Programming
Programming Jury:
Skye Callow is an artist based on Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, MB, originally from Sandy Hook, MB. Through image making, sound, and installation practices, her work explores the magic of our ecological and metaphysical worlds and engages in the somatic experience of being in relation to the biosphere; a motif of ecology, self, and the land continuously presents itself.
Skye serves as the Distribution and Collections Coordinator at the Winnipeg Film Group. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours Degree from the University of Manitoba’s School of Art. Her work has been exhibited at notable venues in Winnipeg, including aceartinc., PLATFORM Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, and the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art.
Skye is the recipient of the 2024 PLATFORM Photography Award, with an upcoming solo exhibition scheduled for March 2025, and she was a featured artist in the 2024 Send + Receive Festival of Sound. Additionally, she has been involved in film programming initiatives, working with the Winnipeg Film Group, independently, and as a member of the Open City Cinema Collective (Winnipeg Underground Film Festival).
Iyunade Judah (b.1998) is a Nigerian born photographer and filmmaker based in Winnipeg, Canada.
Drawing on his Nigerian heritage, his photographs and films explore history, sexuality, identity, and love as a way of centring the African diasporic experience.
His unique style regularly incorporates elements of west African studio photography in his portraits often capturing vulnerable and intimate moments. In 2020, he was also one of the PLATFORM Photography Award winners.
Sara Bulloch is an editor and filmmaker in Winnipeg. She’s edited films and series like Aberdeen (premiered at TIFF2024), Alter Boys (CBC), Seeking Fire (Super Channel), Ancient Bodies (National Geographic), and many short films. She won Best Editing at UWpg Film Fest 2017 and was nominated for Best Screenplay in 2018.
Short films she’s written/directed have screened with the8fest, Toronto Jewish Film Fest, Gimli Film Fest, and more. Her films often explore mental health, identity, and relationships. Her short film, Hot Dog Guy, won a People’s Choice Award at Vox Popular Media Arts Fest 2022. She’s also a motion graphics artist, videographer, and community organizer. From 2019-2023 she organized OurToba Film Network & Fest, a community group for women, non-binary and gender diverse Manitobans in film. Check out some of her work at www.linktr.ee/sarabulloch
Award Jury:
Andrew Burke is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg where he primarily teaches film and television studies. His book, Hinterland Remixed: Media, Memory, and the Canadian 1970s, was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2019. His current project examines the representation of graphic and industrial design in films from the 1960s and 70s and is provisionally titled “Cinema and the Object-World of Modernity.”
Olivia Norquay is a film programmer and curator from Treaty One lands in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Since 2021, she has been the Programming Coordinator at the Dave Barber Cinematheque. She is responsible for regular Cinematheque programming as well as a variety of special events, such as the monthly Trash Cult Tuesdays series and Bikini Drive-In, a monthly horror screening and discussion series. Along with Cinematheque programming, she is also a programmer for the Winnipeg Film Group’s annual Gimme Some Truth Documentary Film Festival.
Jeremy Guenette is a director, editor, writer, and producer working in the French and English film and television industry. His career spans feature film, television, documentaries, and short films, that have screened internationally. Some of his creative credits include writing and directing the award-winning feature film Mia. He attended the TIFF Filmmaker Lab with his feature script Among the Trees, currently in development, and recently completed production on the feature film Melaleuca, slated for release in 2024.
Other credits include directing the documentary series La Terre en nous - shining an indigenous perspective on climate issues and solutions across Canada. He was the picture editor for the award-winning feature film The Return and was a producer on the French drama series Edgar, El Toro, and Gabrielle Roy seasons 2 and 3.
Directing scripted film and television though, has always remained the ultimate goal: it is what excites and motivates him like nothing else.
Festival Staff
Festival Director
Eric Peterson
University of Winnipeg Department of Theatre & Film
Department Chair
Christopher Brauer
Office Manager & Student Advisor
Melinda Tallin
Theatre and Film Department Staff Advisors
Delton Kreller, Milos Mitrovic, Lise Raven, Colin Weins
Festival Founder
John Kozak