People

Naomi Chippendale
Smoking Sunflowers
Smoking Sunflowers is a story of survival.  Raised in a home of violence, addiction and desperation, Kari Mitchell is a seventeen year old with attitude.  A grizzly incident from Kari’s childhood, buried deep in her mind, re-surfaces and she can no longer live pretending.  Kari is forced to come to grips with the truth before she is able to allow love in her life and move forward.
Naomi F.Chippendale has been writing professionally since 2001.  She wrote for season 2 of the hit t.v series Alienated, and has written 4 feature films. Her latest script The Pillar Clock (co-written by playwright Manami Hara) was recently optioned by a Los Angeles based production company. Naomi is currently writing her next feature Somewhere Intimate. 

Steve Cochrane
The Sergeant's Son
After the bones of Sean O'Reilly's father Thomas finally wash ashore, Sean goes on a search to find out why he was left orphaned at the age of seven.  As Sean digs up old bones from the past his uncle William O'Reilly, a Sergeant with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, scrambles to keep the answers Sean seeks burried.
Steve is a writer/actor living in St. John's, NL.  He's had two plays produced with The Resource Center for the Arts, in St. John's (The Importance of Being Ernie,  Looking for Pan), and is also a regular contributor to CBC Radio writing and performing sketch comedy and political satire.  As an actor Steve works in theatre and film across Canada

Matt Hamilton
Kickback
Joe's life is turned upside down when he's forced to rob a bank with his lil bro, Mikey, and his hot headed friend, Anton, in order pay off a loan shark and save his lil brothers life.
Victoria-raised Matt Hamilton graduated from the Vancouver Film School for Writing in 2002.  A short story writer through his youth, it didn't occur to him to blend my love for writing, and movies together until he was introduced to screenwriting at the University of Victoria.

Matt Holland
Trapline Lodge (formerly Coureur des Bois)
Trapline Lodge is a dark comedy about greed, the pursuit of false grails and wayward real estate.
Matt Holland is a screenwriter and an actor from Montreal. He is a graduate of both the Writer’s Lab and the Professional Screenwriting Programme at The Canadian Film Centre. He wrote the short film, Drop Off, and the feature, Gone Dark (a.k.a The Limit), released in 2003 and 2004 respectively. He also wrote and directed the short film Whistleblowers Anonymous a Moc Docs 2003 competition winner.

Helen Metella
Classic Rock and a Hard Place
Classic Rock and A Hard Place is a dramatic comedy about an
aging female rock critic, clinging to her job by ghost-writing a blog for
two idiotic teen divas as they undermine a massive country music festival in the Alberta badlands during a steamy long weekend.
Helen is an Edmonton-based writer/broadcaster working in print, radio and TV. She's been a rock critic, a reporter and a front-page editor, a CBC national radio host, a Top 40 DJ and a record industry publicist. Currently, she's a story editor on Taking It Off, Life Network's diet and weight-loss documentary series. In 2004, she was a CTV Fellow at the Banff Television Festival.

Mark Schroeder
I Forget
A sweet romance derailed by hypnosis, do it yourself surgery and interdimensional travellers in pajamas.
Mark Schroeder was born in the snows of Ontario and read his way around Antigua, Australia and most of Mexico before landing in Vancouver.  He works as a location sound recordist to buy time to write at his hideout on Salt Spring Island.  I Forget is his fifth feature screenplay.

Brian Young
Post Scrubbers
Pot Scrubbers is a feature comedy that tells the story of a struggling small town trying to save itself by growing a little pot.
Brian started screenwriting four years ago. Within six months of marketing his first script, he had sold or optioned seven projects. In 2003, two of his shorts were produced and his first feature was shot in Los Angeles. Other than his own projects, Brian has been hired for various rewrite jobs and open writing assignments both in Canada and in Los Angeles. Brian has two feature films and a short that will be going to camera in 2005. When not writing, Brian works in development with local producers.