Jordana Aarons - A recent resident of the highly esteemed Norman Jewison Canadian Film Centre’s Producer’s Lab, Jordana Aarons brings her diverse background to producing dramatic feature films and television programs. Under her production company Cedar Avenue Productions, Jordana has produced various music videos and Bravo!FACT art films. She produced The World is Yours to Change, a half-hour performance documentary promoting youth & international peace, and the spoken word film Tongue Bully, which was in competition at Sundance, screened at New York’s prestigious Lincoln Centre for the Arts and has won awards in numerous international festivals. Jordana produced The Cross Road, a drama about racism in modern America for which she won the Best Producer Award for a feature film at the Monaco International Film Festival. Recently Jordana co-produced The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning, a one-hour documentary about the effects of global warming. This multi award-winning film aired on CBC & the Documentary Channel and has sold to television markets internationally. Along with an extensive festival presence, The Antarctica Challenge was invited by the United Nations to screen for world leaders and delegates at the Global Summit for Climate Change in Copenhagen/COP15.  Jordana has a full development slate of feature film projects, including the film adaptation of William Deverell’s award-winning novel Needles; Catch it Early, a comedy set in a cancer ward by Sarah Warren; Denise Blinn’s Day One, a rock-and-roll movie about the last night of a indie music club; and Key, a drama about an African refugee teacher in an inner-city school.

Cindy Davis Hewitt is a screenwriter whose feature film credits include the English-language screenplay for Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning film Spirited Away, as well as My Neighbor Totoro, and the Oscar-nominated Howl's Moving Castle. She has written for Pixar, Working Title, Miramax, New Line, Disney, ABC Family, and is currently writing an animated feature for Fox.

Kelly Sanders is the executive director of Truly Indie, a self-distribution initiative under the Wagner/Cuban Companies. Truly Indie is a vertically integrated group of media properties co-owned by Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban that includes the Landmark Theatres chain, Magnolia Pictures distribution company, production company 2929 Productions, and high-definition cable networks HDNet and HDNet Movies. Truly Indie has distributed Neill Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon's Cavite, Doug Block's 51 Birch Street, and James Scurlock's Maxed Out. Recently, Truly Indie worked on the release of Matt Tyrnauer's Valentino: The Last Emperor, Stefan Forbes's critically acclaimed Boogieman: The Lee Atwater Story, Academy Award-Winning Director Terry Sanders's documentary Fighting for Life, and the Hennegan Brothers' acclaimed documentary about the Kentucky Derby, The First Saturday in May.

Brian G. Smith creates television, theater, and multi-media in Canada and the Caribbean. He is owner/director of You and Media, a creative production company that has been operating in and around Toronto since 1998. The company has produced award-winning comedy films and socially innovative web series. His short film Chère was nominated for three Canadian Comedy Awards. Other work includes The Summit, a four-part documentary series on Toronto’s improvisation scene, and NOW Magazine – The Movie, a nine-part web series chronicling the 25-year history of NOW. An award-winning alumnus of The Second City, Brian has developed improv and teambuilding programs for groups as diverse as developmentally challenged adults and corporate think tanks.

Anders Wotzke is the editor and resident film critic for the movie review website Cut Print Review. He is a member of the Online Film Critics Society, the Australian Film Critics Association, and an associate member of the Australian Directors Guild. Anders currently resides in Adelaide, South Australia.

Kal Deutsch produced and directed a mockumentary short, Behind the Startup: IceVan.com, which was named an official selection to the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. He is CEO and co-founder of CineGoGo.com, a web platform empowering schools, community centers, and other public venues to host and monetize movie nights. In doing so, CineGoGo is creating an entirely new and profitable marketing and distribution channel for indie filmmakers, and offering substantially lower barriers to entry compared to traditional theaters.

Niclas Gillberg - Since 2001, Niclas has worked with the Uppsala International Short Film Festival; since 2004, he has been the festival director. He studied Film Studies, Aesthetics, Art History and Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University and Stockholm University. He is a member of the nomination committee for the Swedish national film award Guldbaggen in the categories Best Short Film and Best Documentary. He also writes film reviews for Ergo, a magazine published in Uppsala.