Staff List

Phone: 204-925-3456 ext 103

Email: leslie@winnipegfilmgroup.com

As Executive Director, Leslie is responsible for managing the overall operations and staff of the Winnipeg Film Group. Leslie serves as the main spokesperson and represents the organization in all professional business capacities.

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Phone: 204-925-3456 ext 110

Email: dylan@winnipegfilmgroup.com

Dylan is responsible for overseeing the programs in the Production Centre. He also provides senior-level support to other areas of the Production Department.

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Phone: 204-925-3456 ext 101

Email: luke@winnipegfilmgroup.com

Luke is responsible for coordinating equipment and facilities bookings, maintenance and assisting in the administration of production training programs. He works closely with the Production Programs Manager with the rentals and maintenance of production equipment and facilities, workshop set-up and payment processing.

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Phone: 204-925-3456 ext 105

Email: jillian@winnipegfilmgroup.com

Jillian oversees the artistic, promotional, and business development of the Winnipeg Film Group (WFG)’s Distribution Department as well as looking after departmental finances, human resources, and collections. Additionally, they direct the expansion and development of the Distribution Department through special projects as developed with the Executive Director, including the Archive/Counter-Archive Case Study for the WFG.

Jillian Groening is a dance artist, writer, and arts worker of Mennonite descent based on Treaty One Territory in Winnipeg, MB, and is from the community of Lowe Farm, MB. They have spent much of their professional arts career working to sustain artist-run models, particularly through their time at Young Lungs Dance Exchange. Jillian’s work has been presented at A Space gallery (Toronto) and at WNDX - Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg). They have contributed exhibition texts for Winnipeg galleries including Platform Centre for Photographic & Digital Arts and Martha Street Studio as well as being published through Artspeak (Vancouver), The Dance Current (Toronto), Dance International, and the Journal of Curatorial Studies. Jillian has performed across Canada with Gearshifting Performance Works as well as dancing in choreographic works by Rachel Brown, Jolene Bailie, Marie-Josée Chartier, Jean-Pierre Perreault, and Pablo Bronstein (presented by Plug In ICA, Winnipeg).

Jillian holds a BA(Hons) in Dance from the University of Winnipeg and a Masters in Theatre and Performance Studies from York University, where their SSHRC-funded research is informed by the transmission of liveness through recorded movement and choreographic ephemera. Following their degree, they worked with Freya Björg Olafson transcribing Olafson’s AVATAR (2009) for Canadian Playwrights Press’ 2021 Anthology on Digital Theatre in Canada. Working intimately with the written and AV archives of performance artists has greatly informed their approaches to film distribution and collections management. They are grateful and excited to currently be in Phase One of a multi-year project entitled Records in Motion: Reforming the Winnipeg Film Group’s Accidental Archives.

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Phone: 204-925-3456 ext 106

Email: skye@winnipegfilmgroup.com

Skye Callow currently works as the Distribution and Collections Coordinator with the Winnipeg Film Group. She works to ensure the distribution film collection is cared for and effectively managed, and assists in active-distribution. Skye's day to day tasks contribute to the artistic direction and goals of the distribution department and to the Winnipeg Film Group overall.

Skye Callow is an artist based on Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, originally from Sandy Hook, Manitoba. Her work investigates formal aesthetics and the ways in which form generates and communicates meaning in images. Callow’s practice considers hierarchies of beauty and value within image-based visual culture, while seeking to disrupt accepted conventions in contemporary photography. She is fascinated by film grain and the digital pixel, and often utilizes both analog and digital photographic processes in her work. She is a constant experimenter, influenced and inspired by the approach of experimental filmmaking, with her practice often shifting between mediums and techniques.

Skye holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours Degree from the University of Manitoba's School of Art. Her work has been exhibited in Winnipeg at aceartinc., PLATFORM Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, and the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art. She was the recipient of the 2024 PLATFORM Photography Award, with having her first solo exhibition in March 2025. Skye is a member of the Open City Cinema Collective (Winnipeg Underground Film Festival).

