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Angela HeckProducer/Director/Writer
Angela has gained more than 20 years experience as a producer, special event coordinator, publicist, and writer with a background in music, theatre, dance and film. Angela Heck produced the award-winning documentary In the Shadow of the Chief that premiered at the 2003 Whistler Film Festival and won the People’s Choice Award for best film. In 2006, she produced Back to the Wall. Both of these films had their broadcast premieres on CBC. She is currently in development on the feature comedy, Saddlebags . In 2002, Angela was responsible for coordinating the communications and logistics of the Canadian nomination (Strange Invaders) at the Academy Awards. After 7 years of work, she left the National Film Board of Canada in October 2006 where she was responsible for public relations in Western Canada to spend more time in Squamish. Angela holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Victoria and a BA in political science and theatre from the University of Manitoba.
Venay Felton is the Executive Director of the Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth in Vancouver. As part of the film festival’s year-round programming, she developed, and has taught, the Animating History Program at the Vancouver Museum since 2003. This is her third year touring the BC Stories workshop. She works closely with educators in each rural community to customize the program for their specific needs.
Tracy Lewis graduated from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1988. Since then, she has worked as an independent animator, and has had numerous commissions for artwork, design work, and currently distributes a line a greeting cards. Tracy lives in the Cowichan Valley with her daughter, where she teaches animation and art. She has directed and taught animation and digital storytelling workshops in many remote communities, including Alert Bay, Gold River, Bella Coola, and at the Tillicum Lelum Youth Centre in Nanaimo.
Ivan Hughes
Ivan Hughes is the director of the award-winning documentary In the Shadow of the Chief that marked his directorial debut. He studied cinematography at George Brown College (Toronto) and photographic techniques at Toronto Image Works. Ivan lives and works in Squamish, BC, where he is an event organizer, filmmaker and father who enjoys working and playing in the great outdoors. He took this love to CBC last summer and, along with filmmaking partner, Angela Heck, created a series of 13 x 3-minute segments on outdoor family adventures for CBC’s Living Vancouver. Ivan also directed and edited Back to the Wall, the story about quadriplegic climber Brad Zdanivsky and his 14-year journey back to climbing for the CBC. His latest project, University Wall was selected as finalist for best short film at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. It is part of a feature documentary, History of the Human Flies, that is currently in production. Ivan was recently commissioned by the Whistler Film Festival to create a short documentary as part of their Whistler Stories series.
Ethan has worked in the Art Department on over 20 productions for the commercial film industry and for the past four years, has been the Senior Editor and Creative Director for Resort TV Network in Whistler. After completing a year in the performing arts program from the University of British Columbia, Ethan realized he’d rather be behind the camera and went on to focus his energy on the art of filmmaking, post-production effects, and graphic design. Ethan studied computer graphics at Seneca College Applied Arts & Technology, animation at the International Academy of Design and film production at the Vancouver Film School. He has lent his creative talent and diverse skills to various film projects, websites designs, clothing lines, skateboard products, print ads and marketing materials and says he’s been fortunate to have worked with many of the skateboard industries most popular athletes and companies. Laurel Terlesky
Give Laurel Terlesky a crayon and she'll be enthusiastically busy for hours. Over the last ten years Laurel has left a mark in galleries, restaurants, hair salons, on telephone poles, on the web and on your television. Laurel contributed as a designer to CBC's late night innovative cross-platform project, Zed, allowing her to jump between web, print and broadcast motion graphics. Zed has been nominated for an Emmy award and has won numerous Leo awards. The music industry has lead her to work independently on packaging and promotional material with talented folks such as Po'girl, Salt and Juno nominee Adham Shaikh. During her time at Distribution Fusion 3 and Justin Time Records in Montreal she designed for Juno Award winner, The Rob McConnell Tentet, and countless other jazz, electronic, hip-hop and world musicians and their labels. As an artist, Laurel creates canvases that are largely abstract in style built around an awareness of the human form. She has exhibited her paintings in Victoria, Vancouver, Squamish, Montreal and San Francisco. Michael Keeping
Michael Keeping learned the art of Foley at the CBC in 1981. Since then through his company Traxstars Entertainment Inc., he has worked with over 50 TV series: on such shows as King of the Hill, Highlander, The New Adams Family and hundreds of Movies like Grandma’s Boy, produced by Adam Sandler, and Into the Sun, produced and starring Steven Seagull, My 5 wives, starring Rodney Dangerfield, and documentary features like The Corporation. For a full list you can checkout the Internet Movie Data Base IMDB.com under Michael Keeping. He has been nominated for Two Prix Genie Awards and two Gemini Awards. Also an accomplished director, Michael Keeping started working with film and TV when he was 13 years old. As a volunteer at Rogers Cable TV Toronto he was directing and switching live TV shows at 16 years old. He has produce well over 3000 hours of TV. Michael currently directs Studio 4 with host Fanny Kiefer and Urban Rush with host Fiona Forbes and Michael Eckford, for Shaw TV.
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