2025 Lunenburg Doc Fest
Jurors
Thank you to our incredible jurors
Lunenburg Doc Fest
Lunenburg Doc Fest
Lunenburg Doc Fest
2025 Lunenburg Doc Fest Jurors
Lunenburg Doc Fest is delighted to feature our
festival jurors for 2025
Lunenburg Doc Fest is delighted to feature our festival
jurors for 2025
Angela Antle
Write, Artist and Former CBC Documentary Producer
Angela Antle is the 2025 Rachel Carson Writer-in-Residence at Munich’s LMU. An artist and former CBC documentary producer, she hosts and produces the podcast GYRE, is an interdisciplinary PhD candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador and a member of Norway’s Empowered Futures: A Global Research School Navigating the Social and Environmental Controversies of Low-Carbon Energy Transitions. Her research intersects climate communications and justice, disinformation, petrocultures, and political rhetoric. She writes an energy futures column in the Independent.ca and her debut novel The Saltbox Olive was released in June by Breakwater Books.
Angela Antle
Write, Artist and Former CBC Documentary Producer
Angela Antle is the 2025 Rachel Carson Writer-in-Residence at Munich’s LMU. An artist and former CBC documentary producer, she hosts and produces the podcast GYRE, is an interdisciplinary PhD candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador and a member of Norway’s Empowered Futures: A Global Research School Navigating the Social and Environmental Controversies of Low-Carbon Energy Transitions. Her research intersects climate communications and justice, disinformation, petrocultures, and political rhetoric. She writes an energy futures column in the Independent.ca and her debut novel The Saltbox Olive was released in June by Breakwater Books.
Angela Antle
Write, Artist and Former CBC Documentary Producer
Angela Antle is the 2025 Rachel Carson Writer-in-Residence at Munich’s LMU. An artist and former CBC documentary producer, she hosts and produces the podcast GYRE, is an interdisciplinary PhD candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador and a member of Norway’s Empowered Futures: A Global Research School Navigating the Social and Environmental Controversies of Low-Carbon Energy Transitions. Her research intersects climate communications and justice, disinformation, petrocultures, and political rhetoric. She writes an energy futures column in the Independent.ca and her debut novel The Saltbox Olive was released in June by Breakwater Books.
Elspeth Arbow
Operations Manager at the Disability Screen Office
Currently, Elspeth is the Operations Manager at the Disability Screen Office, a Canadian organization focused on lowering barriers for disabled people working in front of and behind the camera in the film and television industries. In addition to her work at the DSO, Elspeth is an Associate International Features programmer at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Previously, Elspeth helped oversee Hot Docs’ national Youth & Education program, Docs For School, providing free documentary programming to an average of 100k grade 5-12 students in Canada each year. She has served as the Disability Consultant for the Hot Docs Festival and as a jury member with Reel Abilities Toronto for multiple editions of each festival. Originally from Saint John, New Brunswick, Elspeth is currently based in Toronto, Ontario. She holds an HBA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto.
Elspeth Arbow
Operations Manager at the Disability Screen Office
Currently, Elspeth is the Operations Manager at the Disability Screen Office, a Canadian organization focused on lowering barriers for disabled people working in front of and behind the camera in the film and television industries. In addition to her work at the DSO, Elspeth is an Associate International Features programmer at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Previously, Elspeth helped oversee Hot Docs’ national Youth & Education program, Docs For School, providing free documentary programming to an average of 100k grade 5-12 students in Canada each year. She has served as the Disability Consultant for the Hot Docs Festival and as a jury member with Reel Abilities Toronto for multiple editions of each festival. Originally from Saint John, New Brunswick, Elspeth is currently based in Toronto, Ontario. She holds an HBA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto.
