INDUSTRY PANELISTS
DISTRIBUTION AND BEYOND | 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

PANELISTS




(Kinosmith and Blue Ice Docs)     

Robin Smith is currently the owner and President of KinoSmith Inc. - Canada's premiere boutique distribution and film marketing company - and CEO of the newly founded company Blue Ice Docs - a new distribution and equity funding company dedicated to funding, acquiring and distributing the best non-fiction work from around the world.  

(The Film Collaborative)
 
Jeffrey is drawn to The Film Collab- 
orative and the act of championing independent film because of his love for the process by which good movies can effect positive change in our world today. Jeffrey's areas of specialty include niche distribution, niche marketing, and festival/non-theatrical/special events distribution.

(The National Film Board of Canada)

Michelle Van Beusekom is the Executive Director, Programming and Production, of English Program, Creation and Innovation division, at the National Film Board of Canada. She leads the editorial and creative direction, operations and finances for six production studios.

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Tracey Friesen is a media strategist committed to supporting storytellers and social innovators in the creation of impactful content. Formerly an executive producer at the National Film Board of Canada, Tracey is now director of programming for Roundhouse Radio 98.3 Vancouver, a hyper-local commercial station with a community focus. 



THE PERSONAL AND THE POLITICAL | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

PANELISTS


 
 
John Zaritsky has been making documentary films for almost 40 years. His films have been honoured with more than 30 major awards, been broadcast in 35 countries, and have screened at more than 40 film festivals around the world including Sundance, Toronto, Vancouver, IDFA, Hot Docs and SXSW.

Antoine Boutet lives and works in Bordeaux (France), even though his recent projects have seen him spend months at a time in China or the remote corners of the Dordogne. The essential part of his work, primarily using techniques of photography, installation, video is based around urban mutations and its resonances on the population in which we the spectator are invited to (re)consider the political implications.

Zeina Zahreddine has worked in the independent film industry in Lebanon and the Arab World since 2005. She was the Executive Director of Beirut DC, organized Arab Film Weeks in Edinburgh and Manchester (UK), and was the project manager of Crossroads.







Susi Porter-Bopp has a background in community organizing, facilitation, planning and research on water issues in Canada since 2006 and has worked with a number of BC and Canada-wide non-profit organizations to connect and take action on environmental issues.  We Call Them Intruders  is her first film.
Tamara Herman is a community organizer, researcher and filmmaker based in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. Tamara's interest in resource extraction was sparked when she did environmental work for an indigenous community opposing oil extraction in the late 1990s.  We Call Them Intruders  is her first feature film.




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Kevin Eastwood is an award-winning producer and director who works in both drama and non-fiction. Recent non-fiction credits include: The Death Debate (director), Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World (executive producer), Emergency Room: Life and Death at VGH (director and co-executive producer); Oil Sands Karaoke (executive producer), and Do You Really Want to Know? (producer). 
EDITING FOR DOCUMENTARY | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CANADIAN CINEMA EDITORS


PANELISTS




  
Born in London and raised in the Var, France, Claire Simon studied ethnology as well as classical Arab and Berber. Her early films, Les Patients, Récréations and Coûte que coûte, received awards at the Cinema du Réel International Film Festival. Her most most recent films are Le bois dont les rêves sont faits and Le concours.
Brendan is an editor, VFX artist and designer who is equally accomplished in feature film, documentary, music video and commercials. Previous credits include the dramatic features Foreverland (Leo Award Nominee for Best Editing) and Eco-Pirate: The Paul Watson Story.



Aynsley Baldwin is a Vancouver-based editor, who has been a part of the local post-production community since 2005. The Backward Class was her feature debut as editor, associate producer, and story consultant. She was also a  part of the editorial team on Wizard Mode.

James Scott is an editor and occasional director based in Brighton, England, originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.  His documentary directorial debut  Love Bite: Laurie Lipton and her disturbing black & white drawings  recently world premiered at SXSW 2016.



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 Julia Ivanova

Julia Ivanova is a Vancouver documentary director, editor and cinematographer. She has made nine feature and hour-length documentaries.   She edited four of her own films, including  Family Portrait in Black and White   that screened at Sundance and won Best Canadian Feature at  Hot Docs . Her most recent film Limit is the Sky, produced with the NFB, is scheduled for release in the fall of 2016.  
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Come visit DOXA's Community Box Office at XOXOLAT from 11 am - 4 pm. Choose your DOXA films and get your hard-copy tickets in person before the Festival!

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