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Ana de Lara

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Andrew Genaille (Sto:lo & Ojibway)

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Andrew Huculiak

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Allan Hopkins (N’quatwua)

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Julia Kwan

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Trevor Mack (​​Tsilhqot'in)

Trevor Mack is an award-winning Tsilhqot'in filmmaker. His first short film, The Blanketing, screened at festivals across North America, including the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. He has also directed numerous shorts, including Clouds of Autumn, which won the award for best Canadian short at imagineNATIVE. Portraits from a Fire is his first feature. He is currently working on his next film, Journey of a Drop.  

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Phillip Borsos

Borsos was a four-time Canadian Film Award and Genie Award winner, and an Oscar nominee for his short film Nails. His feature directorial debut, The Grey Fox, won 12 awards, including seven Genies, and was nominated for a Golden Globe. He also directed The Mean Season, One Magic Christmas, Bethune: The Making of a Hero and Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog, before his tragic death from leukemia in 1995.

Directors

Jennifer Baichwal

Baichwal is an award-winning director who frequently collaborates with her partner, producer and cinematographer Nicholas de Pencier, on documentaries such as the CSA-winning trilogy Manufactured Landscapes, Watermark and Anthropocene (with Edward Burtynsky). Their other credits include The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia, Act of God, and Into the Weeds, among others. She has won 12 awards, including two CSAs.

Nicholas de Pencier

De Pencier is an award-winning documentary cinematographer and producer known for his work with director Jennifer Baichwal. They made the CSA-winning Manufactured Landscapes, Watermark and Anthropocene in collaboration with Edward Burtynsky. Their other documentary credits include The Holier it Gets, Payback, and Long Time Running, which won the DGC award for Excellence in Documentary. De Pencier also directed Black Code, and was cinematographer on The Colour of Ink, for which he won a CSA. 

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Baljit Sangra

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Deepa Mehta

An Officer of the Order of Canada, Mehta gained acclaim for her trilogy, Fire, Earth and the Oscar-nominated Water. Her adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children was nominated for eight CSAs. She has also directed Bollywood/Hollywood, Beeba Boys, Anatomy of Violence, and many other films. Her film Funny Boy also won multiple awards, including the CSA for best direction. Her television credits include episodes of Leila, Yellowjackets, and Little America. She has numerous projects in development as a writer, director and producer. 

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Carl Bessai

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Charles Martin Smith

Actor/director Smith is known for roles in the 1973 classic American Graffiti and The Untouchables. He has directed episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Da Vinci’s Inquest, and his films include Stone of Destiny and Dolphin Tale. He directed A Dog’s Way Home, and most recently A Christmas Gift From Bob. He is currently completing the film Maybe This Time.

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Atom Egoyan

Egoyan is a Companion of the Order of Canada, and received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award in 2015 for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. He has produced a significant body of work in film, television, and theatre. He has won over 60 awards, and was nominated for 80 others, including two Academy Award nominations for The Sweet Hereafter. His films have screened at festivals and in major retrospectives around the world, and a number of books have been written about his work. His films include Exotica, Ararat, The Captive, and Seven Veils, among many others.

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Gil Cardinal (Métis)

Cardinal was a groundbreaking filmmaker whose body of work includes NFB documentaries such as Foster Child, The Spirit Within and Totem: the Return of the G’psgolox Pole, for which he won the Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award at imagineNATIVE. He also directed episodes of television series such as North of 60, Big Bear, Chiefs, and Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis. Cardinal received the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Film and Television.

Directors

Michael Parfit

Parfit co-founded the BC-based Mountainside Films with Suzanne Chisholm, which Realscreen once named among the world’s 100 most influential production companies. Their work has aired on CBC, CNN, PBS, BBC and National Geographic. Their latest film is Call of the Baby Beluga and they recently executive produced the doc Doeville.

Suzanne Chisholm

Chisholm is a documentary filmmaker and producer who produced and co-directed the feature documentaries Saving Luna (which won nine awards internationally) and The Whale, as well as the TV movie Call of the Baby Beluga, all with her partner Michael Parfit. She also produced the BBC documentary series The Natural World, and produced and co-directed numerous news features for National Geographic Channel – US.

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Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (Blackfoot/Sámi), Kathleen Hepburn

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Mark Achbar

Achbar is an award-winning filmmaker and producer who directed and produced The Corporation, which won several awards, including the Special Jury Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and the Genie Award for Best Documentary. He has directed many shorts, and the feature documentary Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. He has executive produced numerous documentaries, including Waterlife, Surviving Progress, Marmato, My Mother Was Here, and Fairy Creek.

Jennifer Abbott

Abbott is a Genie Award-winning documentary filmmaker, writer, editor, and producer. She directed A Cow at My Table, The Film That Buys the Cinema, Us and Them, and The Magnitude of All Things, and co-directed The Corporation and its follow-up The New Corporation. She edited Let It Ride, Under the Poison Tree, and I Am, and co-wrote and directed the documentary Bif Naked: One of a Kind.

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Peter Stebbings

Stebbings’ directorial debut was Defendor, and his second film, Empire of Dirt, was nominated for five CSAs. As an actor, his numerous credits include Citizen Duane, The Borgias, Bates Motel, Counting for Thunder and his newest film Percy Vs Goliath. He recently directed The Disappearance, which garnered four CSAs, and episodes of Frankie Drake Mysteries, The Sounds, and Killjoys. He is currently writing and directing the feature Running with Monsters.

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Mina Shum

Vancouver-based Shum is best known for her feature films Double Happiness and Meditation Park, both starring Sandra Oh. Her documentary Ninth Floor was on TIFF’s 2015 list of Canada’s top ten films. Other features include Long Life; Happiness and Prosperity; Drive She Said; and One (Nine). She has also directed episodes of Frankie Drake Mysteries, Murdoch Mysteries, The Good Doctor, and October Faction.

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Nathan Morlando

Morlando’s first film, Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster, won Best Canadian First Feature at TIFF. He also directed Mean Dreams, which debuted in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival. He recently produced Giant Little Ones and directed episodes of the show Cardinal.