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New France, 1665. Joseph Côté, condemned to death by the Crown, escapes and steels the identity of Père Brind’amour. With a military detachment at his feet, the false priest hides out a the Beaufort Seigneurie. The locals, who are awaiting the arrival of the Filles du Roy (the young women sent by the King of France as wives for the settlers), greet him with generosity and tell him the story of Father Brind’amour, werewolf-hunter. Joseph realizes that he’s stolen the identity of a hero! Later, he learns that werewolves roam the seigneurie. Things only get worse when he falls for Marie Labotte, a Fille du Roy that no one wants. Using methods that are far from catholic, Joseph rids Beaufort of its wild beasts, saves the Filles du Roy and, despite everything, fills the shoes of Père Brind’amour.
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Philippe Gagnon
Director
After completing his studies at the Institut national de l’image et du son, in Montreal, Philippe Gagnon became director of Spirafilm, a film cooperative in Quebec City, and made several short films and advertisements, as well as editing La Face cachée de la lune, a feature film, directed by Robert Lepage. In 2003, Gagnon made his first feature film, Premier juillet which was followed by five films for English television: Living with the Enemy, Fatal Trust, No Brother of Mine, Reverse Angle, and Hidden Crimes, as well as episodes for the series: Nos étés, La chambre no 13 and Yamaska. In 2007, Gagnon released the feature film, Dans une Galaxie près de chez vous 2.
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35 mm
92 minutes
Colour
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Producer
Réal Chabot
Director
Philippe Gagnon
Scriptwriters
Stéphane J. Bureau
Pierre Daudelin
Director of Photography
Steve Asselin
Editor
Isabelle Malenfant
Sound
Simon Poudrette
Robert Labrosse
Cast
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge
Viviane Audet
Gilles Renaud
Antoine Bertrand
Patrice Robitaille
Michel Barrette
Marie-Chantal Perron
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Production
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Canada
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Distribution – Canada
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International distribution
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Daniel Grou, aka Podz, directed numerous television series for francophone Canada including C.A., Minuit, le soir, Au nom de la loi, Exils and 3 x rien. He then directed many episodes in the following English-Canadian series: The Hunger, Drop the Beat, Vampire High and Big Wolf on Campus III. In 2003, Grou won the Gémeaux for best director for the telefilm Exils and, in 2008, the Gémeaux for best director for the series Minuit, le soir. Grou also directed many video clips and advertisements, and he won a gold medal at the Daniel World Film Festival in Houston for his promotional film on Mont Saint-Sauveur.
Writer/director Jonathan Sobol was selected as one of Canada’s “Ten to Watch” by Playback magazine in 2006. He has written for film and television for eight years, and his directorial debut, A Beginner's Guide to Endings, starring Harvey Keitel, had a gala premiere at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. It has since played at festivals worldwide, winning several awards including Best Picture at the Newport Beach International Film Festival, and a 2011 Director's Guild of Canada nomination for Best Picture. His second feature, The Black Marks, stars Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon, and Jay Baruchel, and goes to camera in early 2012. 
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After a career in music and studies in creative writing at the University of British Columbia, Terry Miles turned his hand to film. His first feature film, When Life Was Good (2008), made with a miniDV camcorder while Miles was still in university, was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to screen all over the world. Miles' second film, The Red Rooster (2009), screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival and at the Bradford International Film Festival in the United Kingdom. A Night for Dying Tigers is his third feature film. 
Nikola Curcin was born in Serbia when it was part of Yugoslavia. He immigrated to Canada and graduated in film production from Concordia University. His 1977 short film, The Discreet Charm of a Dirty Movie House Employee, won first prize at the Festival du jeune cinéma du Québec and a monetary prize from CBC Television in Montreal. In 1987, for TV Belgrade, Curcin directed feature film Sentimental Journey. In 1997, he made his second feature film My Script Doctor. 
Mike Clattenburg is critically and commercially praised for his unique cinematic style and comedic sensibilities. As creator, director, and head writer of Trailer Park Boys, he earned Canada's top honour in 2004 with a Gemini for best comedy series. His 2006 debut feature, Trailer Park Boys: The Big Dirty, holds the opening weekend box office record for English films in Canada. The sequel, Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day was the highest grossing English Canadian film in 2009. Afghan Luke is Clattenburg’s third feature film. 
Dominic James’ passion for cinema started young, when he began making shorts starring his parents and friends. At 16, he left Quebec to study dramatic arts in New York, then cinema in Atlanta and Los Angeles. Back in Quebec, he made commercials and videoclips for Quebec artists. In 2007, he made his first fictional short, Lotto 666 which was screened at many festivals and, through his mastery of narration and his distinctive visual style, attracted the attention of producers. James’ first feature film was Die. 
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Christian Laurence was born in Montreal in 1975. After studying Communications at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), he founded the KINO movement in 1999, a filmmaker’s community now present in more than a hundred cities around the world. He has directed several short films, many of which were featured in festivals both in Canada and internationally.
Yves Pelletier was a long-time member of the infamous Quebec comedy troupe, Rock et Belles Oreilles. In the mid-90's, he got together with fellow comedian, Gabriel Pelletier, to write the fantasy feature film Karmina and its sequel, K2. In 1997, Pelletier became the script editor and director of the television series Juste pour rire. He later played in the television series Histoires de filles, by Louis Saïa, a role that earned him a Gémeau, in 2001, for best supporting actor. On the big screen, Pelletier has acted in such films as Camping Sauvage, Karmina, K2, 2 Secondes and Ding et Dong. 
Richard J. Lewis co-wrote and directed Whale Music a Genie winning performance. For nine seasons, he worked on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation for CBS, where he was executive producer, writer and director. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree at Northwestern University in Chicago, and furthered his education at the University of Southern California, where he obtained his MFA in film. In addition to writing and directing, Lewis regularly gives workshops in Toronto and Los Angeles, and is a committee member of Southern California’s chapter of Human Rights Watch. 
A frequently sought writer based in Los Angeles, Rob’s proven track record includes the box office smash hit Stomp the Yard (Sony/Screen Gems), which ranked number one at the box office for two weeks in a row in January 2007, and Code Name: The Cleaner (New Line Cinema, starring Cedric the Entertainer, Lucy Liu). Rob also wrote his feature directing Turn it Up (New Line Cinema, starring Ja Rule, Jason Stratham). Previously, Robert produced and directed the award-winning short film Hey, I’ve Got Rights. He was also the executive story editor on Ekhaya: A Family Circle. 
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Jean-Philippe Pearson’s entry into cinema began with his years in Laval University’s Improvisation League, 1992 to 1995. There he met actor Patrice Robitaille and director Rocardo Trogi who became his writing partners. In 2000, the trio wrote their first film, Québec-Montréal. The film won the 2002 Jutra for best screenplay, best director and best screenplay. In 2003, Pearson, Robitaille and Trogi began to write Horloge biologique, which was another box office success when it was released in 2005. As an actor, Pearson played in Bluff, directed by Simon-Olivier Fecteau and Marc-André Lavoie. Pearson has also directed several short films. Le Bonheur des autres is his first feature film. 
