Board
HELEN LEE
Treasurer & Co-Chair
Helen Lee is a film archivist and programmer currently based in Toronto. She is passionate about experimental analogue film practices. Helen received a BA from the University of King’s College, Halifax, in 2018 and has since worked at various arts organizations such as C Magazine, Vtape and the Toronto International Film Festival. She completed her MA at Toronto Metropolitan University in Film Preservation and Collections Management in 2022.
ANGUS O MACDONALD
Secretary
Angus O Macdonald is a film archivist and preservationist with a long history of supporting local art events. He is a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and a researcher for the Archive/Counter-Archive project, advocating for the re-emergence of under-recognized and unorthodox films by way of artist interventions and curated screenings. He is currently a board member of the8fest small gauge film festival and has aided with film screenings and installations in Peterborough, Ottawa, and Toronto.
EMA WALTERS
Co-Chair
Ema is a visual artist, filmmaker and props master. Exploring the intersection between art and social commentary, they have a BA in Media Studies specializing in Journalism, a diploma in Mass Communications and further studies in Sociology and Political Science. Captivated by the natural world and motivated by community, they run their own creative outlet by the name of Eachother, focused on harmonizing the “We” and the “I”.
LORENZA DE BENEDICTIS
Board Member
Lorenza De Benedictis is a Canadian filmmaker of Italian heritage with an interest in documentary and experimental film work. Her boutique production company, Waddling Duck, which she established in 2023, houses her award-winning first production credit and thesis film, Cod Story. In 2023, Lorenza attended the Terre di Cinema workshop where she directed a film on 35mm Kodak film stock. When not working in the commercial world, she spends her time producing personal short film projects and planning her next adventure.
JORDAN HUFFMAN
Board Member
Jordan Huffman is a Toronto-based producer and writer, with a BFA in Visual Arts from Emily Carr University. She is the Director of Operations at Makwa Creative, an Indigenous-owned production company that produces unscripted film and audio projects. Recent projects include: a CSA-nominated episode of The Nature of Things with David Suzuki: WAR FOR THE WOODS (CBC); NI-NADAAMAADIS: RED POWER RISING (documentary channel/ APTN); and the documentary series, THE KNOWING (CBC), which had its world premiere at TIFF 2024.
DHVANI RAMANUJAM
Board Member
Dhvani Ramanujam is a Toronto-based emerging curator and writer pursuing a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at York University. Her research looks at the curatorial practice and phenomenological experience of experimental moving image at the intersection of theories of queer and feminist aesthetics, counter-archives, and the body/subject. Her writing has appeared in BlackFlash Magazine, Public Parking, and in the anthology collection Imagining Futures of Experimental Media (Pleasure Dome, 2023). She is a research assistant at Archive/Counter-Archive and Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts & Technology, and recently co-curated “The Rituals of a Roving Body,” an ongoing 16mm archival dance film program.
GHISLAN SUTHERLAND-TIMM
Board Member
Ghislan Sutherland-Timm (they/she) is a multidisciplinary craftsman, media researcher, and cultural worker based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Their practice braids archival materials with collage-based techniques across a diverse range of mediums, including analog, to shape autobiographical-fictional narratives centred on ambiguous beings and land formations. Sutherland-Timm volunteers at The ArQuives and holds a BFA in Integrated Media from OCAD University. In their practice they are also an alum of the Independent Imaging Retreat: Film Farm (2024) and Black Women Film! Canada (2019).