Morgan Fics

An MFA graduate from York University’s Film and Media Arts Program in Toronto, Morgan currently works as a contract story/narrative consultant for FORREC ltd. Morgan has worked as a freelance script reader for 5×5 Productions and served as a first round judge for the Big Apple Film Festival’s screenwriting competition. He is the former Associate Producer for Resounding Media, and …

Moussa Djigo

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 …

Bill Robertson

Bill Robertson is an award-winning Toronto-based writer/director/producer, whose features include THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO MY DEATH, which premiered at TIFF in 1991 and won the award for Best Canadian Screenplay at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Bill wrote and directed his second feature comedy-drama APARTMENT HUNTING in 2000. Since then, Bill has worked as …

Michelle Szemberg

Michelle Szemberg is a Toronto born, award winning film editor. She graduated from the Film and Video Program at York University in 2000. Upon graduation, Michelle spent years working as an assistant editor, which allowed her to collaborate with and be mentored by some of the leading forces in Canadian cinema. Michelle’s credits include the …

Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller holds a BFA (2003) and MFA (2016) from York University’s Department of Film.  He has established himself as one of Canada’s up and coming creative producers.  His films have screened and won top prizes at international festivals including TIFF, Sundance, HotDocs, Locarno and Busan. His 4th year student short film, the darkly comedic fable THE …

Francisca Duran

Francisca Duran is an experimental media artist who creates films, installations and mixed media works about history, memory and violence. She moved to Canada following the military coup in Chile in 1973. Her experience of exile is integral to her artistic practice which centres on traces and lost or irretrievable things. Working with photography, film, digital video …

Michael Darroch

Michael Darroch is Associate Dean, Academic and Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Arts in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University. He previously served as Associate Dean, Partnership Development and Interdisciplinary Studies in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Windsor, where he taught …