Dr. Daphne Rena Idiz (she/her) is Assistant Professor in Film and Media Industries at York University. Her research investigates how media industries, cultural policy frameworks, and production cultures respond to and shape technological change, with a particular focus on streaming and generative AI (GenAI). She holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam […]
Kate J. Russell holds a PhD in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto, where she completed her dissertation, “John Waters and the Divine Comedy of Cult Cinema,” on the concept of cult in archives, film form, spectatorship practices, and extratextual influences in the films of John Waters (1964-1981). She has previously taught Cinema Studies […]
Alyson Richards is an award-winning screenwriter, director, producer, and educator known for bold, inclusive storytelling. In 2024, she won the Director’s Guild of Canada Award for Best Short Film for her documentary I WAS HERE. She also directed the ‘horror’ episode of CHILDREN RUIN EVERYTHING (CTV, The CW, Netflix), featuring legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg in […]
Fabio Montanari is a filmmaker and scholar who has written a number of series for top networks including Netflix, HBO and National Geographic. He is the creator of an original international fiction TV series that is currently being filmed for Amazon Prime Video. As a Screenwriter and Director, Montanari’s independent work has been screened in […]
Sue Johnson is filmmaker and cinematographer who works primarily in long-form narrative and documentary film. A member of both I.A.T.S.E. 667 and the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, Johnson has been working at the intersection of industrial and independent production for over twenty years. Production credits include shows for Netflix, Disney, StarZ, and CBS, while her […]
As an artist, Hector’s focus is on the aesthetic potential of immersive digital sound, visual and interactive experiences that seek to engage the audience into a reflection of existence, place relationship and the phenomenology of place. Among his artistic activities are national and international presentations of multi-channel sound art, interactive installation art, live sound and […]
Moussa Djigo is an award-winning director, screenwriter and producer with a background in journalism and cinema studies. His research interests include Canadian Indigenous Cinema, African American Cinema, City symphony films, research-creation, and space in cinema. He is the author of “Spike Lee: Aesthetics of Subversion in Do the Right Thing” (Paris, Acoria, 2009), a book […]
Michael Darroch is an Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University. He is currently the Program Lead for the Creative Technologies program at York’s new Markham Campus, launched in Fall 2024. He served as AMPD’s Associate Dean, Academic (2020-2023) and Interim Dean […]
Patricio Dávila is a designer, artist, researcher and educator. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, at York University. He is also core member of the Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) project at York University. Patricio is also co-director of […]
Born in Bratislava and raised in Canada, Ingrid has produced fifteen feature films with premieres at TIFF, Rotterdam, Locarno, Busan, Slamdance, Whistler, Rome, Hot Docs, Karlovy Vary and MoMA in New York, amongst others. Ingrid received the WIFTS International Visionary Award, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists EDA Award for “Best Director” and the Jay […]