Alice Is Fine

Sarah is a Toronto-based Actor, Filmmaker, Writer, Producer, and Acting Coach. As a performer, she is best known for her role as a series regular in award-nominated comedy series, Pink Is In (TUBI, Bell Fibe, Amazon Prime). 

Alice Is Fine is Sarah’s first work as a Filmmaker, and it will not be her last. This project awoke in Sarah a passion for the creative process of making films, and writing her own stories, and she desires to continue making work which takes what is invisible in our world, and makes it visible through art. 

Sarah recently played a principal role in independent short film Late Blooming created by Laura Welch, which is now in post-production. She was also featured in Diamonds on Plastic, another short in the midst of a successful festival run. A recent favourite theatrical role was Franziska Meiser in the Canadian premiere of Ferdinand von Schirach’s Terror with Crane Creations Theatre Company. Sarah is a member of ACTRA, CAEA, and WIFT. 

Sarah is also an Acting Coach and Arts Educator, specializing in work with youth, teens, and those new to performing.

Vivien Endicott-Douglas is an actor and filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada. 

An alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre CBC Actors Conservatory, she has starred and featured in over thirty on screen projects, including Transplant (NBC), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Fitting In (SXSW, TIFF), Clouds (Disney+) and New Eden (Crave). She was nominated for an ACTRA Outstanding Performance Award for her work in the feature film The Shape of Rex.

On stage, Vivien has played lead roles in productions with Origin Theatre (NYC), The National Arts Centre, Canadian Stage, Crow's Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Young People's Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Factory, Shakespeare in the Ruff, Summerworks and The Coalmine Theatre. Her stage work has garnered her two Dora Mavor Moore Outstanding Performance nominations.

Vivien’s directorial debut short film Grandma was a Cowgirl which she also wrote, produced and starred in, premiered at the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto in 2022- where it was nominated for Best Canadian Short. She has several other shorts in post production, including the medical dramadey, Alice is Fine. Her latest short, The Coordinator, is currently in development with the support of the Toronto Arts Council. She is a proud member of WIFT and ACTRA. When she isn't making her own work, she coaches and consults other creatives through her company Enlivenment Coaching; a space for artists to dig deep, nurture their practice and create impactful work they are proud of.

Bryn Kennedy (she/her) is a director, producer and performer, working in both theatre and film. A proud member of ACTRA and WIFT Toronto, Bryn’s first short as producer, Save the Date, won the outACTRAto pitch competition and premiered at the 2022 Inside Out Festival. It won awards at Inside Out Ottawa (Audience Choice Award for Best Short) and Hollywood North Film Festival (Best Canadian Short Film). In her acting work, she has had roles in Coroner (CBC), V-Wars (Netflix) and Everything’s Going to be Great (eOne), alongside commercial work. As a director, Bryn has worked with companies such as Crow’s Theatre, Musical Stage Company, Tarragon Theatre and the Stratford Festival, where she was awarded the Jean Gascon Award for Emerging Director. She has directed and produced theatre hits such as Beneath the Bed (sold out run, Toronto Fringe Festival), Vitals (Nominated for Outstanding Solo Performance, My Entertainment Awards) and JANE (inaugural Greenhouse Residence and Festival, Tarragon Theatre). Huge thank you to Sarah and Vivien, for telling this story.

Matthew Edison is known for The Boys, Gen V, Little Women Big League, and Accused.

Natasha Bromfield is a film/tv actor who landed her first recurring role in The Amazing Gayl Pile (CBC Gem/OUTtv), after leaving a career in nursing. Ironically, she has played a nurse several times in Flatliners (SONY), Painkillers (NETFLIX), and opposite Matt Damon in Downsizing (PARAMOUNT). Other credits include Workin’ Moms (CBC/NETFLIX) and Killjoys (SYFY/CTV SCI-FI). Natasha is a graduate of The Second City’s Sketch Conservatory Program (Toronto) and was thrilled to have recently had the chance to understudy in The Second City’s 89th MainStage Revue, “All Messed Up & Nowhere To Go”. She is also a member of the Oakville Improv Theatre Company, where she has been performing for the past 10 years.

Ben Steele Caldwell is known for Ginny & Georgia, Dream Scenario, Murdoch Mysteries, and Doc.