Robert Lieberman is a veteran director of dramatic television and of feature films. The television series and individual episodes he has directed since the early 1980s include: Dexter, Brothers & Sisters, Shark, Haven, Republic of Doyle, Lost Girl, The X-Files, thirtysomething, Once and Again, and Strong Medicine. His feature films include: D3: The Mighty Ducks, Table for Five, Fire in the Sky, All I Want for Christmas, The Tortured for Twisted Pictures, and The Stranger. A film graduate of the University of Buffalo, Lieberman has been the recipient of numerous awards from festivals such as the Chicago Film Festival and the San Francisco Film Festival. 
Best known for his documentary television series, Pachamama (2009 – 10), which presents the cuisine of First Nations peoples, Bruno Boulianne got his start in film, in 1991, with La Course autour du monde (the Radio-Canada television show that sent promising young filmmakers traveling for one year). His first documentary was Un cirque sur le fleuve. Once at the National Film Board of Canada, he made Aviature and Des hommes de passage. He then made Le Compteur d’oiseaux and the documentary, 50 tonnes d’épinettes. 
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Jean-Marc Vallée’s first feature film, Liste noire (1995) was a finalist in nine categories at the Genies. His second feature in French, C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005), won the prize for best Canadian film at the Toronto International Film Festival, 11 Genies and 15 Jutras, as well as the Golden Reel award for biggest Canadian box office success of the year. In Hollywood, Vallée directed one episode of the TV series, Strangers (1996), as well as the film Los Locos (1997). Vallée also directed the first two parts of a trilogy of short films, Les fleurs magiques, (1995) and Les mots magiques, (1998). His British film The Young Victoria, produced by Graham King and Martin Scorsese, won the 2010 Oscar for best costumes, and was a finalist in the categories of best artistic direction and best make-up. 
After 20 years as a professional actress, theatre director, playwright and instructor, Kate Twa turns her hand to feature film directing with Candyland.
Luc Dionne hit the pavement running in 1996 with the screenplay for the hit television series Omertà, la loi du silence, for which he won a Gémeaux award. Omertà II, la loi du silence and Omertà III, le dernier des hommes d’honneur followed. Dionne also worked on the screenplay for the television series, Tag, then wrote, in French and in English, The Last Chapter, on motorcycle gangs, followed by its sequel, The Last Chapter - The Revenge. Dionne also wrote the series Bunker – Le Cirque, which was broadcast in 2002. For the big screen, Dionne adapted the book, Monica la mitraille, which told the story of a celebrated Montreal criminal, as well as the novel Aurore, one of the most popular Quebec films in 2005. 
Jason Lapeyre is a filmmaker living in Toronto. He studied film at Queen’s University and earned a Master’s in Film at York University. He has sold a dozen feature-length scripts and directed music videos and short films that have played in more than 25 film festivals across the world and have been broadcast in Canada and the United Kingdom. In 2007, he attended the National Screen Institute’s Features First program as a writer/director. He is also a regular contributor to the magazines Wax Poetics and Rue Morgue. Cold Blooded is Lapeyre’s first feature film. 
A graduate in communications with a minor in screenplay writing from the Université du Québec à Montréal, Gaël d’Ynglemare gained recognition early in her career with her first short film, Pas de deux sur chanson triste, which was a Jutra finalist in 1999. Her second short, Capacité 11 personnes, won the Genie, in 2004, for best Canadian short film. In 2006, Ynglemare’s third short, No Vacancy, was a finalist at the Gémeaux in the category of best screenplay for a single dramatic television episode. Le Colis is her first feature film. 
Derek Franson has written and directed several music videos, short films, and documentary and commercial projects. Much of his past directing work has involved extensive digital effects and 3D computer animation. Outside of film writing and directing, Franson has also worked on more than 70 television commercials in a variety of production positions, and served as an assistant animator on the MTV/Nickelodeon TV series Ren and Stimpy. Comforting Skin is Franson’s first feature film. 
Evan Kelly has made many television commercials and several short films including Bank Robber #5, Former Glories, and Quality Viewing, which won the award for best cinematography at the 22nd Atlantic Film Festival. His shorts have screened at film festivals across Canada, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, Canadian Short Film Festival Showcase, and Reelworld Film Festival. Kelly has also written and directed several television documentaries including Telling Stories and Go Deep, and a television series pilot, Back of the House, which was the winner of the Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation/CBC Bridge Award for emerging producers. The Corridor is his first feature film. 
André Forcier’s films are as well known in Canada as they are internationally. In 1987, the Cinémathèque française organized a retrospective of his work, a first for a Canadian filmmaker. In 2003, Forcier received the Prix Albert-Tessier, a major Quebec award for the ensemble of his work. In 2010, he received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. In 2007, at the Czech Republic’s Uherske Hradist Festival, three of Forcier’s films were show in a total of 30 films chosen to represent the cult films of Canada of the preceding 40 years. From the Chroniques Labradoriennes (1967) to The United States of Albert (2004), Forcier “is in a category of his own and measures up against the greats,” said Serge Losique, director of Montreal’s Festival des Films du monde, in 2006. 
Robin Aubert began his career as an actor, starring in such films as Fathers and Guns (2009), Temps dur (2004), Le Neg’ (2002), Radio-Enfer (1995-1997) and La Comtesse de Bâton rouge (1996). As a director and screenplay writer, Aubert has made numerous short films and video clips. His first feature film, Saint-Martyrs of the Damned (2005), was acclaimed in the circuit of fantasy film festivals and was sold in many countries. In 2007, Aubert made his second feature film, Train to nowhere, filmed entirely in India. Crying Out is his third feature film. 
Born in 1973 in Perth-Andover, New Brunswick, Denis Côté is the founder of nihilproductions and has made 15 short films. He has been critic, journalist and vice president of the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma. His first feature film
Les états Nordiques (2005), won the Golden Leopard – Video at the Locarno International Film Festival as well as Indie Vision Grand Prize at the Jeonju International Film Festival. Côté’s more recent films include Nos vies privées (2007) and Elle veut le chaos (2008), which won that year at Locarno for best direction. In 2009, Carcasses was screened at Cannes’s Directors’ Fortnight. In May 2010, Denis Côté presented Les lignes enemies at the Jeonju Digital Project (of the Jeonju festival). Curling is his fifth feature film. 
While working as assistant to some of Quebec's top directors, Benoît Pilon started to earn prizes and nominations for his own projects – such as Regards volés (1994) and Rosaire et la Petite-Nation (1997). Roger Toupin, épicier variété (2003) won him numerous awards, including a 2004 Jutra and a Belgian Bayard d’or, both for best documentary. Benoit has since followed with Nestor et les oubliés (2006) and Des nouvelles du Nord (2007). His first feature-length venture into fiction, The Necessities of Life (2008), won three prizes at Montreal's Festival des films du Monde. It also made it to the nine films shortlist for the 2009 Best Foreign Film Oscar nominations. As well as earning several other awards and special mentions, the film also won three Jutra and four Genie Awards. 
Lixin Fan worked as a producer/journalist at China’s state broadcaster CCTV before he came to live in Montreal and begin his career as a filmmaker. Lixin's debut feature documentary Last Train Home was the winner of the Joris Ivens Award at the 2009 International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam. In 2006, Lixin worked as associate producer/soundman on the acclaimed feature documentary Up the Yangtze, a film about the world’s largest hydroelectric project, the Three Gorges Dam. In 2003, he edited the Peabody and Grierson award-wining documentary To Live Is Better Than to Die. 
