At the MVP Project, our goal is to encourage music video makers to keep pushing the art-form forward and to keep growing the music video creator community in Canada.

With that in mind, we’ve collected a handful of artist talks and behind-the-scenes clips to take a look at below. There’s no formula for how make a music video, but these discussions and interviews will help give some insight on how work is being made by your contemporaries.

DISCUSSIONS

WDMV is a non-hierarchical organization of volunteers working to help the music video industry change for the better by establishing pitching guidelines and standards for music video directors. This video finds the Canadian chapter of WDMV discussing the state of our national industry. wedirectmusicvideos.com

An interesting discussion between Emily Kai Bock (A Funeral For Lightning, Arcade Fire - Afterlife”), Daniel Kwan (Swiss Army Man, DJ Snake: “Turn Down for What”), Hiro Murai (Atlanta, Childish Gambino: “This Is America”) and moderator Drea Clark (Producer/Programmer) on music video production and connection within the music video and film industries. filmindependent.org