Antonin Lhotsky’s professional credits include more than 100 productions, mostly in cinematography but also as producer and director in documentary and theatrical films and television commercials. He has also worked on several multi-screen projects; one such project, Taming of the Demons, made for EXPO `86 in Vancouver, was awarded a special Genie for Outstanding Film Achievement. …
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Jim Fisher
A documentary filmmaker with experience in both film and television, Professor Fisher retired from teaching production at York University in 2012. Beginning as an undergraduate student in one of the early classes of the York Film Department, he has worked at Film Arts, CITY-TV Toronto, Maclean Hunter, and CKVU-TV (now CITY-TV) Vancouver. Professor Fisher taught …
Evan William Cameron
Professor Cameron retired from teaching in 2008 having for over forty years taught screenwriting, design and production in Canada, England and the United States while attending to the historical and philosophical roots of the crafts. Four students who studied screenwriting, design or production with him have won Academy Awards and nominations, three have won other …
Michael Zryd
Professor Zryd’s research interests include Experimental cinema and media, including video art and installation Experimental film & media artists (e.g., Hollis Frampton, Craig Baldwin, Luke Fowler, Su Freidrich, Philip Hoffman, Ken Jacobs, Jonas Mekas, Midi Onodera, Ruth Ozeki, Michael Snow, Stan VanDerBeek, Joyce Wieland, among others) History of cinema and media studies as a discipline …
Suzie Young
Suzie S.F. Young is a film scholar and cultural theorist specializing in Asian cinema, the horror genre and feminism and popular culture. Originally from Hong Kong, she has lectured on a variety of cultural topics including the New Wave Cinemas of the three Chinas, television and exilic identities of the Chinese diaspora in Canada, and …
Howard Wiseman
Howard Wiseman won the Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award in 2004 for his radio adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s novel, Barney’s Version, and received a Gemini nomination as co-writer of the 2007 CBC TV miniseries adaptation of Richler’s novel, St. Urbain’s Horseman. As a playwright, his credits include The Iron Curtain, Mother Of Pearl, and most recently, The …
Renate H. Wickens
The holder of both the Faculty of Fine Arts Dean’s Teaching Award and the first Spotlight on Fine Arts (SOFA) Teaching Award for FACS, Professor Wickens is widely recognized for her research innovations in blended course development and is a frequent writer/speaker on issues pertaining to student activated non-linear learning technologies. She is currently working …
Colleen Wagner
Colleen Wagner’s writing interests include screenplays, stage plays, poetry and short fiction. Her work has garnered numerous awards nationally and internationally, including the Governor General’s Literary Award. Her plays have been translated into numerous languages and produced in many countries, including China, Rwanda, Romania, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Portugal, England, the U.S. Selected stage credits …
Temenuga Trifonova
Temenuga Trifonova is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies. She has previously taught at the University of California Santa Cruz and at the University of New Brunswick. Trifonova is the author of The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2020), Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology (Amsterdam University Press, 2014) and The Image in French Philosophy (Rodopi, 2007), …
Marie Rickard
Professor Marie Rickard’s work, both in visual art and written narratives, explores issues of memory, loss, possession, alienation, power and powerlessness. She is most interested in the exploration of character, and in particular, the ways in which physical and psychological experiences are so often manifested as mysteries, in behavioural puzzles and metaphors that the character …
