A Japanese academic will visit Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst this week to discuss plans for a filmmaking project linking local high school students with Bathurst sister-city, Okhuma, in Japan. Associate Professor Jane Mills, a lecturer and researcher at the CSU School of Communication and Creative Industries in Bathurst, will host the visit by Associate Professor Hirotoshi Yaginuma, a fine arts teacher from the Faculty of Education at Niigata University. They will collaborate on the project, and will discuss it with CSU staff in Bathurst and Wagga Wagga, via video-conference, on Wednesday 29 February. “Professor Yaginuma and I are planning a screen literacy research project involving teachers and students from Bathurst High School and from Bathurst’s sister city of Okhuma, who have been relocated to another city, away from the nearby tsunami-caused nuclear disaster zone at Fukushima last year,” Professor Mills said. “This project relates to research about the role of popular screen culture in student engagement levels, the capabilities of the camera on a smart phone for screen literacy learning, and the potential of the mobile phone camera for cultural participation and global citizenship.”