Carine Zahner is a Swiss-Malagasy cinematographer whose body of work centres around the paradoxes of identity vs community, of home vs belonging, of the underrepresented voices that make us up as a whole.

Matt is a Toronto-based post-production specialist with a strong focus on editing for film and television. With experience as an editor, assistant editor, dailies operator, and conform editor, he brings both creative insight and technical expertise to the editing process.

Josh Cruddas is a 3-time SOCAN Foundation Award-winning film composer: most recently for his score for 10000 Miles, named the best score by a Canadian under 35 years of age in its release year. Last year, he composed the music for the action-thriller Cyber Heist, starring Hong Kong megastar Aaron Kwok and released in theatres across Asia, and just wrapped composing Simon Hung's latest action feature, Mr. Monster Reborn. His other recent major score, for the HBO Asia/HBO Max series Dream Raider has an accompanying soundtrack album which is available to buy and stream everywhere. His award- winning score for Lionsgate’s feature Battle For Skyark was nominated alongside Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and Kingsman: The Secret Service for Best Action-Adventure Score by ReelMusic (IFMCA); after which he scored the Netflix movie Taking Earth. 

An in-demand artist on both sides of the camera, Josh is also known as an actor for his roles in Sony Pictures’ Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Lionsgate’s Moonfall, MGM's Billy The Kid, Syfy’s Revival, Netflix's Polar, and the new horror classic Anything For Jackson. His next project as an actor is 8 episodes of Apple TV’s upcoming action thriller The Last Frontier, alongside Jason Clarke, Dominic Cooper and Alfre Woodard.

JUNO-nominated artist, Tara Kannangara is a second-generation, Sri Lankan-Canadian force of nature, giving you music that is deeply personal, genre-bending and culture blending. All this, encompassed by wild trumpet melodies, searing guitar lines, lush synths, and piercing lyricism will make you turn your head and listen.

As a tween Tara watched hours of television alone in her room eating rice crispy squares after school. These happy times were interspersed with weekly piano lessons, singing lessons and early morning band rehearsals before homeroom. Always a dreamer, Tara imagined herself as a  character in a network sitcom television show.  Perhaps she could’ve been Frasier Crane’s long-lost daughter after a torrid affair with Padma Lakshmi! 

She eventually left her beautiful hometown of Chilliwack BC  to study classical trumpet and voice at the University of Victoria but her love for making her own art led her to Toronto to pursue music at the University of Toronto. After years of studying institutionalized art, Tara was compelled to break the veneer built around her experience of music-making. She returned to those happy moments alone in her bedroom with her rice crispies and began to write about being a dreamer, an outsider, and a woman longing to be seen. Not to mention the glory and absurdity of love!

Tara has been featured on CBC's The Signal, The Sunday Edition and NPR Tiny Desk with Lido Pimienta. She also performed on Lido's Grammy nominated record, "Miss Colombia." She has had the privilege to work with extraordinary homegrown artists such as Jeremy Dutcher, Charlotte Cornfield, and Witch Prophet. Her own work has been presented at major festivals across North America including The Montreal Jazz Festival, The Washington DC Jazz Festival and The Smithsonian. She currently teaches at Voice and Trumpet at Humber College.

Michael Fong is a Toronto based music producer, composer, and mixing engineer. He has worked with a diversity of artists including Canadian rock and pop acts (July Talk, Wintersleep, Zinnia, Tara Kannangara), filmmakers (Brittany Farhat, Marc O’Brien), and Toronto’s jazz community (Local Talent, Chris Pruden, Julian Anderson Bowes).

He is a long time collaborator with Electric Youth, known for their work on the soundtrack to Nicolas Winding Refn’s motion picture Drive. Together, they have contributed to the catalogue of Grammy and Oscar winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence & Andata Remodels) and created original scores for Anthony Scott Burns’ Come True, Carly Stone’s North of Normal, and Max Chernov’s Going Places. On Electric Youth’s own catalogue, Michael is a writer, producer, and mixing engineer. Their 2019 LP Memory Emotion was nominated for electronic album of the year at the 2020 Juno Awards.

Michael also spent several years working with the live music website Southern Souls, where he recorded and mixed performances by iconic Canadian artists including Gordon Downie, Andy Schauf, Jill Barber, and Daniel Romano.