Name:

Anna Pafomow

Title:

Editor in Residence

Biography:

Anna Pafomow started her career as a sound editor, working on many feature films and Imax productions until switching to picture editing eight years later. Her quite varied background in picture editing go from Bruce Elder’s early experimental film epics such as ILLUMINATED TEXTS, to low budget-no-budget shorts and feature films such as Gerald L’Ecuyer’s THE GRACE OF GOD, to editing Movie of the Week feature dramas such as BALLS UP directed by Alan Erlich.

Anna has also edited numerous documentaries and documentary series that include NO PRICE TOO HIGH with producer/director Richard Nielsen and recently DON’T STAND STILL, a feature length documentary by producer/director Lynn Harvey.

Anna has been the Editor-In-Residence since 1999.

Name:

Greg Klymkiw

Title:

Producer in Residence

Biography:

Greg Klymkiw has devoted his life and career to the development, distribution and production of indigenous, independent Canadian film culture. He is currently the Producer-in-Residence at the CFC where he is firmly committed to the training and development of the next generation of Canada’s filmmakers. At the CFC since 1998, and focusing primarily on the elements of cinematic storytelling, he has taught and mentored producers, writers, directors and editors in a variety of CFC programs including the Film Program, the Feature Film Project, and the Short Dramatic Film Program.

Prior to the CFC, he wrote and/or produced numerous award winning and critically acclaimed films, marketed the work of the legendary Winnipeg Film Group, wrote on film and popular culture for print, radio and television and, among other achievements, taught numerous courses, workshops and delivered guest lectures on filmmaking in a multitude of venues and institutions worldwide. Klymkiw graduated from the University of Manitoba with a degree in English literature and theatre. From 1977 to 1988 he worked as a freelance journalist, repertory cinema program and film buyer. From 1988 to 1992, he was Director of Marketing for The Winnipeg Film Group where he created the legend of the “Winnipeg-style” (cited as “Prairie Post-modernism” by critic Geoff Pevere), thus vaulting numerous films and filmmakers onto the national and international stage. During this period, Klymkiw masterminded the cult status of Guy Maddin’s TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL.

Klymkiw began producing films in the early 1980's, assisting John Paizs on several short films (including SPRINGTIME IN GREENLAND). Since the late 1980's, he has produced over ten features including the work of Guy Maddin (ARCHANGEL, CAREFUL), Alan Zweig (VINYL), Cynthia Roberts (THE LAST SUPPER, BUBBLES GALORE), Bruno Lazaro Pacheco (CITY OF DARK) and Nik Sheehan (SYMPOSIUM). His latest independent production is the one-hour documentary UFO DOGGIES (a nominee for the Best Feature Documentary Award at the Whistler Film Festival) - a personal and poetic exploration of identity against the harrowing backdrop of international adoption in Ukraine.

Klymkiw’s productions have received many awards and considerable critical praise. THE LAST SUPPER was named Best Feature Film at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival Teddy Awards. ARCHANGEL was named Best Experimental Film by the National Society of Film Critics. CAREFUL appeared on numerous international film critics’ ten best lists. CITY OF DARK received the Prize for Cinematic Innovation at the Figuera de la Foz in Portugal. BUBBLES GALORE won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the Freakzone International Festival of Trash Cinema in France.

There are some who believe Klymkiw is an actor and he continues to appear in a variety of films - most recently and notably as Akmatov the Industrialist in Guy Maddin’s THE HEART OF THE WORLD and as a beer-guzzling Ukrainian proletarian in Jeff Solylo’s EAST OF EUCLID. He watches movies too. At last count, Klymkiw had seen over 20,000 feature films.

Name:

Janelle Hutchison

Title:

Casting Consultant

Biography:

An alumnus of the CFC’s 2004 Alliance Atlantis Film Program, Janelle has toiled in the film and television cultural trenches as a writer, actor, singer, casting associate, and as associate manager of programming for the country’s largest theatre.

As a casting associate/director she’s been involved with feature films, MOWs, episodic series, and pilots and shorts for CBC, CTV, Columbia/Tristar, Paramount, ABC, Miramax, Disney, Lifetime, PAX, VH1, Alliance/Atlantis, Lion’s Gate Entertainment, the CFC and the Universal 5 Short Dramatic Films project.

Her produced writing credits include the shorts Breakdown and Still Life, and her script, Perfect Drop, won the Best Achievement in Screenwriting at Ryerson. Produced writing for the theatre includes The Family Way, Tonight at 8:30...9 o’clock in Newfoundland and Colas and Colinette.

