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William D. MacGillivray, Justin Simms

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Brian D. Johnson

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Nimisha Mukerji, Philip Lyall

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Michael Dowse

Dowse’s credits include the cult classics Fubar, Fubar II and It’s All Gone Pete Tong, which won Best Canadian Feature at TIFF. His film Goon was a huge critical and box-office success and The F Word won the CSA for Best Adapted Screenplay. Dowse also directed episodes of Man Seeking Woman starring Jay Baruchel, Preacher, Future Man, Fubar Age of Computer, Me, and The Sticky. He also directed the feature films Stuber, Coffee and Kareem, and 8-Bit Christmas.

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Alexis Durand-Brault

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Donald Brittain

An Officer of the Order of Canada, Brittain was one of Canada’s most respected and prolific documentary filmmakers. A few of his notable films include Fields of Sacrifice, Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen, Memorandum, and the Genie Award-winning Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed. He wrote the 1975 Oscar-nominated short doc Whistling Smith and co-directed Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry, which garnered 6 Canadian Film Awards and an Academy Award nomination.

Director

Mike Hoolboom

Directors

Nicholas de Pencier

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

Jennifer Baichwal

Baichwal is an award-winning director who has collaborated with her partner, producer and cinematographer Nicholas de Pencier, on documentaries such as the CSA-winning trilogy Manufactured Landscapes, Watermark, and Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, with Edward Burtynsky. Her other credits include Act of God, Payback, and Long Time Running, among others. She has won 13 awards, including three CSAs.

Directors

Jackie Burroughs

Burroughs was a celebrated film and theatre actor who directed, co-wrote and starred in A Winter Tan, winning a Genie for her performance. She had over 100 acting credits to her name, including roles in classic films such as The Grey Fox, John and the Missus, and the iconic Hetty King in Anne of Green Gables and Road to Avonlea. Burroughs was awarded the Governor  General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. She passed away in 2010.

Louise Clark

Clark is a producer and film executive who has served as head of the Ontario Film Development Corporation and worked with the National Film Board, as well as co-directing the feature A Winter Tan. For years, she produced hit TV shows for CTV, including Corner Gas, Robson Arms, Flashpoint, and The Listener. She has also produced several shows independently, including Motive, The Real Housewives of Vancouver, and Mom’s a Medium.

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Marie-Hélène Cousineau

Cousineau is an award-winning writer, producer and filmmaker based in the Northwest Territories, who co-founded the filmmaking collective Arnait Video Productions, which has produced over 20 short and feature length films focused on uplifting the voices and culture of Inuit women. She co-directed Before Tomorrow, Uvanga (Myself), Sol, Angelique’s Isle and Restless River.

Michelle Derosier (Anishinaabe)

Derosier is an artist, activist, and filmmaker from Migisi Sahgaigan First Nation who has lived and worked in the North throughout her career. Her work has been shown internationally at festivals including Sundance, Traverse City, and imagineNATIVE. She has directed shorts such as Eagle vs. Sparrow, The Grandfather Drum, and Audrey’s Story, the feature Angelique’s Aisle, and episodes of Amplify and The Passionate Eye.