Jess Murwin is a non-binary Indigenous artist and curator of Mi’kmaq, Scottish, Welsh and Irish descent, currently based in Montreal, Quebec. They received formal artistic training from Notre Dame de la Tilloye (France) and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Canada), as well as informal training on various sets, at artist centres and in workshops in Canada, Europe and India. Their work is largely community-based, combining futurism and social engagement through a variety of mediums.

David Oppenheim is a producer at the National Film Board of Canada’s Ontario Studio in Toronto, where his recent credits include Draw Me Close (Tribeca Storyscapes, Venice International Film Festival), the Webby Award-winning Universe Within (the final chapter of the NFB’s HIGHRISE project), and the interactive documentary The Space We Hold, which was awarded the Peabody-Facebook Futures of Media Award, Best Original Interactive Production at the Canadian Screen Awards, and the Columbia University Digital Dozen Breakthroughs in Storytelling Award.

David is currently producing a number of creative non-fiction film, interactive, and immersive projects and leading the studio’s immersive lab. XR projects underway include the full production version of Draw Me Close, The Book of Distance, a room-scale, interactive pilgrimage across generations, Agence, an experimental simulation in virtual reality and artificial intelligence, and a new collaboration that combines immersive theatre, creative non-fiction storytelling and VR. He is a past resident at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab.

Kate Vollum is an Associate Producer with the National Film Board of Canada. She has worked on many innovative projects, including the groundbreaking interactive doc HIGHRISE (2015), which won two Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award, the experimental series Souvenir (2015), in which Indigenous creators re-worked NFB archival footage into new and compelling short films about Indigenous identity, and the NFB/CFC Open Immersion VR lab (2016), which saw six Indigenous artists from Canada and six artists of colour from the US participate in an intensive virtual reality residency.

Most recently, she has been the Associate Producer for Urban. Indigenous. Proud (2018), five films created by Indigenous filmmakers in partnership with the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres; Throat, a collaboration between filmmaker Chelsea McMullan and artist/activist Tanya Tagaq; This Is Not a Movie, about journalist Robert Fisk, directed by Yung Chang; Postings from Home, an intimate and impressionistic documentary by Kelly O’Brien; and Ojiibikaan, a film about the ways in which Indigenous food practices can transform our relationship to food and land.

Anita Lee is Executive Producer and Head of the Ontario Studio in Toronto for the National Film Board of Canada. She is a multi-award-winning producer with 20 years’ experience in the industry, and the founder of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. In co-production with the CFC Media Lab, Anita led the NFB’s first foray into interactive production as one of the creator-producers of North America’s first interactive feature film, Late Fragment (2006), which premiered at TIFF and SXSW.

More recent interactive work as producer/executive producer includes: The Deeper They Bury Me (2014), which premiered at NYFF and received one of Columbia University’s Digital Dozen Breakthroughs in Storytelling Awards; The Universe Within (2015), winner of the Webby Award for Best Use of Interactive Video and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Interactive Production; and The Space We Hold (2016), winner of the Peabody-Facebook Futures of Media Award for Interactive Documentary, a Digital Dozen Breakthroughs in Storytelling Award, and Best Original Interactive Production at the Canadian Screen Awards.

Anita also helms the NFB’s Creative Non-Fiction Immersive Lab in Toronto, which collaborated with the CFC and the Ford Foundation on the Open Immersion VR residency lab and with the National Theatre (UK) on the Creative Doc VR lab, both in 2016. She is executive producer of the latter’s critically acclaimed VR project, Draw Me Close (2017), which premiered at Tribeca Storyscapes and at the Venice International Film Festival’s Venice Virtual Reality program.