Filmmakers

Connie Littlefield wrote and directed “Hofmann’s Potion: The Early Years of LSD” which came out in 2002. This film has been credited with changing the way many people think about psychedelic drugs. 

2015’s “The Sunshine Makers,” which she wrote and produced, currently plays on iTunes, Sundance Now, and Youtube. “…there’s no question that hanging out with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn on acid has its appeal,” said Manohla Dargis, in The New York Times. 

In 2006, Connie made a film about L.E.A.P.: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, called “Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey.” The Vancouver Sun said it was “the smartest documentary yet on a divisive subject.”  

Sue Johnson has over fifteen years of filmmaking experience and an MFA degree in Documentary Media from Ryerson University. Primarily working in documentary cinematography, Johnson has recently completed projects for Al Jazeera International, Nike, and a range of independent documentary directors and producers.

She is the recipient of the Innoversity Summit’s Digital Storytellers Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts, and the National Film Board’s Filmmaker Assistance Program grant. She maintains her own production company, Still Silver Productions, in Toronto.

After studying filmmaking at Niagara College, editor  James Yates moved to Toronto where he began working as a film editor.

In 2016, Yates co-edited the feature documentary “All Governments Lie,” from executive producer Oliver Stone, which had its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, and for which he was nominated for a 2017 Canadian Cinema Editors Award.

James also edited “The Corporate Coup d’État” and “Toxic Beauty,” recently released by White Pine Pictures.

Nick Sewell, of Toronto-based graphic design firm Together: Words&Pictures, designed the visual elements of the film. Working in broadcast design since 1999, Nick has created work for a diverse range of clients including MTV, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, Warner Bros., Sports Center, and PBS.

His film work includes title design for David Cronenberg’s Spider and Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy, as well as extensive work in the documentary space on award-winning films such as Sugar Coated and Oscar Peterson: Black+White.

Nick’s design work has appeared in numerous graphics and post-production publications such as Stash, Design In Motion, and Applied Arts Annual as well as media outlets such as Rolling Stone and NME. His animation and editing work has also earned acclaim internationally, including over 16 Broadcast Design Awards.

Andy McNeill is based in Toronto. His credits include:  Agent Binky: Pets of the Universe (Treehouse/Discovery, w/ Carl Lenox), The Nature Of Things with David Suzuki (CBC), Recipe to Riches (Global/Food Network), House & Home (Global/HGTV US), The Fifth Estate (CBC), Undercurrents (CBC), Jonovision (CBC, w/ George Guerrette), several TVO and TFO programs, and the ONE channel (ONE).

His music was featured in the award winning feature documentary The Corporation.

In October 2007 he composed the score for the PBS Frontline/ CBC documentary Darfur:  On Our Watch. In October 2001, he received a Gemini nomination for best original music score in a documentary program for History Television’s Turning Points In History “Cloud of Death”.

In radio, Andy has worked as music consultant for many IDEAS programs on CBC Radio One.  He worked closely with the late celebrated broadcaster and musicologist Lister Sinclair.

Andy also composes and creates tracks for the Los Angeles-based music library Velvet Ears.  Created and curated by music supervisor Liz Gallacher, it is tagged as the “art-house, post-punk production music boutique.”  Velvet Ears is distributed by Extreme Music/Sony ATV.

Andy’s recording project The Maple Mountain Sunburst Triolian Orchestra released their first recording in 2010.  The album featured actress Isabella Rossellini as a special guest.  It received a four-star Disc Of The Week review from The Globe and Mail and was named one of the ten best of 2010 by Laurie Brown of CBC Radio Two’s The Signal.

Kevin Fox has worked in the studio and on stage with a variety of artists, from Celine Dion to Katharine McPhee to Olivia Newton John. He has spent much of the last seven years touring extensively with award-winning Canadian artists Chantal Kreviazuk and Steven Page. As a composer/arranger, Kevin has composed music for film and television as well as arrangements for artists ranging from Tom Cochrane to Jully Black to Justin Bieber.

Kevin is also a singer/songwriter in his own right, with a continually increasing fan base that began with the release of his first album COME ALIVE and has continued to grow along with the critically acclaimed SONGS FOR CELLO & VOICE and most recently with his latest release, SET RIGHT.

Kevin’s cello has been featured on numerous albums over the last 20 years and will play the starring role in his performance for t he students. Though classically trained, Kevin introduces the cello in ways you’ve never heard before in the context of popular song. He will accompany his voice with his cello & acoustic guitar, singing songs from his three album releases. The repertoire includes his own songs as well as covers by Paul Simon, The Eurythmics, Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush.

 Eva Madden has been working in documentary and dramatic film and television for over fifteen years. With a BFA from Concordia University’s Film Program, Eva has also created and told many stories shown on television, DVD and in film festivals. Now living on BC’s Sunshine Coast, Eva sound edits from her studio in the woods. Her client roster includes the National Film Board of Canada, CTV, CBC, Discovery Channel, Netflix, ABC and Disney.

 Siobhan Flanagan has worked as a scriptwriter and consultant on award-winning documentaries for the BBC, CBC, PBS, National Film Board of Canada, and National Geographic. She has immersed herself in a wide variety of subjects, including space warfare, naval warfare, wildlife, the Arctic, spiritual activism, aspects of death, classical music, and astrophysics. She has lived in Kenya, Sri Lanka, Peru, Iran, India, the UK, the UAE, and Canada, and finds documentary films satisfy an ingrained appetite to explore, discover, and understand.