Cam Williams

Cameron has accumulated producer, post, and camera credentials over the last 30 years while employed in the commercial, cable, music, and educational fields.  He currently instructs post-production and editing techniques for the Motion Picture Production Program along with supervising computer applications and hardware areas related to that program.  His passion evolves around research and production of independent digital projects.  He is devoted to motivating his students to learn the language of the moving image and the craft of the editor.

Charles Wilkinson

Charles Wilkinson is a film and television director, author and educator.  He has written and directed numerous dramatic feature films, television movies, episodes, and documentaries for theatrical and network release for ABC, CBC, CBX, CTV, MTV, Disney, Alliance, Republic, Lifetime, etc.  His most recent feature movie, The Heart of The Storm starring Tom Cavanaugh (Ed) premiered at the Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival and aired on the Lifetime network.  His book, The Working Director (MWP Press, Los Angeles) is available on line and in film friendly bookstores.  Charles continues to develop and produce film and TV.

Claire Queree

Claire is an independent producer, writer and educator who began her professional life as a lawyer, receiving her Doctor of Jurisprudence from UBC. Claire later attended the Norman Jewison’s esteemed Canadian Film Centre as a Producer Resident and was trained as a Story Editor through the Praxis Screenwriting Centre. She has produced two features and six short films, all of which have screened and been distributed internationally, and she won a national scriptwriting competition for one of her comedy shorts. Claire has also worked with numerous Vancouver companies in both production and business capacities and continues to consult to local industry as well as develop her own creative projects.

Dave Gordon

Dave has experience ranging from grip to executive producer and most of the jobs in between. He has been an instructor at the Bosa Centre since 1996, and maintains an active role in the local film and television industry. Dave spent seven years on the executive board of IATSE Local 891.

David Brisbin

David Brisbin has productoion designed over 20 feature films ranging from independents like Drugstore Cowboy', My Own Private Idaho' and In the Cut' to popular tent-pole' fare including The Twilight Saga New Moon'. The Day the Earth Stood Still' and The Exorcism of Emily Rose'. He has made several documentaries including the feature Nice Hat, 5 Enigmas in the Life of Cambodia', and is currently developing a new media project called, Incarcerated Light'. He previously taught production design at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.
Brisbin trained initially in architecture (BFA, Rice University) and interned in Philadelphia office of noted American architects, Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown. Brisbin studied filmmaking (MFA, California Institute of the Arts) under the late movie director, Alexander Mackendrick. He did a residency in new media at the Canadian Film Centre. As winner of the Henry Luce Foundation Scholars Grant, he worked as a T.V. news reporter in Manila where he covered the fall of the Marcos regime.

David Hauka

David Hauka received his MFA in Film and Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia in 2008. From 2006 through 2008, he was the Head of Department for the Film Program at the Vancouver Film School. Films as director include "Certainty" (2009), "Dream" (2003) and "Impolite" (1992) as well as numerous music videos for artists such as Sarah Mclachlan, Lava Hay, Moev and Hilt. Hauka has worked as a director, producer and production manager for Universal, Miramax, MGM, Disney, CBS, ABC, NBC and the CBC. He was Co-Executive Producer of the award-winning feature film "Whale Music," the first film to open both the Toronto and Vancouver International Film Festivals.

James Wallace, CSC, MFA

James has worked as a camera operator on numerous Hollywood blockbusters, TV series and commercials, and as a cinematographer on TV series and independent Canadian features, while documentaries have taken him everywhere from the Downtown Eastside to a helicopter over the Great Wall of China. He has co produced two feature films, numerous shorts, and more recently, he wrote, directed, photographed and edited his second award-winning short film.  James joined the IATSE camera guild in 1984, and is a full member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers.