Elspeth Arbow
Operations Manager at the Disability Screen Office
Currently, Elspeth is the Operations Manager at the Disability Screen Office, a Canadian organization focused on lowering barriers for disabled people working in front of and behind the camera in the film and television industries. In addition to her work at the DSO, Elspeth is an Associate International Features programmer at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Previously, Elspeth helped oversee Hot Docs’ national Youth & Education program, Docs For School, providing free documentary programming to an average of 100k grade 5-12 students in Canada each year. She has served as the Disability Consultant for the Hot Docs Festival and as a jury member with Reel Abilities Toronto for multiple editions of each festival. Originally from Saint John, New Brunswick, Elspeth is currently based in Toronto, Ontario. She holds an HBA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto.
Britney Canzi
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Britney Canzi
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Britney Canzi
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Luckas Cardona-Morisset
Filmmaker and Producer
Luckas Cardona-Morisset is a filmmaker, producer, and two-time Screen Nova Scotia Award winner based in Atlantic Canada. With extensive experience across film, television, and branded content, Luckas has led projects for CBC Television, Teletoon/Corus, and UnisTV, including Spaceman and Robotron, Le sens du Punch, and Comme dans l’espace. He also works regularly as a video editor, blending a passion for visual storytelling with a love of narrative that resonates across languages and cultures.
Luckas Cardona-Morisset
Filmmaker and Producer
Luckas Cardona-Morisset is a filmmaker, producer, and two-time Screen Nova Scotia Award winner based in Atlantic Canada. With extensive experience across film, television, and branded content, Luckas has led projects for CBC Television, Teletoon/Corus, and UnisTV, including Spaceman and Robotron, Le sens du Punch, and Comme dans l’espace. He also works regularly as a video editor, blending a passion for visual storytelling with a love of narrative that resonates across languages and cultures.
Luckas Cardona-Morisset
Filmmaker and Producer
Luckas Cardona-Morisset is a filmmaker, producer, and two-time Screen Nova Scotia Award winner based in Atlantic Canada. With extensive experience across film, television, and branded content, Luckas has led projects for CBC Television, Teletoon/Corus, and UnisTV, including Spaceman and Robotron, Le sens du Punch, and Comme dans l’espace. He also works regularly as a video editor, blending a passion for visual storytelling with a love of narrative that resonates across languages and cultures.
Leanna Crouch
Writer and Producer
Leanna Crouch has worked at City TV, CTV and TVO. It was at TVO when she became the producer of Imprint, a highly regarded and innovative program about books, language and ideas. Leanna authored One on One, an edited anthology of Imprint interviews with Margaret Atwood, Germaine Greer, Leonard Cohen, Douglas Coupland and many others. Along with partners, she ran several production companies throughout the years culminating in opening her own prodco - Lively Media in 2007- creating programs for global broadcasters and was one of the few women producers who helmed their own companies at that time.
Leanna has also been a catalyst and primary organizer for charitable benefits for PEN and the Writers Development Trust and was on the Board of Directors for the Documentary Organization of Canada – Toronto chapter. She is the recipient of multiple awards in both the United States and Canada including the Chicago, Houston and New York and Yorkton film and television festivals and received numerous CSA nominations.
Leanna Crouch
Writer and Producer
Leanna Crouch has worked at City TV, CTV and TVO. It was at TVO when she became the producer of Imprint, a highly regarded and innovative program about books, language and ideas. Leanna authored One on One, an edited anthology of Imprint interviews with Margaret Atwood, Germaine Greer, Leonard Cohen, Douglas Coupland and many others. Along with partners, she ran several production companies throughout the years culminating in opening her own prodco - Lively Media in 2007- creating programs for global broadcasters and was one of the few women producers who helmed their own companies at that time.
Leanna has also been a catalyst and primary organizer for charitable benefits for PEN and the Writers Development Trust and was on the Board of Directors for the Documentary Organization of Canada – Toronto chapter. She is the recipient of multiple awards in both the United States and Canada including the Chicago, Houston and New York and Yorkton film and television festivals and received numerous CSA nominations.
