This EcoSalud project involves the following types of research creation:
- Mobilization of local and Indigenous knowledge using photovoice techniques adapted to incorporate the use of video
- Community storytelling and collaborative visioning and identification of problems using photovoice materials and arts-based narrative approaches
- Production of short and feature-length documentary film and a Geo-Doc platform (a multilinear, interactive, database documentary film platform) of the Brunca region
- Use of time-lapse and GIS technology to create graphic and mapping visualizations of the multiple variables affecting environmental and human wellbeing
Samples of work produced by our team members
DOCUMENTARY FILM
The Changing Face of Iceland (2021) demonstrates award-winning team expertise in feature documentary filmmaking.
This 52-minute film was written, directed, and produced by Mark Terry. It is the third in his series of films that examine the polar regions. It premiered at the UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, COP26, in November 2021.
ARTS-BASED NARRATIVE APPROACHES
The Environment, Community, Health Observatory (ECHO) Network is a 5-year research program co-directed by Margot Parkes.
Students and community participants use arts-based narrative approaches to investigate and address local ecohealth concerns.
Click here to view the “The World According to ECHO - Glimpses of environment, community, and health connections in the COVID era” Padlet.
PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY VOICE DOCUMENTATION
More Than Migrants (2021), directed by Felipe Montoya, demonstrates team expertise in participatory community voice and video documentation.
This 62-minute film follows the lived experience of nine people striving to make a new life for themselves and their families in Costa Rica. The stories told in their own words reveal the strength and resilience needed to overcome challenges to build a new home with dignity and well-being. The documentary offers viewers a deeper understanding of the lives of migrants and the complex issues they face.
Selected creative outputs produced by our team members
DATA ANIMATION AND VISUALIZATION
CoPEH-Canada Team (2012). Transversal Activities: Rich Picture Map In: McCullagh S ed. (2012). Ecosystem Approaches to Health Teaching Manual. Canadian Community of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Health. https://copeh-canada.org/en/teaching-manual/cross-cutting-teaching-tools.html
Development Observatory, University of Costa Rica (2021). COVID-19 in Costa Rica: data, analysis and projections. Geospatial visualization of data here.
Development Observatory, University of Costa Rica (2021). Indigenous groups in Costa Rica. https://www.facebook.com/OdD.UCR/videos/cu%C3%A1les-grupos-ind%C3%ADgenas-habitan-en-nuestro-pa%C3%ADs/286432886705068
Development Observatory, University of Costa Rica (2020). Active cases declining, May 8, 2020. https://www.facebook.com/OdD.UCR/videos/casos-activos-en-descenso-08-de-mayo/602656703682556/
GEO-DOC
Terry, Mark (2022). The Youth Climate Report. A multilinear, interactive GIS database of climate research documentaries produced by youth. Supported by the UNFCCC, UNESCO, and the Foundation for Environmental Education. https://unfccc.int/topics/education-youth/resources/youth/youth-climate-report
NARRATIVE APPROACHES
COPEH-Canada. Digital Stories. Ecohealth & Watersheds in Northern BC. Ecohealth Knowledge to Action Research Group. https://ecohealthkta.net/digital_stories/
COPEH-Canada. Webalogue Series. Ecohealth Knowledge to Action Research Group. https://ecohealthkta.net/webalogues/
de Leeuw, S., Parkes, M. W., Sloan Morgan, V., Christensen, J., Nicole, L., Mitchell Foster, K., & Russell Jozkow, J. (2017). Going unscripted: A call to critically engage storytelling methods and methodologies in geography and the medical-health sciences. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien, 61(2), 152–164. https://doi.org/doi:10.1111/cag.12337
Farrales, M., Hoogeveen, D., Sloan Morgan, V., de Leeuw, S., & Parkes, M.W. (2021). Framing Futurities in Photovoice, Health, and Environment: How Power is Reproduced and Challenged in Arts-Based Methods. GeoHumanities, [IN-PRESS]
Gislason, M.K., Galway, L., Buse, C., Parkes, M.W., & Rees, E. (2021). Place-based Climate Change Communication and Engagement in Canada’s provincial North: Lessons learned from climate champions, Environmental Communication, 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2020.1869576
