Meet The Filmmakers
Dagna Gallinger is a director and producer whose work has been broadcast in over 15 countries. More »
Charles Officer is the founder and creative director of Canesugar Filmworks. More »
Christina Carvalho is a freelance producer and director based in Toronto. More »
Aïcha Diop holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English: Cultural Studies from McGill University. More »
Brina Romanek is an emerging filmmaker and storyteller. More »
Gezahegn M. Demissie is an Ethiopian journalist and filmmaker, and one of the founding members of PEN Ethiopia. More »
Geordie Trifa is a Canadian producer, director and DOP of Chinese and Romanian descent. More »
Wendell G. Collier is a media industry veteran with with over 15 years experience in the television & digital media landscape. More »
Andrew has worked in a variety of roles - producing, directing, writing, shooting and editing - on documentaries and docu-series for CBC, APTN, TVO and more. More »
Andrew Moir’s documentaries are intimate stories with a highly personal point of view. More »
D.W. Waterson is an award-winning director and creator. More »
Alex is a director and producer based in Toronto. A queer-identified man, Alex’s works often carry very strong LGBT-related themes More »
Thirza has been making short experimental narrative videos and films about sexuality, madness, Indigeneity and Queer identity and love since 1995. More »
Sophy is a filmmaker born in Victoria, B.C. She earned her Bachelors of Motion Picture Arts from Capilano University in Vancouver in 2014, and is based in Toronto. More »
Joella Cabalu is an award-winning Filipino-Canadian Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker. More »
Jules is a PhD candidate with the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Her research focus is Indigenous documentary. More »
Caroline Monnet is a multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais, Quebec. More »
James Cooper is passionate about telling other people's stories. More »
Cinematographer Chris Altorf is compelled to investigate how art conspires with community. More »
Jess Hayes loves working with like-minded creatives who are also excited to tell stories using cinematic tools. More »
Jamie Miller is an emerging director/producer of documentary and narrative films. More »
Felicity Justrabo is a Toronto-based documentary film producer. More »
Edmund Stenson’s work as director, producer and editor spans both documentary and fiction, and focuses on human rights and social issues More »
Daniel Roher is 23 years-old and when he’s not off shooting his films lives in Toronto. More »
Alexandra is a Cree filmmaker whose work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Winnipeg Art Gallery and at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. More »
Shasha Nakhai is a filmmaker based out of Toronto. More »
Rich Williamson is an Oscar-shortlisted filmmaker from Toronto. More »
Sura Mallouh is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in Toronto, ON. More »
Lesley Johnson is a Toronto and Yellowknife-based filmmaker and producer. More »
Lisa Rideout is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. More »
Montrealer Alejandro Álvarez Cadilla studied scriptwriting with Oscar-nominee Pedro Loeb and is a graduate of The Oxford School of Drama. More »
Madison Thomas is a filmmaker from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her work reflects her mixed cultural roots: Ojibwe, Saulteax, Russian and Ukrainian More »
Laura O’Grady’s directing credits have taken her around the globe. More »
Marta Iwanek is a documentary filmmaker and photographer based between Ukraine and Canada. Born to immigrant parents, her work examines community and family through the lens of identity and memory. More »
Christian Borys is a Canadian journalist and filmmaker based in Ukraine and Poland. More »
Zahra Moloo is a Kenyan-Canadian filmmaker and investigative journalist based in Montréal. Her work focuses on economic, environmental and social justice issues. More »
Clique Pictures is a vibrant film and television production company with a focus on working with female creative talent, both in front of and behind the camera. Principal Lauren Grant is an award-winning producer. More »
Sasha Fisher is a producer from Toronto. Her passion and fierce commitment to producing documentary content is evident in her work, resulting in innovative and stunning media. More »
Byron Wong helps to tell stories. As a creative director and film producer, he created ZERO11ZERO to encourage collaboration between filmmakers, musicians, immersive and interactive designers, artists, broadcasters, and digital producers. More »
Sherien Barsoum is a Toronto-based filmmaker motivated to tell social issue stories. More »
Perry Walker has worked in film and television production in Toronto since 2011. Lucky Moose is his directorial debut. More »
