Curator and Director- Jeanette Burman

Jeanette is an Art History major at the University of Calgary in her final year of study, beginning her studies in 1997 at Mount Allison University. She has exhibited her art in Calgary with Art City, Untitled Arts Society, Mutton Busting, and The High Performance Rodeo. She was also a contributing Arts and Culture, and Music writer to Calgary’s FFWD Weekly and Volunteer Radio DJ and News Director at CHMA Radio, in Sackville New Brunswick. Currently, Jeanette is the bi-weekly host of The Double Entendre Preserves at CJSW radio, Founder and Executive Director of Show Us Your Shorts – A Festival of Short Films, and founder, Festival Curator and Director of Sled Island Film, an extension of Calgary’s Sled Island Festival.

Festival Mentor and Guest Curator – Chris Ciancimino

A graduate of the University of Manchester and NYU’s Tisch Film program, Chris has been working in the independent film industry for the last 10 years. Previously Head of Development for UK production company Portobello Pictures (Kolya, Birthday Girl, The War Zone), Chris was commissioned to write the adaptation of David Gilbert’s novel “The Normals” and is now a partner in Woodshed Entertainment. As a writer and director, Chris made a number of short films, his latest, “The Edge of Town”, won a Fotokem award for best screenplay and was officially selected for the Woodstock Film Festival 2008. Chris recently became a member of the Writer’s Guild of America.