Evaluation Juries

Jamie-Lee Reardon (Ojibwe/Irish) is a member of Flying Post First Nations in treaty 9. JL is the Institute Manager at imagineNATIVE, where she is committed to supporting the professional development of Indigenous Creatives. JL is a multi-disciplinary undisciplined artist and storyteller who creates from a place of love for community, culture, family, and self.

Jerry Wolf is a filmmaker of both Waywayseecapp First Nation and Vietnamese heritage. His stories strive for the strange and fantastical with imagery both dreamlike and nightmarish. His stories are about survival and the victims who refuse to accept the role as inevitable.

He formed CINETHETICA as a boutique production company, where he’s written and directed 20+ short films, webisodes, and music videos, often featuring a culturally diverse cast of young actors.

In 2022, he was a speaker at the Indigenous Screen Summit. With the support of the Indigenous Screen Office, he’s currently writing a feature film which he plans to direct. His films have screened at the Skoden, Asinabka, Caribbean Tales, and Reelworld Film Festival.

Jess Murwin is a nonbinary Indigenous (Mi'kmaq, Scottish and Welsh) filmmaker, curator and educator 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 and Europe. Their work is largely community-based and draws on genre and storytelling traditions to imagine social change.

As a programmer, they have worked for the Atlantic International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire à Montréal, among others. Their focus in presenting films and media artworks has always been to champion stories by 2SLGBTQ+, and Indigenous artists. They see this work as a critical way of reclaiming narrative spaces.

Oswald Michelin is a Labrador Inuk journalist and filmmaker from the community of North West River. Coming from a large family of storytellers, Ossie has always been drawn to the way stories bring us together and make the word feel a little more connected. Throughout his career Ossie has worked at a number of media organizations from APTN National News, to Canadian Art Magazine, to National Geographic, to the CBC and many more. His work focuses on sharing stories from the Indigenous world and the North with a capital N. Currently Ossie divides his time between Montreal and his home in Labrador.