About

Walter Forsyth – Producer, Writer, Director

Walter has six feature films, numerous short films and three series including the dramatic feature, The Disappeared and digital series, Everyone’s Famous, both nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards. He produced There’s a Flower in My Pedal (TIFF Honourable Mention) and has written and directed several award winning films. Walter has been a TIFF Talent Lab, CTV Banff Fellow and Trans-Atlantic Partners participant. He enjoys surfing and is addicted to refined sugar.

Tanya Preyde – Producer

Tanya Preyde is a Nova Scotian producer, writer and story editor. She produced the narrative feature DANCING ON THE ELEPHANT, the feature documentary THE HANDS THAT FEED US for Super Channel and the short documentary, THE LAST WALT, for CBC. She is in production on the feature doc, A LIFETIME IN PHOTOBOOTHS, a coproduction with EyeSteelFilm. She recently took part in Story Money Impact’s Pod 5 Mentorship Program offshoot, Pod Information Sessions. Tanya works with the Lunenburg Doc Fest, and runs the Hellifax Horror Film Festival.

Doug Karr – Producer, Writer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor

Doug’s credits include narrative feature ART MACHINE, shorts TINY DANCER, ANNIVERSARY PRESENT, THE STRAITJACKET LOTTERY, and award-winning docs LSD25 (co-dir. with Walter) and THE JUNE BUG SYMPHONY (prod. with Walter directing). Doug’s other films include LIFECYCLES: A STORY OF AIDS IN MALAWI, and TEN FOR GRANDPA, which premiered at Sundance ‘09 and went on to screen at 50+ international fests, winning multiple awards. His commercial directing garnered 3 Cannes Lions. Doug also wrote the novel DWELLING, loves to adventure with his gal & kids, and is a sci-fi idealist & dreamer.

Ron McDougall – Design

Ron is our web site and graphic designer and also makes great films. Ron has 25+ years’ experience in graphic design and art direction, and 20+ years’ experience in interaction design, for both online and stand-alone digital environments. He was Art Director for optimyz magazine for six years, and has produced digital designs for a diverse number companies that include Mackenzie Financial, The Boston Celtics, Scotiabank, Mirvish Productions, and Atlantic Lottery Corporation. He was involved in the first real-time online sporting broadcast (CTV Sports) and the first online stock portfolio management tool (Scotia Capital Markets).

Ron is an award-winning filmmaker and animator, having several short films screened at numerous film festivals. His animation work has been featured in feature-length films by Murray Foster (of Great Big Sea and Moxy Fruvous) and award-winning documentarian John Walker (Quebec My Country Mon Pays, Arctic Defenders). His most recent short film, Red, is currently streaming on CBC Gem.

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Audrey Chan – Producer-in-Training

Hailing from Hong Kong, Audrey Chan holds degrees in Journalism and Cinema & Media Studies from the University of King’s College. In 2023, they co-directed DARLENE AND TRUCKHOUSE, a short documentary that has screened at the Lunenburg Doc Fest and the World Water Film Festival. Audrey also produced MY DROUGHT SEASON, a Super 8 short created in collaboration with a senior gardener in Nova Scotia, coordinating a cross-provincial production.

Their film writing has appeared in the South China Morning Post and POV Magazine. Now based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, Audrey works with Lunenburg Doc Fest, DOC Atlantic, the Canadian Independent Screen Fund for BPOC Creators, and Gorgeous Mistake Productions Inc. as a Producer-in-Training.