Feeling and consistency are at the heart of François Dubé’s achievements. Winner of the 2012 Course Évasion Autour du Monde (italiques), and recipient of multiple nominations at the 2014 Gemini Awards for the documentary series Le Bonheur en Scandinavie (italiques), it is with empathy and interest that this former biologiste takes on his projects.
In music, back to the primitive movement. Consideration about the rhythm of child-hood and parenthood from birth.
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Phoebe Parsons was born and raised outside of Vancouver in White Rock, British Columbia. From 2005-2009 Phoebe studied at Emily Carr University in Vancouver where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Media Arts with a focus in film and animation studies. Phoebe’s thesis piece The Fantastic Adventures of Cloudman achieved 3rd place status in the best of film category at Emily Carr’s Grad Show and was screened internationally including the Vimeo Film Festival in New York and the anti-design festival in London, England in 2010. Since then Phoebe has been working professionally as an assistant costume designer in film and television while she continues to direct and produce films. Additionally she was awarded a Canadian National Film Board Grant for the production of Terror Fervor, a hand-drawn cel animation that has since been screened in over 30 festivals worldwide and has been featured in an episode of Adult Swims’ “Off The Air”.
Gordon Mihan is a Fredericton-based screenwriter and film director. He has produced and directed several festival-screened short films across Canada. His most recent short film Unofficial Selection won the Audience Choice Award at the 2019 Silver Wave Film Festival and his previous short film Coached was broadcast on the CBC as part of the 5th season of the Reel East Coast, now available on CBC Gem.
Nisha is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker who often plays with handmade celluloid processes. She is interested in the melding of artistic mediums and her work explores themes of identity and the intersections therein. Her films and photographs have been exhibited at festivals on three continents and she has attended artist residencies in South and North America. Nisha was a live-in artist resident at the James Black Gallery in Vancouver from 2015-2016. She studied at Concordia University in Montreal and the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in Cuba. Her work can be found in music videos, documentaries and narrative films.
Joel Salaysay is a Vancouver-based filmmaker. His shorts have played in festivals across North America, and he is the recipient of numerous awards, including the TIFF Top Ten, Montreal World Film Festival, and BC Leo Award for Best Student Short (“Lifers” [2014/2015]). He is currently a co-director on a 3D animated series for Wildbrain Studios.
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.
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.