Leah Mallen’s career and credits span over 15 years, producing award-winning films and television, including Shoes off! which was awarded Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival’s Critic’s Week. She currently helms the boutique production company Twofold Films in Vancouver BC. Her most recent production, Coast Modern, aired on Knowledge Network and is enjoying a successful theatrical release across Canada and the US. She also recently produced the feature film Camera Shy with director Mark Sawers which is premiering at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

Tanya Wexler developed her current film, Hysteria with Producer Tracey Becker from a fledgling two page treatment while pushing one or other of her four kids around in a stroller. She knew she had to make the story of the birth of the vibrator if she never did anything else with her life. Her wife Amy happily agreed, on the condition she was allowed to share in any production swag. Tanya was born and raised in Chicago, IL, and received her BA in Psychology from Yale University.

Michael Ghent and has over fifteen years experience in the film/tv industry, including five years as a Development and Production Executive for CanWest Global Broadcasting (now Shaw Media). During his career Michael has developed, executive produced and delivered 500 hours of factual, scripted, tabloid, documentary and lifestyle content for a variety of networks.

For over twenty years Mark Sawers has been creating unique, offbeat film and television projects, running the gambit from an award winning educational film to a dark, sci-fi comedy TV series.