Dominique van Olm, is a Canadian director and photographer. Her work documents the often complicated relationships people have with one another and themselves, exploring the human condition against the backdrop of the natural world. More »
Sylvie Van Brabant is at the head of Productions du Rapide-Blanc since 1984. This independent production company has become a platform for social, political and artistic works that are pertinent, eloquent and poetic. More »
Born in France, Syril studied Business Administration and has been involved in the theatrical scene since the early 2000s. More »
Philip attended OCADU and has been directing music videos for the past ten years. More »
A veteran of non-fiction programming, Geeta cut her teeth at the NFB’s Studio D working with luminaries of the documentary world. More »
Darren Snowden is a Toronto based producer and sound recordist working in commercials, documentaries, reality programming and scripted content. More »
A researcher, journalist and filmmaker, Alexandre is passionate about politics, history and social change. More »
Theola Ross is originally from Pimichikamak Cree Nation. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Social Work degree at Ryerson University. More »
Morgan Rhys Tams is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator, with an interest in the intersections between art and community. More »
Ian Barbour and Darren Heroux produce documentaries out of Vancouver. More »
Leslie Norville most recently produced the feature documentary, A Ballerina’s Tale, a documentary about Misty Copeland. More »
Douglas Nayler is a Toronto based writer, filmmaker, and interactive media producer. More »
Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Danny grew up in the theatre surrounded by talented and creative people. More »
Jordan Molaro is a proud Anishnaabe writer, editor and director driven by a passion for the art of filmmaking. More »
Chelsea McMullan is a filmmaker whose works have premiered at Sundance. More »
Naomi Mark is a Yukon born and raised filmmaker who has worked in the industry for the past six years in both scripted and non-scripted film and television. More »
After graduating in Film Studies in Bologna (Italy) in 1995, Paola moved to Toronto and she started her career as a filmmaker. More »
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Michelle Mama is fiercely creative television professional. More »
Alison MacMillan is an emerging filmmaker and recent graduate of Film and TV production at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. More »
Brittany LeBorgne is from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, on the south shore of Montreal, Quebec. More »
Amélie Lambert Bouchard has been working in the film industry since 2011. More »
Frederick has been a reporter, camera operator, host, director and producer for the past 18 years. More »
Dominique Keller is a documentary director based in Calgary Alberta, Dominique directs both locally and internationally. More »
Vanessa graduated from Sheridan College with a focus on editing and documentary filmmaking. More »
Chase Joynt's moving-image work continues to be exhibited internationally. More »
Rémy Huberdeau is a filmmaker and producer based in Toronto. More »
Zoe Hopkins was born in Bella Bella, a small and remote fishing village on the coast of BC, in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. More »
Heather is Haida — she was born in Vancouver, raised in Edmonton and has lived in Skidegate. More »
Katerine has worked in the film industry for more than 20 years. More »
Maisie Jacobson is an emerging writer, director and producer living in Toronto. More »
A graduate of the Journalism and Communication School of Marseille in France, David Fabrega founded Conteur d’images productions in 2011. More »
Joshua Eisen is a Toronto-based anthropologist with a special interest in cultural marginalization and ethnographic film. More »
Brad Dworkin is a producer and director born in the suburbs of the GTA and working primarily in Toronto. More »
Scott Dobson is an award winning Producer/Director with over 25 years experience in documentary filmmaking. More »
Born and raised in Toronto, Lucius Dechausay is an artist whose work is deeply personal and radically unique. More »
Born and raised in France, Audric Cussigh moved to Montreal after completing his degree in cinema. More »
In her breakout film, Beauty Lies, Chapman explores her feelings about natural hair as a black woman in a media-driven world. More »
Jamaine Campbell first pursued his love of art and stories on stage as a theater actor and a musician. More »
Daniel Bekerman is a producer based in Canada with broad experience in creative producing, financing and service production. More »
Vivian Belik is a recent graduate of Ryerson University's Masters in Documentary Media program. More »
Tyson Anderson is a proud two-spirited photographer and director hailing from the Sayisi Dene First Nation. More »
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