Cameron Bailey

Cameron Bailey is a writer, broadcaster, and film programmer in Toronto. He programs for the Toronto International Film Festval, including their selection from Africa, South Asia, and the Philippines. Bailey also reviews film for Toronto’s NOW Magazine, and CBC Radio One. In 2005 his video essay Hotel Saudade made its US premiere at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

Ann Marie Fleming

Ann Marie Fleming is a Vancouver-based award-winning independent filmmaker, writer, and artist. Part Chinese and part Australian, she was born in Okinawa and raised in Canada. Working in experimental, documentary, dramatic, and animated genres, her films, both shorts and features, often deal with issues of family, history, and memory in a continuing media critique. Many of her works have been shown at Reel Asian, including a documentary feature about her great-grandfather, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (2003), which was the closing night film in 2003.

Brenda Longfellow

Brenda Longfellow is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has been screened at festivals around the world. her most recent film, Tina in Mexico, a portrait of photographer Tina Modotti, won the Golden Rose at the Montreal Film and Television Festival, a Bronze Plaque at the Columbus Film Festival, and Best Cinematography, Writing and Arts Documentary at the Yorkton Film Festival. Awarded the Canadian Genie for Best Documentary Short in 1998 for Shadow Maker, a portrait of poet Gwendolyn MacEwan, Longfellow has also produced and directed Balkan Journey (1996), Our Marilyn (1988, co-winner of Grrand Prix of Oberhausen) and Gerda (1992). Longfellow teaches in the Department of Film and Video at York University and has written extensively on Canadian cinema.