Time Is A Car is a meta music video. A music video in a music video. It's what would have happened if Thelma and Louise escaped with all the money and drove happily ever after off into the sunset and had wonderful prosperous lives. Fueled by music video epics, pulp films, and ripe with sarcasm, Time Is A Car, has the parody quality of Beastie Boys' Sabotage and the vibrancy of Megan Thee Stalion's Thot Sh*t filmed in Victoria, BC.
An award-winning filmmaker with films appearing in 40 festivals nationally and internationally, music videos by Lesley have been featured on Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Vice, Exclaim!, Brooklyn Vegan, Aux, Rookie Mag, Stereogum, ClashMag and UPROXX. Lesley’s cinematography and editing of the 2019 Inside Out selected webseries “Village Legacy Project” can be seen on OutTV. Lesley’s first documentary web series “Dollar Bin DJ” was shortlisted for Telefilm Talent To Watch and WIFTV IDM Accelerator in 2018. In 2022, Lesley received full funding for her current documentary, the Illegal Midwives of Vancouver Island from the BC Arts Council and is supported by CBC Gem for the short The Colour Orange. Lesley is the founder of MAVNetwork, a production company focused on inclusive crews working with Netflix, Vox Media, TD Bank, MLB and many more. Projection art by Lesley has been performed at the National Art Centre, Montreal Jazz Fest, CentrePHI and in galleries in NYC, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and the Netherlands.
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We are excited to have Lesley Marshall and Partner back after screening Play the Field as part of our 2021 virtual program!
Alayna pulls from her own experiences to create heartfelt, personally driven stories. She began her career in the top 3 of Elle Canada’s Fashion Film competition, then took home a $10k Telus Storyhive grant for their Female Directors edition. Alayna competed in a live pitch contest and won the 2018 MPPIA short film award at the prestigious Whistler Film Festival. The award allowed her the support and sponsorship to create ‘B-Side’ the short film. Since it’s completion ‘B-Side’ was nominated for Best Short Drama and Best Musical Score Short Drama at the 2020 Leo Awards. The film also screened at Vancouver Short Film Festival, Whistler Film Festival and most recently the Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2020, where Alayna was the proud recipient of the Gerry Brunet award in recognition of a BC short filmmaker.
While growing up in her native land of Iran, Farnaz sang at every available opportunity but longed to find her authentic artist’s voice. Upon her move to Canada, she studied Operatic vocal training, Persian folk singing, then Flamenco cante through the instruction of Oscar Nieto, Vicente Griego, Naike Ponce and Lucas Ortega among others. Farnaz’s love of music and performance art inspired her to create the collaborative project “Mashregh Ensemble” in 2012, which combine’s Persian poetry with Flamenco music.
Krista Davis is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Yukon, Canada. She has ties to Nova Scotia and Arizona as well, that keep her making work between these very different landscapes. Writer Donna Haraway’s call for strategies to “live and die better together on this damaged earth” has become the guiding principal of her work. Through video, animation, performance and multi-media installation, Davis seeks creative, sometimes fantastical strategies to shift perspectives on human and non-human relationships towards a more ecologically just world. Davis’ work has been presented in galleries and festivals across North America, and Europe. She received her BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and MFA from Arizona State University. 
Sammy Mohamed is a black writer/director from Ottawa, Ontario. He and his parents immigrated from Somalia in the early 90’s. His parents, who were also writers, cultivated his love for the arts at an early age. They watched all sorts of movies and read all sorts of books together and with their help he learned to love stories in all their forms. As he grew older, he fell even more in love with cinema and decided to attend Algonquin College in the Scriptwriting Program. Since then he has written two screenplays, directed a short film and written three short films.
Corby Martin is an accomplished cinematographer and camera operator as well as an inventor and innovator of optical and mechanical products for the film industry. He has lenses award winning short films, documentaries, commercials, music videos and feature films, as well as developed unique lenses and accessories for TV and feature films including the Effigy Lens system and Ethereal Lens for Sim International. Corby is also a well recognized and respected expert on cinema lenses and has been invited to speak in panel discussions and technical workshops at event such as NAB and Cinegear and for brands such as Fujifilm USA and Sim International. Corby lives in the mountains of British Columbia and is available for cinematography and optical/mechanical design consultation.
