Jason Anderson

Jason Anderson is a Toronto-based film critic and arts journalist. His writing on film, music, and literature appers regularly in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, eye weekly, and Toro. His stories have also appeared in Saturday Nights, Cinema Scope, THIS Magazine, and Entertainment Weekly. In 2003, he was a juror for Canada’s Top Ten. His first novel, Showbiz, was published in the fall of 2005 by ECW Press.

John Greyson

John Greyson  is a Toronto film/video artist whose works have won acclaim worldwide. For his first feature-length film, 1988’s Urinal, he received the Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival. After 1993’s Zero Patience (Best Canadian Film, Sudbury Film Festival), his 1996 film Lilies snagged four awards at the Genies, including Best Picture. 1997’s Uncut, 2000’s The Law of Enclosures, and 2004’s Proteus all continued to bring accolades to the director. Apart from his film work, he also edits and authors numerous books, anthologies, and essays. As assistant professor in film at York University, he was awarded the Toronto Arts Award for Film/Video, 2000.

Min Sook Lee

Min Sook Lee is a writer, broadcaster and an award-winning documentary director/producer. Her most recent documentary, Hogtown: The Politics of Policing won Best Feature-Length Canadian Documentary at the 2005 Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival. Lee’s first feature El Contrato, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, looked at the lives of Mexican migrant farm workers in Southern Ontario. In 2005, Lee was presented the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award, a project of the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation, and awarded to Lee for her contribution to building awareness of migrant workers’ rights in Canada.