PAUL ARMSTRONG – PRODUCER Paul is a film, television and theatre producer. Feature film credits include producer on ‘Moving Malcolm’ by Benjamin Ratner starring Elizabeth Berkley (‘Showgirls’) and John Neville; executive producer on the 2006 Genie Award nominated ‘See Grace Fly’ by Pete McCormack starring Gina Chiarelli and Paul McGillion and co-producer on ‘Ill-Fated’ (Toronto & Slamdance Film Festivals) by Mark Lewis starring Peter Outerbridge. He is currently producing ‘Revolution’, a feature documentary on the Sixties directed by Tony Papa, as well as the live talk show This Conversation hosted by Brendan Beiser for Novus TV. Short film credits as producer include ‘Break a Leg, Rosie’ starring Carly Pope and Ian Tracey, directed by Tara Hungerford, and ‘Mon amour mon parapluie’, starring Hungerford with Douglas Coupland and William Gibson. Music videos include ‘My Greatest Masterpeice’ for Bif Naked, ‘Just a Pilgrim’ and ‘12 Questions’ for Jim Byrnes, ‘The World is Calling’ for Jeff Martin (‘The Tea Party’) and various music videos for Steve Dawson’s Black Hen Music label. He has also produced commercials for television, radio and the web including The Red Cross, Nintendo, WirelessWave & Storyeum. Paul is co-founder and producer of The Celluloid Social Club, a Vancouver-based monthly screening series of independent short films. He recently executive produced the Celluloid-sponsored Hot Shot Shorts Film Contest winning short The Bar by Mike Jackson & Peter New starring Peter Deluise and Simone Bailly. In the past eight years he has produced seventeen plays, including ‘Miss Julie’, ‘Stiff Cuffs’, ‘SubUrbia’, ‘Phat Tank’, ‘The Kenny Rogers Experience’, ‘Speed-the-Plow’ and Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. |
Catrina Longmuir - Associate Producer Catrina Longmuir is Associate Producer with the National Film Board of Canada (Pacific & Yukon Centre). She graduated with a BFA at Concordia University (Studio Arts & Anthropology) and has been working in the visual & media arts field ever since. After working with CitizenShift (the NFB’s grassroots social issue website) she then went on to producing an initiative called “Our World” in her current role. “Our World” works with aboriginal youth living in remote First Nations communities, to create short digital films in First Language. She is producing a partially-animated documentary called “Kids in Jail”, and is Associate Producer for the documentary “Finding Farley”. |
HOSSEIN FAZELI - FILM-MAKER Hossein Fazeli is a film-maker by training and has been making movies for the past 15 years. His movies have won 37 international awards, and been broadcast on networks such as CNN, SBS, ARTE and Canal+. Last year he was short-listed by the Sundance Institute to take part in 2008 Sundance International Filmmakers Award. Hossein has previously run media campaigns for organizations such as the UNDP, the European Commission and Nonviolence International on issues such as minority rights, women's rights, racism and nonviolent struggle. For more information on him, please visit his website at www.fazelifilms.com/en |
