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 Apple Canada is one of the five founding corporate sponsors of M3F. When we were still in the planning stage and cautious about moving forward with our rather ambitious proposal for a festival, the generous support from the team at Apple Canada provided us with the courage we needed to stay on course. Not only has Apple been a sponsor of the festival, Apple Canada has been an invaluable educational partner.
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Apple Canada has supplied M3F with iBooks four the past four years. We use the iBooks to display digital artwork at our now annual launch, our annual teacher-training symposium, and the festival itself. Apple takes their support for M3F one step further by providing technical support for all our initiatives. Apple also supports the festival with financial contributions.
We look forward to working with Apple Canada over the next few years as we grow M3F into an international festival. |
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 Over the years, Adobe Canada has been a major contributor to the M3F Scholarship Fund. It is with this kind of support from Adobe Canada that the scholarship fund is growing to be an important resource for Canadian students interested in pursuing post-secondary training in digital media.
Adobe Canada has also been an important partner in establishing the Training the Trainer Symposium. Adobe supports the symposium by providing a professional trainer to lead teachers through a day of hands-on training in InDesign, as well as helping to cover the cost of the event.
Adobe Canada has played such a great role of support in helping fund and develop the Mind Media and the Message Festival. We remain confident that Adobe Canada will continue to play a significant role in future development of the festival.
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 In becoming an international festival, it was very important to the M3F committee, to have the support of CBC Canada. The comimittee could not have predicted a more wonderful welcome than it received from Canada’s broadcaster.
The new media team at CBC enthusiastically embraced the festival and quickly became one of our most committed advocates; CBC quickly became a valued and active part of our team. CBC aired our student made M3F commercial almost two thousand times coast-to-coast, they provided web links, and internships-for-a-day, CBC is providing space and expertise to help us with our national launch, and CBC participates in the judging and selection of the winning digital media work.
The Mind, Media and the Message Festival is the premiere digital media festival for secondary school students in Canada and we are thankful for CBC’s role in making that happen. The festival hopes to continue working with CBC for many years to come.
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 The Centre for Creative Communications at Centennial College will once again be the site of our Training the Trainer Symposium. Centennial College has been an amazing location for our training symposium. The facilities are top notch and the community at the college was incredibly supportive and highly skilled. We have already begun discussing the plans for this year's symposium with Centennial representatives .
We are proud to count Centennial College as one of our sponsors. |
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 Highroad Communications has become the official mentor for the M3F Public Relations Committee. Highroad Communications has participated in committee meetings, helped proof media releases and helped manage our media campaign.
It is our goal to foster more relationships like the one that Highroad is pioneering. We are incredibly grateful to Highroad Communications for the time and expertise that they share with us. |
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 Herf Jones has a commitment to schools and innocative technology, spanning their reach across Canada. Herff Jones has used their wonderful connections to help our festival's voice be heard across the country by distributing our information. |
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MaRS Collaboration Centre |
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 The MaRS Collaboration Centre offers a flexible and comfortable space that includes a high–tech auditorium surrounded by flexibly configured meeting rooms with built-in, state-of-the-art “plug-and-play” audio visual (AV) and collaboration technologies and on-site technicians. The Centre’s features are all geared to enhance knowledge sharing and communication—either face-to-face or remotely from across the globe.
The MaRS Collaboration Centre, our newest sponsor, hosted our festival this year and will be hosting the 2007 festival as well. Already, MaRS has shown us incredible support in the planning of this year's festival, which promises, with the help of MaRS, to be bigger and than ever. |
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 Our roots are in Marshall McLuhan CSS, it was in this awesome school that M3F was created. The festival will always turn to this, its home community, for strength and support.
It is with joy that we look to this community and express our deepest gratitude for their patience and support. |
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 MIJO is one of the five founding sponsor of the M3F Festival. The team at MIJO has taught us how to build an interactive press kit, how to design and prepare a massive banner for print, and how to manage massive production tasks. MIJO is a digital media company that touches all areas of the creative process – broadcast, video editing, interactive media, and print (as a start).
MIJO Corporation has printed thousands of posters, thousands of stickers, press kits, folders, vinyl floor stickers, CD cases, a massive M3F banner, and has participated in the judging and selection of the winning digital media work.
Added to MIJOs production of our marketing media has been an enormous about technical assistance that has come in the form of hands-on help to over the phone guidance.
MIJO is a fantastic family of companies that provide a variety of communications services. We are very grateful for the time, energy, and resources that MIJO has put into supporting the M3F Festival.
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The Toronto Catholic District School Board is a founding sponsor of M3F. The TCDSB has fostered a learning and teaching environment that has made the creation of M3F possible. The TCDSB has encouraged an entrepreneurial spirit within its community, provided opportunities for staff development, ensured that necessary technology was made available to the festival and, above all, provided the necessary leadership to ensure the growth of the Mind, Media and the Message Festival. It is with pride and deep gratitude that the M3F committee acknowledges the TCDSB for their support and commitment to our festival. |
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 The Toronto District School Board has been a constant friend of the M3F Festival. The students, teachers, and senior staff of the TDSB have all played a part in the continued growth of the festival. In fact, the students of the TDSB have consistently been the largest contributing group to the festival.
The M3F committee looks forward to continuing the development of a strong network with the TDSB community. |
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 Warner Brothers is one of the five founding corporate sponsors of the Mind, Media and the Message Festival. Since the very beginning Warner Brothers has opened doors, solved problems, picked-up loose ends and provided critical funding. Whether it has been helping mount our show, having our interactive press kits burned, connecting us with new partners, guiding the development of the festival, participating in the judging and selection of the winning digital media work, or introducing us to interactive press kits Warner Brothers has been with us at every step. Without a doubt, the M3F Festival would not exist if not for the support and guidance of Warner Brothers.
It is with considerable appreciation that we acknowledge Warner Brothers as a major M3F sponsor, partner, and friend. |
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 Videoscope is another of the five founding sponsors of the Mind, Media and the Message Festival. Videoscope has provided the video projection system for every Festival we have hosted so far. Without a doubt the team at Videoscope is second to none, they arrive at our venue, install the video projection equipment and screen and are gone in what seems no more than a few minutes. The same is true of the removal at the end of the festival. Videoscope helped to make the projection of all the videos at M3F a professional occasion.
The M3F committee is grateful for the unquestioned commitment of Videoscope to our festival. |
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Important Dates |
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T3S - March 6, 2008
Submissions - April 9, 2008
Judging Day - April 26, 2008
M3F Gala - May 16-18 2008 |
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