Leanna Crouch
Writer and Producer
Leanna Crouch has worked at City TV, CTV and TVO. It was at TVO when she became the producer of Imprint, a highly regarded and innovative program about books, language and ideas. Leanna authored One on One, an edited anthology of Imprint interviews with Margaret Atwood, Germaine Greer, Leonard Cohen, Douglas Coupland and many others. Along with partners, she ran several production companies throughout the years culminating in opening her own prodco - Lively Media in 2007- creating programs for global broadcasters and was one of the few women producers who helmed their own companies at that time.
Leanna has also been a catalyst and primary organizer for charitable benefits for PEN and the Writers Development Trust and was on the Board of Directors for the Documentary Organization of Canada – Toronto chapter. She is the recipient of multiple awards in both the United States and Canada including the Chicago, Houston and New York and Yorkton film and television festivals and received numerous CSA nominations.
Peter Hall
Story Editor, Producer, Director and Executive Producer
Peter Hall is happily retired after nearly four decades working in Canadian broadcasting. He was a story editor, producer, director and executive producer at various information and news programs at the three major networks. As a senior manager with CBC Atlantic Peter worked closely with independent producers commissioning documentaries and other programs for broadcast in the region and on network television. Peter is the Jury Coordinator for LDF 2025
Peter Hall
Story Editor, Producer, Director and Executive Producer
Peter Hall is happily retired after nearly four decades working in Canadian broadcasting. He was a story editor, producer, director and executive producer at various information and news programs at the three major networks. As a senior manager with CBC Atlantic Peter worked closely with independent producers commissioning documentaries and other programs for broadcast in the region and on network television. Peter is the Jury Coordinator for LDF 2025
Peter Hall
Story Editor, Producer, Director and Executive Producer
Peter Hall is happily retired after nearly four decades working in Canadian broadcasting. He was a story editor, producer, director and executive producer at various information and news programs at the three major networks. As a senior manager with CBC Atlantic Peter worked closely with independent producers commissioning documentaries and other programs for broadcast in the region and on network television. Peter is the Jury Coordinator for LDF 2025
Jerry McIntosh
Founder and president of McIntosh Media
Founder and president of McIntosh Media, a Canadian film and television production and consulting company, Jerry McIntosh recently retired after a career as a journalist, producer and director of documentary and television programs.
Previously, McIntosh was Director of Independent Documentaries at CBC Television and CBC Newsworld where he launched the award-winning independent documentary series Rough Cuts, supervised the launch of The Lens, expanded the series The Passionate Eye, and contributed to the launch of the Canadian Documentary Channel.
More recently he has been a videographer, editor and director for a number of short films for clients that have included Memorial University in St. John’s Newfoundland and The Festival of the Sound in Parry Sound Ontario.
Jerry McIntosh
Founder and president of McIntosh Media
Founder and president of McIntosh Media, a Canadian film and television production and consulting company, Jerry McIntosh recently retired after a career as a journalist, producer and director of documentary and television programs.
Previously, McIntosh was Director of Independent Documentaries at CBC Television and CBC Newsworld where he launched the award-winning independent documentary series Rough Cuts, supervised the launch of The Lens, expanded the series The Passionate Eye, and contributed to the launch of the Canadian Documentary Channel.
More recently he has been a videographer, editor and director for a number of short films for clients that have included Memorial University in St. John’s Newfoundland and The Festival of the Sound in Parry Sound Ontario.
Jerry McIntosh
Founder and president of McIntosh Media
Founder and president of McIntosh Media, a Canadian film and television production and consulting company, Jerry McIntosh recently retired after a career as a journalist, producer and director of documentary and television programs.
Previously, McIntosh was Director of Independent Documentaries at CBC Television and CBC Newsworld where he launched the award-winning independent documentary series Rough Cuts, supervised the launch of The Lens, expanded the series The Passionate Eye, and contributed to the launch of the Canadian Documentary Channel.
