Filmmaker and activist, Andrew Nisker spent many years honing his cinematic chops working for Canada's top broadcasters including CBC, CTV, CHUM Television and Global. Andrew had two feature length, comedic screenplays commissioned by Broadway Video (Saturday Night Live) and TMN (The Movie Network).
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[-] The various documentary, lifestyle programming he produced, wrote and directed have been broadcast world wide. Andrew has interviewed hundreds of subjects like Oscar Award winner like Cate Blanchett, sex therapist Dr. Ruth and billionaire Donald Trump. He has shot a wide range of stories all over the world which has taken him to diverse locales like Auschwitz, shanty towns in Cambodia, the world's largest motorcycle rally in South Dakota, hedonistic beaches of Jamaica and the snow-capped mountains of British Columbia.

Through all his adventures, his proudest moment, aside from the birth of his son Sebastian, is his continued work creating social issue documentaries that entertain and educate global audiences. His award-winning film Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home has been embraced by thousands of viewers and continues to receive press coverage and screenings world wide. Garbage! is set to premiere on the Sundance Channel in March, 2009.

Garbage! inspired the growth of an online community of “Revolutionaries” at www.garbagerevolution.com which in turn led Andrew to embark on a lecture tour for the film. He has lectured on college and university campuses, been a keynote speaker at corporate functions and has an extensive tour planned in 2009.

Presently, Andrew is in production on his latest feature documentary, Chemical Nation, which is set to be released in December, 2009

Visit www.andrewnisker.com for more information




Navin Khanna is an entertainment lawyer and has assisted with the production of film, television and new media projects for over ten years.
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[-] He regularly acts for Canadian, U.S. and foreign producers, broadcasters and telecommunications companies. Navin has also studied film and acting for many years, including at the Ryerson Polytechnic University Film Studies program.

Navin is a frequent writer and speaker on intellectual property and new media matters, including engagements by the Toronto International Film Festival on "Creative Financing - Digital Film Distribution", the Canadian Institute on "Protecting Digital Content Rights", and as a guest lecturer for The Canadian Film Centre new media training program.




Yvonne Welbon is a Chicago based award-winning independent filmmaker and freelance producer. Since 1991, she has made eight films and produced a dozen others. Her independent films have screened on PBS, Starz/Encore, TV-ONE, IFC, Bravo, the Sundance Channel and in over one hundred film festivals around the world.
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[-] Living With Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 has won ten best documentary awards-including the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. Her ongoing Sundance Documentary Fellow project is Sisters In Cinema, a documentary, website and forth-coming book based on her doctoral dissertation about the history of African American women feature film directors. Her freelance producer projects include: John Pierson's Split Screen, Zeinabu irene Davis' Sundance dramatic competition feature Compensation, Cheryl Dunye's HBO film Stranger Inside, Thomas Allen Harris' Berlin Int'l Film Festival award-winning documentary É Minha Cara/That's My Face, and Catherine Crouch's directorial debut Stray Dogs, starring Guinevere Turner. Recently produced documentaries include: Scale: Ending The Bush Agenda in the Media Age by Alex Juhasz, GARBAGE! The Revolution Starts at Home by Andrew Nisker, and Water Front by Liz Miller. Welbon's current project and directorial debut is a feature film indevelopment which focuses on the controversial Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.

Yvonne Welbon received an undergraduate degree in History from Vassar College. Thereafter, she spent six years in Taipei, Taiwan, where she taught English, learned Mandarin Chinese, and founded and published a premiere arts magazine. She returned to the United States and completed a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She is also a graduate of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women.




"Even in its early stages, Andrew's idea for Garbage! The Revolution Starts At Home had made a very personal impact on my life. I saw the Inconvenient Truth and thought I was environmentally aware but working on this film made me realize that I was really walking around with blinders. Andrew's film opened my eyes to my everyday habits that were to the detriment of the planet. I thought a lot of people would be equally affected from seeing it. So I was very motivated to help Andrew get his film made and share it with as many people as possible."
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[-] Alison Duke is a producer/director who ventured into film by producing early music videos for many Canadian urban artists including Glenn Lewis, Nelly Furtado and Kos.

She became interested in directing social issues documentaries in 2000 and directed Raisin' Kane, the critically acclaimed hip-hop documentary capturing the rise of two-time Juno nominated, Toronto-based rap duo Citizen Kane in the Canadian music industry. Raisin Kane' produced by National Film Board of Canada, earned the HBO best documentary award at the 2001 Urbanworld Film Festival and the Best Canadian documentary honours at the Reelworld Film Festival.

After a mini theatrical release and college tour for Raisin' Kane, Alison went on to work as a segment producer for several documentary series airing on Chum Television, Life Network and Oxygen.

In 2003, Alison directed A Deathly Silence a gripping documentary about black on black youth violence in Toronto for YAP Productions airing on CBC Witness and Newsworld. She also co-produced Yvonne Welbon's feature documentary Sisters In Cinema, which follows the trails and tribulations of African American feature film directors including Maya Angelou, Kasi Lemmons and Cheryl Dunye. Sisters in Cinema has aired on the BlackStarz! Network and TVOne.

For the past three years, Alison has produced and directed several social issues documentaries and PSAs for various agencies and organizations including, Hear the Story for the City of Toronto's Safety Secretariat and Behind the Mask for Across Boundaries' and Youth Link's.




Leonard Pearl is an award-winning filmmaker, producer and director.
He was born in Toronto, Canada.
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[-] Leonard obtained his Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto Canada and practiced entertainment and corporate law at a mid-size downtown Toronto firm. He left the practice of law and returned to school, where he studied film at Ryerson Polytechnic University. Leonard was also an adjunct professor of law for two semesters at the University of New Brunswick law school.

Leonard's first produced and directed documentary, Birthright was broadcast on Canadian television and has been screened worldwide and at international film festivals. Some of his recent credits include Dawgs Playing Poker (co-producer) - FEATURE, Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home (producer) - DOC, Choose Your Voice (Executive Producer, Director) - DOC. Leonard is currently producing and directing various films, documentaries and MOWs, including Israel 60 Years (2007) - SHORT DOC, Blind Fury - DOC (2008), The Lost Children - DOC (2009).