Chris Chong Chan Fui
Chris Chong Chan Fui is a Toronto-based filmmaker currently shooting
in Malaysia. His films include Crash Skid Love(98), Music Might Have
Deceived Us (00), Tuesday Be My Friend (06), the feature documentary
Di Antara Cahaya (07) and POOL (07).
Heinz Emigholz
Heinz Emigholz was born in Achin, Germany, and studied in Hamburg.
He is a filmmaker, visual artist, cinematographer, actor, author,
journalist and producer, and has been the subject of numerous
international retrospectives and exhibitions. His films include
the series Schenec-Tady I (73-76) and The Basis of Make-Up (85-05),
as well as Sullivan’s Banks (01), Maillart’s Bridges (01), Goff
in the Desert (03), D’Annunzio’s Cave (05) and Schindler’s Houses (07).
John Gianvito
John Gianvito was born in Staten Island. He is a filmmaker,
curator and professor of film at Emerson College in Boston.
His films include The Flower of Pain (83), The Mad Songs of
Fernanda Hussein (01) and Profit motive and the whispering wind (07).
Fionnuala Jamison
Fionnuala Jamison was born in Northern Ireland and studied at
Trinity College Dublin. She is the Coordinator for Documentaries and
Mavericks at TIFF. This is her fourth year at the festival. She's
currently in post-production on a documentary called Palenque about
a tourist site in Mexico. She divides her time between Paris and Toronto.
Heidy Morales
Heidy moved to Toronto from Guatemala in 1990. She has a degree in
psychology from the University of Toronto. In her free time, she
has volunteered for TIFF, Sprockets as well as Reel Talk and has
also ventured into film reviewing. She likes the impact documentaries
make on daily lives but also in public policies. She is looking
forward to reporting on several documentaries at this year’s festival.
Andrei Nekrasov
Andrei Nekrasov was born in St. Petersburg. He studied at the
St. Petersburg State Theatre Art Academy, L’Université Paris and
Bristol University. He directed several documentaries and television
programmes before making his first dramatic short, Springing Lenin
(93). His feature-length films include the fictional Love Is as
Strong as Death (97) and the documentaries Lubov and Other
Nightmares (00), Disbelief (04) and Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case (07).
Parvez Sharma
Parvez Sharma was born and raised in India. He has Masters’ degrees
from both the Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi and
American University in Washington, D.C. He has worked as a journalist
and an instructor of anthropology and communications at American
University. A Jihad for Love (07) is his first feature film.
David Schisgall was born in Silver Springs, Maryland, and studied
philosophy at Harvard University. He worked for director Errol
Morris before becoming an associate producer for ABC News. He made
his feature documentary debut with The Lifestyle (99) before
directing the award-winning television documentaries True Life:
I Live in the Terror Zone (03) and True Life: I’m in Iraq (04).Very
Young Girls (07) is his second feature.
Andréa Picard
Andréa Picard is co-curator of Wavelengths, the Toronto International Film
Festival's programme of experimental and avant-garde film and video. She is
also a programmer at Cinematheque Ontario, the year-round screening programme
of TIFFG. She is a contributing writer to various art, film and architecture
publications, and writes a quarterly Art/Film column for Cinema Scope
magazine. She is a founding Advisory Board member of the Chicago
International Documentary Film Festival.
Thom Powers
Thom Powers is the Programmer for Documentaries and Mavericks at TIFF.
He also programs the fall and spring Stranger Than Fiction series at
Manhattan's IFC Center and teaches documentary at New York University's
School of Continuing Professional Studies. He has directed documentaries
for HBO and PBS. His most recent film is "Loving & Cheating" (05). He
divides his time between New York City and Toronto.
Sarah Price
Sarah Price was born in Virginia, and received her B.A.
from the University of Iowa and her M.F.A. from the University
of Wisconsin – both in film. She served as sound
recordist on Michael Moore’s The Big One (97) before
directing American Movie (co-director, 99), Caesar’s Park
(00), and The Yes Men (co-director, 03), which screened
at the Festival in 2003.
Summercamp! (co-director, 06) is
her latest documentary.
Michael Tucker
Michael Tucker was born in Honolulu. His Gunner Palace
(co-director, 04), screened at the Festival in 2004;
The
Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (co-director, 06)
is his latest work.