Mark Moskowitz is documentary filmmaker and producer known for his "issue-oriented" media. He was a "pollie" - political media's highest award for five consecutive years. In 2002 he released his first feature-length documentary Stone Reader.  He has a new 10 part series It Was The Music which focuses on the lives and careers of Americana music power couple Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams. The series is being released weekly on fans.live as well as Amazon.

Jerry Rothwell is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose previous works include Deep Water, Donor Unknown, How To Change The World, Sour Grapes, and his latest - The Reason I Jump, an adaptation of the book of the same name written by Naoki Higashida and translated by David Mitchell. Expanding on the source material's premise, it tells the story of five neurodiverse, non-speaking autistics and the tools they use to communicate, in an immersive, cinematic and sensory experience. The film is available on Kino Marquee starting January 8th.

Sam Harris has been singing through life since winning Star Search in 1983. He has gone on to appear in dozens of broadway musicals, made nine platinum-selling records, created a sitcom and has authored two books, one fiction and one non-fiction. His latest film HAM: A Musical Memoir, a filmed version of his award-winning one man show, is available on Laemmle and on Broadway HD starting January 7th. He talks his career, his friendships with Billy Porter and Bridget Moynahan, and what success means to him.

Remy Girard is one of Canada's acclaimed actors having appeared in such projects as The Barbarian Invasions, Incendies, Jesus of Montreal, Les Boys, Blades of Glory and The Red Violin. He has received more Genie Awards than any actor in Canadian history and is an icon of French-Canadian cinema. His new film is Tu Te Souviendras De Moi/You Will Remember Me. It recently premiered at the Whistler Film Festival.

Kathy Valentine is best known for being bass player in the Go-Go's, the first all-female band to go #1. She has also authored a new memoir All I Ever Wanted, which was released in March.

Julia Sarah Stone is an actress who has become a darling of the festival circuit in Canada. After getting her breakthrough with The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, she followed that up with a role on AMC's The Killing. Since then she has dazzled in countless indie films and has two featured at the Whistler Film Festival, Marlene - which looks at the famous Steven Truscott case from the point of view of his wife - and Introvert's Guide To High School - which was shot back in 2012 and completed in 2018.

Sophie Dupuis is a French-Canadian filmmaker whose debut feature Une Chien de Garde was Canada's submission for Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, as well as being nominated for eight Prix Iris awards. She has followed that up, with Souterrain, a film about a mine explosion in small town Quebec, that was filmed in Sophie's hometown of Val D'or. It recently had its Anglo-Canadian debut at the Whistler film festival.

Another interview from the 2020 Whistler Film Festival. Niels Mueller is a writer and director, whose first screenplay - tadpole - starred Sigourney Weaver and Aaron Stanford. His first outfit as director - Assassination of Richard Nixon - starred Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Don Cheadle. For his most recent work, he has gone smaller and back to his midwestern roots, Wisconsin to be specific. Small Town Wisconsin was shot in and around Milwaukee and suburban Wisconsin where Mueller grew up and stars fellow Wisconsinite Kristen Johnson. It recently premiered at the Whistler Film Festival.

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Carl Bessai is a Canadian filmmaker, renowned for working in both narrative and experimental formats. As part of Endeavours coverage of the 2020 Whistler Film Festival, Carl talks about his new film In Her City, a series of 17 vignettes about millennial women living in major North American cities. Carl talks about structure, improvisation, and the changing nature of the film industry as well as diversity and inclusion. Plus, he shares his favourite story of working with the legendary Bruce Dern.

Alex Winter is perhaps best for his roles as Bill in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, as well as Marko in The Lost Boys. In the last two decades, he has turned to directing, starting with the cult hit Freaked, as well as Smosh: The Movie. He has made documentaries on Napster, bitcoin, child stars and The Panama Papers. His latest is Zappa, about the eponymous legendary singer. It is out now.

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