Limbert Fabian is an Emmy Award-winning director and illustrator. His journey as a creative artist is one of artistic exploration. A New York native, Fabian honed his craft at the prestigious LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Ringling College of Art and Design. His illustrations have graced the pages of Playboy and The Atlantic among others, even garnering recognition in esteemed annuals like American Illustration.

Seeking to blend his artistic talents with storytelling, Fabian ventured into film. He started at Reel FX Animation Studios, mastering visual effects and CGI animation. Working his way up as a creative resource in all aspects of production. This experience fueled his rise to director at their west coast branch. Later, at Moonbot Studios, he found his passion for interactive work and crafting heartfelt stories.

Fabian's directorial brilliance shone with Chipotle Mexican Grill's "The Scarecrow," a film and game experience that swept major advertising awards. This success ignited his desire to continue to craft animated films but also create immersive narratives. He co-founded Flight School, an immersive design studio, culminating in the Department of Wonder, a groundbreaking project combining digital installations with theatrical magic. His most recent project, Now Is The Time, seeks to make Martin Luther King Jr's famous “Dream” speech tangible to today's audiences through Virtual Reality.

Fabian's artistic evolution, from illustrator to acclaimed animation director to VR visionary, is driven by a love of storytelling and a desire to connect audiences with narratives in powerful new ways. Today, he remains inspired by his most critical audience - his three children - as he continues to push the boundaries of immersive experiences and animated storytelling.

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Talya is a Cape Town-based writer and director who creates immersive worlds by pairing a distinct visual aesthetic with rich and complex characters. She is an observer of specifics and behind her subtle irreverent humor lies the beating heart of a story.

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Alice Rosati is a performer, photographer and director based in Paris.

She is a storyteller, building up constructed universes where her characters play different roles, creating visions where the known and the unknown have no more boundaries.

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With imagery influenced by graphic design and fashion photography yet balanced with a natural quality, almost all of Amilcar Gomes’ life has been focused on the mechanics of visual storytelling

Within his films, Amilcar carefully toes the line between narrative and abstract, which provides an interesting contemplative space for viewers to revel in. The result is an experience that feels emotional, mysterious, intense and beautiful. Amilcar’s is a modern and artful approach, and whether it be a still life studio shoot or a documentary-style piece on the street, there is elegant, cool, confident through-line in all of his work.

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After getting her degree in History of Art in Barcelona, Yasmina did stints at different agencies in London such as Saatchi & Saatchi and Springer & Jacoby. Very soon she realized that her place was behind the camera, so she enrolled at The London Film School to obtain an MA in filmmaking.

During her days in London, Yasmina had the chance to shoot short films both as director and DOP. The London Film School fed her eyes and soul, learning from directors such as Mike Leigh, Patrice Leconte and Mike Figgis among others.

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Baltimore native Sheldon Candis is a graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Candis’ feature directorial debut LUV was an official selection in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition.

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Tiffany Frances is a Taiwanese American writer and director of narrative film, commercials, and music videos. She loves to create character-driven, dramatic storytelling with lyrical visuals, and explores stories about women, marginalized voices, and finding surreal moments within authentic situations.

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Bobby León built her trademark as director from this duality. She did so by being in constant motion herself.

With a combination of careful consideration and spontaneity that is both open-minded and provocative, Bobby guides us on an exploration of subcultures that introduces us to extraordinary worlds.

From these journeys come boundary-breaking sensory works brought to life by Bobby’s audiovisual techniques and artistic direction and given movement by her extraordinary sense of rhythm.

From lifestyle brands and fashion magazines to music artists and dance companies, they call on Bobby to collaborate for her unique vision. Bringing together emerging subcultures with fashion and luxury, her talent for breaking codes and crossing boundaries creates meaning by connecting different worlds.

And along the way, Bobby’s artfulness helps cultivate a more open-minded world.

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Brandon Titaro is a photographer with a signature look of crisp and colourful images. Capturing both people and still life; he focuses on storytelling through lighting and his unique photographic style.

