Maya Annik Bedward is a Toronto-based filmmaker of Jamaican and French Canadian origin. She holds an MA in International Communications from the University of Leeds and a BA in Political Science and Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto. After working in the UK and Brazil, Maya returned to Toronto and launched Third Culture Media with support from the Michaëlle Jean Foundation. Her short films have screened at Hot Docs, TIFF, Black Star and the New Orleans Film Festival. Maya is a recipient of the CBC/WIFT-T Business of Broadcasting Mentorship and a fellow of the inaugural EFM Doc Toolkit Program. Maya has directed episodes for EXHIBITIONISTS (CBC Arts) and FARM CRIME (CBC Gem), and is currently in development on her feature, BLACK ZOMBIE with the documentary Channel.

Kate Fraser is a Toronto based film producer. She has an extensive background in community media programming, community arts funding, and social work, which informs her work in film. Kate is a producer with Third Culture Media where she produced The Foreigner, winner of Best of Showcase and Audience Choice Award WIFT showcase, 2015 Jury Prize Honourable Mention Breakthroughs Film Festival and winner of the 2015 Best Female Director aluCine Film + Media Arts Festival. She co-produced A Hidden History: The Story of the New Orleans Tribune Official Selection of the 2016 New Orleans Film Festival and the 2017 Regent Park Film Festival. Most recently she completed The Haircut, produced in partnership with CBC Short Docs, official selection of the 2018 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Third Culture is in development for the feature length documentary Black Zombie.