Notlith · Winnipeg
Event video in Winnipeg for Folklorama pavilions
Every August, Folklorama turns community halls, cultural centres and other venues across Winnipeg into pavilions, each run by a cultural community with its own dancers, kitchen and display. Visitors usually pick a few pavilions for an evening. Notlith makes event promotion films remotely from a pavilion's own photos, past performance clips and menu, with AI-assisted motion, editing and sound, so a volunteer committee can give people a clear reason to pick its doors.
Remote production · From your photos
A pavilion is a stage, a kitchen and a room
Someone planning a Folklorama evening is comparing pavilions, not deciding whether to go out. The film has to answer three things fast: what the show is, what the kitchen serves and where the hall is. We build the first seconds around whichever of those your community is proudest of, whether that is a fast dance number, a dish people queue for or a display of costumes and crafts.
Show times, the address and the week your pavilion is open appear as text you approve, because those details change between years. As an official pavilion, you can use the festival name and marks as the organizers allow; send us their current guidelines and we follow them rather than guessing at logos or wording.
Dancers from your own archive
Many pavilions have years of rehearsal photos and phone clips from past stages. That archive is the heart of the film. We clean, grade and pace it, and AI-assisted motion can bring a still of a costume or a lift to life, but we never generate dancers who were not there or a full house that did not happen.
Youth troupes need particular care. Before any minor appears, the committee should confirm that parents or guardians agreed to promotional use, and we can blur or drop any face on request. Traditional costumes, instruments and steps are shown as your community performs them; we do not let a generator invent ornaments that would be wrong to anyone who knows the culture.
What the volunteers cook
For many visitors the kitchen decides the evening. Send photos of the dishes as your volunteers actually plate them, ideally from last year's service, and the names exactly as they will appear on the menu board. We animate steam, a pour or a slow push in, but the portion and garnish stay true to what will be handed across the counter.
If a dish contains common allergens or is prepared in a particular way for religious reasons, the film can say so in plain text you supply. We do not add dishes you are unsure of serving, and we avoid any hint that the food comes from a restaurant rather than a community kitchen staffed by volunteers.
In English and in the language of the pavilion
A pavilion speaks to two audiences: Winnipeggers discovering a culture and members of the community who want to hear their own language. We usually prepare an English cut and a second version with titles or a greeting in the heritage language, written or checked by someone from your community. A French cut is possible too for Franco-Manitoban audiences.
Files come as a vertical cut for social posts, a square version for community newsletters and a wide one for a screen in the hall. Text layers stay editable, so next August the same film can carry new dates, a new venue or a new headline act without starting over.
Fictional concept created with AI
In pictures
Catalog demonstration
See the production approach
English, adaptable to your language
Plan the details
Can you film our pavilion during the festival?
No. We do not send crews. We build the promotion before the festival from your material, and if a volunteer records the shows, we can edit a recap you can use to recruit dancers and volunteers for next year.
We only have phone videos from past years. Is that enough?
Usually, yes. Phone clips can be stabilized, graded and cut to music. Where a clip is too dark or shaky, a good still can carry the moment with AI-assisted motion, without inventing anything that did not happen on your stage.
Can the film use the Folklorama name and logo?
Only as the festival's own guidelines allow for participating pavilions. Send us the current rules and approved assets. If you are promoting a separate cultural event outside the festival, we leave the festival name out entirely.
Who writes the text in our heritage language?
Someone you trust in your community should write or approve it. We set the type with the right characters and diacritics, check line breaks on a phone screen and keep the text in a layer that is easy to correct.
Start with your images
Send last year's photos and clips, the menu, the show times and any text in your heritage language, and we will propose a first pavilion cut.