FILM PRODUCTION
VFS Faculty consists of the most highly trained professionals in the creative industries. While our full-time instructors provide more one-on-one time with students than any other school, our part-time instructors are pulled right from the heart of the industry, equipped with the most current, relevant industry experience and credits.
We call this THE VFS ADVANTAGE.
Omari
Newton
Co-Head of Department
Omari is an award-winning professional actor, writer, director, producer, and TedX speaker. Omari’s most-recent credits include a recurring role as Black Panther in various Marvel animated projects and as Corvus in Netflix’s The Dragon Prince.
Kat
Montagu
Co-Head of Department
Kat is a working writer, story editor, producer, and instructor. She’s prepared countless VFS graduates to work on feature films, in the writers' rooms of TV series, and in game studios. Kat is the Senior Story Editor for Crazy 8s, writes noir drama, and has a Creative Writing MFA from UBC.
Arun
Fryer
Instructor
Arun Fryer is an award-winning filmmaker and media producer from Vancouver, BC. His narrative films and documentaries have played in numerous global festivals, and his online releases have cumulated millions of views and impressions.
Kevin
Lee
Instructor
Kevin has produced, shot, or edited hundreds of corporate, documentary, and educational productions. He has experience working in all forms of motion media from 1-inch videotape to the latest digital formats and codecs. He currently instructs Post Production as well as Production Sound.
Andrew
McEvoy
Instructor
Andrew has written fifteen feature films, three series bibles, and holds producer credits in film, TV, and video games. His script, The Pixelated Man, was the winner of the Slamdance Screenplay Competition and was subsequently developed through James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment.
Fredy
Mendoza
Instructor
Fredy is a Colombian-Canadian Production Designer and Art Director. With a decade of experience in the film industry, Fredy has become a seasoned professional. His expertise spans various genres, including feature films, short films, television series, and commercials.
Isaac
Miranda Rosas
Instructor
Isaac is a Mexican-Canadian professional with a strong background in film, animation, photography, and art, who continuously explores of the limits of visual storytelling. Throughout his career, Isaac has crossed borders, lending his talent to film projects in Canada, the USA, and Mexico.
Jayme
Pfahl
Senior Instructor
Jayme has been involved in the film industry for almost 25 years. Jayme has extensive producer credits ranging from TV comedy, drama, feature films and documentary to reality-based television and game shows, as well as major event planning and app development.
Brendan
Prost
Instructor
Brendan is a filmmaker from Calgary whose character-driven work is characterized by powerful performances, a uniquely earnest spirit, and a thematic interest in alienation, longing, and vulnerability. His films have screened at major international and Oscar-qualifying film festivals.
Keiron
Simons
Instructor
With a background as a counsellor and a lawyer, Keiron has worked as a mediator and trainer for more than twenty years. At VFS, he helps students learn to work as part of a production team. His practice focuses on (re)building work teams and other relationships in the workplace and community.
Thomas
Billingsley
Instructor
Kate
Gray
Instructor
Catherine
Green
Instructor
Matthew
Kowalchuck
Instructor
Angelica
Perez Anzures
Instructor
Sergio
Vera-Barahona
Instructor
Karina
Villela
Instructor
Gabriel
Souza Nunes
Program Coordinator
Gabriel is a creative and detail-oriented filmmaker with a background in graphic design and marketing. He is passionate about creative writing, directing, production design, and film production.
Connor
Gaston
Instructor
Connor Gaston is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has screened at film festivals around the world, including TIFF. Gaston's first feature film, 'The Devout', earned him 5 Leo Awards, including Best Picture. He is currently developing his second feature film.
Gail
Taylor
Instructor
Gail is a Production Designer with 40+ years of experience in the film & television industry. She has had the opportunity to hone her craft globally working in London, Italy, Canada, and the US, and now resides in Vancouver.
Bruna Arbex
Instructor
Bruna Arbex is an award-winning Brazilian director/writer whose work has been featured at the Female Eye Film Festival, Chilliwack Independent Film Festival, and The Leos Awards. Her most recent shorts have found homes on streaming platforms, including tellofilms.com and CBC GEM.