Guest Speakers

James Cameron
Canadian Film director, producer, and screenwriter James Cameron is a legend and visionary of the film industry. He has compiled many great and heralded works over the years including Titanic, starring Leonardo DeCaprio and Kate Winslet as well as the highest grossing film of all time, Avatar, in 2009. James started to experience success in the industry when he created multiple science-fiction films in the 1980’s including his first major hit The Terminator. He wrote the sequel to Alien, and also Terminator 2 for which he received the inaugural Bradbury Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. His 3-D film Avatar won the Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture and was nominated for multiple Academy Awards, a film that developed new technological possibilities in movies combining live-action and computer generated images seamlessly.  In addition to his filmmaking, he is a National geographic explorer of the sea and has produced a number of documentaries on the subject.

Deepa Mehta :
Deepa Mehta, is an Indo-Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her films  Elements Trilogy, Fire , Earth , and Water. She co-founded Hamilton-Mehta Productions, with her husband, producer David Hamilton in 1996. She was awarded a Genie Award in 2003 for the screenplay of Bollywood/Hollywood. In May 2012, Mehta received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada’s highest honour in the performing arts. She also has a few documentaries to her name like Mostly Sunny, The forgotten woman, K.Y.T.E.S:How We Dream Ourselves.