Bachelor of Film and Media Production

Ebyan has spent over 15 years honing her craft by working in a diverse set of positions within the entertainment industry. In that time, she worked in TV and film development producing documentaries and, most recently, developing digital marketing and communications campaigns. It is her belief that everything, and everyone, has a story, and she is passionate about finding that story. A dynamic and empathic producer, Ebyan thrives in balancing the logistical and narrative elements in the completion of a project.

Catherine Carnovale is a professor and Toronto-based film and television professional with over 12 years of experience working in network, studio, agency and independent production company environments in Canada and the United States. As a seasoned development executive, she has successfully set up scripted and factual projects with domestic and international networks, and set up co-production relationships with Ireland and the UK. Television movies she has shepherded through development and production have aired on such networks as Crave/TMN, CityTV, Lifetime, W Network, UPtv, TF1 and M6.  As a producer, her work has screened at such festivals as Tribeca, Locarno and Sundance. Catherine has an honours bachelor of arts degree in Film Studies and Drama from Queen’s University, and a master of fine arts degree in Film Producing and Screenwriting from Columbia University.

Nathan is a U.K.-born Toronto based filmmaker focused on work that deals with overcoming traumatic situations.

His short film The Substitute won a Kodak Student Scholarship and screened at over fifty film festivals worldwide (Montreal World, Dresden, Brno 16). His following short, Rape Card, was screened at Montreal World, Underwire and Nitehawk and was funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council and Shorts TV.

He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents and completed masters degrees in screenwriting at Central Saint Martins and in film at York University. He currently teaches Film Production and Screenwriting at Humber College and Laurier University. 

Garrett has worked in the film industry for over 25 years, focusing on post-production and sound design. He has received wide industry recognition for his sound work, including a Prime Time Emmy, three MPSE nominations, and a combined total of 30 CSA, Genie, Gemini and DGC awards with 6 wins. In addition, he has worked on a number of projects with Academy, Emmy and BAFTA awards and nominations. Since moving into full-time teaching, Garrett remains active as a consultant and supervisor on select Canadian production when he's able.

Steven May is a professor in Humber College's Faculty of Media & Creative Arts. May holds a PhD in Communication & Culture from Toronto Metropolitan (Ryerson) University and York University. His core research interest is television distribution in the digital age.

Suzanne Pope's copywriting career included positions at some of Canada's most respected agencies, including Ogilvy & Mather, john st. and TAXI. In a career spanning more than three decades, Suzanne has won recognition from The One Show, Communication Arts, the London International Advertising Awards, the New York Festivals, Lürzer's Archive and the Clios. In addition to teaching at Humber, Suzanne runs adteachings.com, a blog devoted to helping young people gain practical skills in advertising.

Kazik Radwanski (he/him) is a feature film writer/director/producer, co-founder of Toronto-based production company MDFF (Medium Density Fibreboard Films), and a full-time professor in Humber’s Film and Television Production program. Kazik’s latest film Anne at 13,000 ft premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, was nominated for four Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Director, and was awarded the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association in 2021. His other features include Tower (2012), which had its world premiere at the 65th Locarno International Film Festival, and How Heavy This Hammer (2015), which had its international premiere at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. Kazik served on the Platform Competition Jury for the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival and was the 2022 Universal Studios Canada Screenwriter-in-Residence at the University of Toronto. He has produced and distributed many features through MDFF, including Tales of Two Who Dreamt (2016) by Nicolás Pereda and Andrea Bussmann, Ms Slavic 7 (2019) by Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell, The Maiden (2022) by Graham Foy, Queens of the Qing Dynasty (2022) by Ashley McKenzie, and Concrete Valley (2022) by Antoine Bourges. Since 2017, Kazik has programmed and hosted MDFF Selects, a monthly screening series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. 

Dan Rowe is a professor, and the program coordinator of Humber College's Bachelor of Journalism program. His writing has been published by a range of Canadian publications and he is the author of a textbook on feature writing published by Oxford University Press Canada. Dan has a PhD in mass communications from Syracuse University's Newhouse School. He has also taught journalism courses at Ryerson, Laurier Brantford, and Syracuse.

I am a journalist and filmmaker, but first and foremost, I am a camerawoman. I am fluent in Russian, Hebrew, English, and I understand French, Arabic, and Portuguese. 

For eight years, I worked as a one-woman crew as Israel/Palestine correspondent for The Real News Network (based in Washington, D.C.). There, I conducted investigations and interviews, filmed, and edited more than 200 documentary shorts for TRNN before branching off to found Naretiv Productions (Toronto). I've made four feature-length investigative-but-poetic documentaries for BBC World, TeleSUR, and independently. I've also made a number of experimental shorts, VR and augmented-reality projects that have toured the festival circuit, won awards and screened in over 20 countries.

I teach cinematography and media production at Humber, York and Toronto Metropolitan University, and in my spare time I like to watch videos about cameras, visual experiments with exposure, and hacks for making our film sets friendlier and more inclusive environments.

Steven Toepell is a sound designer/editor/mixer who has been working in sound for film and television for more than three decades and teaching at the post-secondary level for 10 years. He has contributed to TV series and movies as well as IMAX and documentary films for television broadcast, theatrical and direct-to-video release, and online streaming. Advertising and podcasts are also a part of his repertoire. His clientele range from major film and TV studios to independent filmmakers.

Steven has wide-ranging experience in dialogue, sound effects and music editing, ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) recording, Foley performing and recording, and mixing.

Field recording has been a large part of his professional experience. He has travelled extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia recording sound effects for use in audio post-production for film and television and operates an online library.

He is a Gemini Award winner as well as a multiple nominee for the MPSE Golden Reel Awards in the United States.

Upon completion of the graduate certificate in Post-Production at Humber College, Shannon Vieira-Covello has worked as a freelance producer and video editor for 10 years. Shannon has worked on various types of projects from corporate communications, commercials, documentary, and multi-cam studio productions for a wide range of clients including Scotiabank, Loblaw Companies Ltd., University Health Network, Bank of Montreal, United Way and Toronto Police Services.

In 2014, Shannon obtained her master of arts in Media Production from Ryerson University, with the goal to pursue teaching in post-secondary institutions. Since 2015, Shannon has taught an array of media courses in both production and post-production at various institutions including Humber College, Ryerson University, Sheridan College and OCAD University.

Shannon takes pride in teaching media production at the post-secondary level while continuing to work in industry so that she can foster an effective and interactive learning environment as she guides future content creators.