Directors & Staff
Patricia Gruben, Director
Patricia Gruben is a filmmaker whose work has been screened internationally at festivals including Vancouver, Toronto, Edinburgh, Sydney, Creteil, Sundance, the festival du nouveau cinema, the New York Film Festival and numerous others. She has written and directed two features, Low Visibility (1985) with Larry Lillo, and Deep Sleep (1990) with Megan Follows and Stuart Margolin, as well as a number of documentaries and dramatic shorts.
She is an Associate Professor of Film at Simon Fraser University where she teaches screenwriting, directing and acting, and film studies courses. She has recently published articles in Film Literature Quarterly, Screentalk and Creative Screenwriting. She has a chapter in a new book on Atom Egoyan to be published by Wilfrid Laurier Press, and a chapter on Gary Burns for a book on Canadian fillmmakers edited by George Melnyk.
Program Manager
To be announced.
Hans Goksoyer, Office Assistant
Hans joined Praxis in 2005. He graduated with a BFA in film from Simon Fraser University in the spring of 2003. He is currently building his career as a editor/director. His most resent films include Drifting (2003), Poolside (2004) and Trainride (2005).