Commissioned by Artscape (Canada) as part of its Creative Places and Spaces Video Spotlight Series, Changing Course is a five-minute documentary short that profiles the issues, challenges and successes of a unique community collaboration that has taken place in the city of Toronto: the Toronto Sports Leadership Program. Told through the voices of five partners in the program, this short shows how the Toronto community came together and provided an answer to 2005’s “Summer of the Gun”.

Melissa completed Changing Course in September 2009, and the film was screened in late October at Artscape's "Creative Places and Spaces: The Collaborative City" forum in Toronto. Creative Places and Spaces is one of the world's leading forums on creativity.



PRODUCTION INFO

Runtime: 5 minutes
Format: HDV, NTSC,16:9

Director & Producer: Melissa A. Gomez
CInematography: Christopher F. Hodge, Melissa A. Gomez
Editing: Christopher F. Hodge
Sound Design & Music Composition: Quaison Nangle