Insight into 'The World, Universe and a Dream'

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Jocelyn Anna Lernout is dedicated to creating films, music and movies that share Understanding, Inspiration and Insight for Celebrating Our 'World, Universe and Ability to Dream'

Education and Training: Worldwide Travel Experience, Cultural Awareness, The Vision & The Art

On January 1 2007, Jocelyn had a vision for uniting music and film to share a powerful message. It is her passion and dedication to inspire people to Celebrate our Multicultural World while offering opportunities for people to find their passions and live their potential.

• She is currently developing her talents in music to unite her passion for creative filmmaking with the inspiring-storytelling ability of music. She is also working on a Vision for filmmaking that shares stories of Heritage, Celebrations of Diverse Culture and Respect for Indigenous Wisdom

• January 2009 she moved from her Hometown of Chatham Kent, Ontario to pursue her dream in the West Coast of Vancouver while the city prepared to welcome the world for the 2010 Olympic Games

• Jocelyn completed two 10 minute films including 'Love Is', a film that shares a history and healing of First Nations People and 'A World of Culture' which shares an insight into the "Journey of Humanity".

Jocelyn has explored the roles of Writer, Director, Interviewer and Editor while completing these Films; films that are aligned with the Vision of what she went out west for: 'To find the stories in a city that is 'Welcoming the World' .... (stories that will allow me to reach the world)

• As a filmmaker Jocelyn has been capturing life travels on camera since 2007. Through her travels she has discovered stories that have been an inspiration to her own development on both a personal and professional level. She has a variety of creative videos that share the journey.

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• Jocelyn attended Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario and graduated October 2006 with a degree in Psychology with minors in English and Religion-Cultural Studies

• Jocelyn attended schools in Vancouver, British Columbia; taking various courses in Music, Film, Aboriginal Studies and Broadcast Journalism as well as public speaking, writing and leadership workshops

• Jocelyn has trained for pageantry including runway training, interview and public speaking skills

• Jocelyn competed in Miss Vancouver and Miss BC 2009 pageants as 'Miss Supernatural Reality' where she shared her talent film project 'Love Is'. She was Miss October in the Miss BC calendar project and created a video for the launch party. Jocelyn was also the interviewer and editor for for the Top Teen BC 2009 introduction video while Sponsoring a contestant as 'Supernatural Reality'. Jocelyn continued training for pageantry and competed in Miss Universe Canada 2011

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• Jocelyn was asked to speak on panel at the November 2010 Career Zone event titled ‘Entertainment Industry Panel’ where she shared what it has been like pursing her dream. Jocelyn has visited highschool classrooms to share film work while discussing the journey and rewarding experience of pursuing passion. In November 2008 she showed her first film projects titled 'Into Understanding' and 'Into Our Absolute' at the Chatham Kent Film Festival. In December 2008 she held an event to share her films before moving to the west coast to continue pursuing her dream. Through 2007-2008 she traveled to Bahamas to a Yoga retreat where she was introduced to Hindu self realization knowledge. She began her filmmaking Quest by planning a trip to Greece and Holland for a Vision of 'We're All One Welcomes you to Paradisos'.

She also visited New York City and Nicaragua while attending various events in Chatham-Kent and the Greater Toronto Area to learn about and capture Cultural Stories for Experience and through the lens of a camera.

• She is continuing her filmmaking and artistic ambitions by working on film and video projects including Heritage stories such as Celebrating 200 years after the war of 1812 the Underground Railroad Story, the Legacy of Indigenous Cultures from around the world and working on the Arts in various ways for performances among a Vision of ‘The World, Universe and a Dream'.


Book Project
• ‘World, Universe and a Dream’, is a creative book of research, journals and memoirs that connects a story of humanity's shared journey of evolving into a world that is now connected through travel and communication technologies and universal knowledge. It takes you through an understanding of how the world has developed to bring us to where we are today. It's intention is to guide the reader in developing a sense of appreciation for this journey while fostering an inner reflection for our ability as creative people to be inspired and find our sense of deep purpose while accomplishing what we choose to put our mind to.

• The book is accompanied with colorful photos that are part of the research, travels and experience from Jocelyn Lernout, who is on her own personal journey of Self Growth while pursuing a quest of dreams. She is dedicated to creating films, movies and music that share Understanding, Inspiration and Insight for Celebrating Our 'World, Universe and Ability to Dream'

Manifest Destiny

In the process of writing 'Whitefeather lights the air: World, Universe and a Dream'

I am pursuing the pageant of Miss Universe Canada 2011 and the winner of this pageant is selected for the internationally recognized Miss Universe pageant. In this endeavor I am creating a film to inspire appreciation of cultural diversity and I am also in the midst of writing a book called 'The World, Universe and a Dream'.

