Patrice Vermette, Academy Award-winning and BAFTA-winning production designer for Dune, C.R.A.Z.Y., Young Victoria, Vice, Sicario,and Arrival. He returned to complete his degree in 2023 — the year his daughter Lili Bertrand-Vermette graduated from the same program.

Nastaran Dibai is known for her work on shows such as Resident Alien, Dear White People, Flatbush Misdemeanors and Run the World, all of which she worked on as an executive producer. Over her long career she has also been a writer and producer on such classics as The Nanny, 3rd Rock from the Sun and Living Single and has worked at various studios and networks including Amazon, Warner Bros, Universal, Netflix and Disney. 

Kieran Crilly is an Oscar-winning producer and cinematographer. He was the cinematographer and co-producer for The Lady in Number 6 which won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. He has also worked as the cinematographer for The Give and Take, Catching a Serial Killer: Bruce McArthur, Bad Ladies and Boost.

Frederic Bohbot is an executive producer best known for the 2014 Academy-award winning documentary The Lady in Number 6. In 2002, he founded Montreal-based film production and distribution company Bunbury Films to “push the boundaries of social, environmental and popular culture for national and international markets.”

Barry Julien is a writer, stand-up comic and actor who has won 7 Primetime Emmy Awards (as of 2023) and has been nominated for many more. He currently works on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and was previously a writer for Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report in New York.

Mary Stephen studied filmmaking in Communication Studies and made her first feature film before she began a life-long collaboration with notable French filmmaker Eric Rohmer working as his principal editor and co-composer. She also continued to make her own narrative and documentary files. In 2023, she received the Fire Horse Award presented annually to an Asian Canadian individual who has made an extraordinary contribution to the film and media-arts community.

Paweł Pogorzelski is a highly accomplished cinematographer and a graduate of Communication studies (2004).  He has contributed his expertise to over 20 narrative films. Notably, his collaborations with filmmaker Ari Aster on Beau is Afraid, Midsummer and Hereditary have earned him acclaim for his outstanding cinematography, where his signature style shines through.  

Alexandre Franchi is a screenwriter, film director, and producer with 20 years of practice. His films explore myth, fantasy, and humor as a means of coping with trauma. He is best known for his films The Wild Hunt (2009) that won the Best Canadian First Feature, Happy Face (2018), and Quest for Communitas (2023), that explores "playing" with one's own anxieties and oppressions to create transformative narratives.

Katarina Soukup is Vice President of Production at Felix & Paul Studios, an EMMY® Award-winning creator of immersive entertainment experiences, creating unparalleled, highly engaging and inspired virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality experiences for audiences worldwide. For many years prior to joining the Studio, she was an independent producer of award-winning and enduring documentaries for Canadian and international audiences via Catbird Productions, a boutique production company she founded in 2006.

Rebecca Lessard is an editor whose recent credits include the feature documentary Red Fever, which she co-produced, and So Surreal: Behind the Masks. She also served as the visual researcher for both those films, and for Rumble: The Indians who Rocked the World, an award-winner at Sundance, HOT DOCS and the CSA’s. Beyond her own film work, Rebecca has facilitated media creation programming for Indigenous, refugee and unhoused youth, along with other underserved communities.

Stefanie Broos has worked in the film and television industry as an assistant since 2015, working alongside director Denis Villeneuve and producer Tanya Lapoint for the past few years. She collaborated on productions such as Dune: Part One, Dune: Part Two, X-Men: Apocalypse, Death Wish and Mohawk Girls. In 2024, she co-authored the book The Art and Soul of Dune: Part Two with Tanya Lapointe.

Writer, lecturer, and filmmaker Philip Szporer teaches at Concordia University. He is a recipient of a Pew Dance/Media Fellowship (UCLA), the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize (Canada Council of the Arts), and Concordia’s Fine Arts Distinguished Teaching Award. Philip co-directs the award-winning media arts production company, Mouvement Perpétuel, and Dance+Words, an initiative to expand and encourage conversations around cultural discourse.

