Board

Nikhil Adnani
Nikhil Adnani is co-founder and CEO of ThinkRF Corp., a wireless technology company. He has held engineering positions at Nortel and Communications Research Centre Canada. Nikhil has also worked as an artist and animator. His animated films have screened at many international film festivals including Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, European Media Arts Festival, SXSW and Aspen Shortsfest. He was a member of Available Light Screening Collective from 2003 to 2007. During this time he curated a show on Web Animation. Nikhil has a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. from the University of Manitoba and a Ph.D. from Carleton University, all in Electrical Engineering.

Ashraf Asfour
Ashraf Asfour is a member of SAW Video and participated in the Voices from the Margins, youth program in 2005-2006. At the present time, he is completing a professional training in Toronto and Ottawa as an industry apprentice with the International Cinematographers Guild. Ashraf continues to create videos through a cinematographic approach, and is involved in other independent productions in the Ottawa area.

A. Sabastien Callendar, Treasurer
A graduate of the Sound Engineering program at Raven Street Studio, Sabastien has also studied business at the University of Ottawa. He is a producing member of SAW Video and currently toils with audio and video experiments in his laboratory when opportunity allows. Some of his other interests include and writing and he is continually involved in visual design projects through Canvas Culture (Canvasculture.com).

Kerry Campbell, Chair
Kerry Campbell is a video artist and a graduate of SAW Video's youth program (2001). She currently works for Elections Canada and she lives in Hull. Kerry is a VJ and a DJ that is best known for her solar powered parties and electronic experiments. Kerry has been an active SAW Video and Gallery member for nine years and hopes to be involved with SAW for many more.

Phil 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.

Edward Folger
Edward Folger studied physics and literature at Columbia University in New York, and decided to become an artist instead of scientist. He has worked as a still photographer/filmmaker, editor, and writer, apprenticed in feature films with John Cassavettes, Alain Resnais, Milos Forman, et. al., wrote and directed a dramatic feature film for PBS in the Canadian Arctic (Nanook Taxi, 1975). He moved to Baffin Island to teach and produce the earliest Inuktitut TV programming and used all his skills (video, computer programming, etc.) in the fight for Inuit land claims and the establishment of the Nunavut Territory, moved to Vancouver in 1991 and to Ottawa in 2004; still writing and making video.

Monique Fuller, Vice chair
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.

Alex Massaad
Alex Massaad has been involved with SAW Video since he moved to Ottawa to study film at Carleton University in 2006. Around this time he produced a short film with the assistance of the New Voices Fund from SAW which gave him the chance to discover his true passion, electronic music composition. These days he divides his time between recording music, performing magic shows and working at the front desk of Arts Court.

Susan Murphy
Susan Murphy has been working in media and communications in Ottawa for nearly 20 years. she began her career in broadcasting in 1990, producing and directing local television programs for Skyline Cablevision, now Rogers TV.

Today, she is a partner at Jester Creative Inc., where she helps people discover and tell their stories in a variety of mediums, including video and new media. Her interest in social and new media is extensive (i.e. she's a total geek), and she contributes to the online community though her personal blog at www.suzemuse.ca, on various social networks and as a teacher of Video Production and Web Media at Algonquin College. She's also a member of the creative team of 12for12k.org, a social media based fundraising project that is creating quite a buzz in the online world.

In her "spare" time, Sue enjoys spending time with her family and friends, singing and playing guitar, and traveling with her husband.

Nena Toth
Nena Toth has directed 27 short films in Europe and North America. She 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 over 25 years in European and North American universities: University of Belgrade, FAMU, USC in Los Angeles, and the University of Toronto. Nena's films have won a number of awards including: First Prize in the experimental category for her film "Phantasmagoria", at the Niagara Film Festival in St. Catherines, Ontario in 2004; GRAND PRIX for Camera in Slovenia; Bronze medal in Sarajevo 2007 for her directing/writing, Gold Medal in Brus, Serbia, for the documentary film Celebrating Ottawa as director/writer/DOP, Silver medal as director/writer, 1st prize winner for the Best script at the International Film Festival EUROPRESS for the documentary film, Canoeing to the Arctic Subotica, 2007, and most recently, a bronze prize at the first International Tourist and Ecology Film Festival JAHORINAFEST 2007 for "Canoeing to the Arctic". Nena has received Grants in Canada from Foreign Affairs, Canada Council, CBC Television, National Film Board of Canada, SAW Video, and CJOH TV. In 2008 through her independent film production company NENA FILM VERITE PRODUCTION, Nena Toth is developing a feature documentary film entitled Operation Uranium Force which is in a co-production with the Serbian Film Archive "Kinoteka" (Belgrade, Serbia), NTV Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Radio Television of Montenegro (Bar, Montenegro).

Ben Walker
Ben Walker is an emerging filmmaker and video artist. He has been a member of Saw Video since 2005, participating in many workshops, programs and screenings. This year, Ben joined the Equipment Committee, instructed video workshops through our Far Out Locations program, and screened his film A Spring Day in Toronto at Resolution 2009.

Michele Wozny, Secretary
Michele Wozny is an activist, an artist, an academic and most recently, an archival assistant. She has been engaged with artist-run culture in Canada for many years, most specifically with the production and promotion of film and video. Her MA thesis traces the interconnection between cultural policy and grass roots activism in the independent Canadian media arts community. Currently working for Film and Broadcasting at Library and Archives Canada, Michele is responsible for the acquisition of contemporary and legacy feature and short form film and video. In September 2006, she presented Artists, Activists and Archives to the Independent Media Arts Alliance Conference in Winnipeg.