Bethany grew up in the Okanagan on a hundred-acre farm. She was trained as a musician and played competitive soccer before pursuing acting. As an actress, Bethany is known for her roles on THE 100, CHARMED, THE GOOD DOCTOR, and THE FLASH. She is also a voice performer in the animated series THE TREEBEES, NINJAGO: DRAGONS RISING and more. In 2024, Bethany directed her first short film, FRENCH GIRLS.

Bethany is a four-time nominee at the Leo Awards and has also been nominated for her work as a voice actor by UBCP/ACTRA.

Tandia was born in Inuvik, NWT, but raised in Edmonton, AB. Tandia discovered her passion for acting at the age of 10 when she began taking acting classes. After a hiatus, her enthusiasm for acting was reignited in 2021 when she moved to Vancouver, BC. She has starred in three short films and numerous commercials, each contributing to her growth and love of the craft. Beyond acting, Tandia is an avid climber, photographer, and devoted dog mom to two adorable pups who bring endless joy to her life.

Born in Penticton, Cody Kearsley started performing at the age of three. He received a full scholarship to the acting conservatory Theatre of Arts. Later, he was awarded the prestigious Michael Chekhov Award for Most Promising Actor. In theatre, Cody has had lead roles in Hamlet, Pillowman and Coyote on a Fence. In film, Kearsley appeared in Lionsgate’s Power Rangers. He also appeared in The CW’s iZombie and the hit series Riverdale, where he played Moose Mason for four seasons, and the Netflix Original Series, Daybreak.  Kearlsey runs the theatre company Vagrant Players and the production company Seventh Wolf. 

Canadian actor Chris McNally has appeared in several critically acclaimed films and television series spanning his career of more than a decade.  Since 2019, he has starred as Lucas Bouchard in Hallmark Channel’s hit drama series When Calls the Heart.  He has made appearances on several hit television series, including FOX’s Lucifer and Killer Instinct, the Emmy®-nominated TNT series Falling Skies and The CW’s Supernatural and Riverdale. McNally has recurred in the Netflix series Altered Carbon and was most recently seen with recurring arcs in both Netflix’ Firefly Lane and the Paramount+ series, Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies.

McNally has starred in numerous television movies, most recently Hallmark Channel’s 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1 Ghost, A Tail of Love, A Winter Princess, Sailing into Love, and The Sweetest Heart. Others include the Hallmark Mystery’s originals Eat, Drink & Be Buried: A Gourmet Detective Mystery, PixL Entertainment’s Same Time Next Week and ABC’s Beauty and the Beast: A Dark Tale.

On the big screen, McNally starred in the critically acclaimed features John Apple Jack and The Orchard.

Gloria Mercer is an award-winning director and editor from East Vancouver, BC on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She is a proud alumna of the Simon Fraser University film program and Women in the Director’s Chair.

In 2016, Gloria directed Bombing, her thesis film at SFU. Bombing went on to screen at over 30 film festivals worldwide, and won best student film at the Whistler Film Festival. In 2020, Gloria directed Hekademia, which was funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Film Board. Hekademia went on to screen at numerous festivals, winning Best Sci-Fi at the Oscar-Qualifying Hollyshorts Film Festival. It was later released on CBC Gem. 

In 2021, Gloria was on one of three teams selected for the prestigious Harold Greenberg Shorts to Features award for her film Smoke Eater. Smoke Eater screened at festivals all over the world, including the Whistler Film Festival and the San Luis Obispo Film Festival. Smoke Eater was released on Crave Canada. Gloria was also one of the five selected participants in the 2023 MPPIA Short FIlm Pitch at Whistler.

Gloria’s 2021 short film A Safe Distance screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival. The following year, Gloria was invited to pitch the feature film of the same name at the Film London Production Finance Market. A Safe Distance the feature received production funding from the Canada Council for the Arts and Creative BC. Gloria went on to direct A Safe Distance in 2024.

Gloria is passionate about featuring complex women on screen and challenging the idea of a “strong female character”.

Aidan West is a writer and filmmaker from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is an alumnus of the SFU undergraduate film program and the prestigious MFA screenwriting program at UCLA’s School of Theatre Film and Television. 

He produced the short film Hekademia, which was awarded best sci-fi at the Hollyshorts Film Festival and broadcast on CBC and CBC Gem. He wrote and produced the short film Smoke Eater, which received support from the Harold Greenberg Fund and Bell Media and broadcast on Crave. He has written and produced films that have screened at film festivals all over the world including South by Southwest, the Newport Beach Film Festival, Bentonville Film Festival, and Vancouver International Film Festival.

Aidan received the Alfred P. Sloan screenwriting fellowship for She Sells Seashells, his script about the life of pioneering paleontologist Mary Anning. Aidan’s screenplay V. Debs about the life of socialist, union activist, and political prisoner Eugene V. Debs, was a semi-finalist for the Academy Awards Nicholl Fellowship. Aidan is a quarterfinalist in the Final Draft Big Break Screenplay Competition, the Fresh Voices screenplay competition, and a semifinalist at the Blue Cat screenplay competition, and was a finalist at the UCLA Screenwriting Showcase. 

Aidan wrote and produced the feminist thriller A Safe Distance, which is being distributed in Canada by Vortex Media.

Nic Altobelli is a Canadian-Italian independent filmmaker who has produced projects in Toronto, Vancouver, Vietnam and Los Angeles. Her production company AREA V5 PICTURES has a bold slate of features and TV series, and she has produced films that have been selected by TIFF, Fantasia, Fright Fest and VIFF. The feature films she has produced have been picked up for international distribution and broadcast TV. She is a member of the CMPA Feature Film Committee and an alumni of the Canadian Film Centre Producers Lab. Her writing and directing work lives under her banner NALTOBEL along with singular short films she has produced for other filmmakers, such as 2025 Canada’s Top Ten Short Films Selection Ripe. Her films have been seen around the world and impact on audiences continues to grow.