Janelle’s long-format project slate currently includes the family film Hot Paint, a reverse art heist, and Water’s Edge, which tackles the difficult subject of Death With Dignity and garnered her recognition from the 2003 Nicholls Fellowship competition (Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences), as well as a Jim Burt Prize nomination at the 2005 Canadian Screenwriting Awards. She is currently developing, Clip Joint, a half-hour comedy series set in a beauty salon for dogs.

Janelle’s career as an actor included episodic work for CBC, CTV, Global, TVO, CBS, ABC, and NBC. In a previous life, she starred in more than 1400 performances of the original Canadian production and first National tour of Les Miserables as the inn-keeper’s wife, Mme. Thenardier…… and still has the dent in her forehead from the radio mike to prove it.

Name:

Jennifer Deyell

Title:

Writer in Residence

Biography:

Jennifer’s first feature Love That Boy was co-written with writer/director Andrea Dorfman (PARSLEY DAYS). They are collaborating on four other projects Crème de la Crème (in development with Alcina Pictures), Marigold (recipient Telefilm SAP), Old Girls (finalist TIFF Pitch This 2004) and a documentary Milk War (in development with Miracle Pictures). As well, Jennifer developed an MOW, The Accompanist, through CTV’s Writer Only Fund.

Jennifer has a BA and MA from the University of Toronto (Political Science), is a graduate of the CFC’s Writers’ Lab (2000) and PSP (2001), and is the proud mother of two girls.

Name:

John Paizs

Title:

Director in Residence

Biography:

John Paizs is one of Canada’s leading independent filmmakers. He originated the iconoclastic and legendary “Winnipeg Film Group style” with groundbreaking work which film critic Geoff Pevere dubbed “Prairie Post-Modernism.”

is early films established Paizs as the leader of the new wave of Canadian cinema and prompted the late film critic Jay Scott to bring his works to national and international attention. In particular, SPRINGTIME IN GREENLAND (1981) and CRIME WAVE (1985) have become bona fide cult hits and received significant recognition from the Canadian film community.

In a poll conducted by Take One magazine in 2003 to name Canada’s top ten fiction feature film debuts since 1968, CRIME WAVE placed number eight. In a similar poll conducted by Take One in 2004 to name the country’s top ten films of all time, both CRIME WAVE and SPRINGTIME IN GREENLAND were nominated. Moreover, the Manitoba Motion Picture Industry Association in 1997 bestowed upon CRIME WAVE a special award as Best (Manitoba) Film Of The Decade.

John’s films have been presented at such prestigious venues as the Film Society of Lincoln Centre and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Walker Arts Centre in Minneapolis, the Wexner Centre for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, and the Centre George Pompidou and the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris. John’s rich and unique style has also led to many engagements in television and his most recent full-length directorial turns have been TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN (1999), starring Campbell Scott, and the made-for-TV horror fantasy MARKER (2004) provided as part of a Chum Television 6 pack.

Name:

Marlo Miazga

Title:

Editor in Residence

Biography:

Marlo has been working as an editor in film and television for the last 12 years. A graduate of McGill University and the CFC, Marlo has edited feature films, feature and television documentaries, as well as numerous commercials and music videos. Notable credits include Peter Wintonick's multiple - award winning NFB feature, CINEMA VERITE; The 5 part series, Tuning In, hosted by Rick Mercer for CBC Television's 50'th anniversary; Keith Behrman's award winning short film ERNEST, The highly acclaimed CBC Television feature, SEX, DRUGS AND MIDDLE AGE and Paul Fox's psychological thriller, THE DARK HOURS.

Marlo has also edited numerous television programs and series for The History Network, The Discovery Channel, CTV, W, Bravo and the CBC including the Gemini nominated programs Too Colourful for the League and Robert Markle: An Investigation. Most recently she collaborated with Greig Dymond on an eight part CBC comedy series, titled Jimmy McDonald's Canada.

Name:

Maureen Dorey

Title:

Story Editor in Residence

Biography:

Maureen Dorey is a free-lance analyst and story editor who helps writers renew their inspiration and find their voices. Her production credits include: MOCCASIN FLATS, SEASON II, RANDOM PASSAGE, an eighthour mini-series directed by John N. Smith, produced by Passage Films and Cité-Amérique for broadcast on CBC and RTE (Eire), MILE ZERO, a feature film produced by Anagram Films. Other credits include THE MYSTERIES OF ICE FISHING by writer-director Paul Fox for Sienna Films, EXTRAORDINARY VISITOR, THE WAR BETWEEN US; LYDDIE, VIOLET and ON MY MIND, 6 x 30 min. children’s dramas.