Gislason, M.K., Morgan, V.S., Mitchell-Foster, K. and Parkes, M.W. (2018). Voices from the landscape: Storytelling as emergent counter-narratives and collective action from northern BC watersheds, Health & Place, 54, 191-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.08.024
Webb J. (2010) Chapter 7: Participatory Research and Dissemination of Research Results: The Use of Theatre and Videography In Environmental Contamination of Fish & Humans through Deforestation and Oil Extraction in Andean Amazonia. [Doctoral thesis, McGill University]. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/sq87bt958
FILM
Montoya, Felipe (2022). Buried Seeds. Feature documentary (60 min) on peasants in the Brunca region in southern Costa Rica. Grounded Project. https://youtu.be/vlWwzguffRo
Montoya, Felipe (2021). More than Migrants. Feature documentary (60 min) on Nicaraguan migrants in Costa Rica. Grounded Project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDuBRoO6BHE
Montoya, Felipe, Ana María Martínez, and Julie Hard (2020). Creation of the Grounded Project. https://lasnubes.euc.yorku.ca/grounded-project/
Montoya, Felipe (2016). Inadmissible Nico. Short documentary (5 min) on how Canadian immigration policies discriminate against people with disabilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te3smROIc-0
Montoya, Felipe (2010). The Future of Junquillal. Fiction animation (30 min) for the research project "Linking endangered species conservation with community livelihood improvement in Junquillal of Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, Costa Rica."
- Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWgGjObznI
- Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gTqe8fVeTM
- Part III: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32o7XWzNEss
Terry, Mark (Director) (2021). The Best of 2021 [Film]. Young Reporters for the Environment.
Terry, Mark (Executive Producer) (2021). The Permafrost Problem [Film]. United Nations Development Programme.
Terry, Mark (Executive Producer) (2021). Unwrapping the Truth [Film]. United Nations Development Programme.
Terry, Mark (Executive Producer) (2021). Climate Change Action: How Documentary Filmmaking Can Be Used as a Tool For Social Change [Film]. United Nations Development Programme.
Terry, Mark (Executive Producer) (2021). It Matters: An Education System Reformed [Film]. United Nations Development Programme.
Terry, Mark (Executive Producer) (2021). Canadian Conservation Areas [Film]. United Nations Development Programme.
Terry, Mark (Executive Producer) (2021). Bringing Back the Importance of Nature [Film]. United Nations Development Programme.
Terry, Mark (Executive Producer). (2021). Creating a New Habit [Film]. United Nations Development Programme.
Terry, Mark (Director) (2021). The Changing Face of Iceland [Film]. Iceland Productions Inc.
Terry, Mark (Director) (2017). Consequences of Confederation [Series: 5 eps]. History Department, York University.
Terry, Mark (Director) (2015 to present). Youth Climate Report [Series: 600+ eps]. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Terry, Mark (Executive Producer) (2014). A Climate of Change [Film]. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Terry, Mark (Director) (2012 to 2015). Youth Climate Report [Series: 6 Films]. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Terry, Mark (Director) (2012). The War to End All Wars [Series: 7 eps]. History Department, York University.
Terry, Mark (Director) (2011). The Polar Explorer [Film]. CBC, PBS.
Terry, Mark (Director) (2010). The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning [Film]. CBC, PBS, ZDF.
Terry, Mark (Director) (2009). The Melting of Antarctica [Film]. United Nations Environment Programme.
Terry, Mark (Director). (2009). The Penguins of Antarctica [Film]. United Nations Environment Programme.
Terry, Mark (Director) (2009). Antarctica: The First 100 Years [Film]. United Nations Environment Programme.
Terry, Mark (Producer) (2001). Hong Kong Museum of History [Series: 18 Films]. Government of China.
Terry, Mark (Director) (2000). We Stand on Guard [Film]. Global Television.
Terry, Mark (Producer) (1994). Clive Barker: The Art of Horror [Film]. Paramount Pictures.
Webb, J. and Mainville, N. (Producers), and Delfin, M. (Director) (2010). Zona Cruda. Documentary (23 min). https://vimeo.com/6812936. 2010 Honorable mention at the EcoHealth 2010 Conference Art Competition Showcase.