Ki Wight

Ki has held positions such as producer, production manager, story consultant, and development and business affairs executive on feature films, television series, documentaries, and new media ventures. Ki’s production credits include Co-Producer of the celebrated CTV movie ELIJAH (by executive producer and writer Blake Corbet), Associate Producer of FIDO (by writer/director Andrew Currie) and THE THAW (by writer/director Mark A. Lewis), and Business Affairs Executive of Kari Skogland’s UK/Canada co-production FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING (Brightlight Pictures/Future Films). Prior to entering the film and television industry, she worked for several years as a visual artist and non-profit arts administrator. Ki holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University. Ki is currently the Convener of the Digital VFX program and the Grip and Lighting courses.

Michael Thoma

Michael has worked in Vancouver and Los Angeles as a writer, story editor, author and educator. His produced screenplays include Primal Force (UPN-Paramount), The Set-Up (MGM-Showtime), and The Wrong Man (Viacom Pictures), which was an Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival. He has also written extensively for one-hour television, such as First Wave and Total Recall:2070, as well as children’s television, notably with Maurice Sendak on Little Bear, George and Martha, and Seven Little Monsters. He has one published novel, Gibsons Landing. Michael is presently developing a number of projects, as well as continuing his academic pursuits.

Murray Stiller

Murray is an accomplished picture editor, sound designer, composer/music teacher. He was one of four editing residents chosen to attend advanced studies at Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre. A member of IATSE 891, Murray brings a thorough knowledge of both features and television production.

Nick Kendall

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Seanna McPherson

Seanna McPherson has worked as a producer, director, and assistant director  in film and television. Documentary producer credits include award-winning “Shaking the Tree” and “Talk To Me.” Seanna co-produced and co-wrote the critically acclaimed short film “Sabor a Mi”, winner of The Jury’s Award at the Northwest Film and Video Festival and The Public Award at The Film De Femme in Creteil, France, and subsequently attended the Canadian Film Centre as a Producer. Seanna has been an active member of the local film community and has served on the boards of Out on Screen, Women in Film and Video Vancouver , and the Vancouver Short Film Festival.  Seanna completed her MA in Art Education at Simon Fraser University, her thesis project was A Philosophy of Film Education: Creativity, Liberation and Authenticity in the Knowledge Culture. Seanna led the development of the Bachelor of Motion Picture Arts degree at the Bosa Centre, and has presented academic papers at the European Network for Cinema Studies, in Lund Sweeden, and Crossing Boundaries in Regina Saskatchewan. Seanna received the Capilano University Outstanding Teaching Award in 2010.

Ty Haller

Ty began professional film work as an MGM contract actor in 1967 and spent the next 21 years working as an actor/screenwrite /assistant director - in Canada, the U.S. and
England.

He began teaching in 1988 as screenwriting instructor in the part time program at the Vancouver Film School, then created and taught a course for Assistant Directors. He became VFS Program Director in 1989 and created the 32 week Foundation Film Program which was the school's core program until 1996. While there, he mentored over three hundred short student films.

Ty resigned as Program Director in 1995 to pursue personal film projects, the first of which - “A Justice of Eagles" - was bought by the Discovery Channel. He currently teaches the British Columbia Institute of Film Professionals' Film Industry Orientation Course at The University of British Columbia, B.C.I.T., John Casablancas and The Blanche MacDonald Centre – and since 2006 has been an instructor and set supervisor in the Capilano University film program.

He's a member of the Writers Guild of Canada, The Writers Guild of America West, the Directors Guild of Canada, and a slew of film and stage performer unions.

Warren Demsys

Warren’s love for the recorded image began at the age of 10 when he would experiment with alternate edits of his favourite programs using two vhs machines and crash record.  The abuse of many cameras and vhs machines would follow over the next decade. A degree in Film Production from The University of Regina along with stints working with The BBC, Rainmaker, and Command Post-Toybox eventually led him to the world of education in 2002. He’s shot/edited a variety of different films from corporate to documentary to music video to commercial work. Warren has Apple Certification in Final Cut Pro and he also enjoys writing and percussive music, which he studied at St. Francis Xavier University.