LIZ MARSHALL – Director / Producer / Writer / Cinematographer of Maude Barlow footage

Liz Marshall is an auteur filmmaker who fuses cinematic storytelling with social and environmental justice issues. Since the late 90s she has created award winning and socially relevant projects which focus on a range of significant global issues including the Right to Water; HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa; the rights of girls in developing countries; censorship affecting writers and journalists; war-affected children; corporate globalization; sweatshop labour, and refugees. Additionally, she has enjoyed creating a body of arts-based shorts; music videos and music documentaries featuring celebrated dancers and musicians. Marshall’s work has premiered for diverse audiences: Theatrically; for international broadcast; the 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto; 150 world leaders at the 2001 Winnipeg Conference on War-Affected Children; PEN International; Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression; international film festivals; grassroots activist groups around the world; for the Tragically Hip and 200,000 of their fans.

SUSAN MCGRATH – Co-Producer

Susan McGrath has been bringing award winning productions in on schedule and on budget for over a decade, working on  documentaries and series airing on A&E, CBC, Court TV, CTV, Discovery, Global, HGTV, History, OMNI, Oxygen, SLICE, SunTV, TVO, Vision and W.  Susan has Line Produced nine series, among them Out In The Cold and Urban Legends and eight documentaries including SPAM: The Documentary (Gemini nominated) and First Person Shooter (Gemini nominated).

SHELLEY SAYWELL – Executive Producer

Shelley Saywell is a Canadian documentary filmmaker whose films have been broadcast in more than 30 countries, and won numerous international awards including an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism and been short-listed* for the Academy Awards.  In Canada, her work has garnered four Hot Docs and six Gemini Awards.  Saywell has been personally honoured with the 2010 WIFT Crystal Award for Creative Excellence. Saywell’s most recent film In the Name of the Family won Best Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs 2010.  Her other films include Martyr Street, Hamas: Behind the Mask, Generation Of Hate (Iraq), A Child’s Century Of War, Out Of The Fire, Crimes Of Honour, Legacy Of Terror, Kim’s Story: The Road From Vietnam, Rape: A Crime Of War, Fire And Water, No Man’s Land and Shahira.

DEBORAH PARKS – Executive Producer

Deborah Parks is a veteran documentary producer and cinematographer. She has worked with Shelley Saywell since 1987, when they made their first documentary Shahira (for which she became the first woman in Canada to win the Best Cinematography Award from the Canadian Society of Cinematographers). Deborah also shot the award-winning documentary TALK SIXTEEN, which was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1991 and later released theatrically. As a dedicated professional Television Producer, she has earned numerous Producer credits with some of Canada’s top Documentary Directors such as John Kastner, John Walker and John Zaritsky. As well, she continues to work with a number of Production companies as a consultant.

JEREMIAH MUNCE – Editor

Jeremiah Munce is a dramatic and documentary picture editor who has been working in Canada since 2000 after having completed a BFA in film production at Ryerson Polytechnic University. In 2008, Munce edited Bruce McDonald’s ‘Pontypool’, starring Steven McHattie, and the film was picked up by Maple in Canada and IFC in the U.S. Munce was also the lead editor on McDonald’s multi-frame experimental feature narrative ‘The Tracey Fragments’ – for which Munce was Genie nominated for best achievement in editing in ‘07.

STEVE COSENS, CSC – Cinematographer

Steve Cosens is from the prairies – wide open and still and inspiring boyhood visions of the animal kingdom dancing above the horizon. For years up north he ran wild on the tundra, mesmerized by the northern lights like a scarf in a blender. In adolescence he hid in corners, a shadow too shy to shine out loud but an imagination like thunder. Later he made films at Emily Carr College of Art in Vancouver where he grew his hair long, smoked pot and fought his demons with a bolex like a revolver: images of beauty were flowers for the departed. Toronto called his name and so he came and was scared and elated and the projects have sometimes been gristle and sometimes been sunshine but always he grew a lot – from Africa with Liz to Durham County. He pushed at the edges and tried to be brave from Flower and Garnet to fragments with Bruce MacDonald. He’s most passionate about docs these days – passport full and fuelled by fluid intuitive wonder and now the lines on his face say he’s a little more wise but always he’s known that life is in the poetry, not the aiming for a prize. Visit: stevecosens.com

JENNIFER MOORE – Composer

Originally trained in the Western Classical vocal tradition, Jennifer has developed a style that integrates Western Classical elements with various world music and jazz influences. Jennifer has performed and/or recorded with the Art of Time Ensemble, The Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, Justin Haynes, Lee Pui Ming, Laurel MacDonald, Maza Mezé, Pirate Jenny, Suba Sankaran, Jane Siberry, Andy Stochansky, Kurt Swinghammer, Maryem Tollar and David Wall. Jennifer and bassist/composer Mark Shannon formed New Moon Music together and they have composed music for documentaries for the History Channel, MTV, and films by Andrea Cohen and Liz Marshall. Jennifer has also sung on several film soundtracks by composer David Wall, filmmaker John Greyson, as well as soundtracks by John Gzowski, Nicholas Sperling and Andy Stochansky.  Visit: jennifermoore.ca

MARK SHANNON – Composer

Mark Shannon is a Toronto based musician, composer and producer. Mark studied music at York University with a focus on Jazz Performance, Electronic Music and Music for Film. Since then he has composed music for several feature films and documentaries, such as Return to Kandahar, Lost In Lost Vegas, The Spreading Ground, and Provocateur as well as many smaller industrial films and jingles. More recently Mark has composed music for MTV Canada’s “Girls of Latitude” and the History Channel Series “Finding The Fallen”. He is also a regular music contributor to The Real News, a web-based independent news organization.

