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Ceile Prowse was born in Montreal, and grew up in England. She has a Masters from the National Centre for Computer Animation in Bournemouth, U.K. Ceile has worked commercially and independently in animation using traditional cel animation, stop-motion and 3D animation and more recently a mix of 3D and 2D computer animation using photographs. Her films employ a playful approach to issues like addiction, bereavement, Princess Diana and motherhood.  Her work has been screened and broadcast internationally. She has been an instructor in Animation at Emily Carr University since 2006 and conducts workshops in animation at a variety of Elementary schools throughout the lower mainland.

Originally from Italy, I left my homeland for Canada in hopes of furthering my professional aspirations.

Familiar with the cultures of both North America and Europe, my artistic perspective occupies the gap between them. I grew up close to the streets and am intimately familiar with the complex and dark realities of urban living in a multi-racial/ethnic/cultural society. 

Furthermore, I am presently living the “reality” of a New Canadian, experiencing on a daily basis the hope and disappointment shared by people caught between worlds.

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.