Elisa González is an artist, filmmaker and educator rooted in the fine arts. Centred within creative nonfiction, her work explores the interconnected stories between our cultural and personal relationships with the natural environment and the non-human world. Elisa’s work has exhibited internationally and is a recipient of funding awards from Canada Council for the Arts and the National Film Board of Canada among others. She holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University and a BFA in Photography from Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design. Her work is distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center. She lives and works on the traditional territory of the Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh Úxwumixw.