JESSICA HALLENBECK
PhD, MCIP, producer, OWNER

Jessica Hallenbeck is a documentary filmmaker and community planner. With an undergraduate degree in media and film from Queen’s University, she has worked in documentary for 20 years. Jessica holds a PhD in geography from the University of British Columbia and is currently a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr Dylan Robinson. She serves on the boards of DOC BC YT NT, and DOC National.
jessica@lanternfilms.ca

Dave Rodden-Shortt
Co-Founder, Consulting Creative

Dave Shortt has over 15 years of experience as a Creative Director. Dave holds a BA in Communications and Film Studies from Queen’s University and is the founder of fix8 Media (2002) and Shortt and Epic Productions (2011). Dave's work and creativity has won him many awards, including the Gerry Brunet Award for Best BC Short Film, Under the Rainbow. His latest film, Happytime Social Club, commissioned by B.C.’s Knowledge Network premiered at VIFF in 2019. He is the director, co-writer, co-Producer, cinematographer of The Empress of Vancouver, his first feature documentary film, funded by Telus Originals with support from the Vancouver Foundation and Creative BC.

Lyana Patrick

Director, Writer, Nechako, The Train Station,
The Tomahawk, A Place to Belong

Banchi Hanuse Smayaykila Films

Director, Writer, Nuxalk Radio

Sean Stiller 

Director of Photography, Nechako

Caroline So Jung Lee 

Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Chinatown Feast

Martyna Czaplak

Line Producer, Nechako

David Tomiak Elemental Post

Colourist, The Empress of Vancouver

Rosemary Georgeson

Director, A Place to Belong

DAN BRITTAIN

Composer, Compositor, Animator
Behind the Facade Series, The Empress of Vancouver
 

Marie Clements MCM

Executive Producer, Indígena

Baljit Sangra Viva Mantra

Director, Have You Forgotten Me ?

Peter Robinson

Location Sound Mixer, Nechako

Tanya Castaneda

Administrative Assistant

Siku Allooloo Akia Films

Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Indígena Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Cinematographer, Spirit Emulsion

Tyler Hagan Experimental Forest Films

Co-Producer, Nechako

kerriann cardinal Sweetgrass Stories

Producer, Deb Mearns: Still Here

Nathaniel Lyman CFA Law

Lawyer, The Empress of Vancouver, Nechako, Behind the Facade

Humberto Corte Parlante Sound  

Sound Mixer, Sound Designer, Behind the Facade

KELSEY SPARROW 

Illustrator, The Train Station

Joella Cabalu

Director, Ode to a Seafaring People

Ramsay Bourquin

Location Sound Mixer, Nechako

Alex Shamku

Location Sound Mixer, Nechako

Homer Mora

Location Sound Mixer, Indigena

Aurora Brachman

Director of Photography, Indigena

Marlene Castaños Ortega

Production Coordinator, Indigena