Michael Fukushima

Michael Fukushima has been making films since 1984. He joined the National Film Board in 1990, directing the Hot Docs-winning animated documentary Minoru: Memory of Exile. He became an NFB animation producer in 1997, when he co-created the NFB’s flagship emerging filmmaker program, Hothouse. Fukushima’s eclectic tastes have induced him to produce animation shorts (from abstract through narrative to kids), digital media projects, mobile phone shorts and documentaries.

Kathleen Mullen

Kathleen Mullen is a programmer/curator and filmmaker. She is currently a programmer for Short Cuts Canada at the Toronto International Film Festival. For over 13 years she has curated programs at film festivals internationally, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Vancouver International Film Festival, and Provincetown International Film Festival. For five years she was the director of programming for the Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival. She has made two short films that have screened internationally: you wash my skin with sunshine and Sleep Lines, and is working on the personal/social documentary Breath Taking, and an animation, Still Life with Butterfly, which will premiere at Gallery 44. She is currently completing an MFA in film production at York University.

Louise Noguchi

Louise Noguchi challenges her audiences with themes that pose psychological questions. Using photography, sculpture, video and other media, Noguchi’s concepts confront the spectator’s notions of identity, perception, and reality. Her work has been exhibited at the Power Plant, Toronto; The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Neuer Berliner Kuntsverein, Berlin; and the Deutsche Museum, Munich. Noguchi lives and works in Toronto and is represented by Birch Libralato.

Nobu Adilman

Nobu Adilman is a Toronto-based artist working in television, film, music, journalism, podcasting, and web interactive. He got his start as a writer for network television (Emily of New Moon, Cold Squad) and continued to act (Trailer Park Boys, Parsley Days) and host television shows (Smart Ask!, ZeD, Food Jammers, Invention Nation). In 2010 he directed an interactive web documentary with the NFB entitled Crash Course: Creative Lessons in Surviving an Economic Tsunami, and also produced and directed a short documentary film to celebrate the opening of TIFF Bell Lightbox, titled Starting Over: The Legacy of Leslie & Clara Reitman. 

Eileen Arandiga

Eileen Arandiga is the Festival Director of the Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto, a festival with which she has been associated for over nine years in various capacities. Arandiga has previously worked for the Toronto International Film Festival in the area of industry programming and services, and with various arts organizations in Australia. She has also run filmmaking workshops for young women in Toronto, sat on festival juries, and programmed shorts for Signals Festival in the UK, NEXT Short film Festival in Romania, and the Austalian Canadian Film Festival in Sydney, Australia. Arandiga sits on the board of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.

Lila Karim

Lila Karim is currently the Festival Director for the Toronto Irish Film Festival. She has worked for the LG “Life’s Good” Film Fest, ReelWorld Film Festival and Foundation, Astral Media’s The Harold Greenberg Fund, Portfolio Entertainment, and Nelvana. Karim is active within the film and television community as a juror. She is also credited as producer and production manager on several award-winning short films. In addition to her entertainment career, Karim is also an accomplished photographer and is the Executive Director with the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.