IFWC Team

Adam Bentley is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and the face of #yegfilm. His works explore traumatic experiences in spaces we once felt safe, including the body, the home, the land, and the nation. His works have been screened across Canada, the United States, Europe, Air Canada, CBC Television, and online. He is a FAVA Producer member and founder of the International Festival of Winter Cinema. He's also the recipient of the Edmonton Arts Council's Cultural Diversity in the Arts Award, and two-time recipient of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts' Cultural Relations Award. When not working on the film festival, he can be found biking -summer or winter, in Edmonton’s river valley.

A former resident of four countries other than Canada, Bar Lavy has seen lots of images all over the world. Bar has nurtured a passion for film and photography since he was a young child glued to the TV screen. Now equipped with a B.A. in Film Studies from the University of Alberta, Bar is looking to share his eclectic vision with the rest of the world, with his work most recently showing in Japan and Thailand, as well as Canada. He has worked on multiple short films, web series, music videos, photo shoots, TV pilots, and commercials.

Over his career, both as an art practitioner and arts manager, Kevin Heaman has taken on various roles and opportunities that challenge him and allow him to create phenomenal experiences for the people he meets. He recently received his MA, where he specialized in Music Management and Digital Storytelling. In his practice, he experiments with various art mediums, from live performance to digital storytelling, and blends them together into his artistic work. In his professional work, he currently works full-time as a grant coordinator in a not-for-profit and works as a freelance consultant with various arts organizations, including music, film, and theater.

Pip Pomroy is an undergraduate in the Film Studies program at the University of Alberta that has interned at the festival before, and is now working on the 2023 festival. He grew up moving between Australia and Canada, being a dual-citizen that has learned to love the winters of both climates. In Pip’s personal time, he enjoys watching film, mostly art and indie films, reading historical literature, playing bass guitar, and video games, notably Mario games. His favourite musical artists are Radiohead and Slowthai, and he has a collection of animal and film tattoos.