Eric Bizzarri is an award-winning Canadian director, producer, and community leader dedicated to fostering emerging talent in film. For nearly 12 years, he has served as the Co-Founder and CEO of the Future of Film Showcase (FOFS), a nonprofit organization that operates as an annual film festival with year-round programming, amplifying diverse voices and championing emerging Canadian filmmakers. Eric co-founded the festival during his first year in York University’s Film Production program.

His work explores themes of toxic masculinity, friendship, and intimacy in young adolescence, with films featured on CBC, Super Channel, Air Canada, Revry, and Amazon Prime. Recent producing credits include DIASPORA (TIFF, Palm Springs), DESI STANDARD TIME TRAVEL (Toronto Reel Asian, San Diego, Tallgrass), and GREAT SEEING YOU (Miami, Cinefest Sudbury). He also produced THE SECOND, directed by "Every Frame a Painting" creators Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos (Fantasia, Hawaii), and CONDITIONS OF RELEASE, starring Eric Roberts (Warsaw).

As a director, his films MEA CULPA, PRESSURE PLAY, and I WANNA MAKE A MOVIE, OR I WANNA DIE TRYING have screened at TIFF Next Wave, Whistler, Reykjavik, and more. In 2023, he was selected for the Reykjavik International Film Festival Talent Lab. Eric holds a BFA in Film Production with Honors from York University and continues to champion independent cinema through both his artistic work and advocacy.

Production designer Chris Crane has been working in the film industry since 2008. He has designed a number of high profile festival films, including the Ricky Tollman directed feature film 'Run This Town' (SXSW 2019), Matt Johnson's 'Operation: Avalanche' (Sundance Film Festival 2016). His production design television credits include CBC/Max's 'Sort Of' and the Bell Media/CW series 'Children Ruin Everything'.

Sara Jade Alfaro-Dehghani is a Canadian-born filmmaker and writer of Mexican and Iranian descent, raised in Oshawa, working in Toronto and London. With a background and passion for dance and choreography, she crafts films that explore the lived and imagined rhythms of growing up between three cultures. Her latest short, Hair!, blends English and Farsi with real coming-of-age experiences to unravel the chaos and comedy of family life. From Super Bowl commercials to surrealist music videos, her work finds magic in the unexpected and charm in the everyday.

Rebeccah Love is a Toronto-based filmmaker, writer, visual artist and community organizer. She studied at the University of King’s College, then completed a BFA in Film Production at Ryerson University, and an MFA at the University of Guelph in Creative Writing. She has produced eight short films, focusing on love, illness and neighbourhoods. These stories have played TIFF, VIFF, FNC, Kingston, the Future of Film Showcase, and CBC. She is an organizer in the arts community: as editor of the Toronto Arts Report she pays close attention to developments in the worlds of theatre, fine art, filmmaking, writing, arts administration and arts journalism. She is interested in questions relating to mental health, city planning, art history, folk storytelling. Her debut feature 'Fortescue' holds its Toronto premiere this June through FOFS.

Fab Filippo is an award-winning producer-writer-director-showrunner. Most recently he wrote, directedand was co-showrunner for SORT OF, half-hour for CBC/HBOMAX (Sphere Prodco) — making top ten lists from Vanity Fair to Rolling Stone as well as winning a Peabody Award. He just directed three eps of SMALL ACHIEVABLE GOALS for CBC and is currently developing an hour-long with Killer Films and FX. Before that he wrote, directed and showran the critically acclaimed and award-winning shortform series Save Me, which was nominated for over 20 international festival awards and a Webby. As an actor you might also know him from such projects as Lives Of The Saints starring opposite Sophia Loren, indie hit waydowntown, or as Ethan Gold in the groundbreaking Showtime series Queer As Folk. He is often recognized for an acting stint on the hit Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

ANASTASIA MASARO is an Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated production designer. She has worked internationally with many critically acclaimed directors.

THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS marked her second collaboration with Terry Gilliam and garnered her both Oscar and BAFTA nominations, as well as other industry accolades.

She production designed the James Dean biopic LIFE for director Anton. Their prior collaboration was Arcade Fire’s music video REFLEKTOR, for which she was nominated for an Art Directors Guild Award and won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction.
TULLY, for director Jason Reitman, premiered at Sundance Film Festival as 2018’s Secret Screening.

Her most recent feature film is the fantasy NIGHTBOOKS, directed by David Yarovesky and produced by Sam Raimi. She also production designed the mini-series FELLOW TRAVELERS, which won a Peabody award and garnered several nominations including Golden Globe, Critics Choice and Satellite awards for Best Limited Series.