The Faith Project (Web Site)

2015~ 40 minInteractive: Web Experience

By: Christopher Romeike

Production: Gerry FlahiveLea MarinSilva BasmajianAnita Lee

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with The Canadian Race Relations Foundation.

The Faith Project is an immersive media experience that intimately observes the rituals of seven young Canadians from different faith traditions. Religious identity and expression can be very personal topics, but the practitioners profiled in this project offer viewers a deep, privileged understanding of their diverse faiths. Set in a specifically Canadian context, the website and app include supplementary content that deepens viewers’ understanding of each interviewee’s faith. Shuttling between the project’s short portraits, striking commonalities between different traditions emerge. The articulate, busy young women and men at the heart of The Faith Project weave faith into their daily lives not as an obligation but as something that is essential to their identity and place in the world. Whether it is smudging or singing, a mandir or a mosque, a Siddur or the Bible, it’s clear how essential spiritual practice is to the bustling, stressful daily lives and identities of these young Canadians.

Subject categories


  • Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Religious Experiences

Credits


director
Christopher Romeike
writer
Shiraz Janjua
producer
Gerry Flahive
Lea Marin
director of photography
Christopher Romeike
editor
Christopher Romeike
associate producer
Shiraz Janjua
production supervisor
Mark Wilson
original music
Jim Guthrie
featuring
Aviva Chernick
Allison Chubb
Jetan Mistry
Preetinder Narang
Mohammed Kashif Pasta
Sonam Tsering
Ivana Lynne Yellowback
1st assistant camera
Scott Burton
Paul Raymond
assistant editor
Darby MacInnis
re-recording mixer
Aaron McCourt
sound recordist
Mike Filippov
Sanjay Mehta
Peter Kepkay
Igal Petel
Marvin Polanski
production assistant
Lisa Nelson
Robert Cortes
Jung-Sun Song
technical coordinator
Marcus Matyas
production coordinator
Andrew Martin-Smith
Rachel Punwassie
centre administrator
Josiah Rothenberg
marketing manager
Melissa Wheeler
director, Institutional & Educational Markets
Kristine Collins
head of Educational Content
Ross Johnstone
education specialist
Anne Koizumi
education guide writer
Noorin Fazal
executive producer
Silva Basmajian
Anita Lee
executive director
Anita Bromberg
project manager
Suren Y. Nathan
board member
Rubin Friedman
DI producer
Ahmad Ismail
digital imaging colourist
Walt Biljan
technical director
Paul Pattison
lead developer
Jason Slater
art director
Jonathan Wong
digital producer
Ben McEvoy
researcher
Celina Bell
visual researcher
Elizabeth Klinck
copy editor
Gillian Burnett
research consultant
Jonathan Hamilton-Diabo
Rabbi Aaron Katchen
Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa
Marco Mascarin
Nilesh Mehta
Archdeacon Bruce Myers
Sadhu Nityavivekdas
Kulvir Singh Gill
Amjad Tarsin
Hector Villar y Pacheco
Andrew Wesley