Blair Goudie (Atlantic Canada House)
Blair Goudie writes, produces and performs in a wide variety of musical genres, including hard rock and softer, more melodic acoustic work. He has also found his niche in the music industry with his new solo electronic sound. This talented musician is setting a new standard for pop-rock music in Newfoundland and Labrador. Combining distorted beats, acoustic guitars and a futuristic sound, he pulls together all aspects from his past experiences to create something inspiring and unique.

Deanne Foley (Atlantic Canada House)
Newfoundland filmmaker Deanne Foley marked her directorial debut with the award-winning comedic short Trombone Trouble, which premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival in 2000. She then produced the award-winning short drama This Boy for CBC Atlantic, W Network and IFC-Canada. Ms. Foley worked as a cultural correspondent for CBC's national late night arts program ZeD, and as a field producer for CBC's Street Cents. She was also a guest director on the national television comedy A Guy and Girl for the W Network. She created and directed on the lifestyle documentary series Going The Distance for Global Television; wrote and directed the arts documentary Boys On The Fringe for CTV and IFC-Canada, and worked as a field director on KINK for Showcase. Most recently, under NIFCO's/Telefilm's Picture Start program, Ms. Foley co-wrote and directed a short film, The Magnificent Molly McBride, starring Andy Jones and newcomer Julia Kennedy. She is currently working on a feature-length script based on the short film.

Ed Tanasychuk (Atlantic Canada House)
Edward Tanasychuk has been a working member of the film and television industry since 1988, primarily in post-production, where he has worked on over 50 productions. He has been picture editor on more than two dozen television documentary programs, numerous commercials, short dramas and multimedia projects, and one feature-length film. Mr. Tanasychuk has also directed three films: the short documentary To See or Not to See, which aired on CBC in 1998; the award-winning short drama Cold Turkey, which played at several film festivals in 2003; and, Mum's the Word, a short film produced through the NIFCO-Telefilm Canada project Picture Start in 2009. In addition, he served on the board of the Producers Association of Newfoundland (PAN) from 1997-1999 and was its executive director from 1999-2001. Since 2004, Mr. Tanasychuk has been a programmer for the Nickel Independent Film Festival since 2004 and the technical director for the St. John's International Women's Film Festival. He has been on the board of the Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Cooperative (NIFCO) since 2007.

Isabella St. John (Cultural Olympiad)
Working in her Blue Moon Pottery studio located in the Battery area of St. John's, Isabella St. John is known throughout the province for her well-designed functional pottery. Lately, she has broadened the scope of her work to include more exploratory, one-of-a-kind raku and stoneware vessels and sculptural forms. Her work has been exhibited across Canada as well as in Korea. It is included in the permanent collections of the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, the Burlington Arts Centre in Burlington, Ontario and in the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec.

Jordan Canning (Atlantic Canada House)
Jordan Canning has directed and produced over a dozen short films and music videos. Her latest short, the NSI Drama Prize-winning film Countdown, continues to screen at festivals around the world. She is currently developing her first feature film.

Karen Colbourne Martin (Cultural Olympiad, Atlantic Canada House)
Karen Colbourne Martin was born and raised in St. John's, where she started her career as a traditional quilt maker. A keen interest in art had been nurtured at an early age and it was this interest that moved her from the traditional and towards the development of an original style. While working from her late father's and her own extensive slide collection, she "paints" with fabric, depicting the scenic beauty of the province. Ms. Colbourne Martin has become internationally known for her Newfoundland and Labrador landscapes, which she hopes give the viewer a true sense of the uniqueness of the province. Her textile works have appeared in many exhibitions throughout the world including Canadian Art Quilts, Yokohama and Sendai, Japan; Unity and Diversity, Cheongju, South Korea, and now at the Art of Craft, Cultural Olympiad, Museum of Vancouver.

Lois Brown (Atlantic Canada House)
Born in Corner Brook, Lois Brown studied drama at the University of Alberta, then moved to St. John's, where she has maintained a cross-disciplinary career. She is past artistic animateur of RCA Theatre Company and former curator of Neighbourhood Dance Works. Her feature The Bingo Robbers (created with co-star and writer Barry Newhook and producer Dana Warren) won several awards including Best Original Screenplay at The Atlantic Film Festival and Best Feature at the Toronto International Digital Video Festival in 2000. In 2004, she was one of five Canadian directors short-listed for the Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize. The following year she received the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award from the Canada Council for achievement by an outstanding mid-career Canadian theatre artist. Her award-winning script Heartless Disappearance into Labrador Seas, has been made into a short film and premiered at The Atlantic Film Festival in 2008. Ms. Brown is currently teaching acting at Memorial University and directing an adaptation of Toronto artist Phlip Arima's Broken Accidents, written by Joel Hynes and co-created with Sarah Stoker and Louise Moyes, with music by Lori Clarke.

Paddy Barry (Atlantic Canada House)
For more than two decades, singer/songwriter Paddy Barry has been performing at festivals, coffee houses and concert venues. Mr. Barry plays guitar and sings original contemporary folk songs that are crafted with memorable melodies and a narrative style. He is a raconteur who weaves his life's stories into his songs and performances. He has been featured at the Newfoundland & Labrador Folk Festival, the Seabird Festival in Newtown, Folk Night at the Ship Pub, and as guest artist on the Songwriters Association of Canada's Bluebird North in Vancouver, BC. He was a featured artist in the CBC Radio's Singers & Songwriters series and his music has appeared in films.

Rob Blackie (Atlantic Canada House)
Rob Blackie is the producer of over a dozen film and television productions, including the new CBC television series Republic of Doyle, the Newfoundland and Labrador feature film Love and Savagery, and the award-winning documentary, Playing the Machines. Mr. Blackie is also an in-demand writer and production manager. He wrote and directed Quiet at Dawn in 2009 as part of the NIFCO/Telefilm Picture Start program.

Sherry White (Atlantic Canada House)
Sherry White is both an iconic east coast performer as well as one of the country's top television writers. A graduate of the Fine Arts program at the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, Ms. White has performed in a number of theatre companies, including the White Rooster Theatre and Rising Tide. She co-wrote and starred in the recent feature film Down to the Dirt, and also wrote and starred in the 2003 feature The Breadmaker. Ms. White starred in Mary Walsh's Young Triffie and in Grown Up Movie Star, which made its U.S. debute at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. For television, she has written and starred in the CBC series MVP and Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, and just recently wrote an episode of the current CBC show Sophie. Ms. White's short film, Spoiled, which she wrote and directed, screened at the 2008 St. John's International Women's Film Festival. In 2009, Ms. White wrote and directed her first feature film Crackie, which debuted to international acclaim, having appeared at both the 2009 Cannes and Toronto International Film Festivals, and winning for Best International Drama at the 2009 Turin Film Festival in Italy. She is also an accomplished stage actress with leading roles in Salvage, Top Girls, Rocky Horror, Chekov Variations and Blue Blazes.

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