Ann shin

Ann is a multiple award-winning Director and Producer known for compelling documentaries and series. Her feature documentary, A.rtificial I.mmortality was selected to be the Opening Night film at Hotdocs 2021. Her previous film My Enemy, My Brother won Grand Jury Prize at SDAIFF, the short version was shortlisted for a 2016 Academy Award, and nominated for an Emmy.

Her cross-platform project The Defector film and interactive won Best Documentary, Best Documentary Director and the Diversity Award at the Canadian Screen Awards. The Defector Interactive won the FITC Award, the Canadian Digi Award, and at the SXSW Interactive Festival. Her directorial credits include:  A.rtificial I.mmortality, The Superfood Chain, Smart Drugs, The Four Seasons Mosaic (CBC), Gemini nominee for Best Performance Doc; and Columbus International Film and Video Festival Award‐winning The Roswell Incident, Western Eyes, and Almost Real: Connecting in a Wired World.

Erica Leendertse

Erica has worked on numerous documentary features and series as a Producer, Writer and Production Manager. Her projects have aired on the CBC, TVO, Discovery Channel, History, Arte France, and CBC The Documentary Channel. She has been part of a team that has won numerous awards for their documentary feature films like Prokofiev: The Unfinished Diary and Blowout: Is Canada Next which both won the Special Jury Award at the Annual WorldFest in Houston.

Erica has worked with Fathom Film Group since 2011 on films like the award-winning The Defector: Escape from North Korea (CSC Awards Best Documentary, Best Documentary Director and the Diversity Award), Smart Drugs, The Superfood Chain, and A.rtifical I.mmortality. She is currently developing a slate of dramatic and comedic series and feature one-offs while production managing life with three small children.

Hannah Donegan

Hannah is a documentary filmmaker. She is currently in pre-production on her second feature film, The Future is Sh*t. Her first feature documentary, Sugar Sisters, premiered on CBC in October 2016.

Hannah has been part of a team that has won numerous awards for their film and interactive web-docs, including the Emmy nominated and Oscar shortlisted short doc My Enemy, My Brother, and The Defector: Escape from North Korea, which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Documentary Program and a Digi Award for the Interactive.  She has produced a number of documentary projects including The Superfood Chain (TVO); My Enemy, My Brother (Super Channel); and Smart Drugs (CBC). Hannah works at Fathom Film Group in Toronto, and is on the board of directors for the Breakthroughs Film Festival.

Gerry Flahive

Gerry is a Toronto-based writer, producer and creative consultant.  Until May 2014, Flahive was Senior Producer at the National Film Board of Canada. He has done creative and storytelling consulting, strategic planning, course development for clients including the Toronto Maple Leafs, Cirque de Soleil, Telefilm Canada, MaRS, TVOntario, Humber College, TIFF and Giants of Africa.

 His productions have won many international awards, including two Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award for Highrise, a global interactive documentary.  He produced & co-produced more than 80 documentary projects, including the international co-production Paris 1919, and the ground-breaking Filmmaker-in-Residence multimedia project at Toronto's St. Michael’s Hospital.

Iris Ng

Iris is a cinematographer whose most notable work turns a critical lens on social issues, justice, and filmmaking itself. Her background in visual art, photography, and music have enriched her work with artists and filmmakers since 2008. 

Her body of work includes the Academy-shortlisted documentaries Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012) and Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018), as well as award-winning films, A Better Man (2017), This River (2016), Migrant Dreams (2016), Nuuca (2017), Toxic Beauty (2019), and the multi Emmy Award-winning series Making A Murderer (2015 & 2018). She has also collaborated with filmmakers Fredrik Gertten, Vikram Jayanti, Richard Fung, Michelle Shephard and artists Chris Curreri, Oliver Husain, Luis Jacob, Annie MacDonnell, and Bambitchell. Iris also captures transitions for the series Kim’s Convenience and shot the Sundance 2020-premiered digital series Hey, Lady! (2020).

