Film Training Manitoba is excited to partner with DOC Manitoba and the Gimli International Film Festival (GIFF) for an in-depth discussion session featuring filmmaker Karsten Wall and moderated by veteran natural history documentary producer Merit Jensen Carr. The session will explore aspects of nature and wildlife filmmaking, including cinematography, writing, editing, and sound mixing.
The session will be a part of the GIFF on Saturday, July 27, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, located at Johnson Hall in the Gimli Waterfront Centre.
About the filmmaker
Karsten Wall is a Winnipeg-based editor who began filming his own nature documentaries only a few years ago. The first project he directed, The Seven Wonders of Manitoba, won a Golden Sheaf Award at the 2020 Yorkton Film Festival. His second self-directed production, Modern Goose opened at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and won the award for “Best Animal Behaviour Program” at the 2024 International Wildlife Film Festival. Karsten is currently working on a film about Winnipeg’s iconic Arlington Street Bridge.
About the moderator
For over 30 years, Merit Jensen Carr, with her company Merit Motion Pictures, has produced award-winning doc films and series, including Great Lakes Untamed, Kingdom of the Polar Bears and Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees – stories that reflect humanity’s struggle to live creatively in the 21st century and our experience and relationship to the beauty of the natural world. Merit has received some of the industry’s top honours including the inaugural HotDocs Don Haig Award for Special Achievement in Producing and is the former co-chair of DOC Manitoba and On Screen Manitoba.
FTM is a member of the Province of Manitoba’s sector council program funded through the Department of Economic Development and Training. FTM builds a highly skilled and adaptable film industry workforce to support the activities of Manitoba production companies. FTM collaborates and partners with members of the film and television industry to identify training needs to support workforce development output.