Loretta Todd

Loretta Todd is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning director and writer. In addition to having curated film programs at such prestigious film festivals as the Yamagata Documentary Festival, Todd’s films have been viewed around the world, including at the Sundance Festival, the American Indian Festival and the Museum of Modern Art.

Read Loretta Todd's essay Memes for Mothers.

Lynne Fernie

Lynne Fernie is an interdisciplinary artist and award-winning documentary filmmaker. She co-directed and wrote the Genie-winning documentaries Forbidden Love: the Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives, and Fiction and Other Truths: A film about Jane Rule. Her most recent production is Apples and Oranges, a hybrid documentary/animation film for school children, which has screened internationally. Fernie has been active in the art, feminist and gay communities: as a founding member of Fireweed: A Feminist Journal and the Women’s Cultural Building Collective, was editor of Parallélogramme, a national magazine, and has exhibited widely in galleries. She is currently the senior programmer of the Canadian Spectrum programme at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and teaches film and video production for the Department of Film at York University in Toronto.

Read Lynne Fernie's essay From Hot Rollers to Harleys: Rebelling, Conforming and Gender Identities program.

Tami Wilson

For the past ten years Tami Wilson has been active in Vancouver’s documentary community as a festival programmer and independent filmmaker. Her films have screened at festivals around the world and they range in topic from bingo addiction to the gender politics of meat. Tami is currently developing her first feature length film about the people who work in Alberta’s oil rich community of Fort McMurray.

Read Tami Wilson's essay Rockumentaries.