Join filmmakers who have excelled in the Canadian film industry for an informal panel discussion on their careers. Gain an insight into how they began their careers and how they have continued to persevere and succeed. Learn about the choices they made with education and obtaining practical knowledge; joining unions and networking; choosing independent and/or commercial work; and the process of developing their projects and establishing their careers.

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MODERATOR:

CHRISTOPHER HERON is the host of The Seventh Art and also serves as a producer, editor, and writer for the video magazine. He's conducted over 60 long-form interviews for the publication, including Peter Bogdanovich, Claire Denis, Frederick Wiseman, Margarethe von Trotta, Christopher Doyle, Barbara Hammer, and Paul Schrader. He received his MA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto, where his work explored cinematic representations of urban space with special attention paid to the films of Pedro Costa and Tsai Ming-liang. www.theseventhart.org

SCHEDULED PANELISTS:

RUBA NADDA was born in Montreal and studied English Literature at York University and then took a 6 week course in film production at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She made several award winning short films, including "Lost Woman Story" (96), "Do Nothing" (97), "Interstate Love story" (97), "Wet heat drifts through the afternoon" (97), "So Far Gone" (98), "Damascus Nights" (98), "I would suffer cold hands for you" (99) "Black September" (99) "Laila" (99), "Slut" (99) and "Aadan" (04) before writing and directing the features "Sabah" (05), "Cairo Time" (09) which earned Best Canadian Feature Film at Toronto International Film Festival and Rotten Tomatoes best reviewed film (Romance) of 2010, "Inescapable" (12) and now "October Gale" (14). Next up for Nadda is "Elisabeth," an original hour-long romantic drama for HBO with Patricia Clarkson attached to star. Details on the plot are currently being kept under wraps. Alan Poul (The Newsroom) is attached as executive producer, along with Clarkson and Nadda.

SARAH GOODMAN's "Army of One" (Hot Docs Best Canadian Documentary Award 2004, Gemini Nomination [Canadian Emmy] for Best Director 2005) and "When We Were Boys" (Donald Brittain Gemini Nomination for Best Social Political Documentary 2011, Indiewire Top 10 Documentaries of 2009) launched her career. International critical acclaim for the films brought theatrical release and festival runs at TIFF, Amsterdam (IDFA), Berlin, Hotdocs, True/False, Hamptons, and Krakow, among others. Her work has broadcast on CBC, BBC, IFC, Discovery Times, IFC and the Documentary Channel, among others. The New York Times described "Army of One" as “almost shockingly intimate”, Variety called it “riveting and timely”, and Cinema Eye described "When We Were Boys" as “an extraordinary film…reminds one of Francois Truffaut’s 'L’Argent du Poche.'” Goodman’s first feature drama "Porch Stories" will release theatrically in June 2015 by distributor Kinosmith. Her short "Hidden Driveway" premiered at TIFF 2011, and her new feature in development, "Lake 239," was a finalist for Telefilm's PITCH THIS competition at TIFF 2014. Goodman also writes and directs non-fiction television for History Television, Discovery, BBC, CBC, Global and W Network, among others. She has taught film at Humber College and is the Director-in-Residence at Royal St. Georges College and the Toronto Public Library. She is an alumnus of the TIFF Talent Lab and Berlinale Talent Campus. www.sarahgoodmanfilms.com

CORNELIA PRINCIPE is an award-winning producer with over 20 years of experience. Cornelia is currently in production on the feature documentary "How To Prepare For Prison" with director Matt Gallagher for TVO and a short for BravoFactual called "Tilting At Windmills." She recently produced, directed and wrote "The Motherload," for CBC’s Doc Zone which has just been awarded prizes at both the Chicago International Film/TV Festival and at the Worldfest Houston Festivall; taught a course in documentary production at Centennial College; and completed the feature documentary "The World Before Her" with Storyline Entertainment and director Nisha Pahuja for ZDF/Arte. "The World Before Her" has won 20 awards and distinctions including: best documentary at Tribeca, Hot Docs and Michael Moore's festival in Traverse City. It was voted a Canada top ten by the Toronto International Film Festival 2012, was nominated for Best Theatrical Documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards, and was part of the Sundance Film Forward Program. In 2014, it was nominated for an Emmy Award. Other producing projects include: the feature documentary "Grinders" directed by Matt Gallagher, which was broadcast across Canada after a Hot Docs 2011 festival premiere and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award in Best Direction in a Documentary; the feature "The Rise and Fall of the Grumpy Burger," which premiered at Hot Docs 2008; and the 2008 Gemini award-winning (Best Documentary Series) "Diamond Road," which she co-produced for TVOntario, History Television, Discovery Times and Arte/ZDF. Other select credits include: Series Director for PTV Productions on "Resolutions" for Discovery Health and The Life Channel; Directed the one hour "Poverty, Chastity, Obedience," with Producer Andrea Nemtin in co-production with the NFB; Co-produced Divorce What I See with Producer/ Director Sun-Kyung Yi which premiered at Hot Docs 2001; and worked with Emmy award-winning Producer/ Director Shelley Saywell on several of her acclaimed documentaries including, "A Child’s Century of War" which was short-listed for an Oscar. From 1993-1997 Cornelia was the Associate Producer for TVO's documentary unit responsible for the social-political documentary strands "The View From Here," "Human Edge," "From the Heart" and "Anishinabe."

ALAN ZWEIG has been making films for 35 years. In the last 15 years he's made six feature length documentaries and is working on his seventh. His first documentary "Vinyl" premiered at Hot Docs in 2000 and has gone on to be a cult film, last year landing in Pitchfork's list of the Top Twenty Music Docs of all time. In 2009 he won the Genie for best feature length documentary with his film "A Hard Name" and in 2013 his documentary "When Jews Were Funny" was named Best Canadian Feature at that year's TIFF. He's also written, acted, been a film driver and a taxi driver. He lives in Toronto with his wife and young daughter.