational filmmaking, and live interactive underwater broadcasts through Fish Eye Project. Most recently, I have worked alongside Inuvialuit youth in Tuktoyaktuk using participatory media to document environmental change, amplify youth voices, and create opportunities for dialogue with wider audiences and decision-makers.
I continue to explore how participatory media and storytelling can support community-led initiatives, research, education, and environmental action, and I welcome selected collaborations in these areas.
Some examples of my past work:

Fish Eye Project is inviting you to go diving without getting wet. From iPhone to IMAX, you can see, hear, and interact with our team and the ocean in a very unique way.
You may notice a typo in the trailer... and if you do there is an interesting story behind it!! Ask me why.
Editor: David Oshudzawa
Director: Mike Irvine
Producer: Fish Eye Project

From your phone to the Giant Screen, go diving without getting wet. Fish Eye Project introduces live underwater interactive cinema, a world's first in Giant Screen theatres from beneath the waves on June 8, 2016 for World Oceans Day. See, hear, talk and share with divers as they explore marine life in the emerald forests off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Narrated by: Mike Irvine
Edited by: David Ochudzawa and Lindsay Marie Stewart
Video by: Globaia, Subvision Productions and Mike Blazecka
Producer: Fish Eye Project

Narrated by William Shatner, a young man and his young elephant street beg in gritty Bangkok amid the controversial elephant business that threatens their survival, until the opportunity comes to release the elephant to the wild.
My role: I worked as a production coordinator with Producer/Director Patricia Sims and Cinematographer/Editor Michael Clark for this feature documentary.

Un petit message de Julie et Maéva de l'équipe de Fish Eye Project en préparation sur le terrain pour la plongée du 26 septembre (27 septembre en Nouvelle-Calédonie)!
A short intro by Campbell River (full of salmon) for our French Program connecting francophone students between British Columbia and New Caledonia.
My role: Producer, Director, Host with Julie Holsworth, Editor.

Joignez-vous à nous pour deux odyssées sous-marine interactives le 26 septembre avec les saumons de Campbell River au Canada et le 17 novembre pour découvrir les coraux de Nouvelle-Calédonie. FrancOcéan Pacifique: Des liens francophones tissés d'un bout à l'autre de l'océan Pacifique. //
Join us for two live underwater broadcasting on Sept 26 with salmon in Campbell River in Canada and Nov. 17 to discover coral reef ecosystems in New Caledonia. FrancOcean Pacifique: connecting francophones from the North Pacific to the South Pacific.
My role: Producer and Narrator.

Esprits du Corail or Spirits of the Reef intro/outro for the project FrancOcéan Pacifique, an exchange between francophone students from British Columbia and New Caledonia. Project funded by the BC Ministry of Education.
My role: Editor, Director, Producer.
Video footage: Jean-Michel Boré, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement.

Beach Observer is a citizen science tool that allows for observing, recording and monitoring of coastal wildlife, marine debris, pollution and more. The mobile app is designed to allow the observation from coastal citizens to be recorded with photographic and georeferenced documentation. This information is uploaded and saved onto an interactive map that displays all public observations.
The app is available in the iTunes app store for Apple users: itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1092297031, and is available for free on beachobserver.com for all users.
My role: I produced and directed this promotional/tutorial video. Robyn Thomas was the filmmaker and editor.

German researcher Laurenz Thomsen of Jacobs University in Bremen describes Wally, a remote controlled deep-sea crawler.
My role: Video editor.

First video I made to show the work on board an icebreaker in the Arctic. Won two awards Best Cinematography and Best editing at the UVic Sunscreen Film Festival in 2011.
My role: Cinematographer, Director, Editor.
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ShoreZone takes a close-up inventory of the biology and geology of North America’s Pacific coast from Oregon all the way up to Alaska. Using low-altitude photos and videos collected by helicopter at low tide, over 100,000 kilometres of coastline has been mapped and is made available to the public online. ShoreZone is constantly improving as new tools emerge. Film produced by: Science-to-go
My role: Produced and directed the promotional video. Lindsay Marie Stewart edited the video.