PRODUCTION TEAM
TANYA HOSHI
Producer / Director
Tanya Hoshi is a Canadian director and producer. She is a recent graduate of the Advanced Television and Film program at Sheridan College, where she directed two narratives and produced two documentaries. Her film "Fading Fire" is her directorial debut as a documentary filmmaker. Tanya has a great passion for documentaries about gender issues, mental health, and religion. She is currently working at Blue Ice Pictures in Toronto.
vladimir kabelik
executive producer
Kabelik arrived in Canada in 1982 as a political refugee from Czechoslovakia, where he had extensive experience as a director and screenwriter. Once in Canada, he produced projects for CBC, TV Ontario, OMNI, and Vision TV. He joined Sheridan College in 1984 and continued an active career as a filmmaker and photographer. Kabelik has also exhibited widely across North America as a photographer.
Jeff pavlopoulos
Director of Photography
Jeff is a Canadian cinematographer. He is a recent graduate of the Advanced Television and Film program at Sheridan College, where he studied cinematography and documentary. He is currently working as a cinematographer in Toronto. His advice to aspiring cinematographers is to study light, grab a camera and shoot!
Sofya Lifanova
editor
Sofya Lifanova is a Russian documentary and drama editor. She got her bachelor and master degree in the United States and then moved to Canada in order to sharpen her editing skills at Sheridan College. Sofya cut “Fading Fire” as her first short documentary film. She hopes to keep mastering her editing craft through documentary and drama storytelling. She is currently working as a digital artist in Toronto, having credits on films such as "Full Out" (2015) and "Being Canadian" (2015).
Matt Cays
Writer
Matt Cays is a Canadian writer. He has written treatments for several documentaries and has had several of his short narrative scripts produced. Matt Cays is a graduate of Sheridan College's Advanced Television and Film Program, where he mastered in writing and producing. He is now working in the industry, hoping to have more of his scripts produced.
Carroll Chiramel
sound editor / mixer
Carroll is an Indo-Canadian Editor and Sound Mixer. He has edited many films, commercials, tv shows, web series and documentaries. He has volunteered his time at the Canadian Film Centre. He is currently working as a freelance editor in the GTA on several media based projects.