Core Team
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Ted Strauss Videographer, Project Manager, Pedagogue
Ted Strauss is a filmmaker, artist, techie, singer, project manager, cook, and prolific worrier.
Teachers, Collaborators, Creators and Members
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Bronwen Moen Art Director, Facilitator, Embodied Practices, Performer, Photographer
With a foundation of painting and murals Bronwen’s work also extends into photography, design/illustration, large-scale puppets, and sets and props within tv/film and theatre productions. This multi-disciplinary practice also extends into teaching and facilitation and is woven together with themes of embodiment, agency and connection.
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Pascal Huỳnh Workshop Leader, Animator, Art Director
Pascal is an animator, podcast producer, workshop leader, youth facilitator, and multi-disciplinary artist extraordinaire.
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Simon Kessler Filmmaker, Cinematographer
Simon is a filmmaker based in Paris who has directed and developed documentaries for network television, including the National Geographic and Planète+ channels. In addition to his television work, Simon has directed a number of self-produced short documentaries. His personal practice privileges intimates portraits of peoples, places and institutions in interstitial moment.
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Wiebke von Carolsfeld Writer, Filmmaker
Wiebke is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, who has directed three critically acclaimed theatrical feature films (Marion Bridge, STAY, The Saver), Her films have played at festivals around the world (TIFF, Rotterdam (competition), Karlovy Vary, Sydney, Pusan etc), winning many awards including Best First Feature at TIFF. Claremont, her first novel, was published to much acclaim in the fall of 2019. The German edition, by Kiepenheuer&Witsch, is forthcoming.
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Natasha Sher Photographer, Videographer
Natasha is a hard-working photographer ready for a wide range of shooting scenarios. She is also developing a documentary on the culinary history of Bangladesh.
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Su J. Sokol Writer, Editor
Su is a writer of speculative and interstitial fiction. She is the author of Cycling to Asylum, which was long-listed for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic and optioned for a film, and Run J Run, published in 2019 by Renaissance Press.
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Hannah Materne Graphic Designer, Object Designer, Art Director
Hannah does graphic design and illustration work in the areas of branding + logo, booklet, packaging, information design, textile design and art direction. Hannah see a future where the human environment is closer to the joy, peace and whimsy of the natural world.
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Elian Mikkola Filmmaker, Editor
Elian is a queer filmmaker, editor, and installation artist. Their work focuses on metaphoric queer and trans narratives through film and expanded cinema. Elian holds an MFA in Media Production from the University of Regina and a BA in Journalism from Tampere University. Their work has screened in several film festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam, TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and WNDX.
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Marissa Blair Performance artist, theater-maker
Marissa Blair is a performance artist and theatre-maker originally from New York City having attended The New School for a bachelor’s, and received her MA in Performance Studies from NYU. She is the Artistic Director and founder of Mad Paradox, a Montreal-based performance company. Marissa runs Espace Freestanding Room – a non-profit multidisciplinary studio and performance space; she also organizes Freefalling Monthly – a short-form performance festival the last Friday of each month.