Stephen Chung

Stephen is an award-winning cinematographer with well over twenty years of experience in moving images.  He is highly regarded for both his artistry and versatility. His approach to cinematography is project-specific, centred on close collaboration and storytelling. He achieves a distinctive cinematic style, often working with available or natural light. Some of Stephen’s notable recent credits include the VICELAND television series “Mister Tachyon” winner of Canadian Society of Cinematographers award, feature documentary “The Defector” (Winner CSA - Best Documentary Film) and the short film “Odessa” (Official selection Cannes Short Film Corner). As well as HBO, Discovery, Nat Geo, History Chanel, 20th Century Fox, and The CBC.

His work has garnered several awards and nominations including best cinematography “COPA” Mockfest Film festival, , “The Defector” CSC nomination for Documentary Cinematography, Juno Award for (best album artwork) Tom Cochrane “Songs of a Circling Spirit”

SteVE Taylor

Steve is a multi-award-winning editor based in Toronto, Canada.  He is known for his work as the Lead Editor on the Amazon Prime series Ted Bundy: Falling For A Killer and for his work as Editor on all four seasons of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning Netflix series Hip-Hop Evolution. With two decades of experience, Steve has worked as an editor across multiple genres, including scripted television as a member of the DGC.

He has most recently completed work on Artificial Immortality, a feature documentary and is currently editing Dark Side of the Ring, a documentary series for Vice Media. Steve lives in Toronto with his wife Kristine and their two children Erin and Samantha.

Geoff Matheson

Geoff is a Gemini nominated editor and master storyteller with over 30 years of collaboration with award winning Canadian directors.  In 2018 his work with director Aisha Jamal, “A Kandahar Away”, debuted at Toronto’s Hot Docs Festival.  He has partnered with director Andrew Gregg on more than 10 award winning documentaries, most recently “Skinhead” CBC, (US International Film and Video Festival, 2018 winner), “Secrets From the Ice” CBC, (Chicago International Television Award, 2018 winner) and “The Tea Explorer” Doc Channel, (New York Film & TV Festival, 2017 winner). He teamed with director Lena McDonald on the film “Mom and Me”, which debuted to critical acclaim at Hot Docs 2015.  

Among a long repertoire of his films that have been screened and broadcast internationally are “The Light at the Edge of the World” (Yorkton 2007 winner, Gemini nomination); “The Secret Mulroney Tapes” (Best History Gemini nomination, 2006); and “The Adventurers: The Last Nomads” (Grand Prize, 2008, Banff Mountain Film Festival, Silver Screen, Gold Remi Award).

Shannon Kennedy

Shannon brings a background in the visual arts to her editing. Her artwork has been featured in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at the St. Louis Art Museum and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.  She has received grants and fellowships from the Tiffany Foundation, Creative Capital, the Jerome Foundation, and the McKnight Foundation. 

As a documentary editor, Kennedy has almost two decades of experience, and has been both a fellow and an advisor at the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Edit and Story Lab. She most recently edited Bulletproof, which premiered in 2020 at Hot Docs online. She lives and works outside of Boston.

Alexandra G. Brillembourg

Award-winning Designer and Art Director with over twenty years of experience in the visual communication industry. She obtained her Degree in Visual Communication in Caracas and has a specialization on Visual Effects for Film and TV from Seneca College and Digital Design from George Brown in Toronto. Her portfolio includes a wide variety of projects carried out by Canadian and international companies.

She is an expert in developing concepts and creative solutions including digital design, visual effects and motion graphics with a bold and creative approach. She has worked on several projects as an Art Director, including The Defector: Escape from North Korea. Her list of clients includes: HBO, Space, CTV, Gusto, Fathom Film Group, Sony Entertainment Television, Disney among others.

Todor Kobakov

Todor is an award-winning composer. His credits include Born To Be Blue, the Chet Baker biopic starring Ethan Hawke, the hit series Bitten, Ransom (eOne/Global/CBS), for which he just received a CSA nomination, and Cardinal (eOne/CTV), for which he was awarded a CSA for Best Original Music, Fiction for the past two seasons. He recently finished composing for Dakota Fanning’s new film Sweetness in the Belly, which premiered at TIFF 2019, and is currently scoring a new Margaret Atwood documentary with White Pine Pictures.

Todor is also renowned in the indie and pop music scenes working with Metric, Stars, Feist, Sarah Slean, and more.