David Hoffert
Director/Producer
David Hoffert has won or been nominated for over a dozen international awards for his work throughout the years. Highlights include directing the NFB multi-award winning documentary OCD: The War Inside and producing the documentary Magical Imperfection, about the renowned architect Raymond Moriyama. He has directed two hundred episodes of
television and been nominated for three Gemini Awards, including
Best Director of a Reality Series.
Brenda Hoffert
Producer
Brenda Hoffert has had an eclectic career in the entertainment industry as a producer, writer, performer, and manager. Her work as a producer and/or screenwriter
of documentaries includes award-winning films such as OCD: The War Inside and One Fine Weekend. Her work as a
producer and writer of over a hundred radio and television
commercials has garnered her many awards including an international
Clio. She is also a noted photographer and lyricist.
Paul Hoffert
Producer
Paul Hoffert is a well known producer,
composer, musician, author and professor of film
and music at University of Toronto, and formerly on the Harvard University
Faculty. He was president of the Academy of
Canadian Cinema and Television, chair of the Ontario Arts
Council, and chair of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada. Paul
was awarded Canada’s highest honour, the Order of Canada, for his
contributions to film, music and digital media.
Jeff Preyra
Producer
Jeff Preyra is dedicated to the creation of high quality entertainment programming and has produced hundreds of hours of television series, including Style By Jury, Arresting Design and Brides
of Beverly Hills. He is a leader in the development of augmented reality
content and has a business consultancy with a focus on helping clients tell their stories in virtual reality, augmented reality, and future immersive media.
Stephen Fry
Actor
Diary Narrator
Stephen Fry is an English actor, author, poet, comedian, and television and radio presenter. He attended Queen's College Cambridge from 1979, joining the Cambridge Footlights Dramatic Club where he met Hugh Laurie, with whom he forged a highly successful writing partnership and television career along with Emma Thompson. His voice work is extensive including film, video games and audio books, such as J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ series. He's written novels, several works of nonfiction, and three volumes of autobiography.
Hania M. Fedorowicz
Associate Producer
Diary Translator
Hania M. Fedorowicz is a certified mediator in Austria. She studied linguistics, languages and communications at U of T and McGill in Canada, completing a doctorate in Communications at the University of Salzburg and has taught at universities in Canada, Poland and Austria in four languages. She has been awarded two prizes for literary achievement. In 2004 she founded the European Institute for Community-based Conflict Resolution and from 2012 to 2015, she was a member of the Papal Council for Justice and Peace.
Chris Landreth
Animation Consultant
Chris Landreth has won almost fifty
international awards, including the Academy Award for his animated
film, Ryan. He is Artist in Residence at University of Toronto and a
Master with The Beijing DeTao Masters Academy in Shanghai, China.
He is known for producing animation that is "psychorealistic",
representing film characters’ psychological traumas.