Jen Sungshine is a queer Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary artist/activist, community facilitator, and cultural producer based in Vancouver, BC. She is the Co-Artistic Director and Co-founder of Love Intersections, a media arts collective producing intergenerational + intersectional QTBIPOC stories through documentary film and artwork. Her works include "Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny", winner of the Gerry Brunet Memorial Award for best BC Short; and "The House of 9 Dragons", an oral history exhibit in Chinatown. She is a co-producer of CURRENT: Feminist Electronic Art Symposium, Hot Pot Talks, and Seize the Means Video Co-op. jensungshine.com

David Ng has been a filmmaker for 20 years, and more recently through Love Intersections, he has produced over 15 short films, which have screened internationally at over 60 film festivals.  He has been a core team member of Hello Cool World - a local social justice communications firm - for over 20 years, through which he has collaborated on numerous video campaigns and documentaries including, Star in Your Own Stories: a video series project that involved youth from 5 Indigenous Nations across BC on issues related to destigmatizing HIV and cultural reclamation; Healing Inner Voices: a documentary on urban Indigenous people living in with HIV in Vancouver. He is a collaborator on Drawing Wisdom: a video series in collaboration with Jada Gabrielle Pape (Snuneymuxw & Saanich First Nations), and Kat Dodds on topics related to reconciliation and decolonization. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Social Justice Institute at UBC.

D’Arcy Hamilton is a highly skilled Director of Photography as well as a passionate storyteller. With experience traveling to over 28 countries, D’Arcy has built a reputation to be a very well rounded filmmaker. With experience in stop motion time lapses, aerial drone footage or gimbal work, D’Arcy is always thriving to push the limits of technology, to tell fascinating, engaging and heartfelt stories.

D’Arcy has worked closely with Hello Cool World with many clients, such as First Nations Technology Council, VACPC, Arts Health BC, Towards the Heart (BCCDC), together with Agentic on “Room in Your Heart” a Foster Care campaign, and the First Nations Health Authority. He is part of their workshop team for “Drawing Wisdom”, which will include mentoring workshops with First Nations communities using video story telling techniques to explore health related and cultural topics. Recently he DOP’d the film HIV – Healing Inner Voices, which has now played at 9 film festivals across the country and has been chosen for the audience choice award at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival.

D’Arcy has also worked with many community-based foundations/groups such as First United Church, Love Intersections, Spinal Cord Injury BC, Knowledge Network, Save Your Skin Foundation and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, ALS Society, and the Terry Fox Laboratory.

D’Arcy graduated from Capilano University’s Documentary and Small Unit Production program in 2008.

Eric Sanderson is a maker of documentary films and videos based in Vancouver, BC. He produces, directs, and shoots short and medium-length documentaries and advocacy videos for a variety of clients.

Projects he’s directed have screened at film festivals both locally and internationally, including Hot Docs in Toronto and DOXA in Vancouver. His work as a cinematographer has been shown at Oscar-qualifying international festivals and reviewed in Wired and the New York Times.

Eric is interested in projects that explore worlds outside of the mainstream, and the intersection of radical advocacy and mainstream accessibility. His style of shooting and directing emphasizes verité storytelling, with a preference for open spaces, long takes, and working with people who respect the storytelling power of a carefully-crafted image. 

Eric prides himself in taking time to listen and reflect on how he can best support his clients' and subjects’ stories.  Documentary film as a medium is uniquely positioned to interject a dose of empathy into our understanding of the world around us, and he is grateful for the opportunity to be a part of projects that foster and uplift this process.

Jonny Sopotiuk is the Managing Director of the Union Cooperative Initiative (UCI) and a founding member of several creative sector union cooperatives. As a professional artist with over 2 decades of community and labour organizing experience, Jonny’s current organizing practice focuses on organizing precarious workers towards a new economy based on the principles of mutual aid, solidarity, and reciprocity. 

As a political and community organizer, Jonny has managed labour union and political campaigns organizing tens of thousands of workers. As the Organizing Coordinator at the Health Sciences Association of BC, he led the provincial campaign that had over 14,000 members take action on workload issues across the province. Most recently, he managed the Burnaby Citizens Association Campaign, managing a team of over 80 staff and electing 13 of the 15 candidates for office at both the School Board and City Council.

Jonny brings his skills in political, labour, and community organizing along with his background as a professional visual artist to message and creative director roles for value-aligned projects that seek to build community and worker power and elect progressive politicians to all levels of government.