The Cinematheque

Jim Sinclair Executive & Artistic Director

Jim Sinclair has been curating Canadian and international films for more than thirty years. Born in Edmonton, he earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) at the University of Alberta before moving to Vancouver to pursue graduate studies in film at the University of British Columbia. He joined The Cinematheque in 1987, became its Executive Director in 1991, and is responsible for overseeing the organization’s activities and curating its year-round program of film exhibitions. He has served on numerous film festival, government arts council, and film industry awards juries. In 2011, France bestowed the honour “Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters” on Sinclair for his work promoting French and European cinema in British Columbia.

jim@thecinematheque.ca

Ben Shockey Acting Managing Director

Ben is a seasoned non-profit manager specialized in the arts. Since 2017, he has focused on interim leadership and transition management with Vancouver non-profits. He also consults with organizations on strategic planning, board development, and operational assessment. He spent a decade working in higher education and holds a PhD in English Literature & Cultural Studies from the University of California. Ben is thrilled to work with the team at this beloved Vancouver institution.

ben@thecinematheque.ca

Kate Ladyshewsky Managing Director (on leave)

Kate is an experienced Arts & Culture Manager with a passion for strategic business management within the non-profit sector including strategic planning, financials and budgeting, human resources, special events, fundraising, and grant-writing. She has a background working with many non-profit and for-profit creative organizations and enjoys a deep appreciation for cinema. Kate has been with The Cinematheque since 2012; her favourite series presented since joining the organization was the Hou Hsiao-hsien retrospective in 2015.

kate@thecinematheque.ca

Shaun Inouye Operations & Programming Associate

Shaun holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Victoria and an MA in Film Studies from the University of British Columbia. He has published essays on Jean-Luc Godard and Harmony Korine. At The Cinematheque, Shaun has programmed retrospectives of films by Lucrecia Martel, Kelly Reichardt, Nicolas Roeg, and Claire Denis, among others. In 2015, he curated the screening series and art exhibition “Traces That Resemble Us,” and in 2016, the thematic series “This is Going to Hurt: A Cinema of Cruelty.”

shaun@thecinematheque.ca

Lizzie Brotherston Communications & Marketing Manager

Lizzie has a background in human-centred design and has worked with a range of public sector, non-profit, and cultural organizations to improve the audience experience and to tell the organization’s stories in new and creative ways. She is responsible for community and media engagement and designing the public facing assets of the organization. Talk to Lizzie about community partnerships, being added to The Cinematheque’s media list, and the various advertising opportunities that The Cinematheque has to offer.

lizzie@thecinematheque.ca

Linton Murphy Venue Operations Manager

Linton holds a BFA in Visual Art from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. He oversees all daily front of house operations, including but not limited to supervising and coordinating our team of exceptional theatre managers and volunteers, facilitating venue rental requests and general upkeep and maintenance of our lobby and theatre spaces. Linton has been with The Cinematheque since 2012.

linton@thecinematheque.ca

Al Reid Head Projectionist

Al has a background in mechanical engineering and became involved with film projection and production through the UBC Film Society. His projection background runs the gamut from a 16 screen Cineplex to the challenges of the old 3D IMAX cinema at Canada Place. At The Cinematheque, Al is responsible for everything hitting the screen right side up, in the correct shape, in focus, and hopefully at just the right volume. While enjoying the ease and flexibility of digital, there is still nothing like a nice sharp 35mm print; and Al revels in passing on film handling skills to new generations of projectionists.

projection@thecinematheque.ca

Chelsea Birks Learning & Outreach Manager

Chelsea manages on and off-site learning programs for The Cinematheque. She has collaborated on a range of programs and events aimed at engaging her community with all aspects of film culture. Chelsea holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow and has over eight years of experience teaching film studies in the UK and across the Lower Mainland. She was the recipient of the 2017 SCMS Student Writing Award and her winning essay, “Objectivity, Speculative Realism, and the Cinematic Apparatus,” was published in Cinema Journal. Her first book, Limit Cinema: Transgression and the Nonhuman in Contemporary Global Film, will be published in 2021.

chelsea@thecinematheque.ca

Shaghayegh Haghdoust Learning & Outreach Coordinator

Shaghayegh Haghdoust is an Iranian filmmaker, artist, and educator based in Vancouver. She has a BA in Digital Film and Television from Limkokwing University and a BFA in Film, Video, and Integrated Media from Emily Carr University. She was Program Leader for The Cinematheque’s UBC camps and a co-founder and organizer for MENA Film Festival. Shagha has produced short documentaries on multicultural identities and immigration, and seeks to deepen her understanding of global and social issues through filmmaking. She also works as a freelance cinematographer, editor, and researcher.

shagha@thecinematheque.ca

Thea Loo Learning & Outreach Coordinator

Thea is a filmmaker and photographer who graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BFA in Film Production at the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts. She enjoys producing film projects related to her main interests in film which are Asian-Canadianism and religion. At The Cinematheque, Thea works to garner a growing sense of film appreciation in Vancouver by facilitating various filmmaking workshops and other educational projects in film.

thea@thecinematheque.ca

David Legault Chair, Board of Directors

David has been a film and television professional for twenty-five years. Now in his fourth year serving on the board, he is working to foster greater bonds between Vancouver’s film industry and The Cinematheque, especially in the realm of education and youth mentorship.