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A Reflection
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Since being introduced to pageantry I have learned a greater sense of what it means to be a part of this opportunity. It brings motivated and passionate young women together to share in an experience that offers inspiration for working hard at being your best self while being able to positively influence the world around you. It is also an opportunity that can open doors.

Pageantry is an event that brings young aspiring, motivated women together to accomplish common goals of being a part of something that allows you to give to communities, build on dreams and represent oneself as a business woman, with ethics, talents and a caring personality. What people may not realize, is that pageantry gives these women an opportunity to gain valuable experience that contributes to a passionate and purposeful outlook on life.

Through just being a part of the pageant, the contestants feel inspired to better themselves and dream big, with an increased excitability and motivation to achieve success.

Like an athlete trains for a worldly event, pageant contestants train to be the best they can be, learning how to speak eloquently and represent themselves and the organization with a strong presence as a diplomatic representative. Taking on the experience to the fullest of her ability, a motivated pageant contestant makes every effort to take care of themselves, including health and fitness, personal beauty and feeling good both inside and radiating outwards; pageant contestants train in every manner that makes a person the best they can be. All of the training, efforts and achievements of a strong delegate helps prepare themself to be a rolemodel of inspiration to young girls and pageant followers who can share in the journey of excitement for the contestants and the lucky girl who is crowned.

This girls life is changed forever, and most definitely in the year to come; for she takes on the responsibilities of traveling to events, speaking at functions, and inspiring within schools around the country. Miss Universe Canada also gets to attend the worldly, universal pageant of Miss Universe with the hope of being able to take on the responsibilities of traveling the world and working with charities and inspirational opportunities around the globe.

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My DREAM
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To share some background of how I got to where I am today:

Before my filmmaking and creative aspirations I was attending university for psychology in which I also did minors in religion culture and English. This was a time of being challenged to grow as an individual while being inspired to question who I was and what the world was all about.

It was during this time of my life that one day I vividly remember sitting down and writing thoughts about what I could do that would really allow me to use my strengths and talents. Through the various ideas I wrote down, the main point I discovered was that I wanted to be something that would allow me to share what I was coming to understand about the world and our shared journey as well as what I have continued to learn about my own personal journey of growth and challenges in becoming who I want to be.
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In 2007 I got inspired to start filmmaking because I had a vision of putting film to music. I became very passionate about this endeavor from realizing how powerful it could be to share a message through film. As soon as I had this experience, I went to my old high school to start using their computers and facilities because I recognized it as a valuable resource that would allow me to start being creative and exploring my newfound passion.

I began by making posters of ideas which allowed me to explore my stories, and it was here that I first used a video camera and made a video. Then I took myself a little more into the world, by attending events in Toronto, Ontario while traveling to festivals and filming my experiences. From the footage I made a series of independent creative films that share experiential stories from what I learned from each experience.

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please feel free to look over some videos at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zziOQC4yiSU&feature=related
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Today I am thrilled to be pursuing the pageant of Miss Universe/Canada while working with a vision of using this platform to its full potential. Representing Miss Universe will truly provide an ability to reach and inspire the learning’s that I have discovered about the 'World, Universe and what it means to have a Dream.’********************************************************************************88


To share a bit more about who I am

For the past few years I have used inspiration and knowledge from my education in Psychology and Cultural studies, as well as my creative filmmaking talents to capture community and worldly events. Since the beginning of these interests it has been my vision to make films that inspire celebration of culture and heritage. It is my passion to inspire appreciation for our multicultural world.

After filming my life travels for a few years, in 2009, I decided to follow one of my ideas -and that was to embrace an opportunity that would allow me to reach the world. I wanted to make a film about traveling across our multicultural nation – while exploring stories that I would find as Vancouver welcomed the world in 2010. I found many stories and inspired ideas that will be with me for a lifetime career of filmmaking and creative pursuits.

Vision, Purpose and Passion: preparing for our ability to reach the world

I have filmed my life travels over the past 3 years, starting in 2007.
In 2008 I explored and filmed stories of cultural heritage while in Athens Greece.
In 2009 I moved to Vancouver, where I filmed the atmosphere of a city that prepared itself to welcome the world. This included filming cultural Olympiad events, torch ceremonies and stories of inspiration and cultural diversity. One of my favourite interviews was with someone who discussed the passion of the human spirit. While being here I encountered the opportunity of Miss Vancouver and Miss BC 2009, and following these experiences I was introduced to the Miss Universe Canada pageant.


As I prepare for the pageant
I am dedicating my efforts to creating an organization called ‘Whitefeather’. The vision of Whitefeather is a program within schools and communities that gives students a motivating environment to be creative while inspiring them to explore themselves and their communities, culture and heritage. I believe that offering these opportunities will inspire those involved to develop and discover their own capabilities, talents, dreams and visions.