Garrett Brown is best known as the Oscar-winning inventor of the Steadicam™. He has shot with it on nearly 100 movies, including: Rocky, The Shining , and Return of the Jedi. Garrett holds 50 patents worldwide for camera devices including Steadicam Merlin™ for camcorders, Skycam  – the robot camera that flies on wires over sporting events, and Mobycam, Divecam, Flycam, et al, that pursue athletes worldwide. His new zeroG™ technology floats tools and reduces workplace injuries. In past lives Garrett has recorded for MGM as a folksinger, sold Volkswagens, directed TV commercials, and made films for Sesame Street. Annd his voice was the other half of that well-known ad-lib duo on radio for Molson and American Express. He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers, the Directors Guild, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has recently been inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Garrett's Moving Camera lecture has been seen at film schools and festivals around the world.

When a scene captures Andrew Collett’s eye, it’s because he has had a vision of what it could be at its best. It could be at four in the morning when the mists rise from the night-cooled land; or, at seven in the evening as a thunderstorm batters a distant line of dark trees. Andrew’s goal is to capture a scene in exactly the circumstances when experience tells him it will be suffused with the most intense emotion. He works hard to grasp a fleeting feeling one which lives for just a brief moment in a masterstroke of light, colour, shape, perspective… and timing. Gathered from the land, he brings moments to life and fashions into them into fine images that are celebrated in interiors of all kinds, where the echoes of what he has experienced will resonate for years to come.

Konrad Czystowski has taken the event video industry by storm in a relatively short time. With a strong artistic desire, Konrad moved from acting out the story in front of the camera to capturing the story from behind the lens. As a modern filmmaker, he quickly picked up Steadicam, mastering and utilizing it for multiple purposes, in many various ways, not always those conventional ones. His relatively short (4 years) Steadicam experience has been extremely eventful, as Konrad has strapped his Steadicam vest in places like Japanese shrine, New York fashion show and NFL field. His talents have been recognized when he was announced as one of the TOP25 Hottest Event Filmmakers on the planet by EventDV Magazine, for the second consecutive time this year. In his career, Konrad has travelled across four continents both shooting and sharing his knowledge and skills with the desire to see event video production industry develop and get the recognition it deserves..

For 34 years,Bentley Miller has been crafting memorable images for every broadcaster in Canada, and many in the US and worldwide. Equally at home on a film set, television studio or the concert hall floor, his diverse talents lend themselves to crafting lasting images for clients that desire a distinctive look that instantly identifies a show as their own. He has acted as Director of Photography or lighting designer for countless dramas, live events, puppets series, over 200 soap opera episodes and several hundred episodes of lifestyle and reality programs. For the past number of years Bentley has been on the leading edge of LED use, and has lit several series, among them Big Voice, that have used LEDs alone or in a supporting role mixed with other conventional light sources. In addition to teaching at Ryerson University on a regular basis, Bentley is a sought-after guest speaker who has conducted seminars for Sony, Sheridan College, and the Ontario Police College.

Sarah Moffat has been exploring cameras since childhood. Now, with over 15 years of professional experience, Sarah's knowledge has spanned across the camera world to include motion picture film, and video, still photography film and digital, and underwater. She has worked in a vast number of situations from large movie sets, to personal documentary interviews, to covering live broadcast events, to photographing everyday life, landscapes and print. The list is endless. Winning various recognition for her work over the years while staking new titles by developing and defining new positions, Sarah has been marked as one of the industry's finest.

With his work for CTV and its various specialty services including Discovery Channel Canada, TSN, and MTV Canada, Michael has enjoyed supervisory and mixing duties on more than 80 feature documentaries and over 700 episodic programs in the past 16 years. His mixes have garnered him two Gemini nominations for Best Sound and three Gemini citations. In addition to his Post Production role, he is actively involved in the planning and execution of the audio component of high profile live events like the Olympic Games, the Juno Awards and the World Junior Hockey Championships. Michael is the Post Sound Supervisor for Bellmedia and is part-time Faculty at Seneca College.

Chosen as one of the 30 most influential photographers of the decade by Photo District News Magazine, Seth Resnick is one of North America's most prolific corporate, editorial and stock photographers. Seth is greatly in demand for his beautiful graphic images in both natural and created light. Resnick has been published in the world's most prestigious magazines. His credits include over 2500 publications worldwide and his clients constitute a virtual list of Corporate America.

Known for his creativity in portrait photography, Sam Sciarrino is an internationally known Master Photographer who effortlessly puts his clients at ease as he uniquely captures their best moments. Incredible skill and keen attention to his clients' individual tastes has resulted in a widespread reputation of providing professional work of exceptional artistic quality. Sam holds his Master Photographer Degrees from both the Canadian and American association of professional photographers. A testament the level of his professional acumen - Sam has been featured in Leading Photography magazines and is a respected lecturer for the pro photography circuit world wide.

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Douglas Sonders is a photographer and filmmaker born and raised in the Virginia suburbs just outside of Washington D.C. A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology (with an Advertising Photography degree), he specializes in on-location shoots around the world and he travels on assignment for some of the biggest companies and magazines in the world. He co-founded 8112 Studios, a full scale video production company that handles everything from pre-production to filming to all post-production. 8112 Studios' award-winning work can be seen on televisions internationally and numerous websites. Sonders was named one of Washington D.C.'s most influential people under 40 by Washington Life Magazine, and named one of D.C.'s top 25 creatives of 2010. He's also been profiled in a variety of photography and entertainment magazines for his lighting-style, body of work, and professionalism.

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Audio and video pro, Douglas is a Grammy winner who has been involved in multiple Emmy-winning productions. He’s Managing Producer and co-founder of VASST/ Sundance Media Group, and the author of several books and DVDs aimed at videographers, software manufacturers and broadcasters.

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