Rudy Bootsma Vice Chair & Treasurer, Board of Directors

Rudy joined The Cinematheque board after many years of being an avid art film supporter and then discovering the creative development work that The Cinematheque does for the enrichment of both film artists and enthusiasts. He is the founder and principal of Compendia, an accounting firm specializing in the Arts and Entertainment industry. He holds a BA in English Literature from SFU, an advanced intellectual property management certificate from WIPO, and a PBA accounting designation.

Tim Reeve Secretary, Board of Directors

Tim is a sustainability advisor and President of Reeve Consulting, one of Canada’s leading consulting firms specializing in responsible sourcing and sustainable supply chains. Tim is considered a Canadian thought-leader in helping organizations think about the social and environmental risks associated with what they buy, where it comes from, and the labour conditions under which it was made. His desire to contribute his planning and communication skills to good causes, combined with his love of documentary and foreign films, brought him to The Cinematheque, where he has been a Board Member since 2016.

Jim Bindon Member, Board of Directors

Jim has been working as a professional fundraiser for more than twenty-five years. Over the course of his career, he has raised funds for a variety of charitable organizations in the healthcare, education, and cultural sectors across Canada. Currently, he is the Director of Philanthropy for the Peace Arch Hospital Foundation in White Rock, BC. Jim has served on the Board of The Cinematheque since 2012, including two terms as Chair. He is a life-long cinephile and feels fortunate that he is in a position to volunteer for an organization that he is passionate about.

Leah Mallen Member, Board of Directors

Leah helms the Vancouver-based company All In Pictures. She has produced feature films, documentaries, series, and interactive content for multiple distribution platforms. Credits include the documentary Coast Modern, which sold to Hulu and Sundance, and the acclaimed feature film Camera Shy with Cannes-award winning director Mark Sawers that garnered international and Canadian awards for Best Feature Film. She attended the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam, is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre, and has sat on many boards, including Hot Docs International Film Festival, DOCBC, and Canada’s First Weekend Club.

Erin Mussolum Member, Board of Directors

Erin has been working in the film and television industry for over twenty years — from running her own award-winning documentary production company to producing and developing for many of the top television and radio companies in Vancouver. Her work has been seen on CBC, Bravo!, CTV, Vision TV, Global, Knowledge Network, Corus, and PBS. She is currently the Co-Executive Director of Vancouver’s award-winning film program Crazy8s and president of Chickadee Creative, a marketing and communications company specializing in film and television industry.

Wynford Owen Member, Board of Directors

A retired accountant, Wynford has enjoyed his years working with a live theatre company and a professional sports organization here in Vancouver. In retirement, he is pleased to serve on the board of The Cinematheque, another organization that shows passion and commitment — this time to a mandate of showcasing film and moving images. He is especially proud of The Cinematheque`s recent education initiatives around media literacy and fake news issues.

Nicole Prior Member, Board of Directors

Nicole is in-house counsel with BC Hydro, with a focus on employment, labour, governance, and safety law. She took a break from law in 2017/2018 to take on an eight-month temporary role as Director of Human Resources for BC Hydro. Nicole graduated from UBC with a Bachelor of Laws, and before law school attended McGill University. It was in Montreal that Nicole discovered a love of film. Working with The Cinematheque has given Nicole a rare opportunity to combine her interest in film with her professional experience.

Eric Wyness Member, Board of Directors

A satirist, novelist, pianist, and philanthropist, Eric is active in Early Music Vancouver and Friends of Chamber Music. Since an early age, Eric has played in many pop/rock/jazz groups such as Erik Settee & His Giant Coniferous Brain-Toupée, Greg Smith & the Cavaliers, Sid Warner & the Teabags (with Ross Douglas), The Flying Undercups (recording with Eugene Chadbourne), and parody bands such as The Flunkees ("Hey hey we're the Flunkees!"). He studied piano with Bob Rogers, theory and composition with Cortland Hultberg and Peter Maxwell Davies, poetry with Robin Blaser, literature with Patrick O’Neill, and harpsichord with Elisabeth Wright (who was a student of Leonhardt).