Director

Sandy Wilson

Director

Jean Beaudin

Beaudin was a filmmaker and screenwriter whose film J.A. Martin photographe earned the ecumenical jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival and four Canadian Film Awards. He directed En casa con Claude, Souvenirs intimes, and Le collectionneur, and TV series like Les filles de Caleb, among many others. He was made a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Québec and received a Governor General’s Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award. Beaudin passed away in 2019.

Directors

Aisling Chin-Yee

Chin-Yee is an award-winning filmmaker who directed the shorts Sound Asleep and Synesthesia, and the mini-series Plan B. Her feature directorial debut was The Rest of Us, and she co-directed the documentary No Ordinary Man, both of which premiered at TIFF. She was on DOC NYC’s 40 under 40 list and was named a Rising Film Star by Now Magazine. She has numerous producing credits, including the features Last Woman Standing and Rhymes for Young Ghouls.

Chase Joynt

Joynt is an award-winning director and writer. His first book, You Only Live Twice, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. He recently directed Framing Agnes, which played at Sundance and Hot Docs, and he is starring in John Greyson’s upcoming film, Door Prize.

Director

Charles Binamé

Binamé has directed numerous films, including Eldorado (which screened at the prestigious Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes), Séraphin: Heart of Stone, Maurice Richard (The Rocket), which won nine Genies, including Best Direction, and Elephant Song, which won three awards, including a CSA for Adapted Screenplay. Has also directed episodes of hit TV shows such as Flashpoint, Rookie Blue, Republic of Doyle and Reign, among others.

Director

Aisling Walsh

Walsh's projects include feature films The Daisy Chain and Song for a Raggy Boy, as well as directing over a dozen TV movies and shows, including Room at the Top, which won a BAFTA for Best Miniseries, and the TV movies A Poet in New York, Elizabeth is Missing, and An Inspector Calls. 

Director

Matthew Rankin

Matthew Rankin is an experimental film director of 30 short films, which have been screened at festivals around the world, including Berlinale, Sundance, Cannes, and many others. His feature debut, the irreverent and surreal comedy, The Twentieth Century, received critical acclaim and three Canadian Screen Awards. His second feature, Universal Language, has won 16 awards, including the FIPRESCI prize in Venice, TIFF’s Best Canadian Discovery Award and the Cannes Directors' Fortnight Audience Award. 

Director

Sasha Snow

Director

Sturla Gunnarsson

Born in Iceland and raised in Vancouver, Gunnarsson earned an Oscar nomination for his debut feature doc, After the Axe. His films include Beowulf and Grendel, Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie and Monsoon, and he has directed hit TV shows such as Motive, Degrassi: The Next Generation, The Art of More, and most recently Schitt’s Creek and Ransom.

Directors

Peter Raymont

Raymont has produced and directed over 100 documentaries, which have earned more than 50 international awards. His producing credits include West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson, Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr and Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band. He also directed the doc Margaret Atwood: A Word after a Word after a Word is Power, and produced Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On, which premiered at TIFF 2022.

Director

Peter Lynch

Lynch earned international success with his wildly popular and critically-acclaimed Project Grizzly. His features include The Herd, Cyberman, A Whale of a Tale and Dem Bones. Lynch won a Genie for his short film Arrowhead. His most recent feature film, Birdland, was released in 2018.