August 27th, 2024 — Filmable Clubhouse #008

Giselle Miller is a Jamaican-Canadian writer, director and 3x Leo Award-nominated actor and producer living on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples. After completing an MFA at UBC, she was the showrunner for two seasons of the Leo award-nominated web series YOUNG, SINGLE AND BLACK (2021-22). Giselle has written and produced two more web series, BIG PEOPLE TINGZ (2023) and the Leo Award-nominated YOLANDA THE GODDESS (2023). Giselle has participated in several programs, including the Fiction Toolbox at the Berlinale, the Whistler Screenwriters Lab and the GEMS Emerging TV Producers Program. She is also the winner of the 2023 WIDC Advantage Award. She is producing Vancouver’s first Black queer short form digital series NOVELETTE IS TRYING which is funded by Bell Fund and Independent Production Fund. The series was recently licensed to OUTtv. She is currently in development on HUMMINGBIRD, her debut feature film.

Gabriel Souza Nunes (he/they) is an award-winning gender-queer Brazilian-Canadian Writer & Director based in Vancouver, BC. Their work is frequently inspired by Latin American folklore, Magical Realism and queer & gender expressions, exploring themes like nostalgia, acceptance and diasporic relationships. In 2022 their mixed-media short “I Remember Everything” won the Best Latin Canadian Short Award at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, and in 2023 they were selected as one of the top6 directors for the Crazy8s Film Society with the tropical magical realism short “Passiflora”. Gabriel is currently in pre-production with the Vogue Femme dance short “CICADA” set to go to camera in late 2024, as well as their proof of concept short “Creature of The Night”.

김새로미, Romi Kim or SKIM in drag is a nonbinary, trans masc, second-generation Korean interdisciplinary artist, drag king, filmmaker, and founder of King Sized, Vancouver's only Drag King-focused show. Romi's artistic approach is characterized by a playful, DIY-inspired methodology that invites audiences to ponder the intricacies of identities and their construction. With a keen focus on complicating the notion of a singular queer racialized identity, Romi challenges the mainstream narrative while giving space and visibility to trans and racialized identities. Kim holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia (2022). They have screened their video work at Seoul Indie-Ani Festival (2019), Vancouver's Queer Film Festival (2023) Polygon Art Gallery, SUM gallery and Vines Festival. Their work aims to think through affective belonging and placemaking as potent avenues for creating meaningful connections.

Olivia Marie Golosky (Michif) -- Hailing from nistawâyâw, Olivia is a Two-Spirit Michif Screenwriter, Director, Production Coordinator and Producer. Olivia’s passion is to empower Two-Spirit, Queer, and Trans Indigenous voices through a lens of radical self-love and joy. In their solo work, they anchor their voice around displacement and rebuilding their world as a Survivor.

Patrice Leung is a Trinidad-born, lesbian, of Chinese descent, and Canadian citizenship. She began her career in film in 1982 as a gofer on The Beachcombers. The following year she produced and directed PACES, a documentary about the Vancouver Marathon. In that same year she became a member of the Directors Guild of Canada and began her climb up the Assistant Director ladder. Her experiences as a 1st AD have taken her around the globe, and given her opportunities to work in a variety of forms and genres. Patrice has been very fortunate to observe, and work with a vast array of directors, producers, cast, and crew. In the gay nineties, she produced and directed another documentary entitled WOMYN WARRIORS which was screened at both the Vancouver and New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals. A few of her short stories have been published in anthologies such as Piece of My Heart, Rage, The Skin of Our Tongues, The Very Inside, and most recently, Swelling With Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories. Motherhood remains her most difficult job ever. 12 ANGRY LESBIANS is her first foray into narrative filmmaking. And Patrice is extremely grateful to the VQFF for screening it in her home city.

jaye simpson (she/they) is an Oji-Cree Saulteaux Indigiqueer from the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation. simpson is a writer, advocate and activist sharing their knowledge and lived experiences in hope of creating utopia. she is published in several magazines including Poetry Is Dead, This Magazine, PRISM international, SAD Magazine: Green, GUTS Magazine, SubTerrain, Grain and Room. They are in four anthologies: Hustling Verse (2019), Love After the End (2020), The Care We Dream Of (2021), and Queer Little Nightmares (2022). Their first poetry collection, it was never going to be okay (Nightwood Ed.) was shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Award and a 2021 Dayne Ogilvie Prize Finalist while also winning the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English. a body more tolerable, is her second book of published poetry. she is a displaced Indigenous person resisting, ruminating and residing on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations territories, colonially known as Vancouver.

Jasmine "Audder" Monton (they/them) is a “multi-mess” artist and media producer based in Vancouver. In 2023, they were selected as a recipient of the VQFF Programming Disruptor Fellowship. They have curated the Festival for the last 2 years, still fuelled by the highs and lows of being in queer fandoms. Audder is a co-producer of Filipino Fridays Podcast, and was part of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival team.

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