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Ottawa International Animation Festival is the largest and oldest animation festival in North America and celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2016. In addition to his role at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Chris regularly contributes to Animation World Network.

Chris has written several books including: Estonian Animation: Between Genius and Utter Illiteracy, Unsung Heroes of Animation, Great Left Wingers of Hockey's Golden Era, Ballad of a Thin Man: In Search of Ryan Larkin, Japanese Animation: Time out of Mind, and The Animation Pimp. Chris is currently working on a magic realist memoir called My Balls are Killing Me along with a book about the classic Canadian hockey animation short film, The Sweater.

Sean has been chosen as one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Cinema and listed in Variety's 10 Cinematographers to Watch.

Sean's film credits include Eden, Kumiko The Treasure Hunter, and It Felt Like Love, which garnered Sean an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Cinematography. More recent film projects Sean has shot include the thriller Green Room for Jeremy Saulnier, Mike Mill's 20th Century Women, and Lucia Aniello's dark comedy Rough Night, starring Scarlet Johansson.

Sally's film projects include Five Nights in Maine, Heaven's Floor, and The Boy Downstairs. In addition to her film work, Sally has worked commercials and music videos as well as several art installations. One of Sally's most recent projects as set decorator is the film It Comes At Night starring Joel Edgerton as a man living with his family in a remote cabin after an apparent plague has decimated the population. Sally's other upcoming film releases include Patti Cake$, Spinning Man, and The Brits Are Coming.

Nicolas' work over the years has included the films: Eve and the Fire Horse, The Banquet, Next Floor, City of Shadows, Before My Heart Falls, and War Witch.

Nicolas' more recent projects include: Enemy, Louis Cyr, Aloft, and Two Lovers and a Bear for director, Kim Nguyen.

Nicolas has also worked on Chuck (The Bleeder) for Oscar nominated director, Philippe Falardeau.

Some of Evgueni and his brother Sacha's scores include Lan by Wenli Jiang, The Past by Asghar Farhadi, the drama La Famille Belier by Eric Lartigau, the French TV Series Baron Noir, and the courtroom thriller The Whole Truth. More recently, the brothers have scored the HBO drama about Bernie Maddoff called The Wizard of Lies and the upcoming drama Loveless by acclaimed Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev.

Based in Toronto and Los Angeles, Matthew has been editing film and television for over the past dozen years and has worked on feature films such as Trigger, I'm Yours, and Antiviral. Matthew edited the acclaimed film Enemy for Denis Villeneuve, for which he won several awards, as well as James White, Swiss Army Man, and more recently on the critically acclaimed, It Comes At Night. Matthew's most recent project is Paul Dano's upcoming directorial debut, Wildlife.

Eric earned his MFA in Cinematography from NYU's Graduate Film program, and his feature film work includes The Exploding Girl, Rudderless, and I Smile Back.

Eric's recent feature film projects include Meera Menon's Equity, My Blind Brother, and Aardvark, starring Zachary Quinto.

Currently based in Brooklyn, Vanessa studied piano at the New England Conservatory, and art history, architecture and physics at Columbia University. Her first documentary film was the Peabody-award winning Between the Folds. Between the Folds has been translated into over ten languages and broadcast in dozens of countries as well as screening at international film festivals. Vanessa was a featured presenter at the EG 2010 conference, and serves on the jury for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards, as well as on several festival juries. Vanessa produced and shot for Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously, a documentary series about climate change executive produced by James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Vanessa's most recent documentary feature film is Obit, about The New York Times obituaries and their writer-reporters.

Obit world-premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and has been in limited release around the United States.

Diane's Set Decorator work over the years has included: I Shot Andy Warhol, The Funeral, Summer of Sam, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Limitless, and Lee Daniels' The Butler. Her Television credits include Production Design work on the television series The Naked Brothers Band, The Americans, and Set Decoration work on the television movie, Phil Spector. More recently, Diane worked on the acclaimed feature Equity as Production Designer and the television series 13 Reasons Why.

Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tanja began her career as a casting director in 1998, and currently runs Another Casting Company along with Stine Bruel and Saskia Fahlsten. Some of Tanja's film projects include: A Royal Affair, The Hunt, Sorrow and Joy, A War, and April 9th. Tanja's television projects include the series: Anna Pihl, Mikkel og guldkortet, and Those Who Kill. More recently, Tanja has cast the television series Dicte - Crime Reporter for Thomas Vinterberg's film The Commune.