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Teresa MacInnes Director
Director Teresa MacInnes brings to Generation XXL her expert eye as a seasoned filmmaker and her sensitivity as a former social worker. Since 1988 she has directed more than a dozen documentaries for television, which have been broadcast nationally and internationally, garnering awards at many film festivals.
Teresa’s film Hope for the Future has just been named one of four Finalists for the 2007 Shaw Rocket Prize, recognizing this year's best Canadian television programming targeted for family or youths 13-17 years of age, and with a $50,000 prize to the winner, while Teaching Peace in a Time of War recently won First Prize at the World Peace Film and Music Festival, organized by the World Movement for Global Democracy.
Lesley Ann Patten Executive Producer
Lesley Ann Patten is a writer-director who began creating films in 1997. Her work has been broadcast and screened internationally in Canada, the U.S. Asia, and Europe. Ms. Patten's documentary, LOYALTIES won the Canada Award. Her latest award-winning feature documentary, Words of My Perfect Teacher, has just opened theatrically in the USA. In addition to directing and writing, her company, ZIJI Film & Television functions as an executive producer and co-producer.
Kent Nason Director of Photography
Kent Nason began his filmmaking career with Crawley Films in Ottawa in 1969. He joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1973 as a cinematographer and participated in the formation of an NFB film production studio in the Atlantic region. He has photographed over 200 hundred films in his career and has been a freelance cinematographer and videographer for the last five years. Kent. He received a Gemini for best cinematography in a documentary series in 1996. Kent has photographed a number of award winning documentary series for television and enjoys shooting drama as well as documentary.
Peter Giffen Editor
Peter is a thirteen year veteran of editing all things Film and Video. His editing credit can be found on numerous Gemini and Hot Doc Winning Documentaries and he is consistently is one of the most sought after editors in Atlantic Canada. He brings a level of passion to any job whether it is high end corporate video for national clients or animated television series. Peter owns and operates Editfarm Inc. a full service AVID post facility in Halifax, Nova Scotia and has proven time and again that - "sooner or later everybody needs a good editor".