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Steve has long been creating striking images with his cinematography in such films as Flower & Garnet, Seven Times Lucky, and The Dark Hours. Steve worked on iconic Canadian Director Bruce McDonald's film, The Tracey Fragments, pushing the boundaries of cinema, as well as and the award winning debut from Charles Officer, Nurse.Fighter.Boy. Steve's work on the Canadian TV series, Durham County, earned him one of several Gemini nominations in his career. Some of Steve's other credits include the UK-Canada co-production, Snow Cake, re-teaming with Bruce McDonald for the documentary Music from the Big House, and the film Citizen Gangster.

Additionally, Steve shot the drama Sitting on the Edge of Marlene, Preggoland and the television series Cardinal.

More recently, Steve worked on Born to Be Blue, a re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s and Mean Dreams, a coming-of-age fable/thriller which had debuted at the Cannes.

Claude's film work as Art Director includes Shadow of the Wolf and The Aviator, which won an Oscar for art direction.

Claude's work as Production Designer includes films such as Night at the Museum, Barney's Version, and Rise of The Planet of The Apes.

Claude has most recently worked on The Age of Adaline, the adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel IT, and the upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix.

Alexis Marsh and Samuel Jones, together are known as Alexis & Sam, as musicians and as film and television composer team.

Alexis & Sam began collaborating in 2010 after attending USC's Scoring for Motion Pictures & Television program.

Sharing a background in jazz, pop and avant-garde music, they specialize in producing scores that feature live performance, improvisation, and contemporary sounds in genres including jazz, world music, orchestral, electronica, folk, and rock.

Alexis & Sam have had their work featured at major film festivals around the world and gallery exhibitions worldwide. Their film work includes Farah Goes Bang, Lila and Eve, Equity, the documentaries You See Me and Looking at the Stars, and most recently the TNT television series Animal Kingdom.

Mirren was born and raised in London, and graduated with a BFA in Fashion and Photography from New York's Parsons School of Design before moving to LA to begin her career as a costume designer. Mirren has worked with director Destin Daniel Cretton on his films Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle, and with Reed Morano on Meadowland and I Think We're Alone Now.

Additionally, she worked on the acclaimed films, I'll See You in My Dreams, Growing Up Smith, and Lowriders. Mirren's upcoming projects include: Drunk Parents, Unicorn Store, I Think We're Alone Now, and Teen Spirit.

Womanimation! 2017 is an international film festival featuring animated short film stories directed by women and participants Katy Wang and Elisa Talentino were interviewed.

Based in London, and with a background in Film Photography, Illustration, and Animation, Katy is a recent graduate of Kingston University with a first class degree in Illustration Animation.

Katy's work includes the mini graphic novel Melon Boy, the book trailer Life and Fate, and the animation piece, Mind the Gap.

Katy's most recent project is the short film Contact, a story of an astronaut stranded on a remote planet searching for a human connection. Contact is currently touring festivals around the world.

Elisa works with graphic arts, screen printing, illustration and animation. Her illustrations appear in books and magazines, for clients as The New York Times, Goethe Institut, and Mondadori.

Elisa has produced award-winning art books as well as screen printings exhibited in several galleries in Italy and abroad.

Elisa's animation work includes the recent acclaimed short film, Dandelion, merging traditional dance the bourrée with local legends about the flower. Legend says that lovers wish upon the dandelion and then blow the seeds to make their wishes come true.

Stephen has edited a wide variety of projects, from documentaries to television series to miniseries to feature films. Stephen has collaborated with several directors on multiple projects, including Andy de Emmony on such projects as Framed and West Is West, Ciaran Donnelly on Camelot and Titanic Blood and Steel, and Aisling Walsh on Damage and more recently Maudie. Maudie, an Irish and Canadian co-production starring Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, is based on the life of Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis, who overcame crippling arthritis and harsh circumstances to become a beloved Canadian artist. Stephens most recent projects include the mini-series Howard's End written by Kenneth Lonergan and the upcoming feature film The Man Who Invented Christmas about Charles Dickens.

Originally from the Soviet Union, Slava made several films there before emigrating to Israel and continuing his film work. Slava eventually moved to New York City in the 1970s and co-wrote, produced and directed the film Liquid Sky, an enduring and influential low-budget science fiction visual feast. Some further films Slava directed include Poor Liza, the documentary Stalin's Wife, and Perestroika. There are plans to tour Liquid Sky in select venues with a new digital print of the film.

We interviewed with two audience award winners in the Womanimation! film festival, an international film festival highlighting animated film stories, created by women.

Our first guest was Britt Raes, from Belgium, whose latest film is Catherine, winner of the audience award for Womanimation! 2017.

Britt loves drawing and telling stories, working in animation and collaborating in graphic design. She is currently developing an animated series about pets and writing a children's book.

Catherine has won jury awards, audience awards, and press awards around the world, and played in Belgium for the month of August in theaters with the Turkish documentary feature film Kedi.

We also spoke with Lori Malepart-Traversy, from Montreal, Canada, director of Le Clitoris, winner of the audience award for Womanimation! 2016.

A native of Montreal, Canada, Lori holds both a BFA in Film Animation and a BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University. Her expertise lies in animated documentary filmmaking, a tool she uses to tell stories, give meaning, and provoke reactions. Lori's animated short film work includes Extra champignons, Sparky Ketchup and most recently, Le Clitoris.

Le Clitoris has toured festivals around the world including Annecy and has been featured in online venues such as Short of the Week and CB Fest, a new series of short film premieres from Cartoon Brew.

Additionally, Lori was commissioned make the Womanimation! 2017 Audience Award for Britt Raes for Catherine, a standing clitoris art object inspired by Le Clitoris.

We interviewed participants in Womanimation!, an international film festival highlighting animated film stories, created by women.

With a background in theater, Dotty Kultys graduated from the University of the West of England with an MA in Animation. She's worked on short films, commercial videos, and theater projections.

Dotty's most recent project is the short film The Hunchback and the Swan, using paper cut-outs, collagraphy, pixilation and 2D digital animation, and she composed the film as well.

The Hunchback and the Swan was created in collaboration with Taffy Thomas, the UK's First Storytelling Laureate, mentored by Peter Lord, co-founder and Creative Director of Aardman Animations.

Aliona Baranova, originally from Belarus and now in the Czech Republic, studied graphic design in Minsk, Belarus before moving to the Czech Republic to study animation at Tomas Bata University.

Aliona's most recent film, Domov, or Home, is the story of a traveler who recounts some of his journeys around the world, and his mixture of home-sickness and wanderlust, using a variety of textures and looks within its short running time.

(Photo by Sabrina Lantos)

Guy is originally from the maritime province of Nova Scotia, Canada, is an alum of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, and is a member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers. He currently splits his time between New York City and Toronto.

Guy has worked on several short films, including The Warren, The Underground, Frost, and The Archivist, which won a CSC Award for Best Cinematography.

Guy's feature film work includes the coming of age tale Wet Bum for director Lindsay Mackay, for which he was nominated for a CSC Best Cinematography Award. Other films include David Bezmozgis' feature Natasha and Jordan Canning's feature Suck It Up, which premiered at Slamdance.

One of Guy's recent features is the biopic Maudie, directed by Aisling Walsh and starring Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins.

A story close to home for Guy, Maudie follows the life of Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis. Maudie garnered Guy a CSC Award for Cinematography.

Guy recently shot the upcoming film The Parting Glass, directed by Stephen Moyer, written by and starring Denis O'Hare.