Barbora Racevičiūtė
IMAA National Director

Barbora Racevičiūtė is the National Director of the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA). She a curator and cultural worker based in Montréal. She co-runs the curatorial collective shell.

Marilyne Parent
IMAA Communications and Membership Manager

Marilyne Parent is the Communications and Membership Manager at the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA). She is a cultural worker involved in the associative media arts based in Montreal. Marilyne is a composer/performer in electronic music who is committed to the development of good practices and the creation of safer spaces through her involvement in night culture as an event and festival organizer.

Lindsey Wilson
IMAA Program Manager

Lindsey Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist and the Program Manager of DS4Y at the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA). Her work engages with themes of embodiment, queerness, and interconnectivity at the intersection of craft, art, and science. Lindsey completed an MFA at the University of Ottawa and a BFA with a minor in Gender Studies at Queen’s University.

Jay Wu
Creative Producer, Writer & Director

Named to Playback’s 10 to Watch in 2024, Jay Carolyn Wu is a creative producer who leads scripted series and features, including a sitcom with CBC Comedy and Tyra Banks’s SMiZE Productions, and other projects with partners like Crave, Pageboy Productions, and Bruce McCulloch, with two features shooting in 2026.

Mayumi Yoshida
Director, AKASHI

Mayumi Yoshida 吉田真由美 is a Vancouver-based director, actor, and writer whose global upbringing shapes her “in-betweener” storytelling. An alum of TIFF Writer’s Studio and Warner Bros. Discovery Access, she directed the Juno-nominated Different Than Before, has won SXSW’s Jury Award, and screened at Oscar- and BAFTA-qualifying festivals.

Janus Victoria
Director, DIAMONDS IN THE SAND

Janus Victoria, a Manila-based writer-director, creates documentaries and films on human-place connections. She’s made six shorts, including Myth of Manila, as well as the documentary Encounters with Silence. Diamonds in the Sand is her debut feature.

Timothy Yeung
Director, FINCH & MIDLAND

Timothy Yeung is a Canadian-born Chinese filmmaker and holds a master of fine arts from New York University. A TIFF Filmmaker Lab alumnus, his short 90 Days was acquired by Sundance Selects. He won the MAS Award at the Busan Asian Project Market in 2018.

Nach Dudsdeemaytha
Producer, AKASHI

Nach Dudsdeemaytha is a Thai-Canadian filmmaker based in Vancouver, BC. He holds over a dozen producer credits on award-winning films and web series. Nach is a recent alumni of the NSI / EAVE ACCESS Producer Program. Outside of Musubi Arts, Nach works as a Line Producer and Production Manager for independent feature films.

Sarah Barzak
NSI’s Disabled Producers Lab Participant

Raised in London, Ontario, Sarah Barzak is an autistic writer, producer and culture worker of Malay-Palestinian descent. They are an alumnus of the NSI’s Disabled Producers Lab. When Sarah is not watching films, they enjoy eating spicy food, singing karaoke and crying at the beach.

Yoonmee Han
Research Associate - TMU Access Activations

Yoonmee has been involved in disability community organizing and many research projects that aim to improve access for disabled people in mental health and arts sector such as Access Activations project.  Yoonmee holds MA in Critical Disability Studies at York University, and pursuing PhD in Science and Technology Studies. 

Winnie Luk
Executive Director - DSO

Winnie Luk is the inaugural Executive Director of the Disability Screen Office, a national, disability-led, not-for-profit organization developing opportunities for disabled creatives and advocating for a more accessible Canadian screen industry. Her lived experiences as a Chinese Queer Woman with mobility disabilities drive her lifelong advocacy for equity and accessibility.

Clarence Canisico
Actor

Clarence Cansicio, a Canadian Filipino actor from Toronto, has appeared in films such as Voice Messages, Old Mother Tongue, Altar Boy (Netflix), and The 5%. His work explores identity, language, and Deaf experiences. He advocates for the Deaf community and is pursuing an MA in Critical Disability Studies.