Inspired by contemporary art, fashion, and design. His work offers a diverse range of styles to create images with purpose and longevity. As a child, being a boy scout prepared him for anything that comes his way. It’s this attitude he brings with him on set and in life; always be prepared.

With a strong technical foundation and extensive experience on set, Brandon puts clients at ease with his proven ability to bring an idea to life with confidence and grace.

Clients he’s worked with include Shoppers Drug Mart, Quo Beauty, Bank of Montreal, DECIEM, The Ordinary, Tokyo Smoke, Keilhauer, Division 12, OCAD University, Cossette, FCB, Concrete, Makers, Leo Burnett, Sharp Magazine, The Globe & Mail, Avenue Road, Man of Parts, and Annabelle Cosmetics.

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The language of food is inherently connected to culture, people and places, so it’s no wonder photographer/director Deepi Ahluwalia is immersed in this delicious vernacular. Born and raised in Toronto, she has lived and traveled across the globe, experiencing the world through the lens of food and the people behind it.

After developing an impressive agency résumé, working account side then as an art director at agencies such as Publicis and DDB, Deepi pivoted to the culinary world where she studied classic pastry arts and worked in professional kitchens from New York to San Juan. She hung up her apron after moving to Los Angeles where she spent the last decade honing her craft in the genres of food, beverage and lifestyle photography. Now back in Toronto, Deepi brings that same love for culinary storytelling to her hometown.

Concept is king—or queen in this case—and Deepi stays true to the vision from start to finish. Thrilled by bold ideas, colour and print, drama and whimsy, she’s as passionate about the potential of a single image as she is about creating a captivating film. And she is equally at ease in-studio as she is on location. A natural-born storyteller, Deepi’s love of creativity, food and people come together each time she picks up her camera.

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Gabrielle masters both still and moving images blending technicality and emotion that result in striking results.

Her colourful style is instantly recognizable in her portraits and culinary features. Distinctly known for her playful approach to sets, Gab’s meticulous eye for details, her impeccable aesthetics and her precise direction in lighting, makes her the perfect ally to deliver all kinds of projects to a flawless result. Gabrielle thrives to work on interpretation, acting and making talents shine throughout her universe with sensitivity and accuracy.

Strong of many years of experience, she constantly continues pushing herself creatively, always leaving her signature eccentricity to every project she touches.

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Kristyna Archer is a director based in Los Angeles. Her work can be defined as being at the intersection of film, art, tech and design with a passion for creating thought-provoking, visually compelling work through a lens of hyperrealism. She explores the surreal and the absurd, with a proclivity towards irony, infused in her vibrant stylized worlds. Concepting from her keen eye for design and quirky point of view with access to an abundantly curious imagination, there’s never a dull moment on set.

Kristyna is a Green The Bid ambassador passionate about sustainability in production, and also is invested in diversifying production by empowering underrepresented talent on her sets to push for change.

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Trained as a graphic designer and art director, Lian worked with numerous brands on the agency side for many years, but realized that photography bound her to meaning and offered a clear direction forward. She made a deliberate leap into production, capturing model Ashley Graham for Knix, leading the creative direction of the new Milk & Bone album, from design to imagery and videos, as well as the 2022 GQ Middle East “Men of the Year” cover shoot with Maya Moumne.

The shift to working as a photographer, and gradually the role of director, comes naturally to Lian. Every decision she makes is intentional, including casting inclusively both in front and behind the camera. As a Chinese Canadian adoptee, she understands mutability and flowing into different identities—this attracts her to capture the unique expressions of subjects who can also read as ‘other’. On set, she is mindful of the sanctity of people’s bodies and creates an inviting environment where everyone feels safe to fully express themselves. She strives to magnify the beauty of her subjects in ways that even they can’t see.

Lian’s aesthetic can be described as minimal, humanist, ethereal and raw. She’s also inspired by the interplay of nature and cities as well as contemporary art, all of which pushes her to experiment with both new and old technology in her work.

