A two-time Governor General’s Award nominee and multiple industry award winner for promoting gender equity and inclusion in Canada’s screen industry, Carol is one of the co-creators of the Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC).
Heather Allin is an actor, filmmaker, artist and advocate. She is the Producer and Executive Producer for the short narrative advocacy film entitled REEL WOMEN SEEN.
Siobhan Devine is a multi-award-winning director of feature-length films (THE BIRDWATCHER), and episodic television including REGINALD, THE VAMPIRE; KIM’S CONVENIENCE.
Writer, Director, Actor, Author, Dr. Jules Koostachin was raised by her Cree speaking grandparents in Moosonee, and also with her mother in Ottawa, a warrior of the Residential school system. Jules is a band member of Attawapiskat First Nation, the Ancestral lands of the MoshKeKo AsKi InNiNeWak. She resides in Vancouver with her family. She completed her PhD with GRSJ at the University of British Columbia, her research MooNaHaTihKaaSiWew: Unearthing Spirit focuses on Indigenous documentary methodologies.
Juanita Peters is a multi-award-winning storyteller, writer and director of feature films (REBIRTH 8:37), episodic (DIGGSTOWN), and documentaries (AFRICVILLE CAN’T STOP NOW).
Born in Chennai, India, Rama Rau has worked at every level of a film set, sometimes as the only female on massive film crews in Bollywood, India, where she learnt all things filmmaking.
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