Rita Leistner is a Canadian photographer and filmmaker. [1] She is most noted for her 2021 documentary film Forest for the Trees , for which she was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022. [2]
She was active as a photojournalist in the 2000s, most notably covering the Iraq War. [3] Some of her war photography was included in the 2006 book Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq, alongside photography by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson. [4]
Chris Hondros was an American war photographer. Hondros was a finalist twice for a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an Iraqi journalist who began working after the U.S. invasion. Abdul-Ahad has written for The Guardian and The Washington Post and published photographs in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Times (London), and other media outlets. Besides reporting from his native Iraq, he has also reported from Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.
Farah Nosh is an Iraqi Canadian photojournalist. Her work about Iraq and its conflicts has been exhibited in galleries in the U.S. and UK.
Stephanie Sinclair is an American photojournalist who focuses on gender and human-rights issues such as child marriage and self-immolation. Her work has been included in The New York Times, Time Magazine and National Geographic.
Newsha Tavakolian is an Iranian photojournalist and documentary photographer. She has worked for Time magazine, The New York Times, Le Figaro, and National Geographic. Her work focuses on women's issues and she has been a member of the Rawiya women's photography collective which she co-established in 2011. Tavakolian is a full member of Magnum Photos.
Anna Hopkins is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Lilith in Freeform's original series Shadowhunters and documentary filmmaker Monica Stuart in The Expanse.
Barbara Davidson is a Pulitzer Prize and Emmy award winning photojournalist. She is currently a Guggenheim Fellow, 2019-2020, and is travelling the country in her car, with her two dogs, making 8x10 portraits of gun-shot survivors using an 8x10 film camera.
Narges Abyar is an Iranian film director, author, and screenwriter, best known for directing Track 143, Breath, and When the Moon Was Full. The film Track 143 is adapted from Abyar's novel titled The Third Eye narrating the story of a woman and her son during the time of war. Her films sensitively picture the sufferings of women and children caused by the society, war or radicalism.
Jo-Anne McArthur is a Canadian photojournalist, humane educator, animal rights activist and author. She is known for her We Animals project, a photography project documenting human relationships with animals. Through the We Animals Humane Education program, McArthur offers presentations about human relationships with animals in educational and other environments, and through the We Animals Archive, she provides photographs and other media for those working to help animals. We Animals Media, meanwhile, is a media agency focused on human/animal relationships.
Emma Hunter is a Canadian actress and comedian. She is known for her recurring role as Nisha in the sitcom Mr. D, and as co-anchor with Miguel Rivas of the news satire series The Beaverton. She has also appeared in several other productions, including the television series L.A. Complex and Royal Canadian Air Farce, and the independent feature film Mary Goes Round (2018). In 2017, she was featured in the CBC web series How to Buy a Baby, and in 2020 she hosted the reality cooking competition series Fridge Wars.
Background
Aube Foglia is a Canadian film editor. She is most noted as a four-time Jutra/Iris Award nominee for Best Editing, receiving nominations at the 1st Jutra Awards in 1999 for Nô, the 4th Jutra Awards in 2002 for Between the Moon and Montevideo, the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018 for The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches and the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021 for Night of the Kings .
Mélanie Carrier is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Quebec. The cofounder with her husband Olivier Higgins of the production studio Mö Films, the duo concentrate primarily on films about the relationships of the world's indigenous peoples with the wider world.
Shasha Nakhai is a Filipino-Iranian Canadian film director, most noted as co-director with Rich Williamson of the 2021 film Scarborough. The film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture, and Nakhai and Williamson won the award for Best Director, at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.
Forest for the Trees is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Rita Leistner and released in 2021. The film documents a group of tree planters in British Columbia, and the challenging and arduous conditions they deal with in the process of the job.
Lea Carlson is a Canadian costume designer in film and television. She is most noted as a three-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Costume Design, receiving nominations at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for The Colony, at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for Stockholm, and at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for The Exchange.
Léna Mill-Reuillard is a Canadian cinematographer and photographer. She is most noted as a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Cinematography in a Documentary, receiving nods at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for Welcome to F.L. and at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020 for City Dreamers, and a Prix Iris nominee for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022 for Sisterhood .
Nadine Pequeneza is a Canadian documentary film director and producer. She is most noted for her 2014 film 15 to Life: Kenneth's Story, for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program, and was nominated for Best Direction in a Documentary Program, at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016.
Kathleen Jayme is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is most noted for the films Finding Big Country and The Grizzlie Truth, which examine the history of the ill-fated Vancouver Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association.