Kathleen Smith
The Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film & Video produced five short dance films as part of i-culture, a Toronto artistic collective comprising Arraymusic, Urge, the Moving Pictures Festival, Atlas Moves Watching Dance Projects, and Autumn Leaf Performance.
Gregory Nixon:
Gregory Nixon came to film directing from a background in theatre and photography. Nixon has directed several short films including “Morden Yolles: Structural Engineer, the drama “Poe” and “Noel Harding,” a documentary portrait of the renowned visual artist. “Garden of Stone” is his first dance film.
Laura Taler:
Award-winning director Laura Taler has been a child television actor, professional dancer and choreographer, and a producer of both performing arts and television programs. Taler has created such dance pieces as “I Want to Be a Man,” “The Hunger Artists” and “the courtier.” In 1995 she made her directorial debut with “the village trilogy,” followed up by the documentary “Heartland” in 1997 and the co-production of “Dances for a Small Screen” – a series of three seven-minute dancefilmes which received five Gemini nominations in 1999.
Gariné Torossian:
Gariné Torossian was born in Beirut, Lebanon of Armenian origin. She moved to Canada in 1979. She is primarily a self-taught filmmaker and photographer. Fourteen of her films have shown internationally at festivals. Retrospectives of her work have taken place at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Armenia’s Cinematheque, Berlin Arsenal and Telluride Film Festival.
Curtis Wehrfritz:
Wehrfritz studied at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto and exhibited installation and performance art at Gallery 76, Arco Madrid, Spontaneous Combustion and ARC Art Gallery. As a partner in Revolver Films he has produced an extensive list of credits as a music video director. Jolly Roger Films represent Wehrfritz in his commercial work, which has attracted clients such as Coke, 7 Up, Roger’s Cable, Bell Telephone and the Bank of Montreal. Curtis’ first feature-length film, “Four Days,” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and has screened worldwide.