Dominic started as a child actor but began developing a passion for filmmaking at a very young age. At 16, he went to New York to study acting, screenwriting and directing, which would later take him to Atlanta and Los Angeles. His background and fascination for filmmaking make him a director with an exceptional understanding of storytelling. He’s the creative mind behind many projects like the television series Celebrity and the epic adventure Zenor. Dominic is known to bring his precise vision to life using his own storyboarding and precise directing. He has been a force in television commercials and music videos. 
Tara Johns is an Alberta-born filmmaker who has built her home and career in Montreal. She has made many music videos and national television commercials. Her first fiction film, Killing Time, was awarded the prize for Best Canadian Short at the 2001 Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival. Her television documentary, The Secret Language of Girls (2005) was broadcast on the W Network and the Independent Film Channel. The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is Johns’ first feature film. 
Jim Cliffe’s experimental short film Tomorrow’s Memoir received the award for best comic oriented film at the 2005 San Diego Comic-Con. Cliffe has worked professionally as an artist and animator for companies such as Kellogg’s, Fox, and Anagram Pictures, and has been recognized by the Nicholl Fellowship and the Page International Screenwriting Awards for his writing. Donovan’s Echo is Cliffe’s first feature film. 
Don Shebib’s first feature, Goin’ Down the Road enjoyed a huge artistic and commercial success, and was twice voted the best feature ever made in English Canada, in 1984 and 1994. The film won Best First Feature at the Taormina Festival in Italy, and was shown at many other festivals, including the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes, and in London, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, and Berlin. 
Boris Rodriguez studied at Concordia University before going on to make the award-winning documentary Havana Kids in 1996. That same year he attended the Canadian Film Centre as a director resident before spending the next two years honing his directorial skills in television. In 2000, Rodriguez’ second film, Beso Nocturno, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was selected for a MoMA retrospective in New York. In 2004 he premiered his third film, Perfect, at TIFF. His first French language film, Maison Jolie Maison is slated for production in 2012. Eddie – The Sleepwalking Cannibal marks Rodriguez’ feature debut. 
Stéphane Lafleur has made 30 short films and is one of the founders of Kino, the Montreal-based association for independent short films. His short films, Karaoké, Snooze and Claude stood apart in film festivals and won many prizes. Lafleur’s first feature film, Continental, un film sans fusil (2007), premiered at Giornate degli autori (Venise Days) of the Venice Film Festival and was selected by many international film festivals. In Toronto, the film won the CityTV prize for best Canadian first feature film, and at Namur, for best film. Continental was also awarded the prize for best film, best director, best screenplay and best supporting actor at the 2008 Jutra Awards. 
After graduating from York University's Film Production Department, Aaron Woodley worked as writer, stop-animation animator, and editor. His early short films include: Pipe Dreams (1994), The Wager (1998), Bed & Breakfast (2000), and Downpour (2000). His feature film debut, Rhinoceros Eyes, won the Discovery Award at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival. His follow-up, in 2008, was Tennessee. That same year, Woodley made one of the four films comprising the feature, Toronto Stories, which made its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Entitled is Woodley’s third solo feature film. 
Working for the past 25 years in the realms of feature film and advertising, Violette Daneau has made her career as an art director and production designer. She has worked with numerous Quebec and international filmmakers including André Melançon, Alain Goldstein, Jean Marc Piché and Richard Roy, and Marta Mészaros, from Hungary, Waldemar Kziki, from Poland and the American, Robert Altman.
Darlene is a writer and director from Atikameksheng - Whitefish Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario, Canada. She is an independent filmmaker creating Rez-Style films. Her first feature, Cradlesong, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003. She is a visual artist who owns Pine Needle Productions, an award-winning production company located on Whitefish Lake First Nation. 
Writer, producer, director and editor, Jephté Bastien has been both director of photography and editor for many television documentaries. His short films have won many prizes. His first feature film Haiti Through My Eyes, a docufiction, was screened at many film festivals including Reelworld, Toronto and the American Black Film Festival, and won the prize for best film on the African Diaspora at the 14th Diaspora Film Festival, in New York. The film also earned a special mention from the jury of the Festival Vues d’Afrique, Montreal. Jephté Bastien has an evenhanded vision, which allows him to open his own window on the Seventh Art. 
Born in Budapest, Hungary, George Mihalka is known for the ease with which he moves from comedy to drama in theatrical features and in television. Mihalka’s films, made in both French and English, have achieved record sales at the Canadian box office and his series, record ratings. Since 1988, Mihalka’s films, television movies, and miniseries have been honoured with over 50 nominations and awards in Canada, the United States and internationally. Faith, Fraud and Minimum Wage is his 15th feature film. 
Carl Bessai is a director, producer, writer and cinematographer. His award-winning feature films have won international critical acclaim at numerous festivals including Sundance, Berlin, and Toronto and have been released theatrically around the world. Feature dramas include Johnny (1999), Lola (2001), Emile (2003), Severed (2005), Unnatural & Accidental (2006), Normal (2007), and Cole (2009).
Patrick Huard is an actor, comedian, director, author and producer. He has played in many films including Good Cop Bad Cop, and in many television series, including Taxi 0-22, which he both directs and stars in as Rogatien. Huard has also presented two solo comedy shows and participated in many of the galas of the Montreal comedy festival Juste pour Rire. As a filmmaker, Huard has made television commercials, video clips and the feature film Les 3 P’tits Cochons, which, in 2007, was the biggest box-office hit of Quebec cinema. Filière 13 is his second feature film. 
Born in Montreal in 1961, Jeanne Crépeau has spent the past 20 years exploring different types and formats of film, outside the commercial trends. Parallel to her studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal (communications), the Canadian Film Centre, and the Sorbonne Nouvelle, where she completed a master’s degree in film in 2005, Jeanne Crépeau apprenticed her craft with such filmmakers as a Jean-Claude Lauzon, Léa Pool, Chantal Akerman and Jacques Doillon. From video installations to animation, taking in documentary and fiction films, Crépeau’s eclectic path has allowed her to develop a personal style, full of humour. 
Sturla Gunnarsson is one of Canada’s most prolific filmmakers, moving between feature films, documentaries, and television drama. His work has received scores of international accolades including Genie, Gemini and Emmy Awards, the Prix Italia, and an Oscar nomination. Gunnarsson’s films include: Air India 182, Beowulf and Grendel, Rare Birds, Such a Long Journey, Gerrie & Louise, and Final Offer. His television drama credits include Defying Gravity, Intelligence, and DaVinci’s Inquest, and the TV movies Above and Beyond, Scorn and 100 Days in the Jungle. Gunnarsson is the national president of the Directors’ Guild of Canada. 
A veteran producer of feature films, television mini series, and made-for-television films, Kevin Tierney is a Canadian pioneer in bilingual films. One of the first ever such films, Bon Cop Bad Cop, which Tierney also co-wrote, won the Genie for Best Film and is the highest grossing movie in domestic box office history. Earlier feature films produced by Tierney include Good Neighbours (2010) and The Trotsky (2009), both written and directed by his son Jacob Tierney. In 2005, Kevin Tierney produced the TV movie One Dead Indian, which received a nomination for best screenplay and won the Best Director honours at the 2006 Gemini Awards. French Immersion is Tierney’s first feature as director. 
After winning many prizes for his advertisements, Sylvain Archambault, a fine arts graduate from Concordia University, turned his hand to television drama: Le Négociateur I and Le Négociateur II (2004, TVA), Le 7e round (2006, Radio-Canada), Bob Gratton II (2007, TQS), Les Lavigueur, la vraie histoire (2007, Radio-Canada), and Bob Gratton III (2008, TQS). In 2008, after making his first feature film, Pour toujours les Canadiens, Archambault made Piché: entre ciel et terre 2010, which was the biggest box office hit in Canada in 2010. 
