Ava Karvonen is cross-platform producer and the founder of Edmonton’s Reel Girls Media. She recently produced the feature length documentary, Finding Bobbi (After 50 years in the wrong body, Bobbi tells her story while preparing to step on stage for the first time as a woman) and directed/produced audio and video stories for the new Royal Alberta Museum. Her credits include creating and producing four series (The Lie Detective, Wild Files, The First Kiss And Other Rites of Passage, and Booked), ten one-hour documentaries (including Al Rashid: The Story of Canada’s First Mosque, the serious game “Murder or Suicide”, more than 100 webisodes and podcasts, audio & video for the new Royal Alberta Museum, and an online companion to an animated TV series where users can create their own comics and stories. In addition to producing, Ava also writes and directs. She directed seasons 1 & 2 of Chaos and Courage for APTN; was one of the directors on the CBC series Keeping Canada Alive; wrote and directed The Lie Detective; directed and produced Homefront (a story that followed five soldiers and their families during a deployment to Afghanistan); directed Seeds of Change for Panacea Entertainment (an hour long documentary that tells the story of a friendship between two scientists and how they worked together to help restore the health of China’s Yangtze River).   Her work has been internationally recognized with more than 40 awards, including the CFTPA Award for Best Convergent New Media, a Japan Prize and the Ojai California Festival Theme Award: “Enriching the Human Spirit Through Film”. Ava believes in giving back to her community. Ava has been teaching credit and non-credit courses for NAIT, FAVA, MacEwan, Raindance; served on juries in Canada and abroad; and has served on the advisory committees of Salute to Excellence for the City of Edmonton, the Aids Network Black and White Affair, CMPA, NextMedia, and NAIT. She has also helped develop industry policy while serving for the past 20 plus years on the boards of the Edmonton Arts Council, AMPIA, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC), and DOC AB. She is the chair of WIFTA (Women in Film and Telelvision Alberta)
and sits on the advisory committee of the Edmonton Screen Industries Office.

Terri Wynnyk has devoted herself to telling stories focusing on social justice issues, women’s stories, and the Arts. Her work seeks to inform and change attitudes, whether it is in the area of children’s rights, addressing the complex issues of drug addictions or in fostering new attitudes towards the earth as in her latest series Sustainable Me.
Wynnyk’s production company, Company of Women on the Screen (COWS), has over twenty years experience in production. She has worked with CBC as an associate producer, with the NFB as both a producer and director, and with various film companies in a variety of capacities. COWS has produced some the best award winning productions in the province.

Susan Feddema-Leonard is the Executive Producer for People & Peaks Productions and has produced the Canadian Rockies Series (13 X 60, HD Documentary). This film company features breathtaking stories that share the history, traditions and culture of the Rocky Mountains. Susan has been nominated the following Alberta Film and Television Rosie Awards: two (3) Best Documentary Series, two (2) Best Cinematography, one (1) Best Director (non-fiction over 30 minutes). The production company has been nominated for a total of 13 Rosie Awards, including six (6) Best Original Musical Score and one (1) Best Overall Sound. Productions have been aired on Wild TV to a national and international audience. The documentaries have been broadcast on Russian and New Zealand networks. Susan is also in production of three new half-our documentaries for Wild Pursuit Network - Canada's Hunting and Fishing TV Network. Susan is the Past President of Women in Film and Television Alberta, a member of Alberta Media Production Industries Association, and a long-standing member of the Writers Guild of Alberta.

Samantha is an emerging producer in Edmonton with big aspirations. She started producing short comedy sketches with her brother in 2013, which lead to becoming one of the first grant recipients through the Telus Storyhive program when it was first launched in 2014. Samantha then expanded into production management for independent productions such as music videos, short films and webseries. During 2016 and 2017 Samantha moved into the locations department with the
Director's Guild of Canada (DGC), working on three feature films and two tv series, as well as continuing to support independent productions as locations manager and/or production manager.

In 2018 Samantha was voted onto the Alberta District Council executive council for the DGC as well as serving as Secretary for Women In Film and Television Alberta (WIFT-A) board. She also incorporated a production company and produced the music video Aftermath for Edmonton band Royal Tusk. She is a member of Alberta Media
Production Industries Association (AMPIA).