Member profiles

Lise Beaudry is from Earlton, a small village near the border of Quebec and Ontario. Her art is inspired by the traditional leisure activities of the Franco-Ontarian community from which she comes: fishing (including ice fishing), camping, traveling, and family reunions.

Nadine Valcin is an award-winning producer, director, and screenwriter. She directs and produces shows, television magazines, documentaries and cinematographic works which have been broadcast on CBC, CBC News Network, TVO, W, Artv, Réseau de l'information (RDI), Société Radio-Canada ( SRC), TFO, as well as TV One and the History Network in the United States.

Director and narrator with more than twenty-five years of experience in the field of public and private radio and television. Her fields of interest are mainly the production of content for children and youth audiences.

Mouaad El Yaakabi is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. He is based in Toronto where he collaborates with Canadian and international media.

Sophie Angers honed her expertise over more than three decades working in the visual arts field. Primarily self-taught, she enjoys creating images that evoke movement and capture light, pulling back the curtain on the seemingly mundane.

Sylvie-Maria Filion is above all a French-Canadian writer, born the 8th of August, 1970. She is originally from Pontiac, although she has lived most of her life in Moonbeam, in the northeastern region of Ontario. She has graduated from the University of Hearst, in Arts and Letters.

Noémie is an author, multidisciplinary artist, and teacher.

Of Haitian origin, Murielle Jassinthe grew up in Quebec City (Quebec) before settling in Iqaluit (Nunavut) in 2014. A member of the Canada Research Chair in African and Francophone Literatures (Université Laval), she is pursuing a bachelor's and master's degree in literary studies. In October 2010, her poems were published by Bruno Doucey in the anthology Terre de femmes, 150 ans de poésie féminine en Haïti. Winner of the Première Ovation grant from the Institut canadien de Québec in 2011, her love of words has led her to embrace poetry, short stories, narrative and essays, as well as playwriting and screenwriting.

Established in Toronto since 2015, Oscar Karam develops feature films in French that tell semi-autobiographical stories about his childhood in Quebec, as well as his Lebanese origins.

Joseph Bitamba is originally from Burundi, where he first worked in national television. He then passed through several internships in Belgium, France, and Burkina Faso and obtained a certificate in screenwriting at the École Internationale de Bordeaux, as well as a certificate in film production in Paris, at the Institut National de l’Audio-visuel (INA). In 2003, Joseph Bitamba moved to Toronto, where he wrote for the screen, directed, and took screenwriting and directing courses organised by the ONF in Toronto. He directed documentaries, distributed on Radio Canada, TFO, TV5, and worked as a director and journalist for TFO.

Sophie Dumesny is a multidisciplinary artist who likes to experiment with all types of media. Her curiosity and spirit of adventure guides her in her artistic exploration. Media art has a place of predilection in her art; she has been passionate about cinema since her childhood.

Martine seeks to capture quiet beauty found in the everyday light. Her photographs carry a sense of calm and peace.

Pascaline is an independent photographer and videographer. After more than 20 years in France, her interest in photography beganwhen she immigrated to Canada but also across the world. Nature and travel are her principal sources of inspiration.

Katia Café-Fébrissy, alias KaFé, had the courage to confess her love for cinema to the world just 10 years ago. After her first film produced by ONF, she has never looked back. Throughout her carrier as a filmmaker, KaFé has tried many things. She has made marvelous discoveries, and was also sometimes wrong. Nevertheless, she has never stopped cultivating her artistic garden. She has even received multiple awards.

A multidisciplinary artist, Éveline Boudreau currently works in performance art.

C. Thunder Martel explores photography, acrylic and watercolour. His photographic artwork is based on 10 years of darkroom (colour and black & white).

Painter, photographer,and mixed-technical artist since 1981. Held exhibitions in Canada, Europe, the United States, Colombia, and Seoul, South Korea in the public and commercial field.

A passionate photographer and accomplished musician, Mathieu began his artistic journey in 2008 with an exposition of photographs, 'Lettres au corps'.

Violane Lafortune holds a certificate in visual arts and in digital creation fron the University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, as well as a doctorate in physical geography from the University of Laval. Her work has been presented several times at solo and group performances and expositions in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Ontario, England, and Switzerland. Originally from the Montreal region, she lives and works in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec.

