The Tatlayoko Think Tank Ltd. (TTT) has the requisite experience and qualifications to produce professional quality videos and to train individuals in all aspects of Media production.

The TTT has partnered with Capilano College and with Emily Carr Institute in providing practicum and co-op student placements. The TTT offers students a variety of Media opportunities.

The TTT has over seven years’ experience in: Desktop publishing, Web page and web site construction and hosting, Digital video production and editing, Sound editing and mastering, Webcasting and Streaming video on demand.

• Our sound engineer, Buddy Thatcher, has an Audio Engineering and Production Certificate from Okanagan University College. Buddy has twenty-five years’ experience in the music industry. His specialty is in original compositions.
• Our video editor, Devin Clarke, has a diploma from Vancouver Film School. Devin has five years experience in the film industry, both independent and commercial production. Devin is an inspired instructor and a talented editor.
• Our television specialist is Rick Smalley. He has been a television cameraman for 35 years. Rick has worked on many documentaries, dramas, and magazine style shows for CBC. Rick has presented workshops and seminars on camera work and lighting.
• Our Best Boy / Gaffer, Allan Whitehead, has worked in the film industry in Canada and South Africa on a variety of productions. Allan worked in Toronto and Vancouver on commercials, TV series and feature films.

Our video production company is Different Spin Productions. A sampling of our work can be viewed at http://www.chilcotin.bc.ca/spin/

The TTT Ltd. has administered a number of New Media skills training projects involving local community residents.

• In 2006 the TTT delivered film maker training workshops:
• Summit 2006 Strategic Use of Information and Communication Technology Conference, Vancouver, BC
• Stein Valley School, Lytton, BC
• Alexis Creek School, Alexis Creek BC
• Old Massett Village Council, Old Massett, BC
• Xeni Gwet'in, Nemiah Valley, BC
• In 2005-2006 the TTT contracted with Simon Fraser University, North Island College, and the Greater Trail Community Skills Centre to deliver a two-week filmmaker workshop in Port Hardy and to produce a DVD of the HRDC Community Learning Network project, Bridging the Divides.
• In 2002, the TTT Ltd. partnered with Tatla Lake Elementary /Jr. Secondary School in its successful application to become a member of the SchoolNet Network of Innovative Schools (NIS), one of 30 schools across Canada honoured that year.
• In. 2001 - 2002 the TTT delivered Chilcotin Webcast, a video technician-training project funded by Interior Science & Innovation Council. A number of people in communities throughout the Cariboo Chilcotin were trained in all aspects of webcasting.
• In 2000 - 2001 the TTT facilitated Chilcotin Time, a video technician-training project funded by the BC Ministry of Community Development, Cooperatives & Volunteers. Chilcotin Time trained five local people to use New Media technology and produced a forty five minute documentary entitled “Chilcotin Time.”

The TTT’s director, John Kerr, has administered Industry Canada’s Community Access Program (CAP) in this region for ten years. He currently administers sixty CAP sites in the Cariboo Chilcotin / Prince George region. CAP sites serve as access points for the public to utilize Information Communications Technologies. The TTT has demonstrated its ability to leverage funding and to administer and coordinate large multiple projects. The TTT is able to find and work with partners in both the private and public sector.

Our other director, Dale Kerr, has her post-baccalaureate diploma from Simon Fraser University in Community Economic Development. It is our belief that in order to sustain themselves, rural communities must be able to use state-of-the-art technologies to transform information into knowledge and skills, and to expand current business practices to include technology. Local people producing community-specific documentary content using New Media applications are the foundation of our work. We design projects that use technology to address community needs, contribute to community capacity building, provide a bridge toward community sustainability, attract attention to local community and projects, and/or promote and demonstrate a transition from contemporary technologies to emerging technologies.

• 2006 "Tatlayoko, think about it"
• 2006 Old Massett Village Council, Youth video project
• 2006 CAP Youth Interns “Alumni”
• CAP sites 2006 “Retrospective”
• 2006 Summit 2006 “Tapestry”
• 2006 Bridging the Divides
• 2005 Horsefly River Salmon Festival
• 2005 Discovery Coast Music Festival
• 2004 Wildfires of the Chilcotin
• 2002 Chilcotin History – Local Community Storytelling (on-going)

The TTT is located 160km west of Williams Lake, roughly halfway between Williams Lake and Bella Coola. Our facilities include a new, state-of-the-art digital video and sound-editing studio. We also have a secondary sound-editing studio in Bella Coola.