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Michael Mabbott (he/him) is a Toronto-based filmmaker. His first feature, The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, which he wrote and directed, premiered at TIFF to popular and critical acclaim, receiving the Best Canadian First Feature Award. Amongst his other work, he co-created, executive-produced and directed the six-part half-hour comedy series The Yard, for HBO Canada/TMN/Movie Central. His first documentary film, Music Lessons, premiered at the famed Hot Docs festival.

Lucah Rosenberg-Lee (he/him) is also a Toronto-based independent filmmaker, speaker and entrepreneur who has produced and directed a variety of film projects, including Passing and For Nonna Anna, that have been screened at TIFF, Inside Out and Sundance. As a Speaker, Lucah has spoken to more than 20,000 students from BC to Newfoundland about his personal experience being a trans man in today’s society and the importance of LGBTQ+ representation, kindness and acceptance.

Together they will be premiering their new documentary release Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story here in B.C. as the DOXA Documentary Film Festival’s closing night film, which explores one of music’s pioneering Black trans performers. Forty years after vanishing from public view, this 20th-century icon finally gets her second act. The DOXA Documentary Film Festival screening takes place May 11th at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre For The Performing Arts. For tickets and info, visit www.doxafestival.ca or @doxafestival on Instagram.



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Applied Communications is Max Wood (he/they). As a teenager, Max released abrasive music that received polarizing responses (including being named one of Pitchfork's worst releases of 2005). Eventually, Max stopped making music.

17 years later, Max entered a stark depression. At the same time, they started receiving a flood of DMs from young people who learned about their music from an influencer named Madeline Pendleton. This post-hoc validation made Max recommit to music as a way to process depression. Their new release entitled “Applied Communications Has a Midlife Crisis” featuring the latest single “Tomboy Femme” and "Sinéad" is out now on the streamers and you can connect with the Artist on Insta at @appl.comm
Through never-before-heard phone conversations, dazzling animation and an incredible soundtrack, the full scope of her extraordinary life and career is finally revealed in this remarkable portrait from executive producer Elliot Page.