Film and Television Production

Eric Cator is an educator, filmmaker, and artist with over 20 years of experience working in the television and arts industries. He works as a sound recordist, editor, and storyboard artist on television series, documentaries, and commercials, working on projects that have aired on networks including CBC, Bravo TV, and TVO.

Eric has taught filmmaking at multiple institutions, including teaching in the Film and Television Production program at Humber College since 2009. As a professor, Eric is committed to creating positive learning environments where emerging filmmakers can develop their skills and launch their careers.

Narrative storytelling is at the root of all his professional work; he is very proud to have been able to play a role in the telling of so many great stories through the years and looks forward to the stories still to come.

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. 

After four years with the British Consulate in China, Matthew returned to Canada to study and make films. With a diverse background in the film and television industry, he has worked as a DP and director in scripted, documentary and commercials, winning awards and screening work globally. At Humber, he teaches film production with a research focus on emerging technologies. Matthew holds an MFA from York University.

As a producer, educator, and story editor, Robyn has worked on film, television, and digital media content in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. Her script Mammary Gland Malfunction was selected as part of the Writing Women Screenwriting Program and later screened internationally, winning multiple awards. During her time at Cloudscape Studios (U.K.), she secured Creative Skillset funding for the company and developed animation training programs for both aspiring and professional animators, which included a master class by a Pixar animation director. Most recently, she co-produced the feature film Adult Adoption, and produced and starred in the short film Guardian. Through her company Free Bird Productions, she continues to develop scripted content for film and television while working as a story editor with renowned writers and directors. As an educator, she has over ten years of teaching experience across the elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels, and has had the pleasure of developing education resources to support the study of documentary films for Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Robyn is thrilled to be amalgamating her passions for production and education as a professor at Humber Polytechnic.

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. 

An alumna of TIFF Talent Lab, Women in Director's Chair and a former Playback Magazine 10 to Watch, Asis Sethi is a South Asian Canadian filmmaker who graduated from Humber College where she currently teaches film and television directing. Her career in broadcasting spans over 15 years as a producer and a host on lifestyle shows. Asis has created over 100 hours of content for television. Her REMI Award winning short on menstruation, A Bloody Mess, was screened at 30 film festivals. Her 16-episode documentary television series on Sikh shrines in India, Darshan Dekh Jeeva, was funded by the OMNI Documentary Fund. She directed a documentary on post 9/11 effects on turban wearers, The Colourful Crown, which premiered on OMNI Television nationally. Her short film on postpartum depression, Rock the Cradle, was funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and made its world premiere at the Female Eye Film Festival.

Asis is an alumni of CineFAM's Limitless program through which she developed a proof of concept for her feature Slam Dunk, Sehaj! It was supported by the CFC/Netflix Calling Card Accelerator and also won Caribbean Tales' The Big Pitch at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2022. The feature project has also received development funding through the Canada Council for the Arts. The film made its broadcast premiere on CBC and is now on CBC Gem. Asis was one of the 25 pitch participants for the Netflix Banff Diversity of Voices Fellowship for the Banff World Media Festival 2023.

​Asis is also a mentor at WIFT Toronto, Oya Black Arts and the M Film Lab.