John Walker is one of Canada's finest director/cinematographers working in the documentary genre, and his films have won international acclaim. From his fiction film collaboration, A Winter Tan, described by a Globe and Mail critic as "unlike any other film anywhere" to his Strand – Under the Dark Cloth, a personal portrait of his mentor, the photographer Paul Strand, or his exploration of myth and imagination in The Fairy Faith, Walker defies conventional subjects and approach. His most recent collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada was the celebrated Men of the Deeps, a moving portrait of a group of former Cape Breton miners united by their love of song.
With his current production Passage, he challenges the form and makes a complex fiction/documentary that could be described as "a post post-modern" exploration of fraudulent imperialist history.
In 1994 Andrea Nemtin began producing documentaries, first in Vancouver and then in Toronto and Montreal. After working as a freelancer for two years, she became the president and CEO of Toronto's PTV Productions Inc. in 1997.
Under her guidance, PTV Productions has produced over 50 hours of television. Andrea has produced and executive-produced one-offs, limited series and series. She has worked closely with a wide range of broadcasters, including Life Network, History Television, Discovery Health Canada, CBC, Discovery Canada, WTN, TVO, Discovery Health USA, PBS and BBC. Andrea has worked on international co-productions with Europe and the UK.
Andrea is the chair of the Abilities Arts Festival Board of Directors, an executive board member of Hot Docs, the past national chair of the Documentary Organization of Canada, a member of the CFTPA, WIFT and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. She has been a guest speaker at SIFT for the last three years and has acted as jurist for Hot Docs and the Gemini Awards.
Kent Martin has been involved in the production of over 80 films and has won national and international accolades. Among these films are A Song for Tibet (Genie for Best Documentary Film), Donald Brittain: Filmmaker (Gemini for Best Documentary Film), Who's Counting? (Genie nominee for Best Documentary Film), Distress Signals (Gemini for Best Documentary Film), Westray (Genie for Best Documentary Film), Pelts (Gemini), In Bed with an Elephant (Gemini) and Miller Brittain.
His work as a producer mainly for the National Film Board of Canada, ranges in subject from biography to natural history, politics, art and religion. Titles include Creatures of the Sun, a natural history of the painted turtle; Rain, Drizzle, and Fog, a celebration of St. John's, a town like no other; Loyalties, winner of the Best Social/Political documentary at Hot Docs. He has also produced several television series: The Human Race, hosted by Gwynne Dyer; As Long as the Rivers Flow, a series about aspects of Native self-government; Before Columbus, produced with Britain's Channel Four; and the Canada Remembers series about the Second World War. The Globe and Mail's John Haslett Cuff called this series "a splendid piece of filmmaking."
Kent has previously worked with John Walker on The Fairy Faith (Genie nominee for Best Documentary) and Men of the Deeps (four Geminis). Other recent titles include: Tommy: A Family Portrait (Gemini winner), The Spirit of Annie Mae (Gemini nominee), Words of My Perfect Teacher (prizes in Houston, Rhode Island, Mongolia), Animals (two Gemini nominations) and Mabel's Saga (Genie nominee and winner of Best Short Film at the Montreal Film Festival, Atlantic Film Festival, Seville and Turin).
His most recent projects include Forgiveness (Hot Docs 2007 Best Mid Length film), Buried at Sea, Cottonland, Blood and Water, Damage Done, Flipping Out and Uncle Bob's Hospital Visit.
