Ana Valine is an artist, writer, and director based in Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations. Her award-winning films have screened internationally in Spain, Russia, India, South Korea, Turkey, Armenia, Iceland, and the USA. Her work has been presented at The Polygon Gallery, The Libby Leshgold Gallery, Paneficio Gallery and Modern Fuel. Valine’s projects have received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and The Polygon Gallery’s Lind Prize. She is an alumna of the Canadian Film Centre, Women in the Director’s Chair (WIDC), Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Talent Lab, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and is currently a Film Studies PhD candidate at Queen’s University.

https://rodeoqueenpictures.com/

https://www.interruptionsecuad.com/valine

Karen Zalamea is a Filipino-Canadian artist, educator, and cultural worker based in Burnaby, Canada, on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples. Her interdisciplinary practice is rooted in photography and critically considers methodologies, materiality, and modes of presentation. Zalamea’s projects have received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She has carried out artist residencies in the Philippines, Iceland, and Canada. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and as public art projects across Canada and internationally. She is the recipient of the third annual Prefix Prize in photography. Zalamea holds an MFA from Concordia University, and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

https://www.karenzalamea.com/

@karenzalamea

Sidney Gordon is a queer artist, curator and cultural worker born and raised on Treaty 4 territory. They hold a BMA in Film + Screen Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in so-called “Vancouver”, where they have lived and worked since 2018. Their multimedia practice is experimental and emulsion-based. The main focus of Gordon’s film work is creating experiential embodiment, often portraying and deriving from personal subconscious experiences, while their cameraless photographic practice focuses on questioning authorship through ecological co-creation. Their work has been shown in various local and international festivals, programs and galleries; most recently including The Polygon Gallery (2022 Lind Prize Shortlist), Vancouver International Festival (2022) and Capture Photography Festival (2021).

https://sidneygordon.ca/

@dirttones

Katrina Goetjen is an emerging artist and curator, born and raised on Treaty 7 Territory—the ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, and Region 3 of the Métis Nation. They are now situated on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations. Their multidisciplinary practice spans research, writing, photography, digital imaging, and arts-admin. Goetjen received a BFA in Critical and Cultural Practices from Emily Carr University, and now works as Gallery Operations Manager of Artspeak.

@katrina.no9