DENIS VILLENEUVE
A member of the new generation of Canadian filmmakers, Denis Villeneuve established a signature style early in his career. In 1998, his first feature, August 32nd on Earth, was seen at over 35 international festivals, including the official selections at Cannes, Telluride, Toronto and the FNC. The film also represented Canada at the Academy Awards and was widely distributed in Europe. In 2000 his second film, Maelström, was selected by some 40 festivals, including Toronto and Sundance, and won over 80 awards from around the world, including the FIPRESCI (international critics’ award) at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001 and the Genie for Best Film. Maelström went on to be distributed in Europe, the United States and Japan. Villeneuve is currently working on an adaptation of Wajdi Mouawad’s hit play Incendies and a fictional film inspired by the Polytechnique shootings in December 1989.

NATACHA DE LA FOUCHARDIÈRE
Natacha de la Fouchardière is a Université de Montréal film graduate and a former member of the Cinéma Parallèle and FNC teams. She later moved to Paris to do production work for the Atalante Theatre and the Prix Jean Vigo. She is currently a technician at Cinéma l'Epée de Bois in Paris and, since 1997, has worked with the Cinémathèque de Toulouse on archival footage and cinema heritage conservation projects.

BARBARA SHRIER
An accomplished, well known producer in the Montreal film industry, Barbara Shrier has built extensive production experience working with acclaimed filmmakers such as Louis Malle (Atlantic City, 1980), Jean-Jacques Annaud (Quest for Fire, 1981) and Alan Rudolph (The Moderns, 1987). She has worked on Quebec features such as Comment Faire l’Amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer by Jacques W. Benoit (1988), Cargo by François Girard (1989), Automne Sauvage by Gabriel Pelletier (1991), L’Homme idéal by Georges Mihalka (1995) and The Red Violin by François Girard (1997).
In close collaboration with director Francis Leclerc, she produced Une jeune fille à la fenêtre  (2001) and Looking for Alexander (2004). She is currently producing Un été sans point ni coup sûr (Francis Leclerc), The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (Tara Johns) and Levant-Couchant (Rosa Zacharie).

PIERRE PAGEAU
Pierre Pageau is a retired film professor who taught at Ahuntsic cegep and Université de Montréal. He has contributed to various film publications, written chapters for several books, and did the historical research for the documentaries Mack Sennett, Roi du comique (Jean Chabot, 2000) and, in 2006, Mack et Mabel (Vic Pelletier producer). He hosts a weekly program about film on Radio Centre-ville and is the vice-president of the AQCC. In 2006, in collaboration with Yves Lever, he published Chronologie du cinéma au Québec. He is currently working on an illustrated history of Quebec movie theatres.

SANDRO FORTE
Director-composer-performer and film critic Sandro Forte has been working inthe Canadian film and music industry since the mid 90s starting as a film journalist and Movie theater programmer. In 1996 he founded Wetfish, a musical outfit that made its name by adding soundtrack to classic films from the silent era. While his early soundtracks for the National Film Board (NFB) were signed under the name of the Wetfish group, he now use his real name and works closely with fellow composer Simon Bellefleur. As a director he made several documents and reports for NFB and its affiliates companies. He also directed several short films produced by his own company, Les Muses Insoumises.

DANNY LENNON
Danny Lennon is the founder and director of the popular short-film series, Prends ça court!, now in its seventh year. An internationally reputed programmer, he has been involved with over 20 Quebec-based festivals and events. He has also worked with more than 50 festivals in 19 countries, in addition to contributing to every known form of independent short film promotion, distribution, exhibition and production in Canada and around the world. Lennon has also been an instructor at Montreal’s Institut national de l'image et du son since 2003.

JEREMY PETER ALLEN
Before completing his first feature film, Manners of Dying (2004), Jeremy Peter Allen directed several shorts, including Requiem contre un plafond, Les douches fulgurantes and Sunspots. His films have been screened at over 40 international festivals, where they have won numerous awards. As a long-time member of Quebec City’s Spirafilm collective, Allen has participated in the production of over 30 shorts by other filmmakers. He is currently developing two new feature film projects and will direct a new short film, L’est, this fall.

MICHELINE LANCTÔT
Filmmaker and actress Micheline Lanctôt started her career with nearly a decade in animated film, simultaneously launching a busy acting career. In 1980, she wrote and directed her first feature film, L’Homme à tout faire, earning several international honours including awards at the Cannes and San Sebastian festivals. She has written numerous scripts and directed seven feature films. She continues to act, write fiction and commentary, and translate (including an adaptation of the play Talk Radio). Her most recent film is a television adaptation of Michel Garneau’s play Les Guerriers, which was seen on Radio-Canada in the spring of 2005. Lanctôt is also a recipient of the Guy Lécuyer award for acting, the Albert Tessier award (2000) and a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award (2003).