Shasha Nakhai
Co-Founder
Writer | Director | Producer
Shasha is a Toronto-based storyteller with over a decade of experience as a filmmaker. Her work has aired on the BBC, CBC, ZDF, and Arte; screened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); been nominated for 16 Canadian Screen Awards; named TIFF’s Top 10; and shortlisted for an Oscar.
She is an alumna of TMU’s Journalism Program, TIFF’s Talent Accelerator, Berlinale’s EFM Toolbox, the Hot Docs Doc Accelerator, WIFT’s Ubisoft Toronto Producer Mentorship, the DOC Institute Breakthrough Program, Hot Docs Incubator and the Reel World Film Festival’s Emerging 20.
She is a member of the Director’s Guild of Canada (DGC), Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDM), and the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (ACCT).
Shasha is repped by Great North Artists in Canada, and Echo Lake Entertainment in the US.
Rich Williamson
Co-Founder
Writer | Director | Editor
Rich is a writer and director with over a decade of experience as an editor and cinematographer. His work blends the best of fiction and documentary technique with a focus on social-issue subjects.
His work has aired on the BBC, CBC, ZDF, and Arte; screened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); been nominated for 16 Canadian Screen Awards; named TIFF’s Top 10; and shortlisted for an Oscar.
He is an alumna of TMU’s Image Arts Film Program, the Reykjavik International Film Festival’s Talent Lab and the Canadian Film Centre’s Cineplex Entertainment Film Program.
He is a member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (ACCT) and the Canadian Cinema Editors (CCE) guild.
Rich is repped by Great North Artists in Canada, and Echo Lake Entertainment in the US.
Kenya-Jade Pinto
Director | Producer
Kenya-Jade Pinto is an Indo-Kenyan-Canadian storyteller and National Geographic Explorer. She grew up chasing crabs on the Kenyan coast, before moving to Alberta’s foothills as a teen. Kenya-Jade’s hyphenated worldview informs her work, where she focuses on non-fiction and narrative projects that navigate themes of displacement, belonging, and access to justice.
Kenya-Jade has participated in DOC Institute’s Breakthrough Program as well as HotDocs’ Emerging Filmmaker Program. Her training as a human rights lawyer has deepened her practice as a documentarian on projects like Not Yet Home, Level Justice, and more recently, The Sandbox. She blends her creative eye with thoughtful precision, and most recently supported as an associate producer on Scarborough – all the way to TIFF and beyond.
Kenya-Jade is the filmmaker-in-residence at York University’s Refugee Law Lab and is working on directing her first documentary feature.