TEAM
Maria Teresa Larrain - Director/Writer
MARÍA TERESA LARRAÍN is an award winning Chilean-Canadian filmmaker.
Since her graduation from Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto, Larraín has been invited to participate in a number of prestigious programs including the Documentary Edit and Story Lab and the Documentary + Composers Lab of the Sundance Institute, the Alan King's Documentary Studio, and the Canadian Film Centre Scriptwriters Lab.
Her films, including Besieged Land and Dolores, the Art of Art Modeling, have been broadcast in Canada and Chile. They have also enjoyed theatrical distribution in Chile and have been screened at film festivals around the world.
Lisa Valencia-Svensson - Producer
Lisa Valencia-Svensson is a Toronto based documentary film producer. She has been working at Storyline Entertainment since 2007.
She has a number of documentary projects in progress, including Hermans House, which has received funding from the Ford Foundation and Sundance Institute, the interactive documentary Inside Herman's House now in production with the National Film Board of Canada, and the documentary feature Shadow Girl.
She has a background in finance, community media, and research work. She produces films which explore political issues and socially relevant themes, and encourage audiences to view their world through a constructively critical lens.
Ricardo Acosta - Editor
Ricardo Acosta immigrated to Canada from his native Cuba in 1993. Before coming to Toronto, he studied and worked at the world renowned Cuban Film Institute in Havana. For the past fifteen years he has edited both documentary and dramatic films which have been shown around the world. His outstanding work has contributed to the making of several award-winning films including: Shooting Indians, A Journey With Jeffrey Thomas directed by Ali Kazimi, Unbound directed by Claudia Morgado, Spirits of Havana produced by the NFB, The Take directed by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis, Runaway Groom directed by Ali Kazimi and Tiger Spirit directed by Min Sook Lee. He has twice been chosen to participate as a fellow in Sundance Institute Labs. He just completed editing the film Herman's House, directed by Angad Bhalla and supported by the Ford Foundation's JustFilms Initiative and the Sundance Institute.
Ed Barreveld - Executive Producer
Ed Barreveld has been making films since 1986 when he joined the Ontario Studio of Oscar-winning National Film Board of Canada. He has been an independent producer since 1996, focusing on point of view, auteur driven documentaries.
Since 2004, Barreveld has been the sole principal of Storyline Entertainment, the company he co-founded in 2000 for the companys inaugural release of the award winning documentary Aftermath: The Remnants of War. Storylines films are broadcast globally, have shown at major international festivals such as Hot Docs, IDFA, Toronto International Film Festival and have garnered many awards, including Gemini Awards for Shipbreakers (2005) and Tiger Spirit (2009). Barrevelds most recent films include Lone Twin, The Real M*A*S*H, The Market (IDFA 2010). In 2011/12 Storyline will release The World Before Her, Hermans House, The Real Sherlock Holmes, Operation Greenup: The Real Inglourious Basterds and Inside Hermans House, a web based interactive project.