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Maya Fuhr is creating a home for you on her set. You will recognize it on some unconscious level. The tone of her voice, ever-so-casual and cool, will set you immediately at ease and it is likely she’ll ask about your day. And as this process is unfolding what you don’t realize is that the studio really represents a space she is going to in her mind. And you, as her subject, will join her there.

The daughter of a designer and a psychologist, Maya’s body of work exists at the intersection of both – the celebrated and the unexamined in human nature. Aesthetically speaking her work is warm, bright and inviting to the eye but there is something just beneath the surface that unsettles you. Her subjects, ever in control, are letting you be with them in not so much a personal moment than a private thought. Traditional notions of power, beauty and gender are not challenged but entirely side stepped for a universe Maya prefers. Many of her editorials are art directed and styled herself, only furthering her creative control in curating this specific world, inhabited by personas over people.

Growing up in Victoria, British Columbia, Maya had a sense of separation from the outside world. A young girl with nowhere to escape to, she explored the world via the internet and her imagination. This might be most felt in her irreverent approach to fashion, where precious conventions give way to satire and subculture. Throughout her career, Maya has lived and worked between New York, Los Angeles, Montreal and Toronto, giving her a diverse arsenal of taste and cultural influences. Being part of a close-knit community of artists, that share many of Maya’s sensibilities, has also deeply shaped her approach. There is a fluidity with which she merges other visual languages with her own, from dynamic and unconventional collaborations through to personal diptychs of art and photo that enhance and speak to each other. Fashion to portraiture, object or subject, Maya Fuhr’s images are both a call and response that a world beyond this one is just a click away.

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Richmond Lam is a portrait and lifestyle photographer who has lived in Hong Kong, London UK and now Montreal.

He creates nuanced and empathetic photographs of the people and places around him. Richmond’s past clients include Bombardier, LVMH, Monocle, Spin Magazine, Uber, StubHub, Kanuk, Goodee and more.

He was also commissioned to photograph portraits of notable figures in art, music, and commerce such as JW Anderson, Coco Rocha and Charles Bronfman, to name a few.

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SimonaGun is a duo that springs from a common love for music and a taste for raw imagery. Composed of Virna Hagen and Nicolas Simon, this collective creates stories, whether digital, musical, long or short, on both sides of the Atlantic.

Over the course of their campaigns, the Parisian duo finds a balance between the image technician that is Nicolas and a creative leveling from Virna. With a constant commitment to realism and deep respect for music, together they push their creative limits, and in doing so, have gained the trust of brands like Calvin Klein, Yves Saint Laurent, Citadium, Garnier and Levi’s.

With a special ability to grow or shrink to adapt to any project and an almost obsessive attention to detail, SimonaGun is constantly seeking the most faithful representation of stories that surround them. Their first personal film, COR, is the perfect representation of this artistic vision. Their ever-expanding quest to evoke emotion through imagery encourages them to explore new horizons with each new project.

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Kaz Firpo has a beautiful mix of photography and documentary film in his archive, as well as being great with edit, camera moves, transitions, and visual storytelling with meaningsee workful VO. Osee workutside of commercial work, he recently co-scripted the Marvel film Eternals, starring Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie and Richard Madden.

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Øcean Vashti Jude is an award-winning filmmaker whose stated mission is to unravel the truth of the unseen and unheard through the film landscape. A precise storyteller, Vashti Jude focuses on the human condition and the characters of fiction she creates. “It is my objective to speak truths of my communities and of the characters I place inside my worlds,” she says. “I have always directed from a place of light and precision because I am my mother’s daughter.”

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Rylee is a Forbes 30 Under 30, Telly Award winning, comedy director and writer. Storytelling is in her DNA; she’s the granddaughter of Hollywood actor Buddy Ebsen, and comedian/advertising creative director Stan Freberg. She’s directed commercials and branded content for some of the world’s largest brands and her recent narrative work has screened at Palm Springs, Brooklyn Film Festival, Dances with Films, Women’s Comedy Festival Chicago (where Rylee won “BEST DIRECTOR”), Just For Laughs (where she won 2nd place for “BEST FILM”), and Hollyshorts.

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