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A graduate of the prestigious LAMDA in London, Aaron Pierre is currently recording a lead role as Mufasa in Barry Jenkins' highly anticipated Lion King prequel for Disney. He played Caesar in Barry Jenkins' award-winning limited series The Underground Railroad for Amazon and also starred in M. Night Shyamalan's film Old, in which he played a rapper and for which he wrote and performed a song. Pierre was nominated for the 2018 Ian Charleson Award for his professional stage debut as Cassio in Othello, opposite Mark Rylance, at Shakespeare's Globe.
Earlier this year, Aaron shot a three-hander opposite Saoirse Ronan in Garth Davis's FOE for Amazon Studios. He just completed shooting the lead of Jeremy Saulnier's Rebel Ridge for Netflix. Pierre can be seen next as one of the leads in Clement Virgo's Brother, which is premiering at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Amirhossein Asgari was born in 22nd on November 1978 in Tehran. He began his work in theater and after completing his education at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts entered into the cinema and television. Assistant in more than 50 movies and series led him to make his first short film, the film called "Catnap/Chort e Kotah" (2008) which was purely experimental. The film "Maybe another Time" (2012) is his second short film, which had succeed in domestic and international film festivals. "Borderless" is his first long film, that has been experienced its global debut at the Tokyo International Film Festival.- Music Department
- Composer
Anthony Hill is a media composer for film and television. His music has been featured in Earth's Great Rivers (BBC), 48 Hours to Final Victory (Channel 4), Malawi Wildlife Rescue (Sky), Gardener's World (BBC), Sketches on Her Skin (London Film School), Davina McCall: Sex, Myths and the Menopause (Channel 4), Winter Watch (BBC), Gangs of Baboon Falls (Sky), Country File (BBC), The Great House Giveaway (Channel 4), Wild Dogs: Running With The Pack (Sky), Kill The Music (London Film School), The Truth About Racist Medical Experiments (Channel 4), Skin A&E (Channel 5), A Very British Job Agency (Channel 4), Ty Am Ddim (S4C), The Princes Master Crafters The Next Generation (Sky) among others. Hill has over 30 years of experience as a composer, instrumentalist, and recording artist. Hill has recorded over 28 commercially released tracks through M&G/Polygram (Universal Music Group) and BMG, including single, E.P. and album formats. He has also recorded and performed with numerous rock and electronic groups as a vocalist, guitarist and electric bass player and toured extensively throughout the U.K. and overseas. As a founding member of the drum and bass/rock band The Disorientee, and electronic/rock ban,d Crazy Gods of Endless Noise, his favourite musical moment was performing in Berlin to an audience of 30,000 alongside The Prodigy.- Carmen Madonia is an up-and-coming performer from Toronto. She stars in award-winning writer and director Luis De Filippis' debut feature film Something You Said Last Night. Madonia worked with De Filippis and acting coach Vivien Endicott-Douglas for a year and a half in preparation for the role. Something You Said Last Night marks Madonia's on-screen debut.
- Choi Seung-yoon is a dancer, choreographer and actor based in Seoul, South Korea. She began training in ballet at the age of five and has a BA degree in dance from Ewha Womans University. Early in her career, Choi produced and performed in her own dance productions that received grants from Arts Council Korea and the Seoul Art Council. Her work has been invited by the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, Tanzfabrik Berlin, and European Lab Forum.
As an actor, Choi has appeared in the short web series Deux Yeoza, Dxyz (nominated for an Emmy in 2019 for Short-Form Series), and Family Portrait. In 2019, Choi co-directed and starred in I By You By Everybody (2019), a fiction-documentary feature film about dancers' lives in Seoul, which screened at several film festivals including Busan International Film Festival and Doclisboa. - Gabriel LaBelle plays the lead role of Sammy Fabelman, an aspiring 16-year-old filmmaker based on young Steven Spielberg in The Fabelmans (2022) alongside Michelle Williams, Paul Dano and Seth Rogen. The film, loosely based on Spielberg's childhood, will be widely released by Universal in November. LaBelle also stars in the upcoming Showtime series American Gigolo opposite Jon Bernthal, Gretchen Mol, and Leland Orser. The series premiered on Showtime on September 9. He also starred in the horror feature Dead Shack, which premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival to rave reviews. Other credits include The Predator with Boyd Holbrook and Sterling Brown, Motive, and iZombie (2015).