JASON MILLIGAN – Location Sound Recordist

Jason Milligan started volunteering in the Toronto film industry in 1999 as a boom operator and began recording sound for short films soon after. In 2000, Jason started working in television on the documentary series “Skin Deep,”; Since 2002, Jason has recorded sound for the feature length documentary films “Dying at Grace” by Allan King, “The Take” by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein (nominated for a Best Sound Gemini), “Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company” by Allan King (nominated for a Best Sound Gemini), “EMPz for Life” by Allan King, “Inside Hana’s Suitcase” by Larry Weinstein and “The Young Romantic” by Barbara Willis Sweete. In early 2008, Jason traveled with The Stephen Lewis Foundation to South Africa and Swaziland to document the Canadian grandmothers trip to Africa. Recently, Jason has worked on the documentaries “Mom’s Home” by Maureen Judge, “Science of the Soul” by Bruce Thorson, “The Experimental Eskimos” by Barry Greenwald, “Badge of Pride” by Min Sook Lee, “My Toxic Baby” by Min Sook Lee, “Cat City” by Justine Pimlot, “Cat Ladies” by Christie Callan Jones, “When We Were Boys” by Sarah Goodman, and “Water On The Table” by Liz Marshall. http://www.documentarysound.ca

DANIEL PELLERIN – Supervising Re-Recording Mixer

Daniel Pellerin is one of Canada’s finest recording and re-recording mixer/engineers, sound designers and music supervisors.  He has worked with a wide range of celebrated Canadian filmmakers such as Atom Egoyan, Clement Virgo, James Cameron, Shelley Saywell, Min Sook Lee, Michael Kot, Ron Mann, Bruce MacDonald and Liz Marshall.  He has been nominated for 10 Genie Awards of which he has won three (Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter, Istvan Szabo’s Sunshine and Clement Virgo’s Love Come Down).  He has been nominated for 16 Gemini Awards, for which he has won two (Musicians in Exile and Under the Piano).

GARRETT KERR – Supervising Sound Editor

After graduating from the film program at NYU in New York City, Garrett’s career began as a location sound recordist and sound designer for theatrical productions. He worked in NYC, Minneapolis and then Phoenix, dipping into even more audio applications, including live dance performance, installation audio art and public radio. In 1996 Garrett moved to Toronto and began working in audio post production for the film and television industry. He has since been recognized with many awards and nominations for his work in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, including an Emmy, Genie and Gemini, for a variety of projects. Garrett also teaches aspiring filmmakers at Humber College, opening their eyes and ears to the powerful and subtle potential hidden in a film’s sound track.

STEVEN BUDD – Assistant Editor

Steven Budd has been working in editing since graduating from the Post Graduate program in Post-Production at Humber College in 2002. Water On The Table is one of the several projects that he and Liz Marshall have worked on together, the first of which was editing a trilogy of half-hour documentaries for the Stephen Lewis Foundation in 2007. Steven has been nominated for two Gemini awards, most recently in 2010 for “Best Sound in a Comedy, Variety or Performing Arts Program or Series” for Bravo! Television’s Michael Bublé At The Concert Hall. He currently freelances for various television and documentary production companies in Toronto.

LORENA ELKE – Researcher

Lorena Elke studied film, women and gender studies, and history at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. She has a passion for documentary and social justice issues. She is an animal rights activist, environmentalist, and teacher of earth-based spirituality. Lorena works at the University of Toronto as a Medical Educator for the Standardized Patient Program, Department of Community and Family Medicine. She teaches patient centered communication to healthcare professionals and students, and is part of a team involved with curriculum development and research. She is versed in the methodologies of experiential learning and principles of Adult Education. Lorena has presented work internationally at conferences and workshops.

WARREN BROWN – Title & Credit Designer

The former creative director of Cuppa Coffee Studios and Canadian Film Centre alumus Warren Brown has designed and directed award-winning broadcast design packages and special event programming for a wide range of clients including MTV, MuchMusic, Nickelodeon and the legendary rock band Rush. An independent creative director, designer and animator since 2006, Brown’s created the on-stage motion graphics for David Cronenberg’s operative adaptation of The Fly which debuted at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. Other projects include the signal film for the Planet in Focus Environmental Film & Video Festival, opening titles for Liz Marshall’s short film Mawal Saba, the title sequence for David Cronenberg’s feature film Eastern Promises and designs for The Kids in the Hall mini-series Death Comes to Town.  Visit: www.warrenbrown.ca