RON HARPELLE
Ron Harpelle teaches Latin American History at Lakehead University. He is the author of several books. He is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker who makes films that focus on history, development issues and human rights. His film credits include documentaries, dramas and docudramas, and he has experimented with non-linear documentary filmmaking.

KELLY SAXBERG
Kelly Saxberg is a film producer, director, editor and cinematographer who has worked on over 100 films. She works in English, French, Spanish and Finnish. Kelly also teaches undergraduate courses on the portrayal of history in films.

ROBIN STARBUCK
Robin Starbuck is a New York based artist filmmaker who produces experimental nonfiction films, installations, as well as animation for theatre and opera. Starbuck employs a mixture of documentary and reflexive film styles in her media. By working in a nontraditional form, she strives to create a cinematic space in which the world is perceived rather than known. In response to her work, viewers are invited to interact with what they see on the screen and to create meaning by reflecting on their own experiences, ideas, and truths. Robin Starbuck a professor of experimental documentary film and animation and the current Chair of the Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts program at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, USA

MANFRED BECKER
Manfred Becker is a documentary editor and director with more than 50 productions to his name. He is an Assistant Professor and the Graduate Program Director for Film Production in in the School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design at York University. He is also the author of Creating Reality in Factual Television: The Frankenbite and Other Fakes, published by Routledge.

C. NATHAN HATTON
Nathan Hatton teaches Canadian History and is the Co-Ordinator of the Public History Program at Lakehead University. Nathan is an expert on sport, immigration and ethnicity. He is the author of “Thrashing Seasons: Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling,” and “Rugged Game: Community, Culture and Wrestling at the Lakehead to 1933.” He has also directed two documentaries and published a number of articles.

MICHAEL STEVENSON
Michael Stevenson is an associate professor in the Department of History at Lakehead University. He specializes in diplomatic history and focuses many of his academic knowledge mobilization initiatives on creating digital platforms for primary document collections related to Canadian foreign policy.

WESLEY M. SHRUM
Wesley Shrum is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Video Ethnography Lab at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He is executive director of the Ethnografilm festival and associate director of the Journal of Video Ethnography. His primary scholarly interests are in new communications technology in Africa and India and infectious diseases (Ebola, Zika, coronavirus). His production company, Liars and Madmen, makes films in Kenya, Ghana, and Kerala.

GREG SCOTT
Professor Greg Scott is a visual sociologist, artist, and filmmaker. He is the founder and president of Sawbuck Productions, Inc., a non-profit organization that produces observational documentary films, experimental art films and other multimedia content. Greg is also the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Video Ethnography, the first-ever academic journal of peer-reviewed ethnographic films. His sociological work focuses on the socio-cultural dynamics of street level drug markets and drug using communities, while his artistic work revolves around the rituals, norms, customs, and folklore of small town life in the American Midwest.