- Isaiah Lehtinen was born and raised in Nanaimo, British Columbia, before moving to Vancouver, where he fell in love with acting at a young age after responding to an open call on Craigslist. He went on to book roles in projects including The Good Doctor and Story of a Girl before stealing scenes in the Russo Brother's Deadly Class and the Quibi series When the Streetlights Go Out. Lehtinen also starred in the short film River Boy Blues, which was met with critical acclaim at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. He will next be seen as the lead of the feature film I Like Movies, which will premiere later this year. Lehtinen is also an accomplished musician, creating experimental hip-hop under the stage name Hermit. He recently released the Stage Clear EP which is available on all streaming platforms.
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Born in Vancouver B.C., J.D. has spent the last 15 years working within the financial, construction, film and entertainment industries. This odd combination has fostered invaluable corporate experience and a strong business ethic, while letting his passion for writing and creativity flow. He spent 2011 performing in Las Vegas for "Caesar's Entertainment" but has since left and concentrates on his production company, "Scott Brothers Entertainment", along with his brothers Drew Scott and Jonathan Silver Scott, from Property Brothers (2011). He also hosts the weekly syndicated talk radio show, "Off Topic with the Scott Brothers", on the Corus Radio Network.- Actor
- Executive
Indigenous rising star, Joshua Odjick, hails from Ottawa, Ontario and was raised by a single mother in Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, a First Nation community located in Maniwaki, Quebec. He is of Algonquin-Anishinabe and Cree heritage, belongs to the Deer clan and recognized in ceremony as 'Nabigabow' (he who replaces the first).
He was recently awarded both a Canadian Screen Award (2022) and Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award (2022) for Best Supporting Actor for the multi-award winning feature film Wildhood.
Joshua is described as the "scene-stealing Joshua Odjick" (Salon, Gary M. Kramer) in Wildhood, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and has gone on to screen at many festivals worldwide. Wildhood (filmed in both English and Mi'kmaq), follows the journey of 'Link' (Phillip Lewitski) as he tries to locate his mother who abandoned him when he was young. At the start of his travels, 'Link' meets pow wow dancer 'Pasmay' (Joshua Odjick) who joins him on his journey of identity, community and love in the land where he belongs.
Wildhood is celebrated by the TIFF Next Wave Committee as a film that transports and moves you and above all, reaffirms what it means for young people to tell their own stories and fight for change in the world. Next for Joshua is a supporting lead role in the series Little Bird, a premium, six-part limited dramatic series slated to premiere on Crave for the 2022-2023 television season. Little Bird is about an Indigenous woman on a journey to find her birth family and uncover the hidden truth of her past.
To be released in early 2023, Joshua plays one of the lead roles in the series The Swarm, (2023) an ecological thriller about the delicate interconnectedness between mankind and Earth, from Primetime Emmy Award winning television producer Frank Doelger (Game of Thrones).
Joshua landed his first major role in the television series Unsettled. Other recent credits for Joshua include the multi-award winning feature film Bootlegger, the CW television series Coroner and the CBC series Bones of Crows.
Industry professionals have found that Joshua possesses a deep presence that is rare in an actor. Having grown up on a reserve with relatives who are survivors of residential/day schools, gives his work an authenticity that reveals all of the beautiful pain, vulnerability and brokenness of his characters. The vivid emotional life that Joshua brings to the camera is unparalleled.
Joshua approaches everything from a place of spirit. He holds a powerful connection with his creator, his guardians, the land and all the beautiful creatures it inhabits.
As a full-blooded Indigenous artist, Joshua is grateful to have a platform to tell the stories, teachings and traditions of his people.
May 2022- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Natalia Aranguren is a Colombian Canadian actor based in Toronto. At a young age, she trained in musical theatre, followed by graduating from a program for Acting for Film and TV. She won the award for Best Female Performance at TFS Festival and was nominated for Best Actress in a Lead role at UWPG Film Festival. Aranguren has been selected for TIFF Rising Stars 2022 and TIFF Share Her Journey Fellowship for her performance in So Much Tenderness, her feature-film debut.- Actress
- Director
- Writer
This September, rising star actress Thuso Mbedu will be seen as the lead of Sony's The Woman King opposite Viola Davis. In the historical epic feature directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, Mbedu plays Nawi, an ambitious recruit who fights within the all-female military unit lead by Nanisca (Davis). The film was shot in Mbedu's home country of South Africa and also stars John Boyega and Lashana Lynch.
