Dorothy A. Atabong
Director-Writer-Producer
Dorothy is an award winning Director, Writer, Producer, and Actor based in Toronto. Her short film Sound Of Tears, screened at over 45 film festivals worldwide. It garnered multiple awards and nominations including The Africa Movie Academy Award, Court-métrage de fiction, Burundi, Best Film and Best Director Nominations for the Golden Sheaf Award, Ousmane Sembene Award – Zanzibar International Film Festival and Best Film at The Pan African Film Festival in LA and Cannes.
She’s an alumna of the Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC). Dorothy directed the CBC’s critically acclaimed 21 Black Futures – Season 3 – YEn Ara Asaase Ni/This Is Our Own Native Land. She is the winner of the 2020 Cayle Chernin Award, and her feature script, Zenzile’s Journey is currently in development in partnership with Telefilm Canada. She looks forward to filming a proof of concept as part of the Caribbean tales Incubator Studio Access Initiative.
Dorothy is mentored by two-time Oscar nominated Director Atom Egoyan, and was selected for the Netflix/Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative. She is passionate about creating accurate and clear representations of the experiences of three-dimensional black women in stories both tragic and glorifying. Ultimately, revealing the trials and tribulations of today’s black women and fueling the feministic black experience.
Charanpreet Chall
Producer
Charanpreet Chall is a Producer based in Toronto, Canada. Her experience working in both the Indian and the North-American film industry and a deep understanding of the international film and television market makes Charanpreet the global storyteller that she is. She is a member of the Director’s Guild of Canada and has worked on many feature and series projects as an Assistant Director. Charanpreet has also worked as a head of talent development at Reallife Pictures Inc., where she worked with diverse, neuro-diverse and LGBTQIA+ writers to develop thier fiction and documentary series and feature projects.
As a producer, Charanpreet has successfully secured various funding for her productions including Ontario Creates export fund for her fiction series project, Saffron, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council of the Arts production funding for her short fiction project Eye of the Veil. Charanpreet is currently developing two fiction feature films, Amar and Zenzile’s Journey, and one feature documentary, The Great Punjabi Canadian Dream.
Roger Singh
Director of Photography
With over a decade of experience and over 50 credits in film and television, Roger Singh brings consistency and professionalism necessary to meet what the modern industry demands. Such as the recently completed series, Becoming You, produced by Warner Bros UK for Apple TV+. Also, The Pirate Tapes, a film that went undercover and looked at the lives of Somali Pirates as they planned a future heist. Along with cinematography, Roger has produced feature length documentaries that were acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films, HBO, and The Orchard.
Rick Bartram
Editor
Rick Bartram is a Toronto-based picture editor. He is passionate about making films that challenge, inform and entertain audiences.
Originally from Nova Scotia, he developed a keen eye for storytelling early in life. He attended The University of King’s College in Halifax, where he developed his understanding of story structure, and cinematic language. He graduated with a B.A. in History and English Literature with a minor in Film Studies.
His continued need to progress as a visual storyteller led him to Toronto, where he attained a B.F.A in Film Production from Ryerson University and went on to graduate from the Canadian Film Centre’s Editor’s Lab in 2019. His work as a picture editor on short and feature-length films has garnered multiple awards and positive recognition from around the world.
Josette Joseph
Production Designer
Josette is an art director and visual artist with a range of experience across feature films, short films, television shows, commercials, and music videos. As a recent graduate of Western University with a triple major in Media, Fine Arts, and Art History, she has a keen eye for detail and the application of Fine Arts theory to her work on set.
Career highlights include production designing a commercial for Canada Life insurance, working alongside Umbrella Academy’s Colm Feore as an art director on 6 Guns for Hire (feature film), and art directing the fourth season of Échappe-Toi Si Tu Peux (reality television series).
Ivan Georgiev
Composer
Pianist from an early age, composer since his early teens, Ivan Georgiev’s career began as a touring musician. This gave him the opportunity to approach film music with directors such as Wim Wenders and Bob Visser. From 1997 on, he decided to focus mainly on European creative documentaries.
Many productions later, Ivan redirects his effort toward feature and animation films, with a more ambitious style of scoring for symphonic orchestra. Collaborators include Dada Studios and the brilliant musicians of Ictus Ensemble.
As a side gig, Ivan composes and performs under the alias EWAN. His first album Back On The Roads Of Time is available on Freaksville Records.