She has acted as consultant to the National Screen Institute, Praxis Film Works and B.C. Film, and has been Story Editor in Residence to the CFC for the past four years. Most recently she was story editor on four CFC Feature Film Projects: THE DARK HOURS, SIBLINGS, HORSIE’S RETREAT and SHOW ME.

Name:

Noel Baker

Title:

Writer in Residence

Biography:

Screenwriter, author, story editor, and screenwriting teacher Noel Baker is the co-creator of the erotic comedy/drama series Show Me Yours (Showcase Television). He wrote the Genie-nominated screenplay for the punk rock road movie HARD CORE LOGO (which the Montreal Gazette labelled “the best rock and roll movie in the history or rock and roll movies”). His acclaimed book Hard Core Roadshow: A Screenwriter’s Diary (Anansi/Stoddart, 1997) recounts the gory details of the film's making. He has also rewritten/script doctored several movie and TV scripts, including Edoardo Ponti's Between Strangers (with Sophia Loren, Mira Sorvino and Gerard Depardieu), Bruce McDonald's Platinum, and the CBC biker miniseries The Last Chapter.

As a creative consultant and story editor, Noel has worked with dozens of Canadian writers, directors and producers on features and television projects - most recently helping to revamp the CBC consumer affairs shows Marketplace and Venture, and story editing Global's My Fabulous Gay Wedding. He currently has several projects in development, including the features THE KNIGHT AND THE LOATHLY LADY and MUSKOKA, for producer Gabriella Martinelli's Capri Films, and WRESTLING WITH THE PAST, for producers Pierre Sarrazin and Suzette Couture. Noel has lectured, taught workshops, and participated in panel discussions at film festivals, conferences, and universities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.

Name:

Rosemary Dunsmore

Title:

Actor in Residence

Biography:

Rosemary is an award winning actress whose career has taken her onto stages and film and television screens across Canada, the United States and Europe. She began her career on stages across Canada playing leads in Stratford for two seasons and Canadian premieres of shows like Sam Shepherd’s BURIED CHILD and Marsha Norman’s GETTING OUT. Other highlights include a Dora nominated one woman show SINGLE, STRAIGHT AHEAD (selected Best Performer at the Edinburgh Fringe by the London Daily Telegraph), BLIND DANCERS (Dora Award) and plays ranging from PRIVATE LIVES to FALLEN ANGELS (Dora Nomination), THE DOMINO HEART and THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE. She was awarded the Masque Award for Interpretation Feminine for her performance in WIT and this year was again nominated for her work in LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. She was seen most recently in Toronto in THE GLASS MENAGERIE and SMALL RETURNS.

Rosemary entered the world of the camera with equal success. Her first major television appearance in CBC’s Blind Faith won her the Earl Grey Award for Best Performance in a Leading Role. Her frequent television appearances have garnered her four Gemini nominations. She is probably best known for her role as “Katherine Brooke” in Anne Of Green Gables The Sequel, and the title role in the CBC series MOM P.I. She splits her time between Los Angeles, Vancouver and Toronto. While in LA she appeared in many TV series and movies of the week. Some favourite roles were in Total Recall, Twins, The Interrogation of Michael Crowe, Dreamcatcher and White Knuckles. Recent projects include the series Regenesis, The Hades Factor, Citizen Duane, Playing House and Wedding March.

Rosemary is also a sought after theatre director. Her successful production of HOCKEY MOM, HOCKEY DAD at the Factory Theatre was sent out on tour. Some of the plays she has directed are VIRGINIA, MEASURE FOR MEASURE, DINNER WITH FRIENDS, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, JANE EYRE, FIGHTING WORDS (Dora Nomination for Best Director), WALKING ON CRIMSON and THE GLACE BAY MINER’S MUSEUM. This season she will direct Anthony Minghella’s WHALE MUSIC in Toronto and Norm Foster’s ON THE FLIGHT.

Rosemary is the Actor in Residence at the CFC. She teaches at Equity Showcase, the National Theatre School, University of Toronto, S.I.F.T., George Brown College, Film Training Manitoba and Halifax Shortworks. Rosemary is listed in Who’s Who in Canada and in 1990 was included on Maclean’s Magazine’s Honour Roll as “a Canadian who makes a difference”.