To tell stories of the oppressed and marginalized through the medium of film.
Daily assignment reporter.
Leading up to the 2009 municipal election in Saskatchewan, I contacted various towns and cities to find out what platforms mayoral and council candidates represented. On election night, a group of us posted live results on the following website:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/10/22/sk-election-saskatchewan.html
Counsel youth in Calgary’s independent schools.
Courses included: Celtic Christianity; Global Injustice; Food, Soil and Salvation: Reconciliation and the Land; Biblical Prophecy and Perspectives for Contemporary Ministry
This is the award-winning documentary that I am wanting to present at the River Film Festival in Padua, Italy.
This documentary aired on CBC Saskatchewan Presents on July 30, 2011 and was about the obstacles that family's face to sit down and share meals with each other.
Sirocco will compete in this international festival this June.
Sirocco won the 2018 winter session in the documentary short category and will now compete for the best documentary short film of the year.
Sirocco was nominated for both Best Director and Best of Saskatchewan at this new festival that highlights international short films.
The SIFA awards are sponsored by the Saskatchewan Filmpool Co-operative and recognize the best in Saskatchewan filmmaking.
Established in 1947, YFF is North America's longest running film festival, showcasing high quality Canadian and international films.
Very interested in sports and music. I play a few different instruments with the bagpipes being my trademark.
I entered journalism school because of a desire to explore my creative side through the medium of documentary film.
I love research and learning about most anything, especially as it relates to the environment, indigenous peoples and the marginalized. I love learning more about the intersection of faith and daily life. To learn more about my spiritual journey see the link to the article I wrote below entitled "Fog on the Mountain."
After teaching high school for four years in Kampala, Uganda and at my alma mater Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, I returned to school to study journalism at the University of Regina.
The most significant part of the journalism program was completing a four-month internship at Regina's Leader-Post newspaper. During the internship I developed my passion for writing features and human interest stories. I also have a strong desire to wrestle with topics that require investigation and uncovering. One of these is the story of a Canadian corporation that is propping up an occupation of Africa's last colony—Western Sahara. In 2014 I began working on a documentary project related to this issue. As part of my research I took an investigative trip to the Saharawi Refugee Camps in Algeria. After starting to work on the story I realized that I would require further training in documentary filmmaking to help get the project done. That is when I entered the master of journalism program at the University of Regina. After finishing my masters program, I continued working on the documentary and completed my final edit of the film in 2017. Since completing the film I have submitted it to various film festivals throughout Canada and internationally with lots of success.
In addition to teaching high school, which I continue to do during the day, I have began working with Crushed Rocket Films creating documentary shorts for a Youtube channel that is planning to launch later this year. We are already working on our first story that highlights the work of the SEARCH program that takes place every Saturday afternoon at the Four Directions Community Health Centre in North Central Regina. The goal of these films will be to dig deeper into Saskatchewan stories that deserve more investigation and exposure.
An astonishing account of a Polish refugee who fled a Russian labour camp during the Second World War:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/300PolishSquadron/conversations/topics/4815
A group of University of Regina professors say "Project Hero", a scholarship program for dependents of dead soldiers, promotes militarism. Link to National Post story:
http://www.pressreader.com/canada/national-post-latest-edition/20100325/281517927300908/TextView
A feature article that can be found in the September/ October 2015 edition of Briarpatch Magazine. This article introduces people to the issue which my present documentary will be focusing on:
http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/a-very-fertile-occupation
The article about my spiritual journey and the intersection of my faith and politics can be found at this link:
http://geezmagazine.org/blogs/entry/josh-campbell-excerpt/
University of Regina, Documentary Professor and Director
Crushed Rocket Motion Pictures, Co-founders and Co-owners
University of Regina, Professor of Journalism
University of Regina, Professor of Journalism