Board

A. Sabastien Callendar   Treasurer

Kerry Campbell   Chair Kerry Campbell is a video artist that graduated from the RUYC program. She currently is a website developer and has started a clothing company called Tweak Clothing and Accessories. Kerry is a VJ and a DJ that currently plays on a sound system run off batteries. Kerry has been an active SAW Video and Gallery member for six years and is excited to be on the Board of Directors.

Philippe Caron    Phil Caron is a filmmaker, writer and civil servant. His artist career began with a SAW Video Jumpstart grant in the late 80’s. Since then, his award winning films/videos have been shown nationally and internationally. His written work has appeared in Canada’s major newspapers (Globe & Mail, CanWest Media etc.), on CBC Radio 1 and in literary journals. He graduated in 1995 from Concordia University with a BFA in Cinema.

Firuz Daud   Vice-Chair Firuz Daud is an alumni of Ryerson Polytechnic University's Image Arts program. He has done graphics for broadcast on stations such as City TV and the CBC and is one of the founding members of the art collective Team Tekki Techy. He has a cat named Puck.

Edward Folger    Edward Folger studied physics and English literature at Columbia University in New York City. He has worked as a writer/director, still photographer, cameraman, and editor; apprenticed in feature films with John Cassavettes, Alain Resnais, Milos Forman, and others; wrote and directed a film for PBS in the Canadian Arctic (1975). He moved to Baffin Island to teach and produce the earliest Inuktitut TV programming. He moved to Ottawa in 2004.

Monique Fuller    Originally from Montreal, Monique has called Ottawa home for the last 8 years. She currently works full time as an administrator at a community health center and volunteers with the One World Film festival selection committee and CKCU. She is a member at SAW video and hopes to produce short videos and films in the future.

Cornelius Heesters    Though Cornelius Heesters continues to be an exhibiting artist and professional photographer—represented by Christopher Cutts Gallery in Toronto—his intellectual curiosities also include a multidisciplinary approach to an analysis of visual culture(s) and political economy from, including but not limited to, critical writing, editing, photography, film, design, architectural theory, and graphic arts. He has taught at such institutions as The Art Institute of Chicago (which also conferred an MFA), the University of Western Ontario, McMaster University (MA in philosophy), and the University of Toronto. He is also a published writer and was issue editor for the Toronto-based journal of politics, culture and theory Alphabet City. Currently he is developing his website exmachina-foto.com between interruptions by his 5-year old.

Wendi Reed

Nena Toth    Nevenka Redzic Toth, filmmaker has produced 57 short films and was a Director of Photography in over a hundred short films and videos as well as three features.  She is the first woman Cinematographer in  Serbia and Montenegro with a master’s degree in cinematography and is still the only Serbian woman currently working internationally as a Director of Photography in feature films. Prof. Toth is a graduate from Prague’s renowned FAMU University’s film school, where she has earned a Master’s degree in Cinematography. Her teaching experience includes 19 years in European and North American universities. Nena’s films have earned international awards and recognition most recent of which won first prize in the experimental category for her film “Phantasmagoria”, at the Niagara Indie Film Festival, St. Catherines, Ontario. Nevenka Redzic Toth is currently working on a feature length motion picture screenplay; a contemporary version of Henrik Ibsen’s play “Doll House”, under the working title “Nora Play Jazz With Me”. Nena Toth will produce and direct the project through her production company, Nena Film Verite.

Franziska von Rosen    Producer and director, Pinegrove Productions. As a videographer, Franziska's particular interest has been for creating social and environmental documentaries, including, among others JIPUKTEWIK SIPU (1991, AMTEC award), RRIVER OF FIRE: CELEBRATION OF LIFE (1994) - screened at the Atlantic Film Festival (1995) and at the VITAS Film Festival at UCLA, Los Angeles (1995), DEER AT THE NORTHERN LIMIT (1999) a two part educational series, THE RETURN OF THE WILD TURKEY (in progress), and an experimental music video MI'KMWESU (2000); screened at the One World Film Festival, Ottawa, 2000. Her latest challenge has been as story editor for GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER (2000) a documentary on the displaced peoples of Colombia, screened at the One World Film Festival, Ottawa, 2000.

Tasha Waldron   Secretary