Isabelle Michaud is a local visual artist who works to develop links between the artist, the environment and Identity in an approach that is both intimate and community-based. Michaud received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Algoma University (2018.) She has exhibited and curated exhibitions across Ontario.

Priam GIVORD is a senior free-lance Director, Designer and Researcher. Born in France and living in Toronto, Canada. His works range from UX Design to large Interactive Installations and Virtual Reality.

Karen Vanderborght likes to dissect complex projects in order to create surprising and playful experiences with emerging technologies.

Marie-Claire is a director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. Having directed, written, and produced multiple short films (Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Cannes Téléfilm Talents Tout Court), her first feature film Rêver en néon is based on her play Flush (published by Éditions L’Interligne and awarded in Canada and France). Her screenwriting has been recognised notably at the Canadian Screen Awards, the Los Angeles Film Awards, and the International Academy of Web Television

Paul Ruban is a Franco-Ontarian writer, literary translator, and screenwriter. His collection of short stories Crevasion en corbillard (Flammarion Quebec, 2019) has won the Trillium prize, and his translation of  La neige des cocotiers by Derek Mascarenhas was a finalist for the John-Glassco award in 2022.

Andreas Krätschmer is a woodturner and sculptor based in Picton, Price Edward County. He explores themes of fragility, resilience, and the relationship between humans and nature.

Tania Love is a visual artist working and living in Toronto. Her work is inspired by the relation with places and the connection with nature. She priviliges the process, the slowness and the tactility, all the while employing a range of natural materials.

Oana Avasilichioaei interweaves sound, poetry, performance, and translation to expand and trouble ideas of language, histories, polyphonic structures, and borders of listening.

Candice Houtekier is an explorer of the Metaverse since 2016. She is passionate about virtual reality and crypto currency.

Marc Audette is visual artist, educator and curator. He holds a BFA from the Université du Québec en Outaouais and an MFA from York University. Audette was the curator of the Glendon Gallery from 2001 to 2014, and a founding member and first president of the Association of Francophone Visual Artists in Canada. He was also contributory in the creation of the Labo d’art, Toronto – an organization that supports creation, production and innovation in the media arts sector. Audette’s work has been exhibited across Canada as well as internationally, in New York; Besançon, France; Medellin, Columbia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Kiev, Ukraine. His work is in several collections, including Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, City of Ottawa, Bank of Montreal, TD Bank, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

My current artistic practice includes making assemblages using found objects and recycled paper as my main medium. The artworks that arise from this creative process are often surrealistic.

Based in Toronto, Simon M. Benedict is an artist working with video, sound, performance, and photo. He repurposes existing audiovisual material and archival documents to explore our relationship to various fictional and historical narrative forms, and their impact on our reading of unmediated reality.

Laura Bergeron graduated with distinction and is a recipient of the Filmmaker Award from the Toronto Film School in 2015. Laura is a bilingual writer, director, editor and animator. She produced two short documentaries in 2015 Entr’actes and Benoit and The Trees, as well as the experimental short film La parade. Her short film Winner Gagnant (2016) was selected for the First Look International Award at the Denver Film Festival in Colorado.

Denis Taman Bradette is an artist and educator based in Toronto and in Northeastern Ontario near Cochrane. He completed his master's degree in fine arts in 2013 (University of Ottawa), focussing on works connected to the elements, time, autobiography and the Anthropocene. Denis participated in the Ontario Arts Council’s Artist in Education program for many years providing mixed-media art workshops (with themes based on autobiography and ecology) to elementary students in classroom settings.

Samuel Choisy (b. 1974, France) is a photo-based visual artist. His work explores the notion of mental territory through different projects and formal approaches.

A graduate of France’s National Theatre School in Strasbourg, Maxime Desmons has appeared in award-winning French films and directed stage plays in Paris and at the Rome Biennale. In 2007, he completed his first short film, BAGGAGE, followed by BONNE MÈRE (Official Selection 2008 Berlinale Shorts) and SOMEBODY IS WATCHING US – all his films touring festivals internationally. Graduating from the CFC in 2008, Maxime directed the short musical D’UNE RIVE À L’AUTRE and AU PLUS PROCHE, a short meditation on mourning.

Following serious health issues, Marcel Grimard decided to reconsider his life and professional career. During his long recovery period, he gradually regained his will to live through his artistic exploration where he, at the same time, he discovered a dormant artistic talent within him.

