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ALI GRANT (she/her) is a lesbian filmmaker based in Vancouver, who is passionate about telling stories about the extraordinary lives of ordinary women. At age 53 she went back to school to learn documentary filmmaking and since then her documentaries have shown in festivals nationally and internationally, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, Toronto’s Inside Out LGBT Film Festival, DOXA, and the Women Over Fifty Film Festival. She just returned from the London Lesbian Film Festival with an audience choice award for her first feature doc Not Quite That. NOT QUITE THAT tells the story of a nice Jewish butch lesbian with a genetic mutation that might just allow her to be fully seen at last.

The release of the documentary Not Quite That is now available on TELUS originals - at watch.telusoriginals.com and on TELUS Optik TV.


Ali is the founder of On The Creek Films and you can learn more at www.onthecreekfilms.ca or on Instagram at @_onthecreekfilms @notquitethatdocumentary


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Toronto-based RnB and pop singer-songwriter THEO TAMS (he/him) has solidified his identity as a master of emotive RnB laced pop. The Alberta-born Canadian Idol-winner has undergone a career evolution in the years since he first gained national recognition as an artist, sharing a profound and vulnerable journey in his music through sobriety, heartbreak, and finding new love.

Tams has amassed over 26 million streams of his music accumulated from 2020-2023 alone, receiving editorial playlist additions from Amazon Music, Apple Music, TIDAL and Spotify and his TikTok account has amassed over 170 thousand followers.

More recently, Theo has garnered national attention with the release of “This Little Light”, a first of it’s kind (globally) queer anthem that features 22 2SLGBTQIA artists from across Canada. Released as a charity single as part of the Pride month celebrations, “This Little Light” is sure to become a song to be remembered not only for its delivery, but its very important message. To learn more about the artist, you can find him on socials at @theotamsmusic