Keith Bennie is the Senior Director of Audience & Community at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he leads five areas of audience engagement: public programs, youth programs, community impact, seniors and volunteers, and film preservation. He is an arts education leader, with previous experience at the Ontario Science Centre, Theatre Museum Canada, and the International LGBTQ+ Youth Organization. Bennie teaches about public programming at Humber College and was selected as a Toronto Arts Council Leaders Lab fellow.

Cheryl Hsu is a social practice artist and social systems designer, with experience spanning diversity & inclusion, housing, healthcare, technology, and food systems. She has a Masters of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation at OCAD University and is the co-founding director of Madeleine Co. (www.madeleineco.com), a Toronto-based art and design collective. Cheryl creates socially engaged artworks that facilitate public dialogue and critical questioning around issues of importance. Her research interests lie in the value of equitable and democratic co-creation in social innovation.

Cheryl is an active listener and synthesizer of interesting ideas. She is passionate about navigating the complex systems in order to help people bring their full selves to their work and impact. Cheryl has expertise in qualitative research methods, including field research and ethnography, and has led numerous design research and artistic projects.


 

Holder of two Masters in Audiovisual Heritage Management (National Audiovisual Institute, France, 2009) and Arts and Digital Media (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, 2011), Marina Gallet has been working for ten years in the field of preservation and enhancement of audiovisual heritage. Initially in charge of the digitization of choreographic audiovisual archives in France, she joined the Cinémathèque Québécoise in 2012 as Head of Collections Services, before becoming Director of Collections in 2017.

Raegan serves as the Executive Director of The ArQuives, formerly The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. She holds a BA from Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface and a Masters of Information from the University of Toronto iSchool. She has worked as an archivist at Library and Archives Canada, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute, and as the Archival Advisor for the Council of Archives New Brunswick. She is currently working on her PhD, focusing on the role of community archives in Inuit communities. She is a member of the Steering Committee on Canada’s Archives Taskforce to respond to the “Calls to Action” Report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the co-chair of the Association of Canadian Archivists Indigenous Matters Working Group.

Sean Smith is a Senior Archivist in the Collections Development and Management Unit at the Archives of Ontario. He previously held positions at the Clara Thomas Archives at York University and Library and Archives Canada. In total, he has been preserving and sharing history for almost 20 years. He is an active member of the archival community as well as a runner, a reader, and a father of two.

An experienced, passionate, and committed Media Educator for the past 15 years, Jessie Curell has been teaching dynamic, production-based Media and Digital Literacy workshops across Canada, the US, and Asia with the National Film Board of Canada and a wide variety of schools, museums, non-profit organizations, and film festivals. She has met thousands of teachers and students, and has first-hand knowledge of specific needs and interests, which have helped shape the way she works with each group.

Ben Donoghue is a Toronto based filmmaker and arts administrator who has instigated dialogue and change in the Canadian film and media arts sector since the early 2000s. His film work for cinema and gallery is focused on explorations of landscape, macro-economic phenomena, and architecture.

In his professional practice Ben is currently Director of the Media Arts Network of Ontario, where he has worked since 2013. He previously worked as the Executive Director of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) from 2007–2013, and has served in numerous boards and staff positions in artist-run organizations across Canada.