Our Team
2025 Team

Staff

Program + Administration

Grace Chin

  • Executive Director

Akiko Cheng

  • Program Manager

Karen Cowl

  • Graphic Designer
Stripe Graphics

Karen Leung

  • Web Manager

Karen Wong

  • Accountant

Nicola Pender

  • Publicist
Pender PR

Matthew Broughton

  • Registration & Submissions Coordinator

Nancy Kamar

  • Sponsorship Coordinator

Jeanne Chen

  • Communications Coordinator

Brian Cheung

  • EPK Director

Social Media + Digital Marketing

Development, Production + Post-Production

TBA

  • Line Producer

Erik Mortensen

  • Vendor & Equipment Manager

Julia Niendorf

  • Post Production Manager

Dawn Mackenzie

  • Post Production Supervisor

Cody Kearsley

  • Production Manager

James Mattagne

  • Production Manager

Kat Montagu

  • Story Editor Coordinator

Sophie Caird

  • Script Coordinator

Kenneth Tynan

  • Casting Coordinator

Luka Cyprian

  • Stills Photography Coordinator

James Proctor

  • Vendor & Equipment Coordinator

Marena Dix

  • Credits Coordinator

Sierra Wilson-Furr

  • Video Archival Coordinator

Gala Screening + Afterparty

Regina Leung

  • Gala Event Producer

Emily Bignell

  • Front of House Manager

Vincent Gan

  • Box Office Coordinator

Chandni Sharma

  • Sponsor Reception/Volunteer Coordinator

Louis Poulain

  • Afterparty Front of House Manager

Amy Tsai

  • Afterparty Event Coordinator

Khanh Nguyen

  • Afterparty Volunteer Coordinator

Mentors & Interns

DIRECTOR MENTOR(S) / Aubrey Arnason, Jem Garrard, Allan Harmon, Karen Lam, Mina Shum, Jonathan Tammuz
PRODUCER MENTOR(S) / Aaron Au, Ingo Lou, Raymond Massey, Phil Planta, Paul Telner, Amanda Verhagen
LEAD DIRECTOR MENTOR(S) / Allan Harmon
CINEMATOGRAPHER MENTOR(S) / Danny Nowak
STILLS MENTOR(S) / Bettina Strauss, Carole Appleby
PRODUCTION DESIGN MENTOR(S) / Siobhan O’Keefe
EDITOR MENTOR(S) / Daniel Krieger
INTERN(S) / Donald Belliveau, Tristan Hinder-Hohlweg

Past Program Leadership

Richard Stevenson

  • Founder

Andrew Williamson

  • Founder
  • /Past Executive Director
1999–2006

Kevin Pavlovic

  • Past Executive Director
2007–2008

Erik Paulsson

  • Past Executive Director
2009–2013

Paul Armstrong

  • Past Executive Director
2014–2022

Erin Mussolum

  • Past Executive Director
2019–2022

Board of Directors

Marc Stephenson

  • President

Leah Mallen

  • Treasurer

Allan Harmon

  • Member-At-Large

Amanda Tapping

  • Member-At-Large

Dylan Akio Smith

  • Member-At-Large

Ines Eisses

  • Member-At-Large

Jayme Pfahl

  • Member-At-Large

Jem Garrard

  • Member-At-Large

Sabrina Furminger

  • Member-At-Large

Tyson Hepburn

  • Member-At-Large

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