Eva Colmers

writer, director
producer

Eva Colmers has written and directed 16 award-winning short and long-format films in the dramatic, experimental and documentary genre including Granny Baby, The Weightless Traveller, End of the Rope, The NFB Elder Project, LUZ, Hand Sum, The Enemy Within and No Problem. In a unique playful style, Colmers explore various aspects of alienation and belonging in her work. Her films have been screened at many international festivals as well as on television and she has received several awards for her accomplishments.

With a background in theatre, Colmers has also created visual background for theatre-, dance- and music performances. She is presently finishing a new documentary for the National Film Board of Canada and is working on a dramatic script for a multi-ethnic dramatic comedy.

Colmers enjoys meeting new people, places and challenges and welcomes collaborations and co-productions

For more information on Colmers’ work, visit her company’s website at: www.noproblemproductions.ca

Gary James Joynes

sound-sand cymatic animation
original music

Gary James Joynes, aka Clinker, is a highly accomplished electronic and experimental music performance artist. Using his analog synthesizers and custom-made machines, he explores visual sound as photograph, drawing, sculpture hybrids along with immersive installation environments for reflection and deep listening/viewing experiences.

His live cinema work Peregrination premiered in the 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art and has since been performed internationally. Clinker’s Live Cinema work On the Other Side... was commissioned by the 2008 International Leonard Cohen Festival and toured internationally. He also composed the film score for the National Film Board of Canada’s award winning feature documentary Dirt which premiered at the Vancouver DOXA Festival in May 2008.

Joynes’ most recent audio-visual solo installation is the large scale Broken Sound at Edmonton’s dc3 Art Projects. Previous solo shows include Frequency Painting: 12 Tones, Soundbursting No. 1 and Topographic Sound which featured his critically acclaimed work Ouroboros which had its world premiere at Toronto’s Koffler Centre of the Arts.

Joynes has been repeatedly invited to The Banff Centre of the Arts to advance new ideas in visual sound and music which has now become known as the Frequency Painting Series.

Ƒor more information on Joynes’ work, visit his website at:  www.clinkersound.com

aAron munson

cinematographer
editor

aAron munson is a Canadian independent filmmaker and cinematographer. Since 2003, he has created over 20 films, and has exhibited work at festivals, galleries and multidisciplinary events across Canada and internationally.

munson is also a collaborator with many different visual and audio artists on a variety of projects ranging from music videos to gallery installations. His use of both analogue and digital mediums creates a unique aesthetic that draws on the history and physical malleability of film, while exploring the possibilities of emerging technologies in digital filmmaking.

Currently, munson is working with the National Film Board of Canada on an interactive online documentary project that explores the history of an abandoned arctic weather station and the role of active observation within our society

His other current projects include a feature length documentary about the Dempster Highway in the Canadian Arctic, and the documentary series Human – Miracle of a Species directed by Niobe Thompson, for which he is a cinematographer.

Ƒor more information on munson’s work visit his website at: http://aaronmunson.com