Aileen McBride is an Emmy, Canadian Screen and Gemini award winning editor and producer. She has worked in independent film, documentary and investigative journalism. Her work includes the multiple award-winning documentary, Made in Bangladesh (2014), a fifth estate investigation into the Canadian connection to dangerous working conditions for garment workers, and Chasing the Cancer Answer (2006), probing rising cancer rates. She is currently Senior Editor at CBC's The National.

René Balcer is an Emmy-award winning writer, producer and photographer. He worked on Law & Order as an executive producer and showrunner and created its spin-off series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. His other television and film credits include FBI: Most Wanted, Jo and Above the Drowning Sea. In 2023, the book Seeing As: René Balcer, a collection of his photographs, was published by ACC Art Books. 

A Montrealer of Haitian origins, Carmine Pierre-Dufour works in English and in French, in both TV and film, continually exploring themes of identity, kinship and migration. Carmine was nominated at the Canadian Screen Awards in 2023 for her work as a writer on the medical drama Transplant. Her latest short film, Fanmi (2021), was part of TIFF’s Top Ten and won the Oscar-qualifying “Best Narrative Film” award at Provincetown.

Livia Tortella is the founder and CEO of Black Box, a music marketing juggernaut. Livia earned a reputation as a fearless entertainment executive, working with artists such as U2, Def Leppard, Dire Straits, Portishead, The Cult, Michael Bublé, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Josh Groban, Bruno Mars, Death Cab for Cutie, Halestorm, Gnarls Barkley and Janelle Monae, PJ Harvey, The Killers, Melissa Etheridge, Bon Jovi.

Jamie Lewis-Mella works in social media and digital marketing. As the creative marketing coordinator at Cozey, her job includes managing the production of content creation.

Yasmin Grothé is an accomplished fashion and beauty journalist with bylines in La Presse, Elle Québec, and Clin d’Oeil, among others. She also served as editor-in-chief of Salon Magazine, a leading trade publication. In 2018, Yasmin co-founded Kustom Kontent, a digital marketing agency with a mission to elevate SMEs through impactful digital strategies. Continuing to innovate, she co-launched Fashion Beauty Runway in 2022, a dynamic platform showcasing Canadian lifestyles trends, brands and creators.

Marie Karasseferian is a strategic consulting and client services leader with over 17 years of experience in marketing and communication agencies. She has worked extensively with Fortune 500 brands on their digital marketing and communication initiatives, particularly in the Consumer Health space. Currently, Marie co-leads the Client Services department at BAM Strategy, a digital experience agency, where she oversees a portfolio of accounts in the Home, Health, and Wellness categories and manages a team of 20 professionals.

Having earned his BA in 1984, Andrew Carter was among the first graduates of Concordia’s Joint Communication Studies and Journalism program. From beginnings in the Loyola radio station CIRL his career path took him to radio stations from Thunder Bay back to Montreal, where he has capped a 20-year career in broadcasting with the Morning Man position at CJAD 800 Montreal.

Hana Gartner is one of Canada’s most recognized journalists, best known for her investigative reporting on The Fifth Estate. With a distinguished career of over 25 years in broadcasting for the CBC, Gartner has earned the respect of the journalistic community and numerous awards.

Adam Leith Gollner is a writer and musician based in Montreal. His first book, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Obsession, Commerce and Adventure, was a national bestseller. He has written for The New York Times, Gourmet, the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, Good Magazine and has been the editor of Vice Magazine and the associate editor of Maisonneuve Magazine.

Tessa Wegert is the author of the acclaimed Shana Merchant mystery series, which includes Death in the Family, The Dead Season, Dead Wind, The Kind to Kill, Devils at the Door, and The Coldest Case. Prior to writing fiction, Tessa developed content for brands like Audible, IBM, Spotify and Toshiba and worked in digital marketing as a media strategist. 