Lalita Krishna
Documentary Filmmaker

Lalita Krishna is a critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker whose films have screened on all major networks, and won awards at major film festivals around the world.  Lalita is also the winner of the 2021 Hot Docs Don Haig award, the 2013 Crystal Award for mentorship given by WIFT(Women in Film and Television), the Trailblazer (2012) award given by the Reel World Film Festival and the Dream Catcher award from the Hope and Dreams Festival NJ, for using her craft to better humanity.

Yasmine Mathurin
Writer and Director

Yasmine Mathurin is a Haitian-Canadian award-winning writer & director. Her first feature documentary film ONE OF OURS premiered at Hot Docs in 2021 and won the Special Jury Prize and top 10 Audience choice and was nominated for 3 Canadian Screen Awards for best writing, best directing and best feature documentary. It is now available on CBC Gem and in the US through AMC+ and Sundance TV. She previously worked as an associate producer with CBC Original Podcast where her work has been awarded with a Webby people’s choice and a Canadian Digital Publishing Award.

She is an alumni of the Hot Docs Documentary Lab, RIDM lab, the Union Docs Feature documentary lab, the Berlinale Doc Toolbox program, DOC Breakthrough, TIFF CHANEL Women’s Writers Network, TIFF Writers Studio. Her work has been screened at several film festivals including, DocEdge, Hot Docs, RIDM and DOC NYC and Indie Memphis Film festival.

She recently produced and directed episodes in the CBC documentary series FOR THE CULTURE WITH AMANADA PARRIS. She is currently 1 of 8 directors selected in the 2023/2024 Women In the Director’s Chair Story & Leadership program. She is the recipient of the 2023 TIFF CBC Screenwriter Award for her upcoming fiction narrative feature film SORRY PARDON MADAME.

Shasha Nakhai
Filmmaker

Shasha Nakhai is a storyteller whose work has taken her to the Hawaiian coastline, the ski slopes of Davos, the Nevada desert, a Cold War bunker, the engine room of a decaying ship, Philippine sugar mills and the front lines of Nigeria’s energy crisis. Her work has aired on the BBC, CBC, ZDF, and Arte; screened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); been nominated for 16 Canadian Screen Awards; named TIFF’s Top 10; and shortlisted for an Oscar.

With over a decade of experience in documentary, Shasha recently released her first drama feature with partner Rich Williamson – Scarborough, adapted from the award-winning novel by Catherine Hernandez. The film made its World Premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Shawn Mendes Foundation Changemaker Award, was 1st runner up for People’s Choice, and received an Honourable Mention for Best Canadian Feature.

Shasha is an alumna of TMU’s Journalism Program, Berlinale Toolbox, the DOC Institute’s Breakthrough Program, Hot Docs Doc Accelerator, WIFT’s Ubisoft Toronto Mentorship, the Reel Asian First Feature Lab, and TIFF’s Talent Accelerator.

Soko Negash
Producer

Soko Negash is a Toronto-based producer dabbling in doc, scripted, podcasts, and lots in between. Some things she’s proud of: working on all four seasons of Netflix’s Emmy-winning Hip-Hop Evolution (Banger Films), production managing two barrier-breaking CBC Gem web series (Next Stop & Lido TV), and producing a doc series about viral videos (Witness with Scarborough Pictures) which premiered at Hot Docs and Doc NYC. She is currently in post-production on two feature films due to surface in late 2024 – Reza Dahya’s highly-anticipated Talent To Watch film Boxcutter, and award-winning director Amar Wala’s Shook. Soko is also an alumni of the Netflix/Hot Docs’ Doc Accelerator program, Black Screen Office Producer’s Program, Black Women Film! Canada, and RealScreen’s Pathways Mentorship program. Soko is a graduate of TMU’s School of Media, and of the multi-city arts incubator, The Remix Project.