Dusty Mancinelli is a Canadian independent filmmaker from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Mancinelli is primarily a director of short films. Several of his films have been shown at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and other notable film festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards. Since 2017, he has collaborated with Madeleine Sims-Fewer. Their debut feature film Violation was shown at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.
Monia Chokri is a Canadian actress and filmmaker.
Dawn Wilkinson is a Canadian film and television director based in LA.
Kevin Patrick Mills is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor, whose feature film debut Guidance was released in 2015.
Jeremy LaLonde is a Canadian filmmaker. He is known for his work in Canadian film and television.
Chloé Leriche is a Canadian film director from Montreal, Quebec. Her debut feature film, Before the Streets , received six Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, including Best Picture and a nod for Leriche as Best Director.
Miranda de Pencier is a Canadian film and television director, producer, and actress. She is most noted for her 2011 film Throat Song, which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards.
Kathleen Hepburn is a Canadian screenwriter and film director. She first attracted acclaim for her film Never Steady, Never Still, which premiered as a short film in 2015 before being expanded into her feature film debut in 2017. The film received eight Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018, including Best Picture and a Best Original Screenplay nomination for Hepburn.
Queen of the Morning Calm is a 2019 Canadian drama film written and directed by Gloria Ui Young Kim in her feature directorial debut. The film stars Tina Jung as Deborah, a single mother in Toronto who is struggling to raise her daughter Mona while the girl's father Sarge moves in and out of their lives unpredictably and unreliably.
Sugar Daddy is a 2020 Canadian drama film, directed by Wendy Morgan. The film stars Kelly McCormack as Darren, a talented but struggling young singer-songwriter who decides to sign up for a paid dating service to make extra money.
Hey Lady! is a Canadian comedy web series that is directed by Adriana Maggs, Will Bowes and Sarah Polley, and airs on CBC Gem. The series was created by playwright Morris Panych for Jayne Eastwood and is Eastwood's first leading role in her 50-year-long career. Eastwood portrays Lady, a wild and foul-mouthed woman in her 70s who is constantly getting into trouble with her friend Rosie.
Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers is a Canadian film director and producer from Quebec. She is most noted for her 2019 short film Just Me and You , which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards, and won the Prix Iris for Best Live Action Short Film at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards.
Gloria Ui Young Kim is a Korean Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, most noted as director of the films Queen of the Morning Calm and Left for Dead: The Ashley Reeves Story.
Ashgrove is a 2022 Canadian drama film, directed by Jeremy LaLonde. The film is set against the context of a pandemic that has infected the world's water supply, forcing people to strictly ration their water intake to balance the risk of dying of the disease against the risk of dying of dehydration; the film centres on Jennifer Ashgrove, a scientist researching the cure for the fungus who is rapidly burning out from the stress, and is forced to take a weekend retreat with her husband Jason to work on the problems in their relationship that are also contributing to her stress.
Tenzin is a 2021 Canadian drama film, directed by Michael LeBlanc and Josh Reichmann and released theatrically in Canada in 2023. The film stars Tenzin Kelsang as Tenzin, a young Tibetan Canadian man who is struggling to come to terms with the death of his older brother by self-immolation at a Tibetan independence movement demonstration.
The Dancing Dogs of Dombrova is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Zack Bernbaum and released in 2018. The film stars Katherine Fogler and Douglas Nyback as Sarah and Aaron Cotler, Jewish Canadian siblings who are travelling together to their grandmother's hometown of Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland, to fulfill her dying wish of being reunited with the cremated remains of her dead childhood dog.
Zack Bernbaum is a Canadian film director from Toronto, Ontario.
Junior's Giant is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Paula Brancati and released in 2022. The film stars Eric Peterson as Junior, an elderly man suffering from Lewy body dementia who begins to hallucinate a giant, causing strain in his loving relationship with his transgender granddaughter Kaye.
