Filmmaker, historian, author and journalist, Brian McKenna is best known for provocative, award-winning films on Canada's history: The Killing Ground, War at Sea, Valour and the Horror, Web of War, War of 1812, and Fire and Ice: The Rocket Richard Riot. McKenna is also a founding producer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Oscar-winning current affairs show, the fifth estate. In 1987, he wrote and produced a feature length drama on the Montreal Underworld. Directed by Francis Mankiewicz, the film, And Then You Die, was broadcast internationally and won two Gemini Awards. He also directed the Gemini Award-winning, Memoirs of Pierre Trudeau, a five part television series broadcast on both the French and English networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Gil Cardinal is a director, writer and producer based in Edmonton, Canada. Of Metis descent (Cree and French), the greater part of his work relates to aboriginal themes. His documentary work covers a wide range of topics, including the search for his own aboriginal heritage and natural family; Foster Child; the inclusion of First Nations into the 1992 Constitutional negotiations; Our Home and Native Land, and fetal alcohol syndrome; David With F.A.S. Dramatically, Gil's work includes episodic television; North of 60, The Rez, Mentors, anthologies; Hotwalker, Four Directions: The Border, and a CBC mini-series; Big Bear. Gil has received numerous awards for both his documentary and dramatic work, including a Gemini award for Best Director for Foster Child. He is also the recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award.