TARA HUNGERFORD
Director
Kodak Image Award Winner and 8 time Leo Awards Nominee Tara Hungerford’s television credits include the W Network’s series The Shopping Bags (season VI & VII), Making It Big (Slice TV- season 2) and 2nd unit for the CTV comedy series Robson Arms (season 2) produced by Omni Film. She has recently wrapped The Week The Women Went, a CBC documentary series produced by Paperny Films.
Tara has directed music videos for artists including Jim Byrnes, Ambush, Distance & Kyle, Jessie Farrell, Emily Jordan, and The Paperboys. The video for Juno Award Winner Jim Byrnes single Just a Pilgrim won Best Music Video of the Year at the Canadian Spotlight Awards 2007 and four of her music videos have been Leo Award Nominees for Best Music Video of the Year.
Her award winning short films Break a Leg, Rosie, Mon amour mon parapluie and Wearing the Unknown have screened at over 40 international film festivals, on Bravo! TV, TV5 and CBC Television.
Tara’s commercial, PSA and corporate videos work includes projects for The Canadian Red Cross, The BC Dental Association (ActNow), Storyeum, Omron, Vancouver Park Board, and ICBC & The Autoplan Brokers.
In 2007 Tara was one of eight participants selected from across Canada for the DGC, BC Film and UBCP sponsored Women in the Director’s Chair 2007 program at The Banff Centre.
Tara Hungerford is represented by Barbara Bird at The Characters Agency in Vancouver, BC, is a roster director for Bear Studios and Rugged Media.
PAUL ARMSTRONG
Producer
Paul is a film, television and theatre producer. Feature film credits include producer on ‘Moving Malcolm’ by Benjamin Ratner starring Elizabeth Berkley (‘Showgirls’) and John Neville; executive producer on the 2006 Genie Award nominated ‘See Grace Fly’ starring Gina Chiarelli and Paul McGillion and co-producer on ‘Ill-Fated’ (Toronto & Slamdance Film Festivals) starring Peter Outerbridge. He is currently producing ‘Revolution’, a feature documentary on the Sixties directed by Tony Papa.
Short film credits as producer include ‘Break a Leg, Rosie’ starring Carly Pope and Ian Tracey, ‘Wearing the Unknown’ featuring Barbara Glazar, both directed by Tara Hungerford, and ‘Mon amour mon parapluie’, starring Tara Hungerford with Douglas Coupland and William Gibson. Music videos include ‘My Greatest Masterpeice’ for Bif Naked, ‘Just a Pilgrim’ and ‘12 Questions’ for Jim Byrnes and ‘The World is Calling’ for Jeff Martin (‘The Tea Party’). He has also produced commercials for television and the web for The Red Cross, Nintendo, WirelessWave and Storyeum.
Paul is co-founder and producer of The Celluloid Social Club, a Vancouver-based monthly screening series of independent short films.
In the past eight years he has produced seventeen plays, including ‘Miss Julie’, ‘Stiff Cuffs’, ‘SubUrbia’, ‘Phat Tank’, ‘The Kenny Rogers Experience’, ‘Speed-the-Plow’ and Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’.