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Simon-Olivier Fecteau is a writer, director, producer, comedian, and actor from Victoriaville, QC. Simon was part of the comic trio The Chick'n Swell during the three years that their weekly program was broadcast on television from Radio-Canada, between 2001 and 2003.In 2006, he made a difficult decision to leave the group to pursue his passion for film. Simon's first short The Remaining Days is about a very old widower, while cleaning out his closet, finds a list of things he wanted to do in his life and decides to carry them out.Simon's 1st feature film, Bluff, is a black comedy about a building inspector that finds a shocking discovery in the basement to a building that is about to be destroyed. He contacts the landlord and, as the pair wait for the police to show up, the story of this discovery comes uncovered. Both films have played the festival circuit and they each have been nominated for a Genie in Canada.

Ira Sachs was born in Memphis, TN and moved to New York after graduating from Yale University with a BA in Literature and Film Theory.

Ira was a recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1999, Sachs has been an Adjunct Professor in the MFA Program at the Columbia University School of Film, a creative advisor at the Sundance Director’s Lab, and a fellow at both the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.

His films include the features Married Life, Forty Shades of Blue which won a Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and The Delta. They have been screened at the Berlin, Toronto, New York, Rotterdam, and London Film Festivals.

Ira is presently working on a new feature, The Goodbye People, co-written with Oren Moverman, and adapted from the fiction of screenwriter and novelist Gavin Lambert.

Bettina Devin is a talented actress, voice over artist, singer, and teacher.Bettina Devin was known worldwide for her role as “Maureen’s clueless Mom” in the film version of Rent. She can be seen in principal and lead film roles in the thriller, The Confessional, The Full Picture (Grand Prize Winner in the Rhode Island International Film Festival), and in 2 unique roles in The Village Barbershop.In Film Noir, an animated feature, she voiced 6 characters, including the leading female character, and it premiered at Cannes. Bettina is also an critically acclaimed singer and stage performer, who has been a Guest Artist with the San Francisco Symphony and David Mirisch Productions. She has been a Celebrity Guest Coach for GRAMMY Career Day, has taught voice and acting for over 30 years, and has worked with a wide variety of performers.

Emily Hubley is a daughter of pioneer animators Faith and John Hubley and she worked on Faith Hubley's films at The Hubley Studio, Inc. from 1977 to 2001. Emily has also been making her own animated shorts for thirty years. Her hand-drawn films explore personal memory and the turbulence of emotional life. Among Hubley's shorts are: Pigeon Within, Delivery Man, The Tower, Her Grandmother's Gift, Set Set Spike, and Octave. She has created the animated sequences for John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch. She also provided inserts for documentaries Everything's Cool, Blue Vinyl, The Boy in the Bubble, and Original Child Bomb. With Emily’s 1st feature length film, The Toe Tactic, she layers human truths, working with live elements to depict a reality that is at once subjective, honest and bittersweet. The Toe Tactic uses live action and animation together to explore the interaction between the human and supernatural forces and the main character, Mona Peek, finds her way to reconnect with the world. The Toe Tactic features an eclectic score from her sister and collaborator Georgia Hubley's band, Yo La Tengo. Emily is touring and speaking about The Toe Tactic in various cinemas and venues nationwide.

While hailing from Winnipeg, MB, Stacey Chomiak is currently living in Oakville, Ontario, Canada in her final year of the Bachelor of Animation degree at Sheridan College. Before Stacey moved from the corporate world to animation school, she worked as a graphic/web designer for several years. She has completed the The Celestial Ox, with the MoCap Penguins studio which has screened many films festivals and is currently finishing up her 2nd animated short, Tah-dah.

Elizabeth Marre was born in Paris and completed law school while studying acting for several years. Elizabeth worked as 1st Assistant Director on feature films, where she traveled from Lebanon to Hong-Kong, working on films such as La Moustache and Caramel.Olivier Pont grew up in the French Riviera. He graduated from the Gobelins, the French National Animation School.He worked as an animator at the Steven Spielberg’s Amblimation Studio in London and then developed his own stories as a comic strip artist. Olivier edited eight cartoon books, including Où le Regard ne porte pas….Elizabeth and Olivier have together written and directed two short films : That Little Spark (La Petite Flamme) and Manon on the Asphalt (Manon sur le Bitume). Both films have screened and been awarded in several festivals world wide and Manon on the Asphalt was nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Live Action Short.

Film publicist Nichola Ellis started out working for Columbia Pictures in London where she worked on her first feature Gandhi, Tootsie, and The Big Chill. She then went on to handle the UK campaigns for Highlander, Field of Dreams, and Dances With Wolves.

In 1990, Nichola moved to Los Angeles and joined Dennis Davidson Associates. At DDA, she was responsible for such international campaigns as: Malcolm X, City Slickers, and The Usual Suspects.

In 1995, she founded The Lighthouse Company, a Los Angeles based independent P.R. and marketing agency servicing the film industry, focusing on the complete journey of a film, both in the US and overseas markets, creating and implementing campaigns.

One of The Lighthouse Company's most recent publicity campaigns was for Jochen Alexander Freydank's Spielzeugland (Toyland) which won the 2009 Academy Award for Live Action Short.

Elliot Cowan is an illustrator, a writer, a storyboard artist from NYC by way of London and Australia.Elliot lived in Tasmania for nearly 10 years to write, direct and edit television commercials.He also lived in London where he mostly worked for Uli Meyer Animation, working as a story artist and gag man on the studio’s feature film Monstermania! and worked on several music videos with McKeown/Devita Productions.Elliot has completed several of The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead and Roundhead short animated films. They have screened at a variety film festivals all over the world including Annecy and several have been distributed by Shorts International.

Kai-Duc Luong was born in Cambodia and grew up in France and later made a detour in Chicago, IL.He has made several award winning shorts and music videos for artists including Chat, The Frogs, and Marissa Nadler.Kai's recent film, Someplace Else, is a musical journey with bluesman Vance Kelly and his band from Chicago’s south side, mixed with the effect that the band’s music has on the Kai’s personal outlook in life.Someplace Else has screened at a number of films internationally including the Rhode Island International Film Festival, IFP Chicago, and the Hibernarock Festival in France.

Nina Paley started out as a comic strip artist, including for Fluff and The Hots, as well as her own alternative weekly Nina's Adventures.In 1998, she began making independent animated festival films, including the controversial yet popular environmental short, The Stork.In 2002, Nina followed her then-husband to Trivandrum, India, where she read her first Ramayana. This inspired her first feature film, Sita Sings the Blues, which she animated and produced single-handedly over the course of 5 years on a home computer, featuring the lost music of jazz vocal legend Annette Hanshaw.