Meaghan Brander
Meaghan Brander holds a degree in Film Studies from Queen's University. She has worked at the Toronto International Film Festival Group for seven years, most recently as a Film Circuit Manager, TIFF's outreach programming division devoted to promoting Canadian cinema across Canada. In this capacity, she has had the opportunity to coordinate screenings of some of Canada's best and most popular films at venues as far-reaching as Dawson City, Yukon, to festivals in Australia, Iceland, and South America.

Jacqueline Brodie
Born in France, educated in Paris, Jacqueline adopted Montreal in her early twenties and became a Canadian citizen. She started her career as a freelance writer for CBC/Radio-Canada. She later jumped into the worlds of publicity and journalism before being hired as a communication representative by the National Film Board of Canada.

She then was appointed Deputy Director of the Canadian Government Film Festival Bureau in Ottawa, promoting Canadian films and their creators around the world for over a decade prior to reconverting to freelancing. As a Press Attaché, Publicist and Film Festival Consultant, she worked for the Festival of Festivals under the direction of Helga Stephenson, helping her to promote and build the event now known as The Toronto International Film Festival. She also worked at the Vancouver Film Festival, the Banff World Television Festival, and the Venice Film Festival.

For fifteen years, she was the Publicity representative for Canada of the Trade paper from France, Le Film Français. She worked for Telefilm Canada as Publicist and Press Attaché at home and abroad, in particular at the Cannes Film Festival, promoting Canadian filmmakers. She still works at Cannes as a TIFF Consultant and accredited journalist covering the event for various papers, including the French language weekly L'EXPRESS DE TORONTO.

Her continuing association with TIFF as Special Communications Consultant started in 1984 and is still going twenty-seven years later.

Jacqueline has sat on film festivals juries including Yorkton (Canada), Chicago (U.S.A.), Taormina (Italy) and Valladolid (Spain).

José Teodoro
José Teodoro was born in Kingston, Ontario. He studied acting at Red Deer College, theatre creation with One Yellow Rabbit, and screenwriting at the Canadian Film Centre. He has been artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre, Gibraltar Point, Annex Theatre and Playwright's Theatre Centre. He is the author of the plays The Tourist, Slowly, an exchange is taking place and Cloudless. He is the co-author, with Mexican photographer Laura Barrón, of Cathedral, a three-meter-long text/photo book and, with Mexican novelist Andrés Acosta, of ‘Mérida,′ a prose collaboration published in dANDelion and by La Mano Izquierda Press. He has written about film and literature for Film Comment, Brick, The National Post, Cinema Scope, The Globe and Mail, Stop Smiling and Cineaste. He lives in Toronto.

Blaine Thurier
Blaine Thurier is a Vancouver based writer/director, musician and cartoonist. He is best known as a member of the internationally celebrated rock band The New Pornographers. He has written and directed the features Low Self-Esteem Girl (00), Male Fantasy (04), and A Gun to the Head (09), which have screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, SXSW, Slamdance and many other festivals. His videos for The New Pornographers have been celebrated in The New York Times and Rolling Stone.

Manon Dumais
Based in Montreal, journalist Manon Dumais is the film editor of the weekly Voir, which she joined in 2001. Over the years, she's written film reviews for La Presse, Séquences and Médiafilm.ca. She also was a film critic on 98.5's Isabelle le matin, and Radio-Canada's AM, Du côté de chez Catherine, and Je l'ai vu à la radio. Since 2008, she's been the film critic on Télé-Québec's Voir — a two-time Gémeaux Award–winning cultural magazine.

Peter Knegt
Peter Knegt is a journalist and film festival programmer. A graduate of the University of Toronto and Concordia University, he has written for Variety, Xtra!, Exclaim!, Playback, HitFix, and, most notably, indieWIRE, where he has been an Associate Editor since 2008. Outside of journalism, Knegt has also worked for the Toronto International Film Festival, Hot Docs, Reel Asian, and Image+Nation, and programmed the inaugural Reel Out Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2011, he co-founded Picton Picturefest, a film festival and youth retreat in rural Ontario. Currently, he continues to work with both indieWIRE and Picton Picturefest and serves on the advisory board of the University of Toronto's Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. His first book, a historical account of Canada's lesbian and gay rights movement, was released in the fall of 2011.

Yves-Etienne Massicotte
Host and producer of movie reviews, presentations and interviews at TFO for over ten years, Yves started producing a weekly half-hour show last year called Arrêt court, a showcase of French-Canadian short films. He also directed his first documentary, A Monk's Secret, produced by the Ontario studio of the National Film Board of Canada. He is currently working on his second documentary film.

Karina Rotenstein 
Karina Rotenstein is an independent producer and curatorial consultant, and Associate Producer for Yoav Shamir's latest documentary "10%". Most recently for four years, Ms. Rotenstein served as Programming Manager at Hot Docs, where, in addition to Festival programming, she curated and hosted the monthly Doc Soup series in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, and Edmonton, she also managed the Shaw Media-Hot Docs Funds. Prior to Hot Docs, for five years, Ms. Rotenstein programmed dramatic and documentary features, as well as shorts programmes for the Miami International Film Festival, has been a programming consultant for the Dominican Republic Global Film Festival, and Jakmèl Film Festival in Haiti. She has served on numerous film festival juries, including TIFF 2011 Short Cuts Jury, the Calgary International Film Festival, Bahamas International Film Festival, and Silverdocs.

Barbara Shrier
An accomplished producer well known in the Montreal film industry, Barbara Shrier has over twenty years of production experience. From Louis Malle to François Girard, Shrier has worked with some of the best and brightest on the Québec and international film scene. In 2001, Shrier produced Francis Leclerc's Une jeune fille à la fenêtre (Girl at the Window). Her next feature was Mémoires affectives (Looking for Alexander), winner of four Jutras (including Best Film) and three Genies. The summer of 2008 saw the successful release of her third collaboration with Francis Leclerc, Un été sans point ni coup sûr (A No-hit, No-run Summer). She also co-produced Frédéric Dumont's first feature Un Ange à la mer (Angel at Sea), with Belgium's Dragons Films, which went on to win the Crystal Globe for Best Film at the Karlovy Vary film festival. Barbara's first foray into the English-language film world was Tara Johns' first feature entitled The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, released in 2011. Her commitment to first-time filmmakers continues with the development of Aube (Dawn) Rosa Zacharie's debut feature. She also has two other projects on her slate with longtime collaborator Francis Leclerc: TV series Territoires (Territory) and feature film Cendres de cailloux (Stones and Ashes).