Stacey Gardner has just released her first film but has been telling stories and facilitating other storytellers for her entire life. Her directorial debut, a short film entitled The Gaze, premiered last month at the Atlantic International Film Festival and is set to be screened at the St. John's International Women's Film Festival, taking place Oct. 17-21.
Santiago Guzmán is the first winner of the Playwrights Guild of Canada's John Palmer Award, a new honour celebrating change-makers in theatre. Guzmán says his work is all about bucking stereotypes about what it means to be a Newfoundland and Labradorian.