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Andrew Cividino (IMA '06) is a writer, director and Co-President of Film Forge. His debut feature film Sleeping Giant had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to win prizes at TIFF, Munich and Mumbai. Andrew was a frequent director on the POPTV/CBC series Schitt鈥檚 Creek, for which he won a primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Direction for a Comedy Series in 2020. As a producer, Andrew plays an active role in Film Forge鈥檚 slate of projects, including as a producer on Brandon Cronenberg鈥檚 Infinity Pool.

Peter Higdon is the Founding Collections Curator of the Image Centre at 成人大片. Over a period of thirty-six years, he drove the expansion of its photographs collection through numerous acquisitions, among them the Black Star Collection of photojournalism. Funding accompanying this major donation allowed commencement of a long-sought building project that yielded museum-standard exhibition spaces and a Research Centre incorporating a print storage vault.

He was also instrumental in the Image Centre鈥檚 acquisition of the Berenice Abbott Archive. For ten years, he was consultant to graduate students in the FPPCM program, and for over twenty years was coordinator of the Photography Workshop in France. Upon retirement in 2014, the Research Centre was named in his honour, and an annual graduate scholarship established in his name.

Dr. Michelle Kasprzak (IMA '00) is a leading contributor to the field of digital culture as a curator, writer, artist, and educator. Michelle鈥檚 creative practice includes writing, conceptual work, and digital media, supported by awards from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Creative Industries Fund NL. She has curated exhibitions for V2_ Institute for Unstable Media, Dutch Electronic Art Festival, and the ZERO1 Biennial. Her writing has appeared in HOLO, C Magazine, CV Photo, Mute, Blackflash, and others.

In 2024 she founded Little Earth Mountain, a label for artist鈥檚 multiples and printed matter. The label soft-launched with the release of Blue 23, a one-page tract first presented in a public reading at Bozar, Brussels.

She completed her BFA in New Media at 成人大片 (2000), followed by a Master鈥檚 in Visual and Media Art at the Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al (2006). 

She obtained her PhD in Digital Media at the University of Porto (2020). She is currently Course Leader of the Master鈥檚 in Design at the Piet Zwart Institute, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, and Lecturer in the Digital Art department at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. She lives in Hilversum, the Netherlands.

George Pimentel (IMA '92) is Canada's renowned celebrity photographer, celebrated for his captivating Photos of the world's biggest stars. A graduate of Ryerson University (成人大片) with an Honours BA in Photo Arts in 1992, George's career took off when he captured his first celebrity photo of Robert De Niro at the Toronto Film Festival in 1993. Reflecting on that moment, he says, since then, I knew this is what I wanted to pursue. It has been my passion ever since.

Over the years, George has gained unprecedented access to A-list celebrities such as Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Taylor Swift, and Jennifer Lopez. He is a regular fixture at major global events, serving as the official photographer for the Toronto Film Festival for the past 20 years, and attending prestigious gatherings like the Cannes Film Festival, the Met Gala, and royal weddings. He has also roamed the iconic red carpets of the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and SAG Awards. With his work appearing in top publications like Vanity Fair, Vogue, and People magazine, he has become one of the most published Canadian photographers.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, George founded the Canada Covid Portrait Project, creating a visual archive of thousands of images taken across every province to document this transformative moment in history.

Despite his global travels, George continues to work from his studio in Little Portugal, where it all began. He remains grateful for the education he received at 成人大片, which he credits for helping him reach his current success.