Mbedu recently won an Independent Spirit Award, Gotham Award, and Hollywood Critics Association Award, and was nominated for a Critics Choice Award, for her starring role as "Cora" in Barry Jenkins' The Underground Railroad, making her the first South African leading woman of a US television series. The limited series is based on Colson Whitehead's bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which the Oscar winner Jenkins adapted and directed. For her performance, USA Today called Mbedu the "series' stunning standout, imbuing Cora with a deep humanity and empathy in her every scene, even when she has no dialogue."
An established actress in South Africa, Mbedu was nominated for her second International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in 2018 for her breakout performance on the series Is'Thunzi. She won a SAFTA (South African Film & TV Awards) for Best Actress - TV Drama for her work on the series. That year, she was also featured on the cover of the Forbes Africa "Under 30" issue highlighting African leaders.
Mbedu currently splits her time between Los Angeles and South Africa.- From four years old Tiffany has been at home in front of camera, featuring in numerous commercials and securing her first dramatic role in 1992 as the daughter of Stephen Vey, played by Michael Kitchen, in "The Guilty."
In 1995 Tiffany secured the part of Violet Elizabeth Bott in the period production of "Just William" for the BBC filming two series with Director David Giles.
Jeremy Swan and Albert Barber recognized Tiffany's brilliant sense of comedy and cast her as Nicola Blister, a main character in the highly successful children's series "Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde" for Children's BBC. Over three series Tiffany appeared in most of the fifty episodes.
Director Billie Eltringham felt Tiffany "stood out" amongst the dozens of other auditionees for the role of "Bella" choosing Tiffany for a supporting role in "Kid in The Corner," Tiger Aspect films.
Tiffany's personal love is camera, but stage has featured in her career, singing with Kim Criswell in the musical "Annie Get Your Gun" in London's West End, plus other local productions.
Commercial credits as a main featured artist include Woolworths, Gateway Computers, Campbells Soup, PTT post (Amsterdam). - Producer
- Editor
- Director
Tiffany Webb was born and raised in rural Kentucky. She received her first camera, a 110 film camera, when she was 4 years old. Thirty years later, and she still annoys all of her friends and family by documenting life through the lens.
As a storyteller, she believes no story is worth delivering, unless there is true substance and community purpose behind it. As a person with epilepsy, her passion to help others drives her to increase awareness and participate in social reform for people affected with many disabilities.- Actor
- Producer
At his young age, Ty Simpkins has proudly accomplished more than most in the world of entertainment - he has starred in two of the biggest blockbusters of all time. Simpkins can be seen opposite Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt in Universal's dinosaur box office monster hit Jurassic World. Prior, he starred opposite Robert Downey Jr. in Disney/Marvel's Iron Man 3, which holds the record as the sixth highest grossing superhero film. Simpkins will reprise his role from that film in Avengers: Endgame. He stars in the psychological drama Meadowland opposite Olivia Wilde, Elizabeth Moss and Luke Wilson, which premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. Simpkins plays the role of 'Adam,' a special needs child who often gets in trouble at school. He also stars in the thriller Hangman alongside his sister Ryan Simpkins, which premiered at SXSW 2015. Simpkins has been acting since he was born, first appearing as an infant on the iconic soap opera series "One Life to Live." Ty made his feature debut in Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds starring alongside Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning. Simpkins starred in the psychological horror flick Insidious, which grossed close to $100 million worldwide, and also starred in its sequel. Previously, Ty was featured in films such as the award-winning Revolutionary, New Line's Pride and Glory, opposite Colin Farrell and Edward Norton, and Little Children starring Kate Winslet.
Ty lives in California with his family. He is the youngest of 3 children; Ty loves participating in sports, he has 2 dogs, and 3 cats which he shares with his sister, Ryan Simpkins.- Producer
- Executive
Yatabe entered the film distribution and advertising business after working for the Industrial Bank of Japan (currently Mizuho Bank). He also has produced documentaries and managed the Festival du Film Français au Japon. Joining TIFF in 2002, he oversaw the Programming Division and served as Programming Director for the Japanese Eyes section (17-25th TIFF) and Japanese Cinema Splash (26th TIFF). In 2007, he assumed the position of Competition Programming Director for TIFF.