Michelle Tran is a student at the University of Alberta pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She has been drawing since she was four years old. Nowadays she draws a bunch of little consecutive pictures in hope that it makes something that sort of looks like an animated short film. When she’s not animating, she loves being with her friends and hamsters.Instagram – Art Instagram – Youtube
A demonstration of the carefree and often quirky nature of youth through the real-life recorded conversations between three teenage girls as they explore stretches of forest between the neighborhood suburbs. Annie, Alicia and Michelle are three friends who have a picnic then a walk in a stretch of urban forest behind Annie’s house. They encounter food hazards, bugs, dogs and shaky bridges on their little exploration, and with this- interesting reactions come about. Michelle records these reactions on her iphone saves them under the name “voice memo 9”.
voice memo 9 will be showing as part of our PURPLE program exhibiting July 15-19th, 2021!
Greg Doble is an animator born and raised in Canada. Since graduating from the Alberta College of Art and Design with a BFA in Media Arts in 2011, Doble has moved to Montreal, QC, where he currently works as an illustrator and creates short animated films. His work is easily recognizable by its playful absurdity and whimsical nature.
All Bodies Dance Project (ABDP) is an inclusive dance company located on unceded Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver, BC). Founded in 2014, ABDP brings together artists with and without disabilities to explore movement as a means of creative expression. The group offers accessible dance classes for adults of all abilities in addition to creating opportunities for diverse artists to practice, research and create innovative, inclusive dance. Through mentorship and training, the company is helping to develop a new and under-represented group of dance-makers, teachers and artistic leaders with a unique set of values and approach to performance making.
Deanna Milligan is an award winning actress and filmmaker with over 30 years experience in the film industry. Her first film Cascadia screened at the Lucid Dreams Festival ( Italy 2018) and Sick Chicks Flicks (USA 2018). Deanna created the documentary web series Hands On which explores women artists who work with their hands. Her short film Snug premiered at the YIFF 2019. She is director and producer of Lucid, a horror genre short film set in the 1990’s about an art student and her critical voices which premiered March 2021 at the Mid West Weird Fest in Wisconsin, USA , and is official selection at the Frostbiter Icelandic film Festival, Short Circuit ( Canada), North Bend ( USA), Apulia Horror International Film Festival (Italy). She is nominated for a LEO award (2021) for Best Director and Best Short Film. 
Lesley Marshall is an intermedia artist currently working on independent audio visual projects. An award-winning filmmaker, Lesley has worked as an independent curator (Available Light Screening Collective, Arboretum Festival); filmmaker, musician, and performance artist under the name LesleyDemon and Lesley 666. Lesley is the founder and CEO of MAVN (Marshall Audio Visual Network) a production, media and marketing agency. Music videos made by Lesley have been featured on Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Vice, Exclaim!, Brooklyn Vegan, Aux, Rookie Mag, Stereogum, ClashMag and UPROXX. In 2020/2021, Lesley along with collaborator Ashley Bowa will present Green Gazing a 360 projection immersion project of plants and experimental movement at Ada X, Montreal and Connexion Arc, Fredericton. Lesley’s cinematography and editing of the 2019 Inside Out selected webseries “Village Legacy Project” can be seen on OutTV.
Singer/Songwriter first and foremost, as a filmmaker Elliot C. Way has a keen sense of aesthetics. He likes good humour, rock n’ roll and authentically vintage vibes.
Antoine likes to take seriously some seemingly dumb ideas and find the absurdity living within serious subjects. He studied filmmaking at Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montréal. Some peoples says that he’s kind and he cares. Others will say he’s a bit too direct. I believe both are right.
Harmen has been acting in Vancouver since 2005. After acting on several network television shows and worldwide television commercials, he has made the leap from being in front of the camera to bring behind the camera. He’s been passionate about photography and film making his whole life and is currently working on his next short film “Matthattan’s Dakota” due out for festival release in the fall of 2021.
