The Yorkton Film Festival offers access to the best Canadian short films, allowing schools to provide films that will inspire, educate, and captivate their students.
The festival has curated five films and lesson plans which are ready to be used in Canadian classrooms. Each film, with its lesson plan, details Canadian cultures, society, and everchanging landscapes.
Choose from the lesson plans, each with themes and resources designed for various levels of student ability and interests.
To access the lesson plans, click the links below. On the last page of the lesson plan is a questionnaire that we ask you to email to us when you have used a lesson plan.
Please note that the films are unavailable for download and may be linked to a third-party website, such as the National Film Board of Canada.
Lesson themes are:
The links below include recommended grades and subjects, but educators are free to use them as they see fit for their students.
The Festival began in 1947 as the Yorkton Film Council. Its mandate was to act as a volunteer distribution agency for the National Film Board (NFB). Jim Lysyshyn, field man for the NFB, suggested a film festival. When the Council rejected his proposal, he came forward with a more audacious proposal – an international festival.
The Council accepted the new idea and organized the first festival in the fall of 1950. Throughout the 1950s, the festival was a huge success with as many as 4,000 people at the screenings, this at a time when the population of Yorkton was only 8,000.
The festival has undergone many changes in its history, but can still claim to be the longest continuous film festival in North America. In its current form the festival continues to be dedicated to the promotion of the best screen-based media content through our annual film festival and Golden Sheaf Awards competition.
In addition to the annual event, the festival is dedicated to the promotion of short video content through our year-round screening and tour outreach programs.
Drawn from both Yorkton community members and the film and television industry, the YFF Board of Directors oversees and are the stewards of the festival.
Yorkton Film Festival
49 Smith Street East Yorkton SK S3N 0H4
Tel: +1 306-782-7077
Fax: +1 306-782-1550
Email: info@yorktonfilm.com
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