Annie Frazier Henry (Blackfoot/Sioux/French) works as a filmmaker, musician and writer in Gibsons, British Columbia. Many of her films reflect her life-long advocacy for Native youth. In 2003 her documentary The Spirit of the Game won the Milagro Award for Best Indigenous Film at the Santa Fe Film Festival. She also helped Native teens produce It’s Up to Us, named Best Student Film at the 1996 Dreamspeakers Aboriginal Film Festival. In 1999 Frazier Henry served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival. She has composed musical scores for films, including Loretta Todd’s The Learning Path. She received the honour of Aboriginal Producer, Writer and Director of the 21st Century.

Nitanis Desjarlais, Cree/Metis,Tsimshian/Gitsan ancestry is the owner/operator of Shape Shyphter Studios (formerly ButterflyFX Productions) as an independent videographer, editor, director, wife and mother of six. She has produced an assortment of documentaries depicting the struggle of First Nations in British Columbia. She started her Video production company 2003 with more than thirty cultural productions to preserve Aboriginal culture, language and oral teachings. More recently the business name changed to Shape Shyphter Studios to describe the expansion into a mobile film training to work throughout British Columbia’s diverse Aboriginal communities. Throughout her life Nitanis has maintained a strong bond with the traditional teachings and values of her youth showing strongly in her love for and skill in the art of storytelling and displayed in her visual and artistic video expressions. Nitanis now lives in Port Alberni with her Nuu-chan-nulth husband where they raise five children while the oldest is a film studies student at York University in Toronto.

Sarah Shamash is an Assistant Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her research creation practice comprises a wide variety of formats including writing, documentary, sound, installation, photography, video, and performance. Her media artworks and films have been shown in curated exhibitions and film festivals internationally. Her most recent documentary project, From Chile to Canada: Media Herstories premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival and is currently showing in festivals internationally. She is co-curating the exhibition, Diaspora Dialogues – Archiving the familiar (October-December 2023) at Sur Gallery in Toronto with a focus on feminism and Latin American diaspora media artists. Her scholarly research examines Latin American and diaspora film and media cultures with a focus on Brazil. Her work as an artist, researcher, educator, and curator can be understood as interconnected and whole; they all revolve around a passion for cinema as a pluriversal art. She lives on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil Waututh First Nations in what is known as Vancouver.

Monitor North was a non-profit media access centre that operated in Thunder Bay, Ontario, in the 1980s and 90s. In 1989 it directed the bulk of its resources to the support of “communication art” produced by Indigenous peoples living in remote and isolated communities in northwestern Ontario, and youth education.