Caroline Jamet has been a senior executive with some of Canada’s leading media and cultural players for more than 30 years. She currently heads Audio and Radio for Radio-Canada and formerly ran the book publishing arm of La Presse. Caroline is also known for her career in Communications where she held executive roles for La Presse, Gesca and for the entertainment group l’Équipe Spectra including the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal and FrancoFolies de Montréal.

In 2020, Donna Barker left a thirty-year career as an award-winning technical ghostwriter and curriculum creator for progressive Canadian charities. Now, writing and publishing as Danika Bloom, she is a USA Today bestselling romance author and founder of Author Ever After, a vibrant community where she helps pre-published romance writers become earning authors

After finding her love of sound production in the basement of the Bryan Building at Concordia, Lisa began building her career in the video game industry. She has worked as audio designer, voice designer and associate audio director on numerous triple A titles for Ubisoft Entertainment including games in the Watch Dogs and Prince of Persia series as well as Far Cry 3 and Skull & Bones. She is now pursuing her love of video game production as a Senior Production Manager at Invoke Studios (Wizards of the Coast).

Steve Pariso began programming (computers) at age 11. As a brand management technology consultant, Pariso has worked with Viacom (Nickelodeon, MTV), BellSouth and Time Warner. In addition, he developed over 40 software projects, systems and titles for various Fortune 500 companies.

Warren Wilansky has worked in web design and project management at HBE Software. Along with fellow Comm graduate Christiane Magee, he founded Plank, a web and multimedia design studio in Montreal. The company has an extensive client list from the National Film Board to the Fantasia Film Festival and more. The company does work for Old Brewery Mission, the Shriners’ Hospital, Gilda’s Club and the Highlands Hope Hospital Consortium.

Jessie Marchessault is a User Research Analyst at Ubisoft Montreal, where she has spent the last three years designing research initiatives and running playtests for a variety of productions. Currently embedded on an Assassin’s Creed production team, she specializes in developing exploratory and evaluative studies and disseminates player feedback to help guide design decisions. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Communications Studies (2018) and a Master’s in Media Studies (2020) from Concordia University, where her research explored location-based games' communities, independent game development practices, and representation in AAA games.

Maize Longboat is Kanien'kehá:ka with family at Six Nations of the Grand River and was raised on the unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation near Vancouver, BC. He is a Manager on the Partner Relations team at Unity Technologies helping videogame developers around the world create imaginative and engaging interactive experiences. His Master’s research examined Indigenous videogame development through the production of his own game Terra Nova, an award-winning cooperative platformer with an interactive narrative.

Sarah Christina Ganzon is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Simon Fraser University. Her research revolves around game studies and digital fandom.

Trish Audette-Longo is an assistant professor at Carleton University teaching digital journalism and reporting.  Trish’s research interests include: digital, start-up and alternative journalism and media; journalism education; climate change and petroculture studies.

Dr. Mel Hogan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen's University with a research focus on data infrastructure, extractive AI and genomic media.

Camina Harrison Chéry, BA 23, Valedictorian, is a passionate storyteller and social entrepreneur of Haitian descent. She is now a full-time multimedia producer at Concordia, where during her studies, she led the Black Perspectives Office's outreach, supported the launch and programming of the NouLa Black Student Centre and advanced diverse perspectives at the university on the President's Task Force on Anti-Black Racism.

She is the founder and owner of BUYPOC, supporting BIPOC entrepreneurs and Urban Wrapper, a headwrap brand. She is passionate about youth empowerment and improving youth livelihoods.

Hannah Deasy is a communications professional based in Ireland. Since studying at Concordia, she has worked for the non-profit Women for Election and led communications for the Institute of International and EU affairs, an EU and international affairs think tank. She is currently head of member communications for Fórsa, Ireland’s leading public service trade union. Outside of her working day, she campaigns to elect progressive women in Ireland.