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- This spring, FTM placed 19 trainees with eight different productions. These placements were subsidized by Film Training Manitoba.

- In addition to placing trainees, FTM gathered resumes from dozens of interested candidates and was able to assist over twelve of them find work on a production.

- FTM partners with local production companies to offer work experience training. These placements provide on-the-job training to both new and established crewmembers.

- There are different types of work experience placements, all designed to adapt to the various training needs of each individual production.

- Working closely with IATSE local 856 and the DGC Manitoba, FTM assesses candidates who are applying to the work experience program to find the right fit for them in a film environment. These assessments are based on the current needs of our industry, and the skill level of the candidates.

- In addition to our workshop training and community outreach program, FTM gathers information from the local industry and works hard to fill positions based on targeted departments in most need of crew development.

For more information on FTM’s work experience program, please contact us at 989-9669, or visit our website at www.filmtraining.mb.ca

Alexander Manu’s iAccelerator Program: How To Transform Your Company By Exploring & Defining New Competitive Spaces

May 27^th | $100 for OSM members, $150 for non-members

(Mandatory orientation evening on May 26^th)

Through Manu’s iACCELERATOR you’ll be guided into a renewed way of looking at your business and the world it works in. Learn how to leverage the core human and technological capabilities of your company and its suppliers in order to maximize their potential. Experience how to manage the development process for innovative breakthrough ideas into new content, products, services and experiences. Change your outlook from reacting to technological or behavioral (user/consumer) disruptions to the proactive exploration of the beneficial innovation possibilities for content services. Integrate, unleash, and accelerate the sensitivity and capability of innovativeness into the core business functions of organizations. Discover/unveil existing but still invisible potential market areas and means of operation.

About Alexander Manu
Alexander Manu is a strategic innovation practitioner, international lecturer and author. He works with executive teams in Fortune 500 companies in industries as diverse as consumer packaged goods, media, advertising, mobile communications and manufacturing.  Alexander lectures around the world on innovation, imagination, change agents, and strategic foresight.  He is a senior partner and chief imaginator at InnoSpa International Partners, and he teaches “Innovation, Foresight and Business Design” at the Rotman School of Management. Manu is also a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and a visiting lecturer at the Wallace McCain Institute.

In his client and research work, Alexander is involved in transforming organizations by exploring and defining new competitive spaces, the development of new strategic business competencies and creation of imaginative innovation methods. He believes that the exploration of possibility requires imagination as a prerequisite for strategic change and innovation.
For over 20 years Alexander has enabled global companies as diverse as Motorola, LEGO, Whirlpool, Nokia, Navteq and Unilever, to develop policies and strategies that address emerging issues through strategic foresight and pre-competitive business models.

Orientation (mandatory)

Wednesday, May 26 | Exchange Café, 137 Bannatyne Ave

Registration: 6:45 pm

Orientation: 7:00-9:00 pm

iACCELERATOR

Thursday, May 27 | Studios In the Exchange, 131 Pacific Ave

Registration: 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast: 8:45 am

Workshop begins: 9:00 am

*Please note that all registrants are required to attend both events.

Registration Fees

$100 ($4.76 GST included) for OSM members

$150 ($7.14 GST included) for non-members

Registration includes mandatory orientation reception (Wednesday, May 26^th), continental breakfast, lunch and workshop.

Registration Policies

Deadline for registrations is 5 pm on May 19, 2010.

Registrations will be accepted by email, fax, phone, or in-person.

On Screen Manitoba accepts Visa, Mastercard, cash, and cheques. Company invoicing is also available. Please make cheques payable to “On Screen Manitoba.”

How to Register

Email: stephanie@onscreenmanitoba.com

Fax: (204) 943.4007 (attention Stephanie)

In-Person: 100-62 Albert Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Phone: (204) 927.5892

Space is limited so secure your spot today!