More recently he has been a videographer, editor and director for a number of short films for clients that have included Memorial University in St. John’s Newfoundland and The Festival of the Sound in Parry Sound Ontario.
Mohit Rajhans
ACTRA Member and Longtime Contributor to Canada’s Screen Industry
Mohit Rajhans is an ACTRA member and longtime contributor to Canada’s screen industry, with two decades of experience across media, broadcasting, and film. As a juror for the International Emmy Awards for over a decade, he has helped shape recognition of excellence in global television. In Canada, he has served as a panelist and on-air contributor for CBC’s Short Film Face Off, championing emerging filmmakers and new storytelling voices. Today, Rajhans is extending his expertise to the innovation side of film and media, where he advises on AI, digital transformation, and the future of storytelling.
Mohit Rajhans
ACTRA Member and Longtime Contributor to Canada’s Screen Industry
Mohit Rajhans is an ACTRA member and longtime contributor to Canada’s screen industry, with two decades of experience across media, broadcasting, and film. As a juror for the International Emmy Awards for over a decade, he has helped shape recognition of excellence in global television. In Canada, he has served as a panelist and on-air contributor for CBC’s Short Film Face Off, championing emerging filmmakers and new storytelling voices. Today, Rajhans is extending his expertise to the innovation side of film and media, where he advises on AI, digital transformation, and the future of storytelling.
Mohit Rajhans
ACTRA Member and Longtime Contributor to Canada’s Screen Industry
Mohit Rajhans is an ACTRA member and longtime contributor to Canada’s screen industry, with two decades of experience across media, broadcasting, and film. As a juror for the International Emmy Awards for over a decade, he has helped shape recognition of excellence in global television. In Canada, he has served as a panelist and on-air contributor for CBC’s Short Film Face Off, championing emerging filmmakers and new storytelling voices. Today, Rajhans is extending his expertise to the innovation side of film and media, where he advises on AI, digital transformation, and the future of storytelling.
Sue Newhook
Journalist and Professor (emeritus) at the University of King’s College
Sue Newhook’s love of documentary goes back to her first freelance pieces for CBC Radio’s legendary Sunday Morning in the 1980s. Her practice has included radio, television, multimedia and mobile projects as a working journalist and as a teacher at the University of King’s College School of Journalism, Writing and Publishing, where she is Inglis Professor (emeritus). Her graduate work explored the NFB's Fogo Island films as documentaries in the context of the 1970s' "cultural revolution" in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Sue Newhook
Journalist and Professor (emeritus) at the University of King’s College
Sue Newhook’s love of documentary goes back to her first freelance pieces for CBC Radio’s legendary Sunday Morning in the 1980s. Her practice has included radio, television, multimedia and mobile projects as a working journalist and as a teacher at the University of King’s College School of Journalism, Writing and Publishing, where she is Inglis Professor (emeritus). Her graduate work explored the NFB's Fogo Island films as documentaries in the context of the 1970s' "cultural revolution" in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Sue Newhook
Journalist and Professor (emeritus) at the University of King’s College
Sue Newhook’s love of documentary goes back to her first freelance pieces for CBC Radio’s legendary Sunday Morning in the 1980s. Her practice has included radio, television, multimedia and mobile projects as a working journalist and as a teacher at the University of King’s College School of Journalism, Writing and Publishing, where she is Inglis Professor (emeritus). Her graduate work explored the NFB's Fogo Island films as documentaries in the context of the 1970s' "cultural revolution" in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Christopher Richardson
Producer and Documentary Filmmaker
With a storyteller’s instinct and a filmmaker’s eye, Christopher Richardson has created award-winning documentaries that have screened nationally, internationally, and in classrooms worldwide. Over more than three decades in production, he has produced films for CBC and the documentary Channel, bringing an extensive range of stories to the screen. He was a curriculum developer for the College of the North Atlantic’s new TV and Film Production Program and now plays an active role in teaching and mentoring a new generation of filmmakers to find their own voice.
