Aaditya Aggarwal is a writer and film curator based in Toronto and New Delhi. Aaditya has contributed writing to outlets like C Magazine, Rungh, POV Magazine, Canadian Art, The New Inquiry, and Ethnic Aisle, and has previously worked at TIFF, Images Festival, Regent Park Film Festival, and Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.

Easton Arnouse is a 19 year old creative artist, and photo documenter. Based in the home of his ancestors Native to the lower mainland of British Columbia. Son to Roxanne Charles from Se’mya’me’, and Joseph Arnouse of the interior Secwépemc people. His interest in Art creation outlines the importance of cultural identity, self, furthermore ones interconnection with nature and tradition. Easton is on a path to represent the need in preserving Indigenous methods, belief systems, and ways of living. “Although our lives as Indigenous people have changed; we are still rooted in ceremony and we are still in contact with our traditions. It represents our ability to adapt to these colonial ways of living without forgetting who we are as a people” Arnouse says. The influence of traditional art forms, and cultural teachings have led Arnouse to emerge as an Artist in an effort to improve the quality of Indigenous life. He uses Art as a tool to make these things possible for the coming generations of young Indigenous people and Artists. Easton Arnouse began this path as a young boy working alongside his mother Roxanne Charles and Master Carver Leslie Wells as an apprentice and Artist in training. His Artworks appears on the likes of the Semiahmoo Minor Hockey jersey design “Honouring the children and survivors of residential schools” crest, which was unveiled on National Truth and Reconciliation Day in 2022. Arnouse also has designed for the City of Surrey “Skelkelosen” pollinator seed package that housed a blend of traditional medicines. The intent of his future work entails the personal connectivity with nature, and reclamation of native land/space and resources through photo documentation and Coast Salish design.

As a media artist, Lorna Boschman is renowned for her collaborations with the 1990s lesbian art collectiveKiss & Tell and for her experimental documentaries like Scars and Butch/Femme in Paradise. Lorna wasawarded the 2016 Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award in Film & New Media. Her most recent collaborations involvegeo-location audio projects with gardeners and other community-led local initiatives.

Photo credit: Leanne Boschman

Roxanne Charles of Semiahmoo First Nation is a cultural historian employing means of visual representation, oral history, and ceremony. Methods which have been utilized by Semiahma People for thousands of years. Her work explores and documents a variety of issues that reflect her daily life such as spirituality, identity, urbanization, trauma, and various forms of systemic violence.

David Clark is a media artist interested in experimental narrative and cinematic use of the internet. Recent works include interactive narrative works for the web: 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein, Sign After the X, and A is for Apple and also the non-linear film Meanwhile and the feature film Maxwell’s Demon. His work has been exhibited at Sundance, SIGGRAPH, EMAF, Transmediale, and the Museum of Moving Images in New York. His work has won awards at FILE, Sao Paulo, and the SXSW Interactive Festival. 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein was included in the Electronic Literature Collection #2 and won the $25,000 2011 Nova Scotia Masterwork Award. He teaches Media Arts at NSCAD University in Halifax.

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. 

Jordan King is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, curator and writer. Her practice is rooted in performance, archival research and intergenerational dialogue. She is currently a Curatorial Practice MFA student at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada (Graduating 2024), with a focus on documentary film and multimedia documentation of
underground queer performance.

Jordan spent her formative years immersed in nightlife culture, which continues to influence her work and research. Recent projects have included curation of gallery exhibitions in Montreal, acting as story editor for documentary film “The Empress of Vancouver”, and performing with New York City based dance-theater-media company thefeath3rtheory.

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.

After working for more than two decades in the Canadian media arts field, during which she was involved in distribution and exhibition production, Chantal Molleur co-established White Frame several years after moving to Switzerland in 2005. Since then, she has curated over 50 media art projects, including both screenings and exhibitions. Molleur also mentors students in film and art, offering promotional strategies and distribution support to graduates of the Lucerne School of Art and Design in Switzerland. She has further contributed to the arts community by serving on boards of directors and grant juries for art institutions in both Switzerland and Canada.

Sebnem Ozpeta studied graphic design in Turkey and completed the Digital Film Program at The Art Instituteof Vancouver. Her work includes short experimental films, documentaries, and video installations. For morethan 15 years, Ozpeta has collaborated with artists, storytellers, dancers, and filmmakers. Since 2015, she hasmentored youth and adults in “Digital Storytelling” projects.

Redsun (Sahgothé) is a two-spirit Denesuline Nehitho land and water defender, poet & multimedia creator. The beauty of the land, people & spirits inspires the creation of their art. Their work as a two-spirit is deeply ingrained in the land, ceremony, & arts. Their practice is rooted in ancestral knowledge, which is expressed through dreams, visions & the natural way we flow through our bodies.

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.