TJ Cuthand was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and grew up in Saskatoon. Since 1995, he has been making short experimental narrative videos and films about sexuality, madness, youth, love, and race, which have screened in festivals internationally, including the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, Mix Brasil Festival of Sexual Diversity in Sao Paolo, Hot Docs in Toronto, imagineNATIVE in Toronto, Frameline in San Francisco, Outfest in Los Angeles, and Oberhausen International Short Film Festival in Germany, where his short Helpless Maiden Makes an ‘I” Statement won honourable mention. His work has also screened at galleries including the Mendel in Saskatoon, The National Gallery in Ottawa, and Urban Shaman in Winnipeg.

Cuthand completed his BFA, majoring in Film and Video, at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and his Masters of Arts in Media Production at X University. In 1999, he was an artist in residence at Videopool and Urban Shaman in Winnipeg, where he completed Through The Looking Glass.  In 2012, he was an artist in residence at Villa K. Magdalena in Hamburg, Germany, where he completed Boi Oh Boi. In 2015, he was commissioned by imagineNATIVE to make 2 Spirit Introductory Special $19.99.

In the summer of 2016 Cuthand began working on a 2D video game called A Bipolar Journey based on their experience learning and dealing with his bipolar disorder. It showed at imagineNATIVE, and he is planning to further develop it. He has also written three feature screenplays and sometimes does performance art. Cuthand is of Plains Cree and Scots descent, a member of Little Pine First Nation, and currently reside in Toronto.

Jennifer Dysart is a short film director, set decorator, and archival researcher. She was born in Alberta (Blackfoot territory), lives in Hamilton, Ontario (Haudenosaunee territory), and has Cree roots from South Indian Lake, Manitoba. She was a commissioned filmmaker for the Home Made Visible project by Regent Park Film Festival and created Caribou in the Archive (2018/19), a short experimental found footage film. Dysart envisions more inclusive archives of the future that are relevant and accessible to the public, include the personal stories of individuals and small cultural groups, and expand the national and provincial narratives of history. She has a special interest in recovering historical materials about the large-scale hydro developments that have irreparably affected Cree territory in the north. 

Jennifer Dysart is a short film director, set decorator, and archival researcher. She was born in Alberta (Blackfoot territory), lives in Hamilton, Ontario (Haudenosaunee territory), and has Cree roots from South Indian Lake, Manitoba. She was a commissioned filmmaker for the Home Made Visible project by Regent Park Film Festival and created Caribou in the Archive (2018/19), a short experimental found footage film. Dysart envisions more inclusive archives of the future that are relevant and accessible to the public, include the personal stories of individuals and small cultural groups, and expand the national and provincial narratives of history. She has a special interest in recovering historical materials about the large-scale hydro developments that have irreparably affected Cree territory in the north. 

Nadine Valcin is an award-winning filmmaker and media artist whose practice spans documentary, experimental and narrative film as well as installation and virtual reality. Her work explores questions of memory, identity and language. She holds a professional degree in architecture from McGill University and was an artist’s residence at Library and Archives Canada through Archive/Counter Archive. She is currently in production on a documentary about Black actor/model Johanne Harrelle with funding from The Canada Council for the Arts, Telefilm Canada, the Canada Media Fund and TFO which grew out of her work with Archive/ Counter Archive. Nadine is a professor in the Film and Television program at Sheridan College. 

Pamila Matharu (1973-) is an immigrant-settler of Panjabi descent, born in Birmingham, England, based in Tkarón:to (Toronto). She primarily works in visual arts, arts education, and arts advocacy. A graduate of the Visual Arts and Fine Arts BEd programs from York University and a grant recipient of the Toronto, Ontario and Canada Art Councils; she has screened and exhibited her work locally, regionally, nationally. Recently she was awarded the 2019 Images Festival Homebrew Award and the Ontario Association of Art Galleries’ 2019 Exhibition of the Year, for her critically acclaimed first solo exhibit One of These Things Is Not Like The Other at A Space Gallery, Toronto (2019) and the 2020 CONTACT Festival’s Burtynsky Photobook Award for her upcoming monograph, INDEX (SOME OF ALL PARTS). Where Were You in ‘92? Is slated to debut at Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston, ON), Or Gallery (Vancouver, BC) in Spring of 2022.

Angelina McLeod (Anishinaabekwe) is an emerging filmmaker, writer, and documentary subject from Shoal Lake First Nation. Angelina is a land and water defender that is passionate about sharing Anishinaabeg history, culture, languages and stories. Her research is focused on Midewiwin birch bark scrolls that were once held by her grand uncle James Redsky, WWI veteran and prominent member of the Midewiwin, interpreted the scrolls before they were sold to the Glenbow Museum in Calgary for preservation. Angelina is currently working on a series of short films with the National Film Board about her community Shoal Lake 40, First Nation, the source of Winnipeg’s drinking water.