Edgar B. Howard is the Founder and President of Checkerboard Films, a non-profit foundation established in 1979 to document the American arts for archival and educational purposes. He has produced […]

Christopher Jenks serves as director of Cooperative Research Programs for the TRB, a unit of the National Academies in Washington, DC. In this capacity, he is responsible for administering five […]

Graduating from Sussex University with a BA Honours in English and French Max Jourdan went on to study for a Master of Arts in Photography at the Royal College of […]

Zacharia Kunuk is president of Igloolik Isuma Productions, Canada’s first Inuit-owned independent production company, co-founded in 1990 with the late Paul Apak, the late Pauloosie Qulitalik and Norman Cohn. Besides […]

Over a decade ago Rebecca Lemos was asked if she would like to do a small gardening project with a group of kids in a local community center. From that […]

Award-winning filmmaker Carmen Elsa Lopez was born in Lima, Peru. Her nomadic life began a few months after, when her family moved to Switzerland, Panama, Argentina, Honduras, Brazil, France, Belgium […]

Diane MacEachern is an award-winning entrepreneur, in-demand public speaker and leading green expert. She is founder of Big Green Purse, the only company in the U.S. dedicated specifically to transforming […]

Anne Makepeace has been a writer, producer, and director of award-winning independent films for more than twenty years. She has twice been a writer/director fellow at the Sundance Institute’s June […]

Dr. Ian Mauro is a filmmaker and academic at the University of Winnipeg. Mauro is a pioneer of multi-media methodologies, scholarship and education. He holds a BSc in Environmental Science […]

For over 30 years Allen Moore has been active as an independent filmmaker – producing, directing, photographing, and editing his own 16mm documentary work. In addition to pursuing his film […]