Executive Director of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC), co-founder of Montreal’s Parabola Films, Sarah has been actively involved in Canada’s vibrant film community for the past fifteen years, serving as Chair of Montreal’s documentary festival, RIDM from 2015-2021. Her company, Parabola Films, is a boutique production house known as a champion of independent filmmakers […]
Amos Mac is an artist and television writer who most recently wrote for the new Gossip Girl series on HBO Max. As an out transgender creator, Amos Mac’s work explores identity, second coming of age narratives, and intergenerational relationships through a queer lens. He’s worked across unscripted, documentary, and dramatic series including Amazon’s Transparent and […]
Chase Joynt is a director and writer whose films have won jury and audience awards internationally. With Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase co-directed No Ordinary Man, a feature-length documentary about jazz musician Billy Tipton, which was presented at Cannes Docs 2020 as part of the Canadian Showcase of Docs-in-Progress. Since premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival […]
Aisling Chin-Yee is a producer, writer and director based in Montreal and Los Angeles. In 2021, New Yorker Magazine hailed her latest work, No Ordinary Man, as “a genre unto itself,” and the film premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, AFI and DOCNYC. Her feature directorial debut, The Rest of Us, also premiered […]
Tracie Holder is a filmmaker, consultant, producer and U.S. film funding specialist. A 2016 Sundance Creative Producers Fellow, Holder leads workshops, tutors and serves on juries at international pitching and training sessions. She is widely regarded as a “go-to” person and all-round resource for artists seeking U.S. funding having raised more than $3 million in […]
Sara Bolder spent twenty years as a film and sound editor, working on Star Wars Episode One, The English Patient, Terminator 2, The Horse Whisperer, Mrs. Doubtfire, and many other films. She won Golden Reel Awards from the Motion Picture Sound Editors for Best Sound Editing for Jurassic Park and Saving Private Ryan and was […]
Marcela is a Fulbright Scholar; she studied film at Universidad Católica de Chile. In the year 2014, she acquired her MFA in Film Producing at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. She created and produced the TV Show, Chile Suena, winner of the Chilean National TV Fund. Between 2012-2015 she resided in Los Angeles, […]