is a mongrel settler currently living in Tkaronto. His films and videos explore patterns and nature through dense and kinetic forms, and have been presented at over 100 festivals and venues, including TIFF, Rotterdam, Centre Pompidou, SFMOMA, Anthology Film Archives, and Early Monthly Segments. His film memento mori (2012) received the Jury Prize for Best Canadian Work at WNDX Festival, First Prize at Athens International Film + Video Festival, and the Deluxe Award at Images. Dan's media practice also encompasses live visual performances in collaboration with musicians that have been presented at festivals such as MUTEK and Vector, and installations that have received public commissions in Toronto and Vancouver. Dan holds a Masters and PhD (ABD) in the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture at York and Ryerson Universities. He is currently completing his dissertation on technology and environment in recent Canadian cinema, and his writings on filmmaking have been published in Incite Journal of Experimental Media, Found Footage Magazine, Hors Champ, Millennium Film Journal, and Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age (2019, McGill–Queens UP).

is an Assistant Professor in Visual and Media Studies within the Cultural Studies Department at Trent University. Kelly is a Canadian filmmaker, animated sound composer, film archivist and scholar. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication from Carleton University (2001), Master of Arts in Communication and Culture at York/Ryerson University (2003), Master of Fine Arts in Film/Video at Bard College (2006), a Certificate in Film Preservation from the Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House (2012), and a PhD in Communication and Culture from the York/Ryerson Joint Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture (2013). Her film work explores issues of materiality, intermediality, and media obsolescence. Her films have been screened at major festivals across Canada and internationally, including the Toronto International Film Festival, the Images Festival, the New York International Film Festival, the Rotterdam, International Film Festival and EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival. Her film-based installations have been exhibited at the York Quays Gallery/Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, and L’espace virtuel in Chicoutimi, PQ.

is a filmmaker and installation artist from Montreal living in Toronto. Her work deals primarily with memory, identity, and trauma, using both found footage and original images. Her work has been shown in the USA, Canada, Peru, Mexico, and Spain. She has a Masters degree in Environmental Studies from York University, where she is currently pursuing a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies. Katia has worked for several years at the Toronto International Film Festival, Global Television, and WIFT in Communications and at the National Film Board of Canada in Education.

is a motion picture photographer and lab technician based in Hamilton, ON. His practice is handmade, personal, and documentary, with an interest in labour, ecology, and social reproduction. His films have screened widely, most recently at Media City Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Fracto Film Encounter, Antimatter [media art] and DocLisboa. His installations include a sound work, "The E6 Process" (2018), at Factory Media Centre as part of HAVN's Sonic Art Series, and a film loop, "Contents" (2019), in Minding the Archive at Hamilton Artists Inc. In 2020, his film work, "Livestock," was installed at McMaster Museum of Art as part of the exhibition, Animals Across Discipline, Time and Space. He works at Niagara Custom Lab.

is the CEO of Creat19ive Arts Savings and Credit Union, a cooperative banking institution for those making a living in the creative industries. With over 16 years of experience in financing for Film, TV and New Media production in Canada, Frank previously leveraged his expert knowledge of production finance as an Account Manager with National Bank’s TV & Motion Picture Group, as Manager of the Production Finance team at Corus Entertainment and as a Business Officer at Ontario Creates (formerly the Ontario Media Development Corporation) administering not only the film, TV and digital animation/special effects tax credits, but also ushering in two enhancements to the Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit. In addition to his comfort and aptitude in the analytical thinking necessary for math, business and law, Frank is also blessed with the ability to excel in creative endeavors, fulfilling roles in live stage show productions as producer, writer and performer. He is also a technically trained dancer and choreographer and in 2012 he successfully staged With Somebody Who Loves Me: A Gay Dansical. Lauded as one of the best shows in Toronto’s Fringe Festival and followed by a two week run at Tarragon Theatre, critics called it “a fucking brilliant celebration in the human body.”

is an artist, curator, and publisher working between Toronto and Vancouver. Middleton currently serves as executive director of Art Metropole (Toronto) and previously as partner and editor-at-large at Information Office, a Vancouver-based design and publishing studio. He served as director/curator of Vancouver’s Or Gallery from 2007 to 2017, during which time he established the Or’s bookstore (2011-) and Berlin satellite space (2010-2015). Middleton also served as director/curator of the Western Front Exhibitions Program (1999-2005), and was a founding member of the art periodical Fillip in 2004, serving on its editorial board and as its first publisher until 2008. He maintains an active art practice, and has exhibited and screened his work at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver International Film Festival, Inside Out, Moving Pictures, the Chicago International Film Festival, Dazibao (Montreal) and Konsthalle 323 (Stockholm). Middleton has served on numerous boards since 1998, including Artspeak, Kokoro Dance, the Independent Film Video Alliance (IFVA), and Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres. He was a founding member of the Artist Run Centres and Collectives Conference (ARCA) and maintains an active role in arts advocacy.

