
Andrew Nisker has produced award winning television, promotions, games, multi media and films. As a pioneer of Documentary Entertainment, Andrew created the first DE programming for Canada's Life Network (Slice) in 1992. Over the years Andrew has ventured into documentary genres which include children's programming, sports profiles and race coverage, lifestyle, technology and science, paranormal investigations, gardening and fashion. Andrew's Programs have been broadcast throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
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[-] From the small to the big screen Andrew developed fiction movies for Broadway Video the producers of Saturday Night Live, Canada's movie network TMN and has won numerous awards for its projects at film festivals. It's short films have been broadcast in Canada and Europe and it's long form documentary, Ghost Hunting has been seen on the Space Channel and Tech Television in the United States.
Andrew also created and produced interactive DVD board games for the WWE, NASCAR and the Apprentice that can be found in Toys R Us, Walmart, Target and Kmart throughout Canada, United States, Europe and Japan.
Today, Andrew is focusing on finding new ways to entertain utilizing the Internet, television, mobile and theatrical distribution models. As a minority partner in Filemoble, Andrew is working on social media initiatives that explore the possibility of creating new forms of interactive entertainment. Andrew's production company in association with Hooplah Inc. and Erica Ehm Productions launched the worlds first " Yummy Mummy" contest where users upload videos online in hopes becoming Canada's greatest Mom as voted by their family and friends. Contest sponsors include Airmiles, Roots, Crock Pot and Disney.
Garbage! The Revolution Starts At Home is Andrew's first feature length documentary.
Visit www.andrewnisker.com for more information
Andrew also created and produced interactive DVD board games for the WWE, NASCAR and the Apprentice that can be found in Toys R Us, Walmart, Target and Kmart throughout Canada, United States, Europe and Japan.
Today, Andrew is focusing on finding new ways to entertain utilizing the Internet, television, mobile and theatrical distribution models. As a minority partner in Filemoble, Andrew is working on social media initiatives that explore the possibility of creating new forms of interactive entertainment. Andrew's production company in association with Hooplah Inc. and Erica Ehm Productions launched the worlds first " Yummy Mummy" contest where users upload videos online in hopes becoming Canada's greatest Mom as voted by their family and friends. Contest sponsors include Airmiles, Roots, Crock Pot and Disney.
Garbage! The Revolution Starts At Home is Andrew's first feature length documentary.
Visit www.andrewnisker.com for more information

Navin Khanna is an entertainment lawyer and has assisted with the production of film, television and new media projects for over ten years.
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[-] He regularly acts for Canadian, U.S. and foreign producers, broadcasters and telecommunications companies. Navin has also studied film and acting for many years, including at the Ryerson Polytechnic University Film Studies program.
Navin is a frequent writer and speaker on intellectual property and new media matters, including engagements by the Toronto International Film Festival on "Creative Financing - Digital Film Distribution", the Canadian Institute on "Protecting Digital Content Rights", and as a guest lecturer for The Canadian Film Centre new media training program.
Navin is a frequent writer and speaker on intellectual property and new media matters, including engagements by the Toronto International Film Festival on "Creative Financing - Digital Film Distribution", the Canadian Institute on "Protecting Digital Content Rights", and as a guest lecturer for The Canadian Film Centre new media training program.

Yvonne Welbon is a Chicago based award-winning independent filmmaker and freelance producer. Since 1991, she has made eight films and produced a dozen others. Her independent films have screened on PBS, Starz/Encore, TV-ONE, IFC, Bravo, the Sundance Channel and in over one hundred film festivals around the world.
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[-] Living With Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 has won ten best documentary awards-including the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. Her ongoing Sundance Documentary Fellow project is Sisters In Cinema, a documentary, website and forth-coming book based on her doctoral dissertation about the history of African American women feature film directors. Her freelance producer projects include: John Pierson's Split Screen, Zeinabu irene Davis' Sundance dramatic competition feature Compensation, Cheryl Dunye's HBO film Stranger Inside, Thomas Allen Harris' Berlin Int'l Film Festival award-winning documentary É Minha Cara/That's My Face, and Catherine Crouch's directorial debut Stray Dogs, starring Guinevere Turner. Recently produced documentaries include: Scale: Ending The Bush Agenda in the Media Age by Alex Juhasz, GARBAGE! The Revolution Starts at Home by Andrew Nisker, and Water Front by Liz Miller. Welbon's current project and directorial debut is a feature film indevelopment which focuses on the controversial Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.
Yvonne Welbon received an undergraduate degree in History from Vassar College. Thereafter, she spent six years in Taipei, Taiwan, where she taught English, learned Mandarin Chinese, and founded and published a premiere arts magazine. She returned to the United States and completed a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She is also a graduate of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women.
Yvonne Welbon received an undergraduate degree in History from Vassar College. Thereafter, she spent six years in Taipei, Taiwan, where she taught English, learned Mandarin Chinese, and founded and published a premiere arts magazine. She returned to the United States and completed a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She is also a graduate of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women.

"Even in its early stages, Andrew's idea for Garbage! The Revolution Starts At Home had made a very personal impact on my life. I saw the Inconvenient Truth and thought I was environmentally aware but working on this film made me realize that I was really walking around with blinders. Andrew's film opened my eyes to my everyday habits that were to the detriment of the planet. I thought a lot of people would be equally affected from seeing it. So I was very motivated to help Andrew get his film made and share it with as many people as possible."
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Alison Duke is a producer/director who ventured into film by producing early music videos for many Canadian urban artists including Glenn Lewis, Nelly Furtado and Kos.
She became interested in directing social issues documentaries in 2000 and directed Raisin' Kane, the critically acclaimed hip-hop documentary capturing the rise of two-time Juno nominated, Toronto-based rap duo Citizen Kane in the Canadian music industry. Raisin Kane' produced by National Film Board of Canada, earned the HBO best documentary award at the 2001 Urbanworld Film Festival and the Best Canadian documentary honours at the Reelworld Film Festival.
After a mini theatrical release and college tour for Raisin' Kane, Alison went on to work as a segment producer for several documentary series airing on Chum Television, Life Network and Oxygen.
In 2003, Alison directed A Deathly Silence a gripping documentary about black on black youth violence in Toronto for YAP Productions airing on CBC Witness and Newsworld. She also co-produced Yvonne Welbon's feature documentary Sisters In Cinema, which follows the trails and tribulations of African American feature film directors including Maya Angelou, Kasi Lemmons and Cheryl Dunye. Sisters in Cinema has aired on the BlackStarz! Network and TVOne.
For the past three years, Alison has produced and directed several social issues documentaries and PSAs for various agencies and organizations including, Hear the Story for the City of Toronto's Safety Secretariat and Behind the Mask for Across Boundaries' and Youth Link's.
She became interested in directing social issues documentaries in 2000 and directed Raisin' Kane, the critically acclaimed hip-hop documentary capturing the rise of two-time Juno nominated, Toronto-based rap duo Citizen Kane in the Canadian music industry. Raisin Kane' produced by National Film Board of Canada, earned the HBO best documentary award at the 2001 Urbanworld Film Festival and the Best Canadian documentary honours at the Reelworld Film Festival.
After a mini theatrical release and college tour for Raisin' Kane, Alison went on to work as a segment producer for several documentary series airing on Chum Television, Life Network and Oxygen.
In 2003, Alison directed A Deathly Silence a gripping documentary about black on black youth violence in Toronto for YAP Productions airing on CBC Witness and Newsworld. She also co-produced Yvonne Welbon's feature documentary Sisters In Cinema, which follows the trails and tribulations of African American feature film directors including Maya Angelou, Kasi Lemmons and Cheryl Dunye. Sisters in Cinema has aired on the BlackStarz! Network and TVOne.
For the past three years, Alison has produced and directed several social issues documentaries and PSAs for various agencies and organizations including, Hear the Story for the City of Toronto's Safety Secretariat and Behind the Mask for Across Boundaries' and Youth Link's.

Leonard Pearl is an award-winning filmmaker, producer and director.
He was born in Toronto, Canada.
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Leonard obtained his Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto Canada and practiced entertainment and corporate law at a mid-size downtown Toronto firm. He left the practice of law and returned to school, where he studied film at Ryerson Polytechnic University. Leonard was also an adjunct professor of law for two semesters at the University of New Brunswick law school.
Leonard's first produced and directed documentary, Birthright was broadcast on Canadian television and has been screened worldwide and at international film festivals. Some of his recent credits include Dawgs Playing Poker (co-producer) - FEATURE, Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home (producer) - DOC, Choose Your Voice (Executive Producer, Director) - DOC. Leonard is currently producing and directing various films, documentaries and MOWs, including Israel 60 Years (2007) - SHORT DOC, Blind Fury - DOC (2008), The Lost Children - DOC (2009).
Leonard's first produced and directed documentary, Birthright was broadcast on Canadian television and has been screened worldwide and at international film festivals. Some of his recent credits include Dawgs Playing Poker (co-producer) - FEATURE, Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home (producer) - DOC, Choose Your Voice (Executive Producer, Director) - DOC. Leonard is currently producing and directing various films, documentaries and MOWs, including Israel 60 Years (2007) - SHORT DOC, Blind Fury - DOC (2008), The Lost Children - DOC (2009).


















