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the filmmakers
KEY BIOGRAPHIES
CAROLYN ALLAINProducer / Writer / DirectorCarolyn was born in Montreal. She graduated from the University of Ottawa with a degree in Political Science and a certificate in Communication. Carolyn has gone on to write, produce and direct for Bravo, LIFE, Discovery, TLC and PAX. She directed eleven episodes of the French version of Bell Making the Cut for RDS. Carolyn was Executive Producer and Producer of the Award Winning feature film Fetching Cody, which premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, and garnered Best Feature Film at the Sedona International Film Festival and a Gold Remi Award for Science Fiction at the World Houston Festival. She also shares a story credit with writer/director David Ray on Fetching Cody. Now President of Cheap and Dirty Productions Inc. in beautiful Vancouver BC, Carolyn continues to develop unique and poignant ideas for both film and television. Her latest project is the enticing and challenging documentary A Safer Sex Trade for CBC The Lens, APTN and RDI. The film premiered at the 2006 Whistler Film Festival and is scheduled for Broadcast on CBC The Lens and RDI early January 2007.
DAVID RAYProducer / Writer David Ray combines an original voice with years spent working in the film and television industries of Vancouver, Toronto and New York. His directorial debut on the feature Fetching Cody (starring Jay Baruchel) is a dark comedy about a street kid who uses a time machine to save his girlfriend’s life. It premiered to a sold out audience at the 30th Toronto International Film Festival in the fall of 2005 before going on a theatrical run. In addition to collaborating with other writers and directors, Ray was hired by Electronic Arts as their lead writer on the video game Need For Speed. His latest production is the documentary A Safer Sex Trade, which will premiere on CBC in early 2007. Co-founder of Cheap and Dirty Productions Inc, he continues to develop projects on a wide variety of subjects. David was born in Montreal, and now calls Vancouver home.
SYLVIE PELTIERExecutive ProducerSylvie was born in Ottawa and grew up in Quebec. After graduating from UBC she wrote and directed the feature Endangered Love and the short LouLou: Prisonnière de ses Passions. The latter won best experimental at Yorkton and was nominated for Best Short Film at the New York Festivals. She then directed for the NFB what became one of Canal D’s highest rated programme: Autopsy of an Erotic Film. Sylvie went on to produce and direct the historical piece The Legend of Cataline which received an honorable mention at the 52nd Columbus Festival. Sylvie has produced and directed documentaries for SRC, The New VI, Bravo!, Life, SCN, CBC and W Network. She is currently producing a crime docu-drama for Canal D, a mini-series for SRC and RDI, a musical journey for TV5 and an investigation into the aftermath of genocide for Tele-Québec. She is the executive producer for A Safer Sex Trade, which premiered at the Whistler International Film Festival and will air on CBC, RDI and APTN. Sylvie is a graduate of the prestigious Alliance Atlantis Banff Executive Leadership Program, a past board member of DOC-BC and a board member of the Alliance des Producteurs Francophones du Canada (APFC). She has made her home in Vancouver since 1987. CREW BIOGRAPHIESKIRK TOUGASDirector of PhotographyKirk has worked as a Director of Photography for over 20 years on such award winning films as The Corporation, A Place Called Chiapas and Fix: The Story of An Addicted City. Kirk’s shooting sense goes beyond the lens, looking intimately as the story as it unfolds. Kirk lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. SARAH HEDAREditorAn up and coming Editor, Sarah Hedar has a natural patience and sense of humour that lends itself to the ebb and flow of the creative process. With a strong technical and artistic background, Sarah focuses her attention on visual storytelling, drawn to projects that promote empowerment for women and critical thinking. Her recent credits include editing and co-producing the feature documentary The Open Road‚ with award-winning filmmaker Kim Hogan. MONICA LEEComposerAn Alberta girl, run away to the west coast to do what she loves most, make music. She might have stared singing from the word go... only her mother knows, but she does say she sang all the time. First piano, then choir, cello, and viola, then no more cello, then clarinet, trumpet, base clarinet and flute, recorder and kazoo's too, then a guitar and back to piano... She loves them all and has made better friends with some. Starting at open mikes in Victoria in the early 90's and then the big move to Vancouver in 1998 and began gigging with her CD, Feeling Fences. Several incarnations of The Monica Lee Band have come and gone all the while honing her skill as a band leader and song writer. Then jazz school opened a whole new way of thinking. A new woman, in 2003 Monica started what is today the voice and sound of Monica Lee. JOE BABCOCK
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