Deadly Exposure 2023

David Bond is an award-winning genre film writer and producer, and member of CMPA, Producers Network at Cannes, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. His career began with Cookers and American Crime for Lionsgate Films. His credits include Extremity (Shudder), and he executive produced Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made, which became the number one film on Amazon Prime in spring 2020 and went viral globally on TikTok, and Bloodthirsty, which was sold to XYZ and became the closing night film at Fantastic Fest 2020.

Malachi Ellis is a Black Film and Television producer based in Toronto who strives to tell stories revolutionizing the status quo for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ audiences. Selected for the Reelworld Screen Institute's Producer Program and the CFC's Norman Jewison Producer Lab, he has worked at eOne and Bell Media. His producing credits include I Live Here (Aspen Shortsfest, CBC Gem), Diaspora (TIFF 2022), Fish Boy (BFI Flare, Frameline47), and Express (TIFF 2023). Named one of Playback Magazine's 10 to Watch in 2021.

Ry Levey is a 20+ year film industry professional who has publicized and/or distributed over 100 feature films, including Emmy Award winner Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, Oscar-nominated The Invisible War, and films by directors including Frederick Wiseman, Steve James, and Julie Taymor. His documentary directorial debut Out in the Ring received 4 international film festival awards.

With over 24 years of industry experience, Pasha Patriki holds the CSC designation from the Canadian Society of Cinematographers. In 2010 he founded PurpleDOG Post, a boutique facility for indie and festival films. Since co-founding Hangar 18 Media in 2017 alongside Raven Banner Entertainment, he has produced over a dozen feature films, most recently serving as Lead Canadian Producer on You Gotta Believe (starring Luke Wilson and Greg Kinnear). He also directed action thrillers featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, and in 2022 collaborated with guitarist Slash on The Breach, launching BerserkerGang Entertainment.

Sera-Lys McArthur is a screen and stage actor, producer, model, martial artist, and musical theatre nerd. A proud member of the Nakota/Assiniboine Nation, she has recurring roles on Arctic Air and Hard Rock Medical, appeared on Outlander (Starz) and Friends From College (Netflix), and stars in independent feature Robbery and the film adaptation of Monkey Beach. She also produces short films and has several projects in development.

Brett and Jason Butler (the Butler Brothers) are Writer/Director/Producers based in Toronto, creating original content under Substance Production. Their last theatrical release, First Round Down, landed in the Top 5 for Canadian box office during its opening week. They have also wrapped Thanks For the Room and recently opened boutique distribution company Tiny Cabin Pictures.

Jesse Thomas Cook and Liv Collins of Collingwood Film Company are a husband-and-wife indie powerhouse filmmaking tag-team. Cook is a prolific Canadian producer and director of genre cinema whose 15 features have garnered awards from Fantastic Fest, Fantasia, and more. Collins is a writer, producer, and performer with leading roles in The Hexecutioners, DeadSight, and The Hyperborean. The duo have collaborated on 7 features including Cult Hero (2022), which received six nominations at the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards.

Filmmaking duo and married couple Chris Bavota and Lee Paula Springer are the writer/director pair behind Zomboni and Even the Darkness Has Arms. Their feature debut Dead Dicks premiered at Fantasia 2019, winning the Audience Award for Best Canadian Feature, and went on to win screenwriting and acting awards at Fantasporto, Other Worlds, Another Hole in the Head, and Vancouver Badass. Blood in the Snow holds a special place in their hearts as 2019 winners of Best Script and Rising Star.

Kat and Karissa Strain are sisters who have formed KarKat Productions to bring their passion for storytelling to life as filmmakers. They have written, produced, and directed short films that have screened and won awards at film festivals worldwide, alongside web content on their YouTube channel "KarKat TV."

Ophira Calof (she/they) is an award-winning Disabled artist with credits including Generally Hospital and Literally Titanium. Ophira also works as a curator, educator, and consultant with projects including COVID-19 through a Disability Lens: Storytelling and Filmmaking Project and Making Space: Stories of Disabled Youth in the GTA.

Michael McNeely is the first Deaf-Blind student to graduate from Osgoode Hall Law School. He has taught advocacy skills at the Canadian Helen Keller Centre, delivered lectures on accommodations and accessibility to numerous post-secondary institutions, directed the documentary Advocacy Club, and is an accredited and published film critic. He has served on the board of Sensity and as a former member of Toronto's Accessibility Advisory Committee. He currently works for the Department of Justice as a lawyer.

Keda Edwards Pierre brings a unique and authentic voice to her consultancy and content development work. Her content studio, Broken Whole Media, creates, develops, and produces provocative scripted and unscripted content through A.R.T.S. (Amplifying diversity, Revolutionizing narratives, Transformative stories, Surpassing expectations). Keda joined Blood in the Snow in 2023 as Assistant Development Coordinator for the BITS Development Lab and Deadly Exposure.

Greg Rubidge has spent most of his career at the confluence of emerging digital platforms and entertainment. After graduating with an MBA in Finance, he followed his passion for movies and entered the film and TV industry. He founded Syndicado, a digital distribution company with over 4,000 hours of feature films and television series available for VOD globally. In 2016 he co-founded boutique documentary world sales agency Syndicado Film Sales with a presence in North America and Europe.

Sardé Hardie is a Toronto-based writer, producer, community organizer, and film executive acquiring new content and securing sales on broadcast and digital platforms for Photon Films (formerly Pacific Northwest Pictures). Prior to Photon, she was at Entertainment One as a Sales Executive within the Film and Television division.

Anelle Dehghani has been an avid horror fan since childhood. She joined Raven Banner shortly after graduating from the Toronto Film School Production Program. She has handled physical assets and deliveries for over 6 years, managing the company's Canadian VOD and Theatrical distribution as well as Festival print-traffic, and coordinates international sales and marketing for the many films that Raven Banner represents.

Heidy Morales is the founder of Hye's Musings, an alternative media website covering film, theatre, and arts and culture. A Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, she was born in Guatemala and has been writing about the film scene locally and abroad for over 12 years.

Avi Federgreen's almost 30 years of experience in the Canadian film industry includes over seventy films produced. He is currently in post on his third feature as a director, titled Home Free. In November 2011 he opened his film distribution and sales company, Indiecan Entertainment. In summer 2022, he launched a genre distribution company, Red Water Entertainment, servicing horror, sci-fi, action, and thriller titles. Indiecan and Red Water have now released over 200 films in Canada and over 100 films in the US. He has recently launched an international sales division, Indiecan Entertainment International.