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Phone: 204-925-3456 ext 104

Email: olivia@winnipegfilmgroup.com

Olivia Norquay is the Film Programmer at the Winnipeg Film Group’s Dave Barber Cinematheque. Olivia is responsible for Cinematheque’s year-round programming, including the annual Gimme Some Truth Documentary Film Festival, and curating a variety of special events and film series. Olivia oversees programming in accordance with the Winnipeg Film Group's mandate to advance the art of the moving image, fostering a culture of independent cinema appreciation throughout the organization. In addition to her programming work, Olivia is an emerging experimental filmmaker, independent concert promoter, and host of the punk radio show Circle One on CKUW 95.9fm. Her practice is informed by cultural theory, sex, punk, gender, and transgressive films and literature. 

Phone: 204-925-3456 ext 108

Email: boxoffice@winnipegfilmgroup.com

Julianne manages the Cinematheque box office, including the daily operation, customer relations, venue rentals and sponsorships. Contact Julianne to provide feedback on your Cinematheque experience, as well as request for venue rentals and community partnerships.

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Phone: 204-925-3456 ext 112

Email: projectionist@winnipegfilmgroup.com

Eric manages all technical aspects of the Cinematheque’s operations, including film format testing and conversion, and maintenance of projection equipment. He also produces original content for the Cinematheque, such as: in-house trailers and ad slides, and helps to create Cinematheque’s original commercials, as well as acting as Head Projectionist. Eric should be contacted with any questions regarding the technical specs and capabilities of the Cinematheque.

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Phone: 204-925-3456 ext 2

Email: nathan@winnipegfilmgroup.com

Nathan Flores (he/him) is a Filipino-Canadian Artist, Filmmaker, Colourist, and Cinematographer based in Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

His multidisciplinary work spans narrative films, digital and analog film and photography, multimedia installations and exhibitions, and experimental A/V projects, which he often writes, directs, edits, and lenses. Rooted in storytelling and community engagement, Nathan’s creative output is driven by a deep exploration of memory, nostalgia, cultural identity, longing, and the surreal nature of self.

His work has earned national and international recognition, including a Best Student Cinematography nomination from the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC) for his debut short film 1000 Paper Cranes. His most recent short film, Memories of Youth (CBC Gem), received Best Cinematography and Best Editing at the UWPG Film Festival, alongside a nomination for Sound Editing, and has also screened globally in places such as the United Kingdom, Sweden, Serbia, The United States, and Canada. Nathan’s multimedia exhibits, The Renaissance of Memory (2022), Closure (2023), and I Remember a Time (2024), premiered at Nuit Blanche Winnipeg, and his video installation Tell Me When The Time Has Come (2023) was featured at Kultivation Festival, sponsored by CBC Manitoba. In 2024 and 2025, he served as Festival Director for SALA Film Festival, an evening dedicated to celebrating Filipino arts, film, and culture at WAG-Qaumajuq as part of Kultivation Festival. He is also a board member at Video Pool Media Arts Centre, contributing to the advancement of experimental and independent media arts in Manitoba.

His films and installations have been showcased across local and international festivals and platforms, including CBC Gem, the CSC Awards Gala, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Nuit Blanche, FascinAsian Film Festival, WUFF, and more. More recently, he has worked as a Colourist for Levers, which premiered at TIFF 50 (Toronto International Film Festival), VIFF (Vancouver International Film Festival), NYFF (New York Film Festival), Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia 2025, FNC (Festival du nouveau cinema 2025), ICA London (Institute of Contemporary Arts London), and continues to circuit in festivals and theatres globally. As an emerging artist, Nathan continues to evolve his visual language, blending personal narrative, experimental form, and emotional resonance to create immersive, genre-fluid experiences that speak to collective memory and individual truth.

Madelyn Gowler is a queer, film-based artist focusing on materiality and experimental processes of image making. They currently reside in Winnipeg, MB., Canada, and received their BFA from the University of Manitoba. They work with textiles, installation, 16mm film, and analog photography. Their practice explores memory, nostalgia, and the physical nature of images through hands-on, process-driven methods. Often working with found and repurposed materials, Gowler is interested in how images and objects change over time through use, handling, and transformation. Their films have been screened internationally at ‘Engauge Experimental Film Festival’ in Seattle WA (2023), and ‘Experiments in Cinema v18.4’ in Albuquerque, NM (2023).

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