Rosanna Maule, the principal investigator in this project, is Professor of Film and Moving Image at Concordia University, in Montreal. Her areas of expertise include feminist and gender-informed theory and culture, women’s cinematic practices, and new authorial discourse. She is the author of Sustainable Resilience in Women’s Film and Video Organizations: A Counter-Lineage in Moving Image History (Routledge, 2023) and other books. With Guylaine Dionne, she directed Contemporary Women Filmmakers, a feature documentary about women directors in fiction film (2018).

Ylenia Olibet was the Project Manager on Women’s Film and Video organizations for two years from 2021 to 2023. She obtained her PhD in Film and Moving Images Studies at Concordia University, under the supervision of Dr. Rosanna Maule. Her research has been published in Feminist Media Studies, Feminist Media Histories, and several edited collections. She is currently a FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University.

Fernanda Alves Salgado, who has been the project manager since 2023, is a researcher and creator from Brazil. She is currently working on her PhD in Film Studies at Concordia University, in which she discusses contemporary Black female experimental animation as sites and strategies of counternarratives, within an intersectional theoretical framework. Co-founder of the Apiario Creative Studio, she works as a scriptwriter and creative director, and is currently in production with the animated feature film Ana, en passant.

Aurélie Petit, who is the website designer for this project, is a PhD Candidate in the Film Studies department at Concordia University, Montréal. She specializes in the intersection of technology and animation, with a focus on gender and sexuality. As a visual and social researcher, her practice focuses on interrogating the role of non-realistic sex media in internet governance. During 2023-2024, she was a Doctoral Fellow in AI and Inclusion at the AI + Society Initiative (University of Ottawa) collaborating with Professor Jason Millar and the CRAiEDL on the ethics of non-realistic porn.

Natalie Greenberg is the book proofreader. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University. Her dissertation examined how the imaginary of airspace was shaped by American aviation’s social and technological infrastructure from Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight through the Second World War. She is currently a master’s student at McGill University’s School of Information Studies, working as a projectionist and exploring the intersection of archival studies and media preservation.

Diego Bravo, who was research assistant in this project from 2021 to 2023, is a versatile filmmaker, journalist, photographer, and social researcher with a heritage blending Cuban and Zacatec Indigenous cultures. Originally from Mexico City, he has gained experience locally and internationally as a journalist and photojournalist since 2010. Now based in Montreal, he recently completed an MA in Media Studies at Concordia University, with research on the social impacts of the militarization of the Eastern Canadian Arctic on Inuit lands and communities. He continues to work closely with Inuit organizations, artists, and community leaders, exploring healthcare accessibility, community services, and land-based education for urban Inuit populations in Canada.

Christina Lee, research assistant in this project from 2022 to 2024, is a 2024 graduate of Concordia University with a BFA Specialization in Film Studies and a Minor in Professional Writing. Her achievements include the De Sève Cinema Undergraduate Scholarship and the Concordia Undergraduate Student Research Award, which allowed her to work as a research assistant with a dedicated research team. While studying cinema, she pursued various roles, such as a social media coordinator, engagement lead, and orientation coordinator. She aspires to explore career opportunities in the entertainment industry, merging her love for visual arts with a newfound interest in marketing and project management.

Jared Aronoff, research assistant in this project from 2023 to 2024, is a 3rd year PhD student in Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Jared’s Master’s research considered the aesthetics of “bad” cinema and the language used to describe it in a scholarly context. His proposed PhD research will consider serial temporality in popular streaming television series, examining how narrative structures influence audience engagement and perception.

Rania Metni has been collaborating in this project since spring 2024. She is a PhD candidate in the Italian Department at McGill University, focusing on cinema and feminism. Her research explores the role of women intellectuals during the second wave of feminism in Italy and their impact on contemporary social contexts, emphasizing gender equality and social justice through interdisciplinary approaches and film studies.

Lola Remy who collaborated as translator for this project, is an FRQSC postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, Montreal. She completed her PhD at Concordia University in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Her project is an oral history that recentres women’s affective and gendered labour in experimental film archives. Her work on archives as sites of cultural encounters, racial and gendered violence, and reappropriation by communities and artists has appeared or is forthcoming in The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Frames Cinema Journal, NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, and Synoptique, An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies.

Agustín Rugiero Bader who collaborated as translator for this project, is a PhD candidate at Concordia University. His research focuses on film aesthetics, radical cinemas, Latin American cinemas, and collaborative practices. He has published papers on horror film and community, and presented at several conferences in Canada, the United States, and Spain. His work interrogates the intersections of politics and aesthetics in contemporary visual media.

Ali El-Darsa who was a website consultant for this project, works in moving image, performance, sound, and installation. His work examines structures of belonging in transnational contexts, emphasizing the specificity of time-based media’s significance to creating networked, mediated memories and narratives. His interdisciplinary research in performance opens onto fields of text, word, sign, and languages, questioning collaboratively the ways in which language influences thought systems and, by extension, the discourses and interpretations of a work of art, both in its matter and metaphorical sense.