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Voice and Vision: What is a Canadian story? Whose stories are Canadian? This session brought together Canadian filmmakers who reflected on their journey as storytelling and how they approach the act of storytelling onscreen. Throughout the conversation and audience Q&A, the filmmakers offered their advice for aspiring filmmakers and shared insights on what they gained and wishes to gain during their early careers and in film school.
This event took place on November 2 as part of NextGen: Catalyst for Change in Canadian Storytelling. Intended for a hybrid audience of media educators, scholars, young creators, and industry professionals, the conference brought together established creators and emerging new voices to consider how to support and encourage diverse Canadian storytelling. Check out the other sessions that took place throughout the day here.
Guest
Anjali Nayar
Anjali Nayar is a Canadian filmmaker based between Kenya and Montreal. She holds a master's degree in documentary from Columbia University and an MSc in environmental management from Oxford. Her feature debut, GUN RUNNERS (16), premiered at the Hot Docs festival. SILAS (17) is her latest film.
Guest
Lisa Jackson
Lisa Jackson is an award-winning Anishinaabe filmmaker working in both fiction and documentary. Her credits include INDICTMENT: THE CRIMES OF SHELLY CHARTIER, which won Best Documentary and imagineNATIVE in 2017, and the virtual-reality piece BIIDAABAN: FIRST LIGHT, which premiered at Tribeca in 2018. Jackson is a director advisor for NSI IndigiDocs and sits on the advisory committee for the NFB’s Indigenous Action Plan. She is currently working on a multimedia installation, an IMAX film, and other film and TV projects.
Guest
Luis De Filippis
Luis De Filippis is a Toronto–based trans femme filmmaker whose work celebrates otherness and employs a fierce female gaze. Their work has played internationally at festivals such as TIFF, Rotterdam, and BFI Flare. Their most recent work, FOR NONNA ANNA (17), won the Best Short Narrative Award at the Atlanta International Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize at Sundance.
Guest
Thyrone Tommy
Thyrone Tommy is an award-winning Toronto-based filmmaker. His films have been celebrated internationally at more than 30 festivals. Tommy's most recent short, MARINER (16), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was later named one of TIFF's Canada's Top Ten Shorts. His work has been supported with grants from NBCUniversal Canada, Kodak Motion Picture Film, and the Ontario Arts Council, and he was also the 2017 Lindalee Tracey Award Winner. Tommy is currently developing a feature version of MARINER, as well as the feature TO LIVE AND DIE IN REXDALE.
Guest
Danis Goulet
Danis Goulet co-programs the Festival’s Canadian Features programme. Prior to this, Goulet was co-programmer of the Short Cuts programme. She is also the former Artistic Director of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and has curated award-winning short-film commissioning projects including Embargo Collective I and II. Goulet has developed initiatives for the Ontario Arts Council and has served on the boards for the Toronto Arts Council and the Images Festival. As a director, her films have screened at numerous festivals in Canada and around the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival, Berlinale, imagineNATIVE and the Sundance Film Festival. She is an alumna of TIFF Talent Lab and the National Screen Institute. Goulet, who is Cree/Métis, was born in La Ronge, Saskatchewan and currently resides in Toronto.
