CAST & CREW
Sheona, an award-winning filmmaker, has worked in the Canadian film & television industry as a writer, producer and director, for over two decades. Recent films include Dead Man’s Switch: a crypto mystery, Into Light, Candice, A Short Essay on Men and Inside Her Sex. Sheona also directed season two of Emergency Room: Life and Death at VGH for Knowledge Network.
Recently, her feature film script, Back By Midnight was optioned by Screen Siren Pictures. Sheona is currently writing her first novel. She lives in Vancouver with her husband and three children.
PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, WRITER
SHEONA McDONALD
Betsy is an award-winning producer/ EP / director with over 30 years experience in documentary film, television, and digital projects. She has collaborated for decades with filmmakers Nettie Wild, Gary Marcuse, Hugh Brody and Mark Achbar, and has produced over 100 hours of documentary projects ranging from series television to theatrical features, interactive sites and public art installation. Currently in production: The New Corporation - a sequel to the groundbreaking 2003 feature documentary The Corporation, and the Global Environmental Justice Project, directed and curated by Gary Marcuse.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
BETSY CARSON
A story teller at heart, with a passion for music and photography, editing was love at first slice for Ness. After graduating with an honours degree in psychology from Queen’s University and Media Diploma from Capilano University, Ness began her editing career working on independent documentaries such as The Corporation and Fix: The Story of an Addicted City. Since then, she’s continued to refine her craft, cutting hours of broadcast programming in both factual and drama disciplines. While it used to be common to find Ness strumming the ukulele on the beach at sunset after a game of beach volleyball, nowadays she’s more likely to be found singing nursery rhymes and chasing her two young spirited daughters.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER/EDITOR
NESS VAN HASSEL
FEATURING (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
DR. BRIAN BRESSLER SEE BIO
JOE CASTALDO SEE BIO
AMY CASTOR SEE BIO
DAVID GERARD SEE BIO
TAYLOR MONAHAN SEE BIO
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE SEE BIO
ALEXANDRA POSADZKI SEE BIO
ALEX SALKELD
AMBER D. SCOTT SEE BIO
JORDAN SPENCE
ANDREW WAGNER
TONG ZOU SEE BIO
RECREATION ACTORS
JOE BAUCKHAM
ALLEN DEPA
JULES DOOLEY
LEAH JUEL
IMROZ MAUR
NIKIEL LAL
CULLEN RUSSELL
CHARIS SFIKAS
STELLA SFIKIS
BRYLEE SMITH
LUKAS WILHELM
MCKENNA WILHELM
KEATON WALKER
ALEC WRIGHTMAN