Peg Campbell has been directing and producing award winning documentaries and narrative films since 1975. She is co-facilitating the Grant Writing for Filmmakers workshop on Saturday August 22 with Walter Quan.

Tony Correia won the 2008 Hero Award for Writer of the Year for his column Queen's Logic in Xtra!West. He is the facilitator of the Tell! Show! Share! workshop on Thursday August 20th.

Asa Mori was born in Nagano, Japan and currently lives in Vancouver. She has a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, primarily working with video and animation using Super8 and classical techniques. She's teamed up with Little Woo as the Festival artists-in-residence.

Jeff Gibson and Shaira Holman are the co-founders and directors of the Pride in Art Festival; they're hosting the Artists' Salon on Monday August 17.

Luisa Jojic is a performer who works on stage, screen, television, and in installation, performance art and multi-media contexts. She is facilitating the Camera Un-Shy workshop on Wednesday August 19.

Jason Karman will be premiering his short film My Westend at The Coast Is Queer on Monday August 17.

Daphne Marlatt is a Vancouver poet and novelist. The Portside was her first film script, in collaboration with Aerlyn Weissman.

H. P. Mendoza is a writer/director based in San Francisco making his Canadian debut with his new musical, Fruit Fly.

Rika Moorhouse is a hapa filmmaker from Vancouver. Naoko-san is Rika's first film, which she wrote and directed.

Clark Nikolai will be premiering his short film Galactic Docking Company at The Coast Is Queer on Monday August 17.

Ron Oliver is an award nominated artist whose work runs the gamut from the family picture A Dennis the Menace Christmas to the thrillers featured in this year's festival Strachey: Ice Blues and On the Other Hand Death.

Bren Ryder, pornographer and webmaster of GoodDykePorn.com, is the creator of the compilation film featuring Vancouver's sexiest dykes at the Porn Swap.

Courtney Trouble is the creator of the longest-running queer porn site on the web, NoFauxxx.Com, as well as the director of the films Nostalgia and Roulette, which won an award at the 2009 Feminist Porn Awards for "Most Diverse Cast."

Aerlyn Weissman is an award-winning Vancouver-based filmmaker; she has joined poet Daphne Marlatt in the making of The Portside.

Little Woo is a performance artist and spiritual teacher who enjoys sharing inspiration and transformation through diverse art forms, be it dance, music, puppetry, storytelling, healing arts or community building. She's teamed up with Asa Mori as the Festival artists-in-residence.