Guests
Chandler Levack
I Like Movies
Chandler Levack grew up in Burlington, Ontario and lives in Toronto, where she studied cinema at the University of Toronto and screenwriting at the Canadian Film Centre. She has directed numerous music videos, earning two JUNO nominations. She is also a National Magazine-award winning arts critic who has written for publications that include SPIN, Rolling Stone and the Globe & Mail. In 2017, her short film We Forgot to Break Up premiered at TIFF and went on to play SXSW. In 2022, her debut feature film I Like Movies premiered at TIFF, was selected for Canada's Top Ten Film Festival and won prizes at film festivals around the world, including “Best Screenplay” and “Best Canadian Feature” by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. She is currently working on her second feature Anglophone, a portrait of the Montreal music scene circa 2011, to be produced by Zapruder Films.
Eric Janvier
Heartbeat of a Nation
Eric Janvier is a multi-hyphenate filmmaker who has found space in both the narrative and documentary fields. He trained at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles, California. Upon graduation, he worked on the award-winning pilot episode of APTN’s Blackstone in a mentorship role. Eric was the producer of the imagineNATIVE award-winning short film Gods Acre, which went on to screen at numerous festivals across the globe. He co-produced a campaign in partnership with Marvel and Avengers Endgame that appeared both online and in Times Square. Eric also wrote and directed Reserved, which was broadcast on the CBC’s Short Film Face Off. He most recently produced the upcoming feature film Hey Viktor!, a spiritual sequel to Smoke Signals. Eric has written several TV pilots and was a finalist for the TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Award in 2017, the Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices Initiative and the WarnerMedia Access Festivals initiative at TIFF.
Eva Colmers
Swallow, Dear Swallow
Eva Colmers (DGC, CMPA, DOC, WIDC and NSI) is a director/producer of scripted, unscripted and animation films. Via her No Problem Productions she has created award-winning films such as QUINN, Happy Birthday, Mango!, Dilly Digger, We Regret to Inform You… and 2.57k. Eva’s work was honored with AMPIA Rosie Awards for Best Director and Best Producer; EDA Award (DOXA Vancouver); Golden Sheaf Award (Yorkton Film Festival); Best Experimental Film Award (NYC Independent Film Festival), Award of Excellence (Int. Film Festival Jakarta) and many more. Eva has written, directed or produced for the NFB, TelusOriginal, Bell Media, CBC and APTN (via Mosaic Entertainment). An immigrant from Germany, Eva loves stories about “outsiders” and people who don’t seem to quite fit in. noproblemproductions.ca
Adriano Sobretodo Jr.
A Second Act
Adriano, a graduate of York University’s MFA Acting Program, is a screen and stage performer based in Toronto. His television credits include the pilot episode of The Strain (FX, directed by Guillermo del Toro), Run the Burbs (CBC), Saving Hope (CTV), and recurring roles on Covert Affairs (USA) & Alphas (SyFy). Most recently he appeared in Mr. Monk’s Last Case, which premiered on NBC’s Peacock network this past December. On stage, Adriano has played Brutus in Portia’s Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Ruff, Toronto Star Top Production) and Mowgli in The Jungle Book (Manitoba Theatre for Young People). He’s also appeared in The Container (TheatreFix, MTA Best Supporting Actor Nominee) and Matchbox Macbeth (Litmus Theatre, NOW Magazine Top 10 Production). Adriano is Co-Artistic Director of Dora-Award-Winning Litmus Theatre, where he is currently writing Balikbayan, a new play that pays homage to the 80’s sci-fi classic Back to the Future while exploring masculinity across generations and cultures. adrianosobretodojr.com