Christopher Richardson
Producer and Documentary Filmmaker
With a storyteller’s instinct and a filmmaker’s eye, Christopher Richardson has created award-winning documentaries that have screened nationally, internationally, and in classrooms worldwide. Over more than three decades in production, he has produced films for CBC and the documentary Channel, bringing an extensive range of stories to the screen. He was a curriculum developer for the College of the North Atlantic’s new TV and Film Production Program and now plays an active role in teaching and mentoring a new generation of filmmakers to find their own voice.
Christopher Richardson
Producer and Documentary Filmmaker
With a storyteller’s instinct and a filmmaker’s eye, Christopher Richardson has created award-winning documentaries that have screened nationally, internationally, and in classrooms worldwide. Over more than three decades in production, he has produced films for CBC and the documentary Channel, bringing an extensive range of stories to the screen. He was a curriculum developer for the College of the North Atlantic’s new TV and Film Production Program and now plays an active role in teaching and mentoring a new generation of filmmakers to find their own voice.
John Walker
Documentary Filmmaker
John Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific and respected documentary filmmakers. His films have been widely broadcast and have appeared at major international film festivals in Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, London and Tokyo. He has received 60 Canadian and international nominations and awards for his writing, directing, producing and cinematography, 19 of those from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. In 2018, he was honoured with a Hot Docs Focus On Retrospective and a Canadian Society of Cinematographers Masters Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Art of Cinematography.
John Walker
Documentary Filmmaker
John Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific and respected documentary filmmakers. His films have been widely broadcast and have appeared at major international film festivals in Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, London and Tokyo. He has received 60 Canadian and international nominations and awards for his writing, directing, producing and cinematography, 19 of those from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. In 2018, he was honoured with a Hot Docs Focus On Retrospective and a Canadian Society of Cinematographers Masters Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Art of Cinematography.
John Walker
Documentary Filmmaker
John Walker is one of Canada’s most prolific and respected documentary filmmakers. His films have been widely broadcast and have appeared at major international film festivals in Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, London and Tokyo. He has received 60 Canadian and international nominations and awards for his writing, directing, producing and cinematography, 19 of those from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. In 2018, he was honoured with a Hot Docs Focus On Retrospective and a Canadian Society of Cinematographers Masters Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Art of Cinematography.
Megan Wennberg
Documentary Filmmaker
Megan Wennberg is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Nova Scotia. Her documentaries about child drag queens (Drag Kids, 2019), senior synchronized swimmers (Unsyncable, 2023), vigilante murder (The Killing of Phillip Boudreau, 2020) and fibroids (Bloody Mess, 2024) have screened and won awards at top festivals around the world like Annecy, BFI Flair, DOC NYC, HollyShorts, Hot Docs and Rotterdam. Megan has a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a Bachelor of Journalism, and she is a screenwriting alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre.
Megan Wennberg
Documentary Filmmaker
Megan Wennberg is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Nova Scotia. Her documentaries about child drag queens (Drag Kids, 2019), senior synchronized swimmers (Unsyncable, 2023), vigilante murder (The Killing of Phillip Boudreau, 2020) and fibroids (Bloody Mess, 2024) have screened and won awards at top festivals around the world like Annecy, BFI Flair, DOC NYC, HollyShorts, Hot Docs and Rotterdam. Megan has a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a Bachelor of Journalism, and she is a screenwriting alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre.
Megan Wennberg
Documentary Filmmaker
Megan Wennberg is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Nova Scotia. Her documentaries about child drag queens (Drag Kids, 2019), senior synchronized swimmers (Unsyncable, 2023), vigilante murder (The Killing of Phillip Boudreau, 2020) and fibroids (Bloody Mess, 2024) have screened and won awards at top festivals around the world like Annecy, BFI Flair, DOC NYC, HollyShorts, Hot Docs and Rotterdam. Megan has a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a Bachelor of Journalism, and she is a screenwriting alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre.