Dubbed by Variety as a 鈥渕ajor talent鈥�, Jasmin Mozaffari (IMA '13) is a film & television writer/director based in Toronto. She graduated from 成人大片鈥檚 Image Arts - Film Studies program in 2013. Her student short, FIRECRACKERS, premiered at TIFF in 2013 and screened around the world. Her debut feature, FIRECRACKERS (based on her short), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018, won Best Film at the Stockholm International Film Festival and Best Director at the Canadian Screen Awards. FIRECRACKERS was lauded by Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, the LA Times, was listed on Vulture Magazine鈥檚 鈥淏est Films of 2019鈥� list and was named a New York Times Critic鈥檚 Pick.  Jasmin鈥檚 latest short film, MOTHERLAND, won Best Canadian Short Film at TIFF 2023 and two Canadian Screen Awards including Best Live Action Short Film. Jasmin also works in television; she directed the pilot and is co-exec producing the Netflix series, FAKES, and also directs the Netflix hit, GINNY & GEORGIA.

Davida Nemeroff (IMA '04) is the founder and owner of Night Gallery in Los Angeles, California. She attended The School of Image Arts at Ryerson University from 2000-2004 and received her MFA from Columbia University in New York, New York in 2009. In 2010, she founded Night Gallery in a strip mall storefront in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Over the past 13 years, she has built a roster of emerging, mid-career, and established artists, including Claire Tabouret, Divya Mehra, Samara Golden, Tomashi Jackson, Robert Nava, and Wanda Koop. Nemeroff has gradually expanded the gallery, relocating its operations and ambitious programming to a campus near L.A.鈥檚 downtown arts district. Under her leadership, Night Gallery has gained international prominence while remaining a hub for the city鈥檚 thriving visual art community. Nemeroff鈥檚 own photography has been included in solo or two-person exhibitions at Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada; Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Canada鈥�; and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA. 

Award-winning photographer/director Margaret Malandruccolo鈥檚 (IMA 鈥�93) top obsessions have always been striking images, old cars, and delicious pizza. She has worked alongside legendary figures such as Prince, Danny Elfman, Lance Henriksen and Colm Wilkinson. Her heartfelt gratitude goes out to the creative souls who have shared their inspiration, like Alan Doyle, Jason McCoy, Dwight Yoakam, and Melanie Manson. Margaret continues to strive for peace and simplicity with her lovely family.

Daniel Ehrenworth (IMA '03) was born and raised in Ottawa and graduated from Image Arts in 2003 with a BFA in Photography Studies. He has worked as a gallery artist, curator, commercial photographer and video director. His gallery work has been exhibited at many galleries and artist-run centers across Canada. He has received numerous awards for his commercial work from the ADCC, American Photo, Applied Arts, Communication Arts, the D&AD, Luerzer鈥檚 Archive, and the National Magazine Awards.

Michael Kennedy (IMA '78) has explored many significant social issues in his 23 feature films and 230 TV episodes which range from the legendary Kids In The Hall to the ground-breaking Little Mosque On The Prairie. He also directed a record 15 TV series 鈥減ilots鈥�. Awards include 4 Canadian Screen Award nominations; the Canada Award for Diversity; 8 DGC Award nominations (2 wins); 1 DGA nomination; 11 Canadian Comedy Award nominations (3 wins); and a Canadian Music Video Award.

Alan Goluboff (IMA '77) started to work as 1st AD on many films including Kissinger & Nixon, Silent Hill, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, K-19 the Widowmaker, The Love Guru, and Firestarter. He also directed episodic television including Destiny Ridge, Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye, and Traders, as well as Angels & Ornaments for the Hallmark Channel. Alan was National President of the DGC for eight years followed by five terms as Chair of DGC Ontario.

Montreal-based John L鈥橢cuyer鈥檚 (IMA '94) first feature film, Curtis鈥檚 Charm, won the Jury Prize at TIFF and his four other features all premiered at TIFF.  L鈥橢cuyer has directed over 200 one-hour TV episodes for several Canadian and American networks and over a dozen MOWs including Prom Queen.  His Feature documentary Confessions of a Rabid Dog won Best Social Documentary at the HotDocs Festival. He also wrote the novel Use Once and Destroy (DAP 1997) about his years as a heroin addict.

Zanele Muholi (IMA '09) is a visual activist and photographer born in Umlazi, Durban, and living in Johannesburg. Muholi鈥檚 mission is 鈥榯o re-write a black queer and trans visual history of South Africa for the world to know of our resistance and existence at the height of hate crimes in SA and beyond鈥�. Their work is exhibited in the most prestigious museums in the world and they have received many international accolades, most recently the Spectrum International Prize for Photography. 

Shortly after graduating in 2011, Amanda Row (IMA '11) was hired as a special unit director on Netflix鈥檚 first original series Hemlock Grove, thus starting her career in genre television. With a flair for SPFX and VFX, she has directed and produced over 40 episodes of some of the most unique series of the last decade, including Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The 100, DC鈥檚 Doom Patrol, Marvel鈥檚 Cloak & Dagger, Nancy Drew, Shadowhunters and The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Jordan Tannahill (IMA '11) is a novelist, playwright, and director of film and theatre. His debut novel,  won France鈥檚 Prix des Jeunes Libraires. His second novel, , was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. He has twice won Canada鈥檚 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama.  His virtual reality performances and  dance collaborations have won international acclaim.  In 2019,  named Tannahill as one of sixty-nine LGBTQ Canadians, living or deceased, who has shaped the country's history.

Kiana Hayeri (IMA '11) grew up in Iran before immigrating as a teenager to Toronto where she took up photography as a way of bridging the gap in language and culture. Her work explores complex topics such as migration, adolescence, identity and sexuality in war-ridden countries. She has won many international awards including the Robert Capa Gold Medal and she鈥檚 been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. Kiana is a regular contributor to The New York Times and National Geographic.

Adrienne Mitchell (IMA 鈥�84) is a Director and Showrunner who has been creating auteur-driven drama series for over 25 years. Her shows Durham County, Bomb Girls, Bellevue and Coroner have been nominated for or won dozens of awards and she has personally been nominated or won both a Director鈥檚 Guild of Canada Award and a Canadian Screen Award for Best Director. She also received the 2017 Nell Shipman Award for directorial achievement and for advancing gender equity.

Kazik Radwanski鈥檚 (IMA '08) thesis short, Princess Margaret Blvd., had its international premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival and was named one of Canada's Top Ten Shorts by TIFF.  His first two features, Tower, and How Heavy This Hammer, were both festival favourites as well. His most recent feature, Anne at 13,000 ft, premiered at TIFF 2019 and was awarded the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association.

Balint Zsako (IMA '02) was born in Budapest in 1979, immigrated to Canada when he was 10 and eventually studied Photography at Image Arts.  The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art organized a traveling exhibition of his works accompanied by the artist鈥檚 first monograph.  He was long listed for The Sobey Award, Canada's largest art prize & is featured in Jason Schmidt's Artists 2 photographic survey.  His picture book 鈥淏unny & Tree鈥� will be published in 2023 by Enchanted Lion Books.

Nyla Innuksuk (IMA '09) is the founder of Mixtape VR which produces Virtual Reality content. A writer for Marvel Comics, Innuksuk co-created the character of Snowguard, a teenage superhero from Pangnirtung, Nunavut. Most recently Nyla wrote and directed her first feature film titled Slash/Back, an alien invasion horror about a group of teen girls from the Arctic. In 2019 Innuksuk was named one of the top 5 To Watch by Playback Magazine. 

Shin Sugino (IMA 鈥�71) was born in Osaka, Japan, and emigrated to Canada to study at Ryerson.  In 1986 he began his extraordinarily successful advertising photography studio, Sugino Studio.  He pioneered digital shooting and imaging in Toronto and has won countless awards internationally including advertising gold at Cannes in 1998 and 2002 and Cyber Gold in 2006.  In 2018 he was awarded the Les Usherwood Life Time Achievement Award by the Advertising Club of Toronto.

Ruth Kaplan is a documentary-based photographer whose work explores a variety of themes such as the social behaviour of bathers in communal hot springs and bathhouses, participants in rituals of spirituality and more recently the transient status surrounding refugees seeking asylum in Canada while living in shelters in Buffalo, Detroit, Toronto and Fort Erie, through photographs, interviews and videos reflecting the slow passage of time within this extended limbo. In addition to an extensive background in editorial photography, Kaplan has exhibited internationally with work in major Canadian and international collections and publications. She is a recipient of numerous grants and awards and currently teaches at OCAD University and 成人大片. Her first book, Bathers, was recently published by Damiani. Images from the series on bathers will be exhibited during the upcoming Scotiabank Contact photo festival.

Miroslaw Baszak (IMA 鈥�88) studied theatre in his native Poland and worked as an actor in experimental theatre before coming to Canada and commencing his studies in the film program at Ryerson. His break in the film business came from fellow Wall of Famer, Bruce McDonald, who hired him to shoot his first feature film, Roadkill. Since then, Miroslaw has developed a vast body of award-winning work encompassing commercials, music videos, feature films and television.

Phil Bergerson (IMA 鈥�70) has been photographing and exhibiting internationally for over 45 years. His work is represented in many prestigious collections, including the National Gallery of Canada and the Biblioth茅que Nationale in Paris. His photographs have been published in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. His first book, Shards of America was published in 2004 to rave reviews. For 33 years he was also an award-winning professor in the Image Arts Department.

Che Kothari (IMA 鈥�05) became known for intimate portrait sessions with many notable musicians and artists.  He also created the non-profit organization, Manifesto Community Projects, which does award-winning work with young people, and the annual Manifesto Festival and its sister organizations of Manifesto in Jamaica and NYC.

MaryAnn Camilleri (IMA '91) created the Magenta Foundation, a trailblazing charitable arts-publishing house that showcases the work of talented artists on a global scale. It draws attention to under-represented and emerging artists with powerful exhibitions and a roster of impressive international publications. 

Yuri Dojc (IMA '74) Yuri鈥檚 multi-lens trajectory has pivoted from an established commercial photography practice to his current gaze as an artful observer of the vestiges of history鈥檚 most vulnerable.  Since the late 1990s, he has been documenting Slovakia's last living Holocaust survivors and the country鈥檚 abandoned synagogues, schools, and cemeteries for a series called Last Folio.

Bruce McDonald (IMA 鈥�82) attended Ryerson in the 70鈥檚 and went on to become one of Canada鈥檚 greatest filmmakers known for his irreverent, eclectic style and his love of music and pop culture. After breaking out with his debut feature Roadkill, he has gone on to direct many other acclaimed films including Hard Core Logo, The Tracy Fragments and Pontypool. 

Freider Hochheim (IMA 鈥�77) worked in the industry as a gaffer primarily on feature films which led his creative mind to invent a color correct fluorescent lighting system called Kino Flo. This innovative system rapidly changed the way movies were made and resulted in an Academy Award for technical achievement In 1995.

Edward Burtynsky (IMA 鈥�82) is one of the world鈥檚 most respected contemporary photographers and his award-winning depictions of industrialized landscapes are featured in over sixty major museums worldwide.

Jeremy Podeswa (IMA 鈥�84) wrote and directed three award-winning feature films before becoming one of the top television directors in the world, nominated four times for Emmy Awards for shows like Game of Thrones.

Pia Di Ciaula (IMA 鈥�92) is an internationally renowned film and television editor whose recent credits include Tyrannosaur and The Crown, Netflix's multi-BAFTA, Emmy and Golden Globe winning series.

Stephen Bulger (IMA 鈥�91) owner/operator of the Stephen Bulger Gallery, represents photography at the highest level having curated over 150 exhibitions and published many catalogues and books.

Peter Mettler (IMA 鈥�82) holds a unique position for his innovative merging of cinema with other disciplines and his film, Picture Of Light, was recently selected by TIFF as one of Canada鈥檚 Essential 150 Canadian Films.