Richard Roy’s work includes 14 feature films, two television series, and three shorts. A graduate of Laval and Concordia universities, Roy began his career in short films, including Transit, which won the Normande-Juneau prize for best Quebec short, honourable mention at the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand festival, and a Genie nomination for best Canadian short. The release of Café Olé in 2000 was Roy’s first feature film in English and won accolades from the critics for its sensitivity, freshness, and intelligence. In 2001 and 2002, Roy directed 12 episodes of the television series Le dernier chapitre, shown on CBC and Radio-Canada. 
Calgary native, Michael Dowse started out in the editing suite then graduated to short films and music videos for the musical group, The New Pornographers. In 2000, he made his first feature film Fubar, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s All Gone Pete Tong was Dowse’s second feature, going on to win the City Award at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, best film at HBO’s Comedy Festival and best film at the Gen Art Film Festival. 
A graduate of the film programs of both Concordia University, in Montreal, and the University of Southern California, Daniel Roby began his career as director of photography for the feature film, Trick or Treat (2001), then made his first fiction short film, Quelques instants de la vie d’une fraise. La Peau blanche was Roby’s first feature film and was sold in 12 countries and screened at 25 festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival where it won best first film. The film was also voted one of the top 10 Canadian films of 2005 and selected by New York’s Museum of Modern Art for its list of best Canadian films. In 2005, La Peau blanche was awarded the Claude Jutra prize for best first film at the Genies. 
Gary Burns studied drama and fine arts at the University of Calgary before attending Concordia University in Montreal. His feature directorial debut, The Suburbanators (1995) was voted one of the ten best films of 1996 by the Toronto Critics’ Association. He followed that success with Kitchen Party (1997); waydowntown (2000), which won for best Canadian feature at the Toronto International Film Festival; A Problem with Fear (2003); and Radiant City (2006), which won the Genie for best documentary. The Future is Now! is Burns’ fifth feature film. 
Filmmaker, journalist, writer, activist, Peter Raymont has produced and directed over 100 films and TV series. His films have received 42 international awards including two Oscar shortlists, 13 Gemini Awards (45 nominations), several Gold and Silver Hugos, the Sesterce d’Argent and other international honours. His documentary feature, Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire received the 2007 Emmy for Best Documentary and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Raymont is the Executive Producer and co-creator of the award-winning TV drama series The Border, produced for the CBC, sold to 25 broadcasters, and versioned into 11 languages. 
Alain DesRochers began in advertising, winning prizes awarded by the Publicité Club de Montréal, and from the Mondial de la publicité francophone. Following three shorts, including L’Oreille de Joé (2000), DesRochers’ first feature, La Bouteille, was a finalist at the Genies. For television, he directed two episodes of Tony and Ridley Scott’s The Hunger, as well as the series, Music Hall I and II. He also directed the first season of the successful Radio-Canada series, Les Bougon : c’est aussi ça la vie and episodes of Charlie Jade and Nos étés. His feature film Nitro (2007) was a major success. In 2010, he directed the series, Musée Éden, and the feature film, Cabotins starring Rémy Girard and Yves Jacques. 
Montreal-born Jacob Tierney began working as an actor in film and television at the age of six. Among his credits are Josh and S.A.M., The Neon Bible, Rainbow, This Is My Father, The Life Before This, and Walk All Over Me. Tierney’s directorial career began in 2002 with the short Dad. His feature films include Twist, a modern take on Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, which received a Genie nomination for Tierney’s screenplay, and the internationally acclaimed The Trotsky (2009). Good Neighbours is his third feature film. 
Michael Dowse began his career with short films and music videos. In 2000, he made his first feature FUBAR, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s All Gone Pete Tong, Dowse’s second feature, won the City Award at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival, and Best Film at both HBO’s Aspen Comedy Festival and the Gen Art Film Festival in New York. The Foundation, Dowse’s first foray into cable television, premiered on Showcase in 2009. Recent films include FUBAR II, which opened Midnight Madness at TIFF in 2010, and Take Me Home Tonight, slated for release in 2011. Goon is Dowse’s fifth feature film. 
Thomas Wallner is a producer, writer, director, and game designer working in feature film, television, games and interactive media. His company, Xenophile Media, is recognized internationally as one of the world's leading cross-platform TV pioneers. In 2007, Wallner developed the story concept for Late Fragment, Canada's first interactive feature drama produced by the National Film Board of Canada. In addition to producing innovative cross-media properties, he has written five award-winning feature documentaries, including a film, interactive world and video web series adaptation of the bestselling children's book Hana's Suitcase. Wallner is a recipient of numerous honours including two Emmy Awards. 
Trained in philosophy, Russian studies, and cinema, Marc Bisaillon is a screenwriter, director, author, and composer. He directed the short films SPCE (2002), Y’en n’a pas comme nous! (2004), and One Take One Shot (2007). In 2007, he also directed the feature-length drama La lâcheté (Cowardice). Guilt is the second part of a tetralogy, begun with Cowardice, about the guilty conscience. 
William Phillips is a Canadian writer and director presently living in Southern California. Prior to Gunless, Phillips wrote and directed Foolproof, starring Ryan Reynolds, which was, at the time, the largest Canadian independent feature release in Canada. Phillips' first feature film, Treed Murray received its world premiere at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival and was honoured with Genie nominations for Best Director and Best Picture. Treed Murray garnered two 2002 Genie Awards for sound. Phillips is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, and the Canadian Film Centre. 
One of Canada’s pre-eminent cult fimmakers, Bruce McDonald is known for his debut feature Roadkill, which was followed by the other two films in his Road Trilogy, Hard Core Logo and Highway 61. In between executive producing and directing the television series Twitch City and directing for shows like Queer As Folk, Degrassi: The Next Generation, and Less Than Kind, McDonald also directed the films Dance Me Outside, Picture Claire, Claire’s Hat, The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess, The Tracey Fragments, Pontypool, Trigger, This Movie Is Broken and the feature documentary Music from the Big House. 
Jason Eisener’s first underground success was the 60-minute, 2003 thriller Fist of Death. He second short, The Teeth Beneath, was recognized as Best Local Film by The Coast magazine, and it put Eisener on the Chronicle Herald’s 2005 honour roll for contributing to the Halifax art scene. In 2007, Eisener collaborated with Rob Cotterill and John Davies to make the fake trailer, Hobo with a Shotgun. Treevenge was the follow-up short film in 2008. The film won an honourable mention for short films at the Sundance Film Festival. Hobo with a Shotgun is his first feature film. 
Maxime Giroux has made several short films including Le rouge au sol and Les jours, which were screened at more than 50 film festivals. His films have won more than 15 international awards, including the prize for best short film at the Toronto International Film Festival, as well as awards at the Genies and at Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma. Giroux’s first feature film, Demain, was selected for the official competition at the Torino Film Festival and received a special mention by the jury at the Festival du francophone de Tübingen. Jo pour Jonathan is his second feature film. 
