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Barri Cohen is an award-winning writer, director and producer of independent documentaries and factual series, and was among the founding group of filmmakers behind the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival. She is the former editor and publisher of Canada's documentary culture journal, POV. She is currently the magazine's culture policy critic and board chair.
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Kerri Craddock is the Senior Manager of Festival Programming at TIFF, where she works alongside the Festival Artistic Director in developing and implementing programming and strategic plans for the Toronto International Film Festival. She also serves as a Turnout Cabinet member for the National Ballet of Canada.
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Paul Ennis is a fixture in Toronto's independent cinema scene as a both a programmer and a writer and editor. Paul was co-owner of the Revue Repertory Cinema, where he programmed from the 1970s until the mid-1980s. A contributor to NOW Magazine's annual Toronto International Film Festival coverage since the mid-1990s, he currently writes about music and film for TheWholeNote.com.
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Matt Galloway is the host of CBC Radio One's Metro Morning, Toronto's top-rated morning radio program. He was voted Top Radio Personality in 2010 and 2011 by the readers and editors of NOW Magazine, and named a Toronto Hero of 2011 by Torontoist. He currently sits on the board for the Stop Community Food Centre and the Toronto Arts Council.
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Judy Gladstone spent fifteen years developing Bravo!FACT into a world-acclaimed incubator of Canadian filmmakers and new media talent. Prior to that, she ran the Canadian International Development Agency's Canada Fund for Dialogue and Development in the Middle East, and was Canada's cultural attaché in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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Elizabeth Yake is president of the British Columbia–based True West Films, which focuses on developing and producing international co-productions for the world market. Her latest feature, Hadwin's Judgment: The Making of an Environmental Terrorist, shoots in early 2013 in co-production with the NFB and the UK's Passion Pictures.
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Jacob Tierney made his feature debut as a writer/ director in 2003 with Twist, which received four Genie nominations including Best Adapted Screenplay. His recent films are The Trotsky (Genie winner for Best Original Screenplay) and Good Neighbours, both starring Jay Baruchel and Emily Hampshire.
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Eileen Arandiga was the Festival Director of the Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF) in Toronto for six years, and has sat on juries for the TIFF Kids International Film Festival, the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, Interfilm Berlin, and Brief Encounters in Bristol, UK.
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Laura Good is the Programming Coordinator and short film programmer for Film Circuit, TIFF's programming outreach division, which brings Canadian and international independent films and artists to nearly 180 communities from British Columbia to Newfoundland.
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Matthew Hays is a Montreal-based journalist, author, and instructor at Concordia University, where he teaches courses in film, communication studies and journalism. His book The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers, was cited by Quill & Quire as one of the best books of 2007 and won a 2008 Lambda Award. He was a Toronto International Film Festival programmer in 2008 and 2009, and served on the short film jury in 2012.
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Jennifer Jonas is president of New Real Films, whose feature Trigger, directed by Bruce McDonald, was among Canada's Top Ten of 2010, nominated for four Genies, and named Best Canadian Feature by both the Toronto and Vancouver Film Critics Associations. Her other producer credits include I'm Yours, Leslie, My Name is Evil, Toronto Stories, Otto; or, Up with Dead People, Monkey Warfare, and Childstar. She is a board member of Film Ontario and co-chair of the CMPA feature film committee.
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Greg Klymkiw has seen over 30,000 movies. As Senior Creative Consultant and Producer-in-Residence at the Canadian Film Centre for thirteen years, he nurtured hundreds of Canadian filmmakers. He has produced numerous films, including Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Archangel, Careful, City Of Dark, Bubbles Galore and The Last Supper (winner of the Teddy for Best Feature at Berlin in 1995). As an actor, he appeared most notably in Guy Maddin's The Heart of the World.
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