Shane Belcourt is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and musician based in Toronto. His feature film, Tkaronto, has played many international film festivals, most recently winning the “Best Director” prize at the 2008 Dreamspeakers Film Festival and 2008 Talking Stick Film Festival, and has since been sold to a national distributor (Kinosmith Films) which released the film across Canada during the fall of 2008. Tkaronto has also played on Air Canada and Super Channel. Shane’s two short films, The Squeeze Box and Pookums have been picked up and sold to national Canadian TV networks and are featured on Isuma.tv. Shane was also the recipient of the 2007 IFC Mentorship Award and one of 22 filmmakers chosen for the 2007 TIFF Talent Lab. Most recently Shane co-wrote and directed Boxed In, a short film produced by the NFB that will be included in the Canadian Pavilion at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Duane Murray is an award winning actor, writer and director based in Toronto. As well co-producing and playing the lead roll in the nationally distributed feature film Tkaronto (Kinosmith Films), he has also appeared in feature films for New Line, Fox Searchlight, and Universal Pictures, as well as the recently
released Sundance festival film Victoria Day and Atom Egoyan’s Cannes winner Adoration. Since graduating from York University’s Specialized Honours Acting Conservatory in 1998, he has accumulated over 40 produced film and television credits as an actor. He has also appeared on stage both in Canada and Internationally highlighted by receiving a Gold Medal in improvisation at the National Arts Center. As a frequent collaborator with Shane, Duane co-wrote and co-directed the nationally distributed short films
The Squeeze Box and Pookums as well as recently co-writing Boxed In, a short film produced by the NFB that will be included in the Canadian Pavilion at the 2010 Winter Olympics.