A founding member of the Coop Vidéo de Montréal in 1977, Robert Morin has made about 30 films and videos of varying lengths, of which most have won awards and nominations internationally. Morin is a titan in Quebec’s video community and one of the most prolific and innovative filmmakers of his generation with. His feature films include Quiconque meurt, meurt à douleur (1997), Yes Sir! Madame... (1994), Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur (1992), Le Nèg’ (2002), Que Dieu bénisse l’Amérique and Petit Pow! Pow! Noël (2005) and Papa à la chasse aux lagopèdes (2008). 
The son of French parents, Mitrani was born in Toronto and lived in France before moving to Montreal in 2004 at the age of 34. At the age of 25, Mitrani discovered Elia Kazan’s work and autobiography and was inspired to attend lessons given by Jean Rouch and Jean Douchet at the Cinémathèque de Paris. In 1999, he wrote and directed his first short film, After Shave, which was broadcast on Canal+ later that same year and presented at the Cannes outdoors screenings in 2000. Sur la trace d’Igor Rizzi, starring Laurent Lucas and Emmanuel Bilodeau, was Mitrani’s feature directorial debut. The film was an official Venice Film Festival selection and won the award for best Canadian film at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. 
Guy Maddin has 10 feature films to his credit, including cult-classics Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988) and Archangel (1990), the latter of which won the U.S. National Film Critics Award for best experimental film of the year. Other awards include the Telluride Silver Medal for life achievement in 1995, an Emmy for his ballet movie, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, and the San Francisco International Film Festival's Persistence of Vision Award in 2006. His most recent films include The Saddest Music in the World (2003), Brand upon the Brain! (2006), and My Winnipeg (2007). 
Frédérik D’Amours began as a television director, notably on shows such as Un tueur si proche (2004), Les ex (2004), Miss Météo I (2007) and Miss Météo II (2008), Bienvenue aux dames (2009), and Ties That Bind (2009). In film, he has directed À vos marques... Party ! I (2006), Noémie (2008), and À vos marques... Party ! II. 
Since 2003 Ant Horasanli has written/produced/directed, and edited over 70 music videos and commercials for international clients around the world. His documentary feature Redline won Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Long Island, New York film festival. Horasanli wrote, directed, edited, and served as co-producer on his first feature film Lost Journey. 
In 2000, Guy Édoin earned his certificate in screenwriting from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Continuing his studies at the Université de Montréal, he made his first short films: Comme une image (2002) and Placebo (2002). In 2004, he made Le Pont, a first film in a trilogy of short films entitled Les affluents. Le Pont was screened in more than 20 festivals around the world. Les eaux mortes (2006), the second film in the trilogy, enjoyed a similar success, as did the last in the trilogy, La battue (2008). Marécages is Édoin’s first feature film. 
After studying film and earning a MS in English literature, in France, Audrey Fouché presented her student screenplay, Memories Corner, to Jérôme Vidal, a producer at Noodles Production. The work earned her a place at the L’Université d’été internationale du cinéma – emergence, a summer film program for emerging filmmakers in France. Alongside her personal projects, Fouché is a screenplay consultant for short and feature films. Memories Corner is Fouché’s first feature film. 
Modra is Ingrid Veninger’s second feature film as writer, producer and director. Her first was the acclaimed micro-budgeted Only, which was screened in 2008 at the international film festivals in Rome and Toronto as well as at Slamdance. Born in Bratislava and raised in Canada, Veninger formed pUNK Films Inc. in 2003 with a “nothing is impossible” manifesto. An award-winning creative producer, Ingrid has made numerous films, including: Gambling; Gods and LSD, which, in 2002, won the Genie for best documentary; and The Limb Salesman and Nurse.Fighter.Boy, which, together, were nominated for 10 Genies in 2010. 
In 2000, Philippe Falardeau directs his first feature film, La moitié gauche du frigo (The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge). With Congorama, released in 2006, Falardeau offers us his second feature, a Canada-Belgium-France coproduction premiered at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes as the closing night film. C’est pas moi, je le jure!, his third feature film, wins the prestigious Chrystal Bear and Deutsche Kinderhilfswerk Grand Prix Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Monsieur Lazhar, premiered on the Piazza Grande at Locarno Film Festival, is Canada’s submission to the 84th edition of the Oscars and has won a nomination in the Best Foreign-Language Film category. 
Writer, producer and documentary filmmaker, Bettina Ehrhardt holds a degree in literature and cinema from the Université de Lyon II. Her first film, Un sillage sur la mer – Abbado, Nono, Pollini (2001) had its premiere at Montreal’s Festival international du Film sur l’art (FIFA) as well as at the Ernst von Siemens Foundation for Music. Intolleranza – Luigi Nono’s Scenic Action as Seen Today (2004), was also screened at FIFA. Ehrhardt’s other films include: ... où je n’ai jamais été, Le compositeur Helmut Lachenmann (2006) and La Route des esclaves à Ouidah (2008), which won the Tourna d’Or prize. In 2009, L’Élu du Vodoun – Celui à qui appartient la mer won the prix du public at the Festival Quintessence in Bénin, Africa. 
Mary Harron’s last film was The Notorious Bettie Page, starring Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, and Jared Harris. The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005 to critical acclaim. Prior to that, Harron directed the internationally successful American Psycho. For her work on this film, she was nominated for Director of the Year by the London Film Critics’ Circle. Harron made her debut as a feature-film writer/director in 1996 with I Shot Andy Warhol. She has directed episodes of many acclaimed television series, including Homicide, Oz, The L Word, Six Feet Under, and Big Love. 
A founding partner of Rhombus Media, Larry Weinstein is one of the world’s most renowned directors of music documentaries and performance specials. His films about the lives of twentieth-century composers have been screened and awarded at major festivals around the world and he has been the subject of over a dozen retrospectives in four continents. Recently, he completed his first non-music film, Inside Hana’s Suitcase (2009), which has been screened at 75 festivals worldwide. Mulroney: The Opera is Weinstein's third comic-operatic collaboration with composer Alexina Louie and writer/librettist Dan Redican following the award-winning Toothpaste (2001) and Burnt Toast (2005). 
Playwright, director, and actor Yves Sioui-Durand is a member of the Huron-Wendat nation and the founder of Ondinnok, Quebec’s only First Nations theatre company working in French. His play, Le porteur des peines du monde (carrier of the pain of the world) won a prize at Montreal’s Festival de Théâtre des Amériques and earned him an international reputation. In 1995, Sioui-Durand was playwright in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts. He is active in the Association de recherche des traditions de l’acteur. Nana Mesnak is Sioui-Durand’s first feature film set on an Indian reserve and directed, in French, by an Amerindian. 
Ann Verrall is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) and her films have been screened at festivals all over the world. Her first film The Water’s Tale won five awards in the USA and in Canada. Ann is heavily involved in education, teaching scriptwriting at NSCAD, and working with various media arts organizations to develop new education programming. Her other film credits include Rain (2000) and The Wait (2006). 
Born in 1982 in St-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Anne Émond has lived and worked in Montreal for 10 years. In 2005, she completed her bachelor’s degree in communications at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her student film, Qualité de l’air, was screened at numerous festivals. In 2009, her short film, L’ordre des choses, won the Coop Vidéo prize for best short film at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois and was a finalist in the same category at the Jutras. Her film Naissances figured in the Canada Top Ten in 2009 and, in 2010, Sophie Lavoie won for best short at the Festival du nouveau cinéma. Nuit No 1 is Émond’s first feature film. 
