Talent

Andres Molina, originally from Colombia, has been living in Canada since 2011. While studying French, he directed his first documentary on immigration. In 2017, he finished his degree in film at the University of Montreal and began working in the film industry.

Since 2019, he has been actively involved as a producer and director in personal projects, and is partnering with Charbel El Melhem to create MIX FILM, a production company, together: https://mixfilm.ca/. He is currently working on the script of his first feature film.

Ariel Morales-Coronel is a professional whose interests have always been oriented towards new challenges. This has allowed him to be part of impressive projects. He studied cinema at ECA with a specialization in the field of production and studied approach to documentary creation at DocMontevideo 2014. Production manager in feature films in Bolivia and Mexico, he was also an audiovisual advisor to Canadian international cooperation organizations in Honduras. A person of action, whatever the task, he will respond 100%. Passionate about the world of arts and entertainment, he has worked in the world of cinema since 2007.

Baharan Baniahmadi is an Iranian-Canadian artist located in Montreal. She is well-known in Iran, Canada, and the Middle East for her TV series and feature films. After graduating from Tehran's Art University with a BA in theatre, a BA in Paris, and an MA in philosophy and art from Paris-8 University, Baharan began her acting career in France, where she collaborated with numerous prominent stage directors, such as Ariane Mnouchkine and Fabrice Nicot, Amirreza Koohestani, Izumi Ashizawa.

As a multilingual actor, she has performed in roles in English, French, Persian, and Arabic. She moved to Canada in 2018 and was named the greatest actor of colour in Montreal in 2019 (DAM). She could reestablish her credibility in the sphere of cinema and art in Canada and Quebec almost immediately. She's also worked as a director assistant and producer assistant on feature films in Berlin and Paris, as well as over 200 commercial teasers in Iran. She has also served as a jury member at a number of festivals and has awarded several Canadian and French grants. Baharan is also a published author, with her first collection of short tales released in Iran in 2006, a memoir published in 2017, and her first English novel published in Montreal in 2022.

Originally from Ivory Coast, Claude Emmanuelle Yapo moved to Quebec in 2010 with her family. After the first part of her film studies, she made a documentary as part of the program "Being Black in Montreal", which was shown at the International Black Film Festival in Montreal. In 2020, thanks to the Black Ink program of Black Wealth Media, she produced and directed her first short fiction, which was represented at the Montreal International Black Film Festival the following year. Her short film was also selected at the San Diego Black Film Fest, at the Hamilton Black Film Fest and at the International Black and Diversity Film Festival in Toronto for the 2022 editions.

Hippolyte de Chanlaire has been involved in the film industry for almost 8 years. In France, after studying audiovisual production at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA sup), he self-produced 6 amateur short films and participated in the production of several professional features and shorts. In Quebec, he started his career at Possible Media before joining the distribution world at Mk2 | Mile End and Maison 4:3. In 2021, he joined Jane Losa Films. While participating in the production management of the company's feature films, he developed his first projects as an emerging producer. With a strong desire to invest in projects that echo his values and identity, he surrounds himself with young talents who defend a different kind of cinema, highlighting issues and characters that are not or rarely represented in Quebec cinema.

Quebec City Native Mariann Petit discovered her love for movie making at an early age. She decided to study in the field at CÉGEP de Jonquière (college in Quebec) in the Media Arts and Technology Program, specializing in production. She then moved to Montreal and started working as a Production Assistant on various productions. Her interest in organization pushed her to move forward has an Assistant Logistics Manager, working on projects such as ‘’The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair’’, ‘’Midway’’, ‘’Clouds’’, ‘’Home sweet Home Alone, ‘’Transformers :Rise of the Beasts’’ and more. These last years confirmed her interest in planning, leading a team and keeping an up-to-date budget. Mariann aspires to become a Production Manager in the years to come.

A young French athlete and entrepreneur based in Canada, Xavier-Olivier Jourson aims to go from being a professional rugby player to becoming a high-level triathlete. He challenged himself to participate in the Norseman Xtreme Triathlon in August 2022 to break several stereotypes weighing on the black community by practicing a sport very little performed in. Xavier-Olivier Jourson is a figure of entrepreneurial activism, with his project La Transition.

Producer, speaker, columnist, writer, strategy consultant, he is preparing a documentary to recount his progress, challenges, failures and successes and show visible minorities that it is possible to do what has never been done before...