Jacquelyn Hébert is an interdisciplinary artist whose work stems from an interest in historical, cultural and imagined narratives. In addition to a BFA with a Film, Video + Integrated Media Major from Emily Carr University, she holds a BA with an Anthropology Major from the University of Manitoba. Jacquelyn has presented her work both nationally and internationally, most recently at La maison des artistes visuels in Winnipeg, the FOFA Gallery in Montreal, the 8fest in Toronto and L’Acropolis de Nice in Nice, France. In 2014, she completed a Master of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal and she now lives and works in Toronto.

Sarah Kravetz is a philanthropic filmmaker with over 13 years of distinctive production experience. With a Masters in Communications from Paris, she now documents intercultural stories and unity in Toronto. Starting her worldwide adventure in her twenties, Canon in hand, she took pictures of kids with swags, moments of interactions around games and traditional rituals in more than 40 countries. Her career in the film and entertainment industry includes work as an Assistant Director,Artistic Coordinator and a Production and Stage Manager.

Originally from Montreal, Julie Lassonde is a performance artist who is interested in subjects such as gender, intimacy, socio-legal norms affecting daily life and processes related to performativity, such as repetition. Trained in corporeal mime school, she presented solo performances and improvisations in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, Berkeley, San Francisco and Edinburgh. She also studied law at McGill University.

Founder, Executive and Artistic Director Cinéfranco since 1997, Marcelle Lean has known several careers in the disciplines of the theatre, translation and education before dedicating herself to working with a large number of artistic organizations in Toronto.

Denis Leclerc has a dual artistic practice. As a creative director at Costa Leclerc Design Inc., he uses his creative skills to market his clients services. Meanwhile, as a visual artist, he applies art processes as a means of exploring free expression. His paintings convey the physical pleasure that comes from the joy of movement and the deep sensuousness of matter meeting the mind.

Maria Legault is a performance artist that has hidden in paper bags, married a doll and stuffed crevices with pink icing. She holds a BFA from Concordia University, an MFA from the University of Guelph and is a PhD candidate at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

As a therapist and a photographer, he see life as a personal art project being continually shaped and reshaped. Creativity and storytelling have always been at the core of his personal quest. A photograph is hundreds of stories unfolding in silence looking at the viewer. Therapy is looking at the potential of silence which has been disguised with words.

Humanist in the soul, the development of the human potential and its ability to evolve positively are at the heart of my artistic approach. Passion, intuition, perception and introspection guide my creativity. I am fascinated by colours and textures. My creations are designed to arouse emotions, soothe and delight the soul. Abstract and intuitive paintings in oil, watercolour and mixed media.

After studying cinema in Paris, Alex Loukos made his first documentary about filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos’ unique storytelling (Director of Eternity and a day, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1998). Later, his short film, The Man Next Door, an « almodovarian » comedy, made its way into festivals and on television.

Léa Pascal made her debut in the world of television as a columnist and then as a host. In 1997, she launched her production company to create her own projects, mainly documentary series. In 2009, Léa Pascal won a Gemini award for the Chic Choc series, which featured models of Aboriginal youth.

Madi Piller is a filmmaker, animator, programmer and independent curator currently living and working in Toronto, Canada. Her abstract, nonrepresentational and poetic images are drawn from film explorations in Super 8, 16mm and 35mm, as well as photography and video. The resulting imagery is strongly influenced by diverse animation techniques and styles.

I am an artist who uses techniques and materials specific to design, such as textiles, clothing, knitting and video animation to create conceptual works about the relationship that human beings have with material culture, that is, objects of daily use, in particular clothes.

Geneviève Thauvette is a Franco-Ontarian artist currently residing in Toronto. Her photographs have shown internationally, notably at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival, the Perth International Arts Festival (Australia), the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, and the Vie Jeux de la Francophonie in Beirut were she won the gold medal for Canada. Her series Les quintuplées Dionne have been acquired by the Canadian Museum of History and the City of Ottawa Fine Art Collection.

I started as an enthusiastic film and special effects buff in the 1980's. Through the era of home computers I learned how to program those damn machines, and started to create my own graphics; thinking that, one day in the distant future, I might be able to apply that passion to my films.