Doti Neidermeyer – Executive Director of the Whistler Arts Council

Doti Niedermayer is the Executive Director of the Whistler Arts Council. Previously she worked with the West Kootenay Regional Arts Council in Nelson, BC. Doti has been an arts administrator, event producer and publicist for 18 years working with such organizations as the Greater Vancouver Alliance for Arts & Culture, Theatre B.C., Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance, Artropolis ‘93, Vancouver Fringe Festival and various independent theatre companies. Doti has been on the board of Public Dreams and the Assembly of BC Arts Councils.

Kasi Lubin – Co-founder Whistler Film Festival

Kasi has recently taken on a new role as the Program Development Manager with her family businesses - the Dave Murray Summer Ski & Snowboard Camp and the Whistler Summer Snowboard Camp. Kasi also Co-founded the Whistler Film Festival in 2001 and was the former Program and Co-Festival Director (amongst other things!). Since her arrival in Whistler seven years ago, Kasi worked in the arts on various special events and projects. Prior to her arrival in Whistler, she spent several years working abroad in the adventure travel industry managing international entertainment, educational and youth programs throughout the world. Kasi also enjoys spending most of her time with her 4-year old son Kai and her 2-year old daughter Macy.

Bill Evans – Director of Programming for the Whistler Film Festival

Currently Director of Programming at the Whistler Film Festival, Bill is the former Director of Showcases at the National Screen Institute – Canada, where he also worked as the Director of NSI Film Exchange in Winnipeg.  A filmmaker in his own right, Bill Evans is also an award winning events producer and has a broad range of film festival and programming experience including five years as the programmer and Executive Director of Edmonton's Metro Cinema, and working experience with the Pacific Cinematheque in Vancouver, Vancouver International Film Festival and the Moving Pictures Traveling Canadian Film Festival. Bill studied Drama and English at the University of Alberta and Film Production and Film Studies at Simon Fraser University in B.C.

Tara Hungerford – Director/Producer

Tara Hungerford's recent television directing credits include 2nd unit for the CTV comedy series Robson Arms (season 2). Along with directing episodes for The W Network's award winning lifestyle series The Shopping Bags and The Life Network's Making It Big .

Tara's award winning short films (Break a Leg, Rosie, Mon amour mon parapluie, Wearing the Unknown) have screened at over 40 international film festivals, on Bravo! TV, TV5 and CBC Television.

She has directed music videos for artists Jessie Farrell, Jim Byrnes, Zubot & Dawson, Distance & Kyle, Emily Jordan and The Paperboys.  

Tara has directed commercials and PSAs for The BC Dental Association (ActNow), Storyeum, Omron and ICBC & The Autoplan Brokers.

Her work was recognized at the 2006 WIFVV Spotlight Awards where she was presented the Kodak Image Award for her directing achievements.

This year, Tara was one of eight participants selected from across Canada for the “Women in the Director's Chair 2007” workshop held at The Banff Centre where she was mentored by writer/director Lea Pool.

Tara Hungerford is represented by Barbara Bird at The Characters Agency for directing, writing and acting.
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Paul Armstong – Producer

Paul is a film, television and theatre producer. Feature film credits include producer on ‘Moving Malcolm' by Benjamin Ratner starring Elizabeth Berkley (‘Showgirls') and John Neville; executive producer on the 2006 Genie Award nominated ‘See Grace Fly' starring Gina Chiarelli and Paul McGillion and co-producer on ‘Ill-Fated' (Toronto & Slamdance Film Festivals) starring Peter Outerbridge.

Short film credits as producer include ‘Break a Leg, Rosie' starring Carly Pope and Ian Tracey, ‘Wearing the Unknown' featuring Barbara Glazar, both directed by Tara Hungerford, and ‘Mon amour mon parapluie', starring Tara Hungerford with Douglas Coupland and William Gibson. Music videos include ‘My Greatest Masterpeice' for Bif Naked, ‘Just a Pilgrim' and ‘12 Questions' for Jim Byrnes and ‘The World is Calling' for Jeff Martin (‘The Tea Party'). He has also produced commercials for television and the web for Nintendo, WirelessWave and Storyeum.

Paul is co-founder and producer of The Celluloid Social Club, a Vancouver-based monthly screening series of independent short films.

In the past seven years he has produced fourteen plays, including ‘Stiff Cuffs', ‘SubUrbia', ‘Phat Tank', ‘Speed-the-Plow' and ‘Much Ado About Nothing'.

Zaib Shaikh – Actor/Producer

Zaib Shaikh has worked across Canada as an actor, director and producer. Currently Zaib stars in the CBC hit comedy, Little Mosque on the Prairie. Other television work includes Metropia, Da Vinci's City Hall and The Dead Zone.

Zaib has also had the pleasure of working with some of the largest theatre companies in Canada including Canadian Stage, National Arts Centre, Globe Theatre, Grand Theatre and the Stratford Festival of Canada. Currently, Zaib is co founder and an Artistic Producer for Whistler Theatre Project, a company that is committed to being a national theatre festival on the west coast.

Zaib is a graduate the joint University of Toronto/Sheridan College Acting Program and holds an MFA in Directing from the University of British Columbia.

Anthoney Vitale – Filmmaker from Whistler's own Whiteout Films