Writer, Director, Editor, Actor

Jewels is an actor and director based in Toronto, ON. Selected credits include: Mother Amal in Amal (The MT Space); performer in Thousand Beginnings (Under The Umbrella Collective); Amy in Breath in Between (Crow’s Theatre); Mary in The Twilight Zone (Ghost River Theatre). As an Assistant Director, Jewels worked on Nathan The Wise and as the German coach on Birds of a Kind at the Stratford Festival. Most recently she worked as an assistant director on Nora oder Ein Puppenhaus at the Vorarlberger Landestheater in Bregenz, Austria. For TV/ Film, she appeared in Titans (Netflix) and starred in Steve Lukas’ short film Eigengrau. Jewels is also the co-host on the Food show City Girl Eats The Country currently streaming on Bell Fibe.
Impact is Jewels’ short film directorial debut. The concept for the film came to her as she was recovering from a severe concussion in 2021.

Set and Lighting Design

Steve Lucas is an award winning theatrical set and ighting designer. He is also a projection designer, independent film maker, theatre consultant, and mentor to up and coming designers. He has designed more than 500 productions of theatre, dance, opera and performance art. His work has toured extensively and has been seen in 27 countries around the world. Steve has received four Dora Awards and has been nominated for several of Canada’s most prestigious awards including the Siminovitch Prize, a Sterling Award nomination and thirty four Dora Award nominations. Steve is delighted to be a frequent collaborator of Jewels and Nics!

Director of Photography

Nicolas worked in black box theatre as a carpenter, stage electrician, lighting designer and stage manager before spending time on the road as a touring lighting director. After being locked out of his flat one evening, ran into a production manager who asked him if he could be the gaffer on a film project, to which he responded “sure” and not really having any idea what a gaffer is, ended up having a career as one. He’s still not sure what that means. He now works mostly as a Lighting Director and shoots the occasional side job for fun.

Sound

Nina Szenasi is a multi-media artist primarily working with sound and fabric. She lives in Vermont and makes work under the name The Stoof.

Animation

Born in London, Ontario, Shaela Kinting began drawing as soon as she was able to hold a pencil. She has worked in the Animation Industry for nearly a decade, designing and creating backgrounds for cartoons like Disney’s “Pickle and Peanut,” the Netflix original, “Trailer Park Boys the Animated Series,” and Hulu’s “Solar Opposites” to name a few. She also created a short film titled “Netukulimk” for the National Film Board of Canada and is involved in the Canadian music and artist community. Her work focuses on elements of nature and portraiture with hints of fantasy. Through her work, Shaela Kinting hopes to share the beauty she sees in
the world around her.

Compositor

Garth is a graduate of Sheridan College, completing a 4-year Bachelor of Animation program. Since then, he’s been actively working as an animator, picture book and cover illustrator, a landscape painter, and as the sole owner and tutor of The Animation Tutor. I absolutely love creating imaginative, descriptive imagery to assist in storytelling in a wide array of applications, be it an infographic to accompany new food security data, or to depict a fantastical weather center that looks like Santa’s North Pole. I create various artworks for a diverse clientele.