by Skana Gee

Halifax animator Heather Harkins has a colourful way of describing her work as a grassroots filmmaker. “I scavenge filmmaking opportunities like Bruno Gerussi’s character collected stray logs on The Beachcombers,” she says. It’s a common theme for today’s filmmakers, many of whom take on a variety of projects – their own and others’ – out of both desire and necessity. “I find it very stimulating to go back and forth between projects, and you never know which one’s going to get funding, if it’s going to get funding at all,” says Halifax’s Andrea Dorfman.

by Pamela Lovelace

Blessed with an eye for truth and an ear for a good story, Juanita Peters is forging her mark along the Canadian cultural landscape. Writer, director, producer, actor, author and mom, Juanita has the whole world in her hands. “It came to me,” she admits modestly. “I started out as a performer, doing a one-woman show with seven characters. I was having fun.”