Our faculty members are distinguished scholars and creators with extensive publishing records, contributing influential books, articles, and creative works across diverse fields of study. They have established national and international reputations with expertise in fiction, experimental, and documentary film ranging from expository and cinéma-vérité approaches to poetic and expanded 'i-doc' models.
Faculty films have been screened on CBC, NFB, CTV, PBS, AMC, Channel 4 UK, Arté, Crave, Apple TV, Amazon Prime, and Criterion and have been exhibited at most major international festivals, including TIFF, MoMA, HotDocs, Kaminari (Japan), London Frames (UK), Berlin, Sheffield, and Sundance. Their work has been honoured at the Canadian Screen, Realworld, Genie, Gemini, Gémeaux, Directors Guild of Canada, and Canadian Editors Awards.
Min Bae
Professor, Film Production
Min Bae, a film production professor at the University of Windsor and Cactus Pictures® founder, has been avidly devoted to cinematography and filmmaking since 1990. He has expertise in film production, cinematography and the fine arts, a reflection of his education in Montreal, France, and Korea. Min Bae has collaborated on several award-winning independent films. Situation (1995), Off Sync (2000), Where Are We? (2004), Two Islands (2007), and the recent experimental film Qausuittuq (2020) which was recognized in festivals worldwide. In addition, the accomplished filmmaker continued his career as the writer, director, and cinematographer of the Jean-Marc Vallé Award-nominated feature documentary Reset (2023), set in Seoul, Korea.
IMBD: imbd/minbae
Dr. Nick Hector
Associate Professor, Film Production
Nick Hector is a documentary filmmaker and educator with more than thirty-five years of experience. He has edited or produced more than 160 documentary films and programs with combined budgets of more than 100 million dollars across North & Central America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Nick’s work has been screened at most major international festivals including three of the “Big Five”: TIFF, Berlinale, and Sundance, winning 48 national and international awards. These films have been streamed or broadcast worldwide on platforms that include Criterion, Apple, Amazon, Arte, BBC, CBC, and NFB. Nick is a full member of the Directors Guild of Canada and the British Film Editors and Canadian Cinema Editors honours societies. His work includes three Top Ten Canadian films, five films at MoMA, 11 at TIFF, and 16 at HotDocs. Nick has been nominated for 36 national film awards and the winner of thirteen; including Canadian Screen, HotDocs, Directors Guild of Canada, Canadian Cinema Editors, and Gemini Awards. His creative work focuses on social justice and explores the possibilities of constructed narrative in the observational documentary. Nick holds a Doctorate in Fine Arts from the University of Hertfordshire and is perhaps best known for his work on Dying at Grace, hailed by TIFF as “one of the greatest films ever made in this country” and now part of the prestigious Criterion Collection.
Website: https://nickhector.com/
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/nickhector
IMBD: IMDb/nickhector
Prof. Tony Lau
Sessional Lecturer, Film Production
Biography coming soon....
Dr. Kim Nelson
Professor, Cinema Arts
Director of the Humanities Research Group, Kim Nelson’s key research interests include historical consciousness and identity, methodologies of truth, and public dialogue about the past, which she has explored through audio documentary (CBC IDEAS 2023), her practice of live documentary, and written explorations in essay, chapter, and book form. Her documentary and fiction films have been screened, performed, and broadcast internationally in the US, Europe, and Canada. She has held fellowships in Germany (DAAD 2012-2013), Canada (HRG 2013-2014), and the US (NYU 2015-2016), and past and ongoing creative and research projects have received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Ministry of Heritage. She co-edited The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image (2023) and authored the book Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film, Rutgers University Press (2024). Nelson founded and directs the international Moving Histories Network and holds a PhD in Media Studies from the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam, Germany.
https://www.livedocproject.com/
Photo: Kim Nelson with design by Brodie MacPhail
Prof. Mike Stasko
Associate Professor, Film Production
Michael Stasko is a talented and award-winning filmmaker who has written, produced and directed over ten feature films that have premiered at prestigious festivals and sold to major distributors. His films range from comedy to sci-fi to Shakespearean, and feature stars like Ray Wise, Tom Cavanagh, Fred Willard, Graham Greene, Colin Mochrie, Kevin McDonald, Judith O’Dea and Lloyd Kaufman.
He has also created and produced original TV series for YTV, CBC and Bell. Michael Stasko is a versatile and visionary storyteller who always delivers engaging and entertaining stories for the screen. Works include Things To Do (2006), Iodine (2009), The Birder (2014), The Control (2018), Boys vs. Girls (2020), Depraved Mind (2023) and Vampire Zombies…from Space! (2025).
He also produces feature-length films for the Stratford Festival, including Cymbeline (2024), The Winter’s Tale (2025), Macbeth (2026) and the upcoming A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2026).
IMDb: imdb.me/mikestasko