Simon graduated from the University of Calgary with a degree in English literature, then moved to Vancouver to write and direct movies. Since 2002 he has made three shorts, all of which have screened internationally and at the Toronto International Film Festival, among other Canadian Festivals. The Odds is his first feature film. 
French-born Mateo Guez is an award winning writer, director and producer. His short film, L’Ultima Notte, was acclaimed at numerous international film festivals including Toronto, Berlin and Clermond-Ferrand.
Born in Vancouver, Ryan Redford graduated from York University’s film program and received an apprenticeship in directing from the Academy of Canadian Cinema. He has written and directed six short films which have screened at more than 50 international festivals and been broadcast on television stations including CBC, IFC, Showcase and France3. His two most recent shorts, Song of Wreckage and Lake, were both produced through the National Film Board of Canada and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2003 and 2005, respectively. His feature script Bone won for Best Unproduced Screenplay at the 2007 Writers’ Guild of Canada Awards. Oliver Sherman is Redford’s first feature film. 
Shelagh Carter works in Winnipeg, New York, and Los Angeles. She is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio, both as an actress and as a director. Carter is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre's Directors Lab and Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg. Her 35 mm short, One Night, has screened at several international film festivals. Her 2007 short, Night Travellers, was awarded the National Screen Institute Drama Prize. Passionflower is her first feature film. 
Known for his popular films, Gabriel Pelletier wrote and directed his first feature film, L’automne sauvage, in 1992. In 1996, he co-wrote and directed Karmina, which earned 13 nominations for the Génies and won many prizes in film festivals. In 2000, he directed Life After Love, which won the Golden Ticket at the Jutras and the people’s prize at the Just For Laughs comedy festival. En 2001, Pelletier co-wrote and directed K2, which outdid Karmina at the box office. En 2004, he co-produced the feature film Les aimants, directed by Yves Pelletier. In 2007 Pelletier returned to directing with the feature, Ma tante Aline. La peur de l’eau is the fifth feature film he has directed. 
Right out of film school, Sylvain Archambault created Les Productions Wolfpack and made documentaries, feature films and video clips for major Quebec artists. As a director of publicity films, he signed on many national companies including the Olympic Games and won the Coq d’Argent and the Coq de Bronze from the Publicité Club de Montréal and twice made the finals for the London Advertising Film Award. Since 2004, Archambault has directed such television series as Bob Gratton and Le négociateur. His serie, Le 7e round, was nominated for the 2007 Gémeaux awards and the following year, he won the Gémeaux for best director of a dramatic series for Les Lavigueur, la vraie histoire. Following that, Archambault made the feature film, The Canadiens, Forever. 
After film school, German Gutierrez worked as a cameraman and soon began directing. The social and political nature of his films took him to the four corners of the globe, often into war zones. Among his feature documentary films are: L’affaire Coca-Cola (TV3 International Documentary award), Le monde selon Lula, Qui a tiré sur mon frère? (People’s Choice award at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal), Société sous influence, and La familia latina (Golden Sheaf at the Yorkton Film Festival). Germain has also directed many television series including Survivre and Technopolis. His most remarkable work as cinematographer and director on the series Insectia earned him numerous awards. 
Born in Lima, Peru, Carlos Ferrand Zavala has lived in Montreal for 25 years. He has worked as director, screenwriter, and director of photography for more than 35 years. Loyal to his Latin American roots, he’s happy as a non-specialist and is as interested in documentary film as in fiction. His most important films include : Cimarrones (1982), Cuervo (1989), Visionnaires (1999), Kwekànamad - Le vent tourne (1999), La Griffe magique (2005) and Americano (2007). 
Born in 1947, Micheline Lanctôt’s career was initially focussed on animated film and acting. In 1980, she wrote and directed her first feature film, L’homme à tout faire, which was selected for Cannes’s Directors’ Fortnight. Her second feature, Sonatine, won the Silver Lion at Venice’s Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica 1984. Continuing to write and act Lanctôt, wrote, directed, and produced Deux actrices (1993), which was awarded the prize for best film at the Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois. In 1999, she won a Gémeaux (best actress) for the television series, Le Pollock. She then directed Le piège d’Issoudun (2002), Les guerriers (2004), and Suzie (2008). Lanctôt was awarded the Albert Tessier prize in 2000, and the Governor General’s award for Performing Arts in 2003. 
Deborah Chow was born in Toronto shortly after her parents emigrated from Australia. She completed her undergrad at McGill University and received her MFA in directing from Columbia University. She has written and directed two short films, Daypass and The Hill, both of which toured extensively on the festival circuit and were broadcast worldwide. The High Cost of Living is her first feature. 
Born in Quebec City in 1937, Richard Lavoie was initiated early on to the seventh art by his father, Herménégilde Lavoie, a pioneer in Quebec cinema. Between 1960 and 1980, after finishing his classical studies, Richard Lavoie directed a production and post-production studio in Northern Quebec, which marked the era. Working outside of the big urban centres, he created his own brand of cinéma direct. As an independent, Lavoie produced, wrote, directed, filmed and edited 100 films, mostly documentaries. The subject matter included territory history, childhood, the Inuit, art, navigation and agriculture. Noël à l’île aux Grues, Rang 5 and Le temps des Madelinots are a few important titles from his filmmography. 
Garwin Sanford comes to his role as director of Rain Down after a long and distinguished career as an actor. He’s been cast in hundreds of projects around the world, including recurring roles in over 15 series. His acting has received four nominations for best actor, included a nomination for his role in The David Milgaard Story. As the head of acting within Langara College’s Film Arts Program (Vancouver), Garwin has mentored dozens of students through the process of creating their own short films along with directing two short films of his own: Where There’s Smoke and Resurrection. Rain Down is his first feature as director. 
S. Wyeth Clarkson’s work in film began in the editing rooms of Toronto’s Rhombus Media and the National Film Board of Canada. These two establishments allowed him to work with and learn from some of Canada's finest directors. Red Coat Justice is his third feature film. 
Jeremy Power Regimbal is the co-owner and a director/producer of The Lab Films (TSM Entertainment). He is also the editor-in-chief and creative director of the internationally distributed publication, The Lab Magazine. He has directed short films, commercials, and videos for clients such as Lykke Li, Telus, BC Film, Mastercraft Boats, and Xcel Wetsuits, while his music videos and television work has aired on networks including Global, City TV, Fuel TV, Fishing Network, Outdoor Life Network, MTV, and MuchMusic. Created with Justin and Josh Close, Replicas is Regimbal’s feature film directorial debut. 
Since founding Les Productions Vidéofilms Ltée. in 1972, Robert Ménard has produced 20 feature films for both television and cinema, as well as eight television series. For 10 of his productions, Ménard has won 30 prizes from 25 film festivals and international events. In 1987, he initiated a series of feature films for television, 28 of which were sold in 25 countries and were screened in 75 film festivals, earning a total of 35 prizes. Ménard's feature films include Le Bonheur de Pierre, Amoureux fou, L'homme de rêve, Cruising Bar 1 and 2, La Beauté des Femmes, T'es belle Jeanne and Une Journée en taxi. 
Andrew Bush is a Halifax-based writer/actor/director who has been working in television for over ten years. His credits include head writer for the Emmy award-winning show Street Cents and writing credits for This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Robson Arms, and Canadian Idol. In 2005, Andrew was one of the first Canadians to offer online sketch comedy via Youtube and eventually went on to co-found the online sketch troupe Picnicface, co-writing and acting in all of their sketches. He also directs and edits all of their live action comedy shorts. Roller Town, which he directed and co-wrote, is his debut feature film. 
