Bonjour / Hi / Здрасти! I was born in Cumberland, on Vancouver Island, K’ómoks First Nation territory. Between 2003 and 2022 I lived and worked on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) on the island of Tiohtiá:ke, or Montreal, Quebec. I’m now based in Sofia, Bulgaria. I’m a scholar, writer and film curator of Dutch and English descent. [Image above: that’s me on the right introducing a political documentary at Cinema Politica in Montreal, in 2018]

I’m currently an Assistant Professor in Journalism, Media & Communication at the American University in Bulgaria – the best place I’ve had the privilege to work as an educator. At AUBG I teach Documentary Studies, Festival Studies, Semiotics, Television Studies, Film Festival Studies, Ecomedia, Writing for Media and other film and media courses.

Since completing a PhD in Communication Studies at Carleton University in December 2013 (download my dissertation here) my research and teaching has focused on documentary media, film festivals, settler/Indigenous film & media, alternative media and ecomedia (ecology + media). My dissertation interrogated the cultural, political and ethical contexts that converge at the Hot Docs International Film Festival. 

My latest book is an eclectic collection of essays, interviews and roundtable discussions co-edited with the inimitable Dana Claxton and titled Indigenous Media Arts in Canada: Making, Caring, Sharing (published by Wilfrid-Laurier University Press).

I’m the co-founder (with Svetla Turnin) and Director of Programming of Cinema Politica, a non-profit grassroots exhibition and dedicated distribution film organization that has been going strong since 2003.

I’m a Contributing Editor with POV Magazine where my work is published with some frequency, and serve on the VAGABONDS editorial advisory board – an incredible series of “short provocative books and incendiary letters to fan the flames of discontent and radicalize the imagination” (edited by Max Haiven, published by Pluto Press).

Since lighting a match to my Twitter account in 2023 you can find me on 🦋 BlueSky.

I have an updates and news channel on Telegram you can join here.

I’m also on LinkedIn, Academia.edu, and ResearchGate.

If you want to contact me by email, you can find it on the AUBG website.