Doreen Manuel
Doreen Manuel (Ktunaxa/Secwepemc), graduated from the Aboriginal Film & Television program, currently known as the Indigenous Independent Digital Filmmaking program at the Bosa Centre. She has an extensive background working in First Nations education and community development in both rural and urban centres. Doreen comes from a long line of oral historians and factual storytellers from her First Nations traditional background. Currently she is the Canadian Correspondent for KVOS North West Indian News, Assistant Studio Director for a nationally broadcast TV talk show as well as manager of Running Wolf Productions. Doreen is currently the Coordinator of the Indigenous Independent Digital Filmmaking program.
Dwayne Beaver
Dwayne Beaver is a versatile Writer/Producer/Director whose feature film drama ‘The Rhino Brothers’ garnered numerous awards and full star reviews. His work spans comedy, drama, documentary and animation. His dramatic experience includes CTV's ‘Robson Arms’, ‘Alice, I Think’ and APTN’s ‘Moccasin Flats’. He is currently producing and directing a contemporary warrior themed web series for the CBC entitled ‘ComaSTATE’ and a dramatic pilot for APTN working titled, ‘Dry Meat’. His animation experience includes Mainframe’s ‘War Planets’ the BBC's ‘The Mr. Hell Show’ along with numerous shorts including 'Thorax The Conqueror' while his lifestyle works includes ‘Conviction Kitchen’, ‘Glutton For Punishment’ and ‘Road Hockey Rumble’ for which he won the Leo as best director of a comedy, musical or variety series. Dwayne is from the Nova Scotia Micmac nation.
Dwayne Beaver, Writer/Producer/Director. Dwayne’s dramatic experience includes The Rhino Brothers, CTV's ‘Robson Arms’, ‘Alice, I Think’ and APTN’s ‘Moccasin Flats’, CBC web series entitled ‘ComaSTATE’ and a dramatic pilot for APTN (working titled), ‘Dry Meat’. His animation experience includes Mainframe’s ‘War Planets’ the BBC's ‘The Mr. Hell Show’ along with numerous shorts including 'Thorax The Conqueror' while his lifestyle works includes ‘Conviction Kitchen’, ‘Glutton For Punishment’ and ‘Road Hockey Rumble’ for which he won the Leo as best director of a comedy, musical or variety series. Dwayne is from the Nova Scotia Micmac nation.
Greg Coyes
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Pieter Romer
(Nisga'a nation) graduated from Capilano College's Motion Picture Program in North Vancouver. He has worked as a fulltime Producer on the trailblazing CTV aboriginal current affairs series First Story. Over the past 11 seasons he has produced over 40 half hour episodes focusing on First Nations art, culture and politics. In 2009 he won both the National and Regional RTNDA Adrienne Clarkson Diversity Awards for his investigative story into black bear trophy hunting called Taan: Bears of Haida Gwaii. Pieter was promoted to Senior Producer position for First Story’s 12th season where his team both won the National and Regional RTNDA Adrienne Clarkson Diversity Awards for a story on First Nations resistance to the Olympics. He continued on as senior producer for First Story’s 13th season winning an RTNDA award for Grieving mother sculpture and Black Blood; where his team exposed oil spills in northern British Columbia that had not been cleaned up for 8 years.
Tamara Bell
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Tanya Gagnon
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