Ivan Grbovic studied film at Concordia University and earned a Master’s degree in cinematography from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He served as director of photography on many films before beginning to direct in 2006. He has made two short films, La chute and Les mots. Roméo onze is Grbovic’s first feature film. 
In 1999, Louis Bélanger’s first feature film, Post Mortem, won the prize for best director at the World Film Festival of Montreal and for best feature film from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma. In 2000, Post Mortem earned him five Jutra awards, including best director, best film and best screenplay, and three Genie awards including the prize for best new director and best screenplay. In 2001, with Isabelle Hébert, Bélanger directed Lauzon Lauzone, a feature-length documentary on Quebec filmmaker Jean-Claude Lauzon. Gaz Bar Blues, which he wrote and directed, opened the World Film Festival of Montreal in 2003 and won many prizes including the prix de la Presse at the Paris Film Festival. Since then, Bélanger has directed two feature films: Le génie du crime (2006), an adaptation of a George F. Walker play, and The Timekeeper, an adaptation of Trevor Ferguson’s novel of the same title. 
Thomas is an award-winning writer, actor, and filmmaker. At the age of 17, he landed his own comedy series, Y B Normal? on the Comedy Network. Since 2005, he has made three feature films: the bilingual comedy Greg & Gentillon, international cult hit Hank and Mike (with Joe Mantegna and Chris Klein), and most recently his directorial debut, Running Mates. Thomas wrote, produced, and starred in all his films, which have won awards and been released theatrically in several countries. In 2008, Playback Magazine named Michael one of the Next 25 – Canada’s Rising Stars and Dealmakers. 
Dominic Desjardins is a graduate of the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art in Paris. Once back in Canada in 1997, he participated in the Course destination monde, a Radio-Canada show that featured the short films made by selected young filmmakers while travelling the world. Desjardins later participated in Fais ça court, a Télé-Québec program that featured short films. After working as a television director, Desjardins founded, along with producer Rayne Zukerman, the independent production company Zazie Films. His first feature film, Le divan du monde, won the TV5 award for best French language film made outside Quebec. La sacrée is his second feature film. 
Sébastien Pilote was born in 1973 in the Saguenay region of Quebec where he continues to live. After finishing his studies in cinema at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Pilote worked for several years both as programmer for the Regard sur le court métrage (A Look at Short Films) festival in the Saguenay and in television news as a producer. In 2007, he made his first short film for television, Dust Bowl Ha! Ha!, which won him acclaim and awards at several film festivals. The Salesman is his first feature film. 
Writer, creator, journalist, director and producer, Nancy Florence Savard began her professional career in Canada in 1988. In 1998, she founded 10th Ave Productions and, in 2002, created her first 3D animated film, The Legend of the Christmas Tree. Over the following few years, Savard directed and produced a collection of four animated Christmas films. In 2001, she founded 10th Ave Publishing and has created 10 multimedia educational games with characters from her films. 
Michael McGowan can now add lyricist to his resume, thanks to Score: A Hockey Musical, which he also wrote, produced and directed. His previous feature, One Week (2008) was a box-office hit and won numerous awards, including a Genie for best actor. It was picked up in the US by IFC and has sold internationally. Saint Ralph (2004) also sold around the world and won the WGC Best Screenplay Award, the DGC Best Director Award, the Grand Prix at the Paris Film Festival, the Audience Award at the London Film Festival, and the Canadian Film Circuit’s People’s Choice Award. McGowan also created and executive produced the award-winning animated children’s series Henry’s World, broadcast in over 50 countries, and he is the best-selling author of the young adult novel Newton and the Giant and its sequel Newton and the Time Travel Machine. 
Jamie Kastner’s idiosyncratic black-comic documentaries, including Kike Like Me, Recessionize! For Fun and Profit, Djangomania! and Free Trade Is Killing My Mother have entertained, provoked, and irritated people all over – thanks to BBC Storyville, Sundance Channel, TVOntario, and a raft of other international broadcasters. He is also a journalist and has written and directed theatre. 
Émile Gaudreault got his start as an author and comedian in the Quebec comedy troupe, Groupe Sanguin. He also wrote for other comedians, directed comedy shows and began writing for television. In 2001, Gaudreault wrote the comedy, Louis 19, le roi des ondes. In 2001, he made his first film, Nuit de noces, and, in 2003, co-wrote the screenplay and directed Mambo Italiano. In 2007, he directed Surviving My Mother. Gaudreault’s fourth feature film, De Père en flic co-written with Ian Lauzon, was the biggest box-office success in Quebec in 2009. 
Award-winning director Warren Sonoda is one of Canada’s most in-demand feature filmmakers. He has directed numerous films including Ham & Cheese (2004), which Variety hailed as a «MUST SEE!», 5ive Girls (2006), Coopers’ Camera (TIFF, 2008), The Puck Hogs (2008), Unrivaled (2009), and Textuality (2008). 
Ed Gass-Donnelly directed his first feature film, This Beautiful City, in 2007. Small Town Murder Songs is his second feature film. 
A 20-year veteran of the film and television industry, Brett Heard brings a unique perspective to all of his projects. Having spent six years performing stand-up comedy in clubs across Canada and the United States, Heard has appeared in more than 100 American and Canadian commercials and had recurring roles in television series and movies of the week. Shifting his focus to behind the camera, Heard has written and directed many commercials, television pilots, short films, and stage plays and was nominated for the Best Director Award at the 2006 Canadian Comedy Awards for the short film Lovegirl. Stag is Heard’s feature film debut. 
Karen Lam has been a full-time producer since 2000. Highlights of her career include: The Bone Snatcher (2003), which was the first Canada-South Africa-United Kingdom feature film certified under the South Africa-Canada treaty and, in 2005, the fourth season of The Creative Native, which received the Leo Award for best information series. She also produced the short film Head Shot for Dennis Heaton (2006), which premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival.
Ken Scott is an actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He wrote the screenplays of his first short film, Hors la loi, and his first feature, La vie après l'amour. In 2003, his second feature screenplay, La grande séduction, was screened at the closing of the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. In 2004, Scott wrote the screenplay for the feature, Maurice Richard, which was finalist in the 2006 Jutras awards in many categories including best screenplay. In 2007, two of Scott’s screenplays were finalists for Genie awards: Maurice Richard and Le guide de la petite vengeance. In 2009, he directed his first feature film, Les doigts croches, which he co-wrote with Roy Dupuis. Starbuck is Scott’s second time directing a feature film. 
Aaron Houston is an independent filmmaker living in Vancouver. Houston has written and directed several short films, including Schlick Schlims and Two Theories, One Stone, as well as several commercials for Nokia and multiple segments for the Canadian Tourism Commission. In 2009, he won two awards at Big Rock Brewery’s 2009 Eddie Awards for his commercial, Rooster. An active member of the local film community, Houston co-produces the Celluloid Social Club, a Vancouver forum for filmmakers and viewers, and is co-founder of the Hot Shots Shorts competition, which gives opportunities to emerging filmmakers. Sunflower Hour is his first feature film. 
Charles-Olivier Michaud made his first short film, Babylon, in 2007. In 2009 and 2010, he made several commercials for the Quatre Zéro Un agency. In 2010, he made his first feature film, Snow & Ashes. 