was born in Guyana/South American and lives in Toronto, she is a multi award-winning filmmaker/media artist, film scholar, academic and writer, who
earned her PhD from the University of Toronto in (2006). She was recognized as “best female filmmaker 2020” by the Berlin Underground Film Festival for her second creative feature documentary, Queer Coolie-tudes (2019), which was awarded Direction Excellence from Docs Without Borders and won the “Intersect Award” from the 15th Caribbean Tales International Film Festival. Queer Coolie-tudes has its Canadian premiere at the 28th Inside Out Film Festival and its European premier in the media library collection of the 50th Visions du Reel in Switzerland and theatrically at the International Queer and Migrant Film Festival in Amsterdam. Prior films include the feature essay documentary, Blu In You (2008), the Inside Out commissioned short film, Echoes (2003), the Canada Council/Making Scenes Ottawa commissioned Tracing Soul (2000), her MFA experimental narrative, Child-Play (1996), TWO/DOH (1996), Coconut/Cane & Cutlass (1994), and the commissioned Five Feminist Minutes short, EXPOSURE (1990) which was produced by the
National Film Board of Canada (former-studio D women’s unit).

Mohabeer’s films have exhibited worldwide at over 300 festivals, conferences, and galleries, and collected by over 60 University libraries across the U.S, Canada, and in the Caribbean. Her films have been profiled or written about in Film Fatales: Independent Women Directors, The Romance of Transgression in Canada, North of Everything, The Bent Lens, Queering Canada: A Collection of Essays, and the article, “Putting the Cool in Coolie: Disidentification, Desire and Dissent in the work of filmmaker, Michelle Mohabeer”in The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, among others. Dr. Mohabeer teaches at York University in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and in the Department of Communications at Glendon campus. Future projects include: a feature documentary, and she is the contributing editor of a critical anthology, Reframing the Nation: Indigenous,
Racialized & Queer BIPOC Canadian Independent Women Filmmakers 1990-2020.

Has been making films since the mid-seventies. Her films have been screened widely across Canada as well as internationally at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Kino Arsenal in Berlin, The Museum of Modern Art and Millennium Workshop in New York, and the Ontario Cinematheque, Toronto. Her work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada. She has been a visiting artist at a number of Canadian universities and galleries including the University of Guelph, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Dunlop Art Gallery, as well as the Universite d'Avignon, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2011, Sternberg was made a Laureate of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.

Sternberg’s film work combines reflections on the medium itself with social issues and universal questions of how we experience reality, how we as humans are situated in the world. Films are themselves experiences, realities. Her films work at the intersection of film and life- questions of vision, perception, motion and temporality. Although her main practice is film, Sternberg has worked in other media including performance, installation and video.

Sternberg has been active in a number of fronts in Toronto, teaching at York University, working for Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre, serving on Toronto and Ontario Arts Council juries and committees, helping to organize the International Experimental Film Congress (May 1989), and was a founding member of Pleasure Dome, artists' film and video exhibition group. She wrote a handbook and conducted workshops on Media Literacy for high school teachers. She recently organized the "Association for Film Art" (AFFA) to actively support and promote awareness and appreciation of film art. While living in the Maritimes, Sternberg co-founded Struts, an artist-run centre in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Sternberg wrote a column, "On (experimental) Film" for several years for Cinema Canada, and has written essays on artists and on filmmakers. As well, she has written on the status of film art in galleries and museums—an issue on which she has conducted symposia and lobbied vigorously.

is the Vice President of Take 5 Productions, a Toronto based television production company whose credits include international series The Tudors, Camelot, The Borgias, and the upcoming mini-series, World Without End. Prior to joining Take 5, Gina was the Vice President of Production Finance at Dufferin Gate Productions, where she managed development and financing for the company’s considerable slate of productions. Previously, Gina worked with the Ontario Media Development Corporation in several capacities, including Team Lead in the Tax Credits and Financing Department, as well as Director of Tax Credits, where she supervised the administration of Ontario’s six cultural media tax credits.