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Lindsay McIntyre is an award-winning filmmaker of Inuit and settler descent whose body of short documentaries, animations, and experimental films engage with themes of portraiture, place and personal histories. With a strong interest in DIY, alternative processes, analogue technologies, and making things more difficult, she also creates expanded cinema performances and sometimes makes her own handmade emulsion for 16mm film. After more than 40 short experimental and documentary films, she in development on her first feature The Words We Can’t Speak, which won the Women in the Director’s Chair coveted Feature Film Award (worth $250K). She is also a skilled Cinematographer (Ste. Anne by Rhayne Vermette, LAKE by Alex Lazarowich, Films Gouvernementaux by Matthew Rankin), and has won awards for her work as Editor and Production Designer. 

She is a COUSIN Collective Fellow, a Media City Festival Chrysalis Fellow and she participated in WIDC Story & Leadership, Women in View: 5 in Focus, Whistler Screenwriters Lab and Tricksters & Writers. She has been honoured with the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (Hnatyshyn Foundation), the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Excellence in Media Arts (Canada Council) and many festival awards. Recent projects include the short drama NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ, the animated documentary Ajjigingiluktaaqtugut (We Are All Different) (inaugural show at Qaumajuq), Where We Stand, made on handmade emulsion, about the state of analogue film in the digital age, and a monumental projection-mapping installation on the Vancouver Art Gallery about the legacy of residential schools, If These Walls. NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (2023) garnered her Best Short Live Action Film at imagineNATIVE, The EDA Award (Excellent Dynamic Activism) at WFF, and a long-shot at the Oscars.

Many of her films and expanded cinema performances have been seen around the world including at Oberhausen, MONO NO AWARE, Rotterdam, Berkeley Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Analogica, Anthology Film Archives, WNDX, VIFF, imagineNATIVE, Images, FNC, VIFF, Raindance, One Flaming Arrow, and Black Maria. She has an MFA in Film Production (Concordia) and is an Associate Professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish territories.

Jonathan Tammuz obtained a BSc. in psychology from Brunel University and was trained as a therapist at the Tavistock Clinic in London.

He attended the National Film & TV School in England as a directing student.

After graduating in 1987, Jonathan line-produced STREETS OF YESTERDAY for Channel 4 TV and directed THE CHILDEATER, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film in 1990.

Jonathan directed dramatic and documentary projects for Channel 4, NHK, & Showtime. He also directed 2 theatrical features: Minotaur (1996), and RUPERT'S LAND (1998)  which won 6 Leo Awards and received 5 Genie nominations. At present, Jonathan is developing MINER, a comedic drama set in Wales.

Jonathan has been teaching film production and directing and has run actors workshops in Canada, Britain and Europe.

Jonathan Tammuz currently lives in Vancouver, BC with his wife Lib Stephen, a screenwriter and children's books illustrator, and their 2 children.