Daniel Cross is a multi-disciplined award winning documentary
filmmaker who has made his mark with films concerning the issues
of homelessness in Canada. His feature length films,
THE STREET: a film with the homeless and S.P.I.T:
Squegee Punks In Traffic received theatrical distribution
and critical acclaim. Along with the groundbreaking website HomelessNation.Org, these projects are reflective of his artistic philosophy that film is a medium for affecting social and political change.
Daniel also has experience in TV broadcast, having directed and
produced the Gemini nominated Too Colourful for
the League and Chairman George (CTV, BBC
Storyville and TV2 Denmark). He was the Executive Producer of the internationally acclaimed Up the Yangtze, about a pleasure cruise through the devastation of the world's largest hydro-electric dam. In addition to making films, Daniel is active in the film community, having won a TRAILBLAZER award at MIPDOC in France, MENTOR OF THE YEAR from the CFTPA
and serving as board member of HOT DOCS and the Documentary Organization of Canada. He also teaches film production at Concordia University.
Mila Aung-Thwin is a director/producer based in Montreal. After completing his studies at McGill University, he learned filmmaking on the gritty streets of Montreal and Toronto by working with mentor Daniel Cross on S.P.I.T: Squeegee Punks in Traffic. Together, they co-founded EyeSteelFilm. Mila has also directed documentaries such as Music for a Blue Train and BONE. Chairman George, which he co-directed with Cross, has won awards at AFI/Silverdocs and the Guangzhou Documentary Festival. As a producer, Mila has experience working with broadcast partners around the world, such as National Geographic, BBC, ZDF/ARTE and PBS. Most recently, he produced Up The Yangtze, one of the most successful theatrical documentaries ever released in Canada.
Brett Gaylor is a documentary filmmaker and new media director.
He is the creator of OpenSourceCinema.org, a video remix community
supporting the production of a feature documentary about copyright in the digital age. He is also the web producer of Homeless Nation.org, a web project dedicated to bridging the digital divide - allowing everyone to participate in online culture. Brett has been on staff with EyeSteelFilm for 6 years as an editor, music supervisor and director. Brett is one of Canada's first videobloggers and has been working with youth and media for over 10 years, and is a founding instructor of the Gulf Islands Film and Television School.
While he was living on the streets of Montreal as a drug-addicted teenager, Roach met EyeSteelFilm's Daniel Cross and improbably began a career as a documentary filmmaker. He began by documenting his own life with his "RoachCam" for the acclaimed S.P.I.T: Squeegee Punks in Traffic. Using cinema as a motivation to get cleaned up, Roach has gone on to make 2 other films with EyeSteelFilm: RoachTrip, about the invisible punk highway from Quebec to the orchards of British Columbia; and Punk the Vote!, which saw Roach and fellow punker Starbuck run for federal election against Liberal incumbent Jean Lapierre, in an informative, hilarious take on Canadian politics punk-rock style (he didn't win the election, but neither did the Liberal Party!). His films have played in festivals such as HotDocs, Tver (Russia), DocsDF (Mexico City) and Nemo (Paris). He is currently making Les Tickets, about the bureaucratic tricks used by police to arrest homeless people.
Anuj Khosla joined the EyeSteelFilm team in April 2003, supervising all accounting and administration, as well as helping to found HomelessNation.org. Upon graduating
from the University of Saskatchewan with Bachelors in Arts and
Bachelors in Commerce, Anuj held several leadership positions
abroad within AIESEC, an international student run NGO. Working
in Sweden during the IT boom, Anuj gained practical experience
in the New Media industry. Active in the sectors of arts, youth
and business and international co-operation, Anuj is a pacifist
social-activist.