Sarah Polley has been writing and directing since 1999 when she made her directorial debut with the short film, The Best Day of My Life. In 2007, Polley wrote and directed her first feature film, Away from Her, adapted from the Alice Munro short story The Bear Came over the Mountain. The film garnered two Academy Award nominations (best adapted screenplay, best actress), a Golden Globe (best actress), and seven Genie Awards including best picture and best director. Take This Waltz is Polley’s second feature film. 
Olivier Abbou has directed four short films: Un jour de plus (1998), Clin(s) d’oeil (1999), Le Tombeur (2001) and Manon (2003). For television, he directed and co-wrote, with Delphine Bertholon, Madame Hollywood (2006-2007), a miniseries in three 26-minute episodes for the Canal+ programme La Nouvelle Trilogie. Territories shot simultaneously in both English and French is Abbou's first feature film. 
After directing over 140 music videos, Warren P. Sonoda turned his hand to feature filmmaking in 2004 with the comedy Ham & Cheese (2004). He has since made Cooper’s Camera (2008), The Puck Hogs (2009), and Unrivaled (2010). In addition, Sonoda is a writer and editor, having edited such films as Rob Stefaniuk’s Phil The Alien (2004) and writing the screenplays for his horror film Five Girls and Bob Keen’s Heartstopper, both made in 2006. 
Jay Dahl is a writer, director and producer of feature films and television. He has made over a dozen award-winning shorts that have played in more than 40 film festivals around the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival and the British Film Institute. Dahl has directed comedy, drama and documentary for prime-time Canadian television. On the internet, his work has earned millions of views. Dahl is also an award-winning commercial director in the ad world.
Catherine Martin was born in Québec. She studied film and photography at Concordia University in Montréal and worked as an editor for a few years. She writes and directs all her films. In 2001, she wrote and directed her first feature film, Marriages. Both this film and her second feature film, Dans les villes were screened at numerous film festivals including Berlin, Toronto, Oberhausen, Nyon, Buenos Aires and Shanghai and won prizes, both internationally and in Canada. Trois temps après la mort d’Anna is her third feature film. 
A film graduate from the Université du Québec à Montréal, Julie Hivon has made three short films, Baiser d’enfant, Dans le parc avec toi and Là-bas, the first of which, won numerous prizes, most notably, the Yorkton Festival and Jove Film Festival in Spain. Hivon also directed an episode from the television series Chambre 13. Her first feature film, Crème glacée, chocolat et autres consolations won the people’s choice prize at the Festival du film francophone de Moncton (2001) and third prize, ex aequo, for best film at the Torino Womens’ Film Festival. A writer as well, Hivon’s novel Ce qu’il en reste, won the Jacqueline Déry-Mochon prize and she has published three short stories, including Ballade pour une fin de millénaire which won the short story contest sponsored by the Montreal magazine, Voir. Hivon teaches film at Ahuntsic Cégep (junior college) in Montreal. 
Elise Swerhone’s most recent documentaries include: Ballet High and Ballet Girls (BRAVO!); One Ocean: Mysteries of the Deep and The Science of the Senses: Hearing (CBC’s The Nature of Things); Restitution and Me, My Brother and My Father’s Van Gogh (CBC’s Witness); Leo Mol: In Light and Shadow (Canwest Global, National Film Board of Canada) and Tommy Douglas: Keeper of the Flame (NFB). Swerhone has also written, directed and edited episodes for the Gemini-winning series Recreating Eden. She has more than 30 documentary credits to her name and has won numerous national and international awards.
François Delisle’s first feature film, Ruth (1994) was met with critical enthusiasm in Quebec, Canada, Germany, Belgium and France. In 2002, Delisle founded Films 53/12 in order to make his second feature, Le bonheur c’est une chanson triste (2004), which was screened in 20 festivals and received international critical recognition. Toi, Delisle’s third feature film was met with great acclaim from both the public and the critics at the 2007 World Film Festival in Montreal. 
After making more than 30 short films, Roger Cantin co-wrote André Melançon’s, La Guerre des toques, and went on to direct many feature films including La Forteresse suspendue, Matusalem, Le dernier des Beauchesne, Simon les nuages, L’assassin jouait du trombone, Le grand zèle and La vengeance de la femme en noir. He then returned to short films with Hero by Nature. Cantin’s films have won numerous prizes both in Canada and abroad. 
After making several short films including Le livre de minuit (1996), produced by TS Productions and the winner of several awards, Thierry Binisti was assistant to Régis Wargnier on the feature film Indochine. He was also assistant to Diane Kuris on the film Après l’Amour, and to Jean-Jacques Zilbermann. After his first feature film, L’outremangeur, Binisti made several films for television, including Versailles, le rêve d’un roi and Louis XV, le soleil noir, which were big successes on France Télévisions. 
Michel Monty is an author, screenwriter, director and actor. His scripts for both film and stage, are resolutely urban and contemporary. His plays, which include Accidents de parcours, Prise de sang, Exodos and Cyberjack, Antartikos, Trois dans le dos, deux dans la tête and Aux champs de mars reflect his social and political engagement. La société des loisirs and Gagarin’s Way, are among his most successful plays. In 2002, he adapted and co-directed his play Cyberjack and made the short film, Adieu Grozny. Une vie qui commence is Monty’s first feature film. 
Chaz Thorne is a Nova Scotia-based writer, director, producer, and founder and president of Standing 8 Productions Inc. In 2006, he wrote and produced his first feature film, Poor Boy’s Game, followed in the same year by the feature film, Just Buried, which Thorne wrote and directed. Whirligig is Thorne’s second feature film as director. 
Born in Toronto, Larysa Kondracki studied English and theatre at McGill University. She was the artistic director of Montreal’s Player’s Theatre for two years before moving to New York to attend the M.F.A.program in film directing at Columbia University. The festival run of Kondracki’s short film, Viko, made in 2008, included a Bronze Remi Award at WorldFest Houston, and a nomination for a Golden Horse at the Milan International Film Festival.
Michael J. Greenspan is a graduate of the American Film Institute’s MFA program. His thesis film, The Legend of Razorback, produced at the AFI and starring legendary film and stage actor Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Death Of A Salesman), won awards in Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, Temecula and Houston where it received the Gold Special Jury award for best dramatic student film. While at AFI, Greenspan was mentored by the late Robert Wise, director of The Sound of Music, West Side Story and Citizen Kane.
Marc-André Lavoie is a storyteller. In 2002, he founded the production company, Orange Médias. He wrote and directed many short films with an eye to preparing for his first feature, Bluff, co-directed with Simon-Olivier Fecteau. Chosen to open the Festival des Films du Monde de Montréal, Bluff was then screened in 50 Quebec theatres. Bluff was one of the top 10 box office hits in Quebec in 2007. Acclaimed by the critics, the film was a finalist at the Genie Awards, for best screenplay, at the Les Olivier, for best comedy film of the year, and at the Jutra Awards, where Emmanuel Bilodeau won for best supporting actor. 
The press has referred to Sean Garrity’s work as “possessing a dark, twisted beauty” (Georgia Strait) and has compared it to that of David Cronenberg (Globe & Mail), and even Luis Buñuel (San Jose MetroActive). His first two feature films, Lucid and INerTia, have won many awards and played at more than 40 festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival, South by Southwest, and the Shanghai International Film Festival. Garrity's short films have also received accolades from around the world, and been sold to distributors and broadcasters on four continents.