AGATA DE SANTIS is a filmmaker and writer. She is the founding president of Redhead Productions and has her own blog at
www.italocanadese.com. Two short films she produced,
THE GRANDFATHER PARADOX and
THE ECSTASY NOTE, have both completed successful and award-winning film festival runs. In 2010, Agata completed her documentary film,
MAL'OCCHIO, which looks at the evil eye superstition.
ELIAS C. VAROUTSOS comes from a unique background in athletics, psychology and film. He obtained his B.A. in Psychology, minoring in Theatre, on an athletic scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he played football at the highest level of the NCAA. Since 2002 he has worked both in front of and behind the camera on countless productions. He runs his own production company,
Ciudad Films.
GEOFFREY ULOTH is a graduate of Communications Studies at Concordia University. He has spent the last ten years working within the Montreal film community, and has written, directed and produced four award-winning short films, including
WILDFLOWERS/LES FLEURS SAUVAGES and
THE ECSTASY NOTE. Geoffrey is the president of
Evergon Arts, and has several projects in development.
JEAN-FRANÇOIS DA SYLVA is not one of those genius filmmakers that shot their first film at seven. It’s only when he realized that films could be used to command the attention of large groups of people that he began to seriously consider filmmaking.
THE GRANDFATHER PARADOX is self-financed, and he proclaims it is the “best dollar-to-production-value ratio ever seen”, i.e. the film looks great and that everyone worked on it for free!
LAURA IERACI is an editor and national award-winning journalist. She co-produced and co-directed her first documentary,
UNLIKELY PILGRIMS, with fellow filmmaker Agata De Santis. The touching documentary takes an honest and unique look at young Canadians and faith. Laura also produced several half-hour television documentaries, and her first short, experimental film, WAITING, is currently in production.
