Sharon Kahanoff, Director & curator Sharon Kahanoff is a producer, media artist, writer and educator. Sharon has been producing and managing the productions of other artist’s films and artworks since 2004. These works have shown all over the world including the Venice Biennale, the International Film Festival Oberhausen, and exhibitions in New York, Berlin, Belgium and Seoul. Her own artworks have been exhibited in cinemas and galleries in Canada, the United States, Finland and the United Kingdom, and she has been published in books, exhibition catalogues, magazines and other art publications. For fifteen years Sharon was a Lecturer at Simon Fraser and Emily Carr Universities, teaching in both film and visual arts, and she sat on the Boards of Artspeak Gallery and Cineworks. Since moving to Calgary in 2016, Sharon has been a production manager for Beakerhead, and co-Director of Mountain Standard Time, where she produced their 9th biennial of performative arts. JANIRA MONCAYO, PROGRAMMING MANAGER Janira Moncayo is an Ecuadorian artist and graphic designer, currently based in Mohkinstsis/ Calgary. Her work celebrates vibrant colors and hyper femininity through video installation, performance and mixed media illustrations. Janira’s work challenges the rigid and one-dimensional ideals of femininity and reclaims women’s identities as multifaceted realities. She aims to critically discuss constructed representation in the media we consume on a daily basis. Her work has been exhibited at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Marion Nicoll Gallery, Particle+Wave Media Arts Festival and Nocturne Festival. Joe Kelly, TECHNICAL MANAGER Joe Kelly (he/him), Technical Coordinator, a filmmaker creating analog and digital media: animation, installation, photography, 16mm film, and live visuals. instagram.com/joekellyfilm
