Our Team
Ali Grant
FOUNDER
Ali Grant is a lesbