Sue Johnson is filmmaker, cinematographer, and Assistant Professor at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Johnson’s practice combines documentary subjects with experimental modes of presentation; currently she is researching the authorship and preservation of several film archives that show early depictions of drag and gender play, and working on a series of short films about queer beach culture. She is in the process of releasing her feature-length documentary, Celestial Queer, a portrait of Canadian experimental animator and activist James MacSwain.

Dr. Zeiny currently teaches English Literature and Film Studies at various universities across France and Switzerland. Graduate of Fribourg University (Swiss), Concordia University (Canada), and Paris 7 University (France). His research considers the histories, theories, and trajectories of Canadian and U.S films and media. He is the author of four books, including Iranian cinema, a national cinema under the influences (from 1900 to 1978-before the revolution), published in 2015. He has published articles on English-speaking cinema and Iranian films in different magazines (in Canada, France, and Iran). His films have been screened and broadcast internationally winning awards. Since 2004 he has been  the director of the Uninvited Film Festival (Canadian Film Festival in Paris), which is taking place at the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris and UNESCO. 
Currently, he is working on Canadian cinema (from the '90s to 2020), with an emphasis on migration, displacement, and settlement.

Dr. Shana MacDonald is an Associate Professor in Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo. Her interdisciplinary research examines feminist, queer, and anti-racist media activisms within social and digital media, popular culture, cinema, and contemporary art. Dr. MacDonald runs the online archive Feminists Do Media (Instagram: @aesthetic.resistance). She is co-editor of Networked Feminist Activisms: Digital Practices and Activist Assemblies (Lexington Press 2021).

Dr. Aimée Mitchell (she/her) is currently the Research Officer for the School of Art, Media, Performance & Design at York University. She is the former Project Manager of Archive/Counter-Archive. She holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from York-X University. Her dissertation explored the politics and practices of audiovisual archives in Canada, and more specifically, the importance of DIY archiving practices in its various forms. She held a MITACS Post-Doctoral Fellow at York University, where her research focused on the early history of IMAX, and the reconstruction of this history through traces from personal fonds, and counter archives. Aimée is the former Distribution and Collections Manager at the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Canada’s largest collection of independent artisanal film. She was an archival researcher and contributor to the book Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67 (MQUP 2014). Aimée is an independent media art programmer, a current board member of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers Toronto and the8fest small-gauge film festival and was a founding member for the Toronto Queer Film Festival. She is an advocate for audiovisual media makers across formats and gauges big and small.
 

Emily Collins is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary researcher, arts administrator and PhD student in Cinema and Media Studies. She has worked across arts organizations in local and international settings, including the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Festival Scope (Paris), VUCAVU (Toronto), PUBLIC Journal (Toronto), and the Toronto International Film Festival. She holds graduate degrees in Arts and Culture from Maastricht University (Netherlands) and Cinema and Media Studies from York University (Toronto). Situated at the intersection of film and media, sound studies, cultural studies and gender studies, Emily's PhD research considers practices of deep listening, sonic epistemologies and embodied soundscapes. Namely, her project examines how sonic intervention and experimentation within audio-visual works can function as tools of resistance, instruments for disruption and modes of trans-sensory knowledge formation.

Louis Pelletier holds a PhD in Communication from Concordia University. He has completed a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral research on early fiction film production in Quebec at Université de Montréal, where he currently holds a postdoctoral appointment with the International Research Partnership Technès. He is research coordinator of the Canadian Educational, Sponsored and Industrial Film project (Media History Research Center, Concordia University), and has published on early and silent cinema, film exhibition, useful cinema, amateur cinema, experimental cinema and film technology in many journals, including Film History, The Moving Image, 1895, The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Found Footage, and The Journal of Film Preservation. He is in the process of completing a manuscript entitled The Fellows Who Dress the Pictures: Montreal Film Exhibitors in the Days of Vertical Integration, 1912-1952 for McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Tamara de Szegheo Lang is Project Manager of the Vulnerable Media Lab and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University. She holds a doctorate in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies from York University. Dr. de Szegheo Lang’s research takes up queer history, community-based archives, visual culture, and the affective relationships between LGBT2Q people and the past. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, the Journal of Lesbian Studies, and the Journal of Homosexuality. Dr. de Szegheo Lang is also active in curatorial and programming roles. She is a member of the programming committee for the Reelout Queer Film Festival in Kingston, a co-programmer of the Born in Frames Screening Series at Queen’s University, and past curatorial committee co-chair of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.

Sydney Hart is a writer and artist. He received a PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University (2021), where he continues to work as Teaching Fellow in the Department of Film and Media. Through his critical writing and artistic research, Sydney is interested in critically examining the media of contemporary logistics and extractivism in Canada. Sydney’s critical writing on art and digital media has appeared in magazines including C Magazine and Esse arts + opinions, and in journals including Synoptique and Intermédialités. He is based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations in Vancouver.