WGorman Bechard is an American film director, screenwriter and novelist best known for his independent feature films Psychos in Love, Friends, and You Are Alone; his four rock documentaries Color Me Obsessed: A Film About the Replacements, What Did You Expect? The Archers of Loaf Live at Cat's Cradle, Every Everything: The Music, Life & Times of Grant Hart, and Who is Lydia Loveless?; his animal welfare documentary A Dog Named Gucci; and his debut novel The Second Greatest Story Ever Told.
WRod E. Bruinooge is a Canadian politician, businessman, and filmmaker. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Winnipeg South in the 2006 federal election, and was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and the Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians from 2006 until the fall of 2008. Bruinooge is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada, and is an Aboriginal Canadian of Métis descent. He retired from parliament at the 2015 federal election. Rod Bruinooge became CEO of Eventride in May 2016
WScott Cross is an American producer, actor, writer, and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of the Vail Film Festival in Vail, Colorado, co-founder of the Los Cabos International Film Festival in Los Cabos, Mexico, and co-president of Cross Pictures, a film and television production company. The Vail Film Festival has been named "one of the top ten destination film festivals in the world," according to MovieMaker magazine.
WRobert Anthony De Niro is an American actor, producer, and director who holds both American and Italian citizenship. He is particularly known for his collaborations with filmmaker Martin Scorsese. He is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2009, he received the Kennedy Center Honor and in 2016, he received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama.
WMark Finch was an English promoter of LGBT cinema. Having founded and expanded several international film festivals he created the first LGBT film market for distributors, sales agents, and independent film producers.
WGavin Heffernan is a Canadian filmmaker/screenwriter/photographer.
WAnjelica Huston is an American actress, director, producer, author, and former fashion model. She is the daughter of director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston. After reluctantly making her big screen debut in her father's A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Huston moved from London to New York City, where she worked as a model throughout the 1970s. She decided to actively pursue acting in the early 1980s, and, subsequently, had her breakthrough with her performance in Prizzi's Honor (1985), also directed by her father, for which she became the third generation of her family to receive an Academy Award, when she won Best Supporting Actress, joining both John and Walter Huston in this recognition.
WDaniel Sallis Huston is an American actor, writer, and director. Huston got his start directing Mr. North, starring Anthony Edwards, Robert Mitchum, and Huston's half-sister, Anjelica Huston. Later, Huston gave his breakthrough acting performance in the independent film Ivans Xtc and was nominated for Best Male Performance at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2003.
WJia Zhangke is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai, Lou Ye, Wang Quan'an and Zhang Yuan.
WDaniel Langlois is the president and founder of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Ex-Centris, and Media Principia Inc.
WYorkton Film Festival (YFF) is an annual film festival held in late May in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada.
WCharles Robert Redford Jr. is a retired American actor, director and activist. The recipient of the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002, he is also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2016, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
WJane Rosenthal is an American film producer.
WEllen Spiro is an Emmy Award-winning American documentary filmmaker.
WMaidy Teitelbaum is the president and founder of Cinemania Film Festival.
WGuillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican filmmaker, author, actor, and former special effects makeup artist. He is best known for the Academy Award-winning fantasy films Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and The Shape of Water (2017), winning the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for the latter.
WPaul-Gustave van Hecke was a Belgian journalist, author, art collector and promoter, couturier, and organizer of film festivals. He was a patron to Frits Van den Berghe, Gustave De Smet and René Magritte, among others.
WGiuseppe Volpi, 1st Count of Misurata was an Italian businessman and politician.
WTonya Williams is a Canadian actress, producer, director and activist. Sometimes credited as Tonya Lee Williams, she is best known for her role as Dr. Olivia Barber Winters on the American daytime drama The Young and the Restless from 1990 to 2011. She is the founder and executive director of Reelworld Film Festival.
WGina See-Yuen Wong is a filmmaker and founder of the Pineapple Underground Film Festival, which screens independent films from around the world. She also runs Experimenta, a performance art space in Hong Kong.