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The DOC Institute is an initiative of the Ontario chapter of the Documentary Organization of Canada. With the aim of supporting doc-makers’ creative journeys, the DOC Institute is a hub for established and emerging voices in the non-fiction world. Through its various program streams, the DOC Institute offers essential professional development for documentary media artists of all levels.

Ngardy Conteh George
Co-founder of OYA Media Group, Ngardy Conteh George is a two-time Canadian Screen Award winning filmmaker, a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Fellow and grantee, and recipient of grants from the Toronto and Ontario Art Councils and the Canada Council for the Arts. She is committed to working with marginalized and often unheard communities, especially those that represent the rich cultures and complexities of the African Diaspora.

John Seongho Choi
John Seongho Choi (he/him) is Canadian belonging to the South Korean diaspora. John is a Filmmaker, Producer and Director telling stories for over 25 years and a critical thinker believing in a meaningful and authentic approach to filmmaking. He is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC) and participates as a mentor with the Hot Docs/Netflix Accelerator Program engaging workshopping new and emerging filmmakers. John was selected as a Juror/ Decision Maker at both the 2022 DMZ Industry Docs Film Festival and 2022 Tokyo Docs Documentary Film Festival.

Peter Findlay
Peter Findlay is a documentary filmmaker and former CBC producer with a passion for social justice and verité storytelling. His work has appeared on CBC, CTV, PBS, Discovery, History TV, TVO, ZDF-Arte, and SBS Australia, among others. Most recently, his self-produced film COMPANY TOWN premiered on CBC’s “POV” in October, 2020. Findlay’s other work has garnered awards from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and TV, Houston Worldfest, HotDocs, and the Canadian Science Writers Association.

Stuart Henderson
Stuart Henderson is President of 90th Parallel Productions, Ltd, one of Canada’s longest-running documentary film companies. A creative producer, Henderson is currently overseeing a slate of documentary films ranging from broadcast hours to anthology series to feature-length projects. Most recently, he was the executive producer and showrunner of the CRAVE docu-series We’re All Gonna Die (Even Jay Baruchel), and the CBC films Butt Seriously (Dir. Liam O’Rinn, 2024), and Bodies for Rent (Dir: Habiba Nosheen, 2024). Other recent films he has produced include the feature doc The Long Weekend for TVO, the CBC film The Climate Baby Dilemma , the TIFF People’s Choice Award-winning Inconvenient Indian ; Food for the Rest of Us , Be Afraid: The Science of Fear ; Invisible Essence: The Little Prince ; The Skin We’re In; My First 150 Days.

Tiffany Hsiung
Tiffany Hsiung is an Peabody award-winning filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada and is listed as one of DOC NYC’s 40 under 40 this year. Tiffany’s most recent short UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE premiered at the Hot Docs International Film Festival, and she recently won the inaugural Toronto International Film Festival Share Her Journey Short Cuts Award for SING ME A LULLABY (2020), along with a DGC award for Best Short Film.

BRYN HUGHES
Bryn Hughes is an independent producer and co-owner of Frequent Flyer Films Inc. Since 2002, Bryn has worked as a producer and production manager, bringing several critically acclaimed documentary series and features to the screen. Dabbling in historical, natural science and journalistic documentaries, Bryn’s experience is wide and varied, having worked with major broadcasters, funders, key creatives and crews across Canada and around the world.

Aeyliya Husain
Aeyliya Husain is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on issues of representation, women, and photography. She has exhibited at festivals both nationally and internationally including Tribeca Film Festival, where her film SHOOTING WAR was nominated for best short documentary. Husain holds an MFA in Film Production from York University and a BA from the University of Waterloo, and she currently teaches film courses at McMaster University.

Noura Kevorkian
Lebanese-Canadian filmmaker Noura Kevorkian made her filmmaking debut with the award-winning documentary VEILS UNCOVERED about the veiled women of Damascus. Noura’s latest film, the Canada-Lebanon feature BATATA,is an unprecedented documentary that follows 10 years in the life of a singularly determined unmarried Syrian woman as she turns from migrant farm-hand to refugee stuck in a camp in Lebanon, unable to return to her hometown of Raqqa.

Victoria Lean
Victoria Lean is an award-winning filmmaker making innovative documentaries that explore the relationship between science and society. Working in documentary, comedy and the intersections between, her keen artistic sensibility and forward-thinking approach earned her the DOC Vanguard Award in 2017.

Min Sook Lee
Min Sook Lee has directed numerous critically-acclaimed feature documentaries, including: TIGER SPIRIT, HOGTOWN, EL CONTRATO, THE REAL INGLORIOUS BASTARDS, and MIGRANT DREAMS. Lee is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award, and the Alanis Obomsawin Award for Commitment to Community and Resistance. Canada’s oldest labour arts festival, Mayworks, has named the Min Sook Lee Labour Arts Award in her honour.

Danny Webber
Danny Webber is a partner with Hall Webber LLP, one of Canada’s top rated boutique entertainment law firms, and serves as the official legal counsel to the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and the Canadian Screen Awards. He has also acted as an executive producer on more than 25 film & television productions and recently produced a feature length documentary that premiered at Hot Docs.

Ali Weinstein
Ali Weinstein (she/her) is a documentary director and producer living in Toronto, whose character-driven work often centres on people searching for a sense of belonging. Her latest feature documentary YOUR TOMORROW (TVO) about the last year in life of Ontario Place before it was shut down to be redeveloped into a private spa and waterpark premiered at TIFF 2024 where it was a runner up for the People’s Choice Documentary Award. Her first feature documentary MERMAIDS (Super Channel), about a group of women living a mermaid lifestyle, debuted at Hot Docs 2017 and has since been broadcast in Canada, Brazil, France, and Germany. Ali also directed THE IMPOSSIBLE SWIM (TSN) about a 16-year-old girl attempting to swim across Lake Ontario at its widest point and #BLESSED (CBC) about the stunning success of an Evangelical church amongst the youth of downtown Toronto.

JAMES WEYMAN
James Weyman is President of media production and consulting company Barn 12 Inc. A 35 year veteran of the screen-based industries, he recently exited Ontario Creates where he was responsible for managing a $20 million portfolio of funds including the OMDC Film Fund. As a producer and filmmaker, Weyman has been involved in a range of critically acclaimed productions; as an executive, he has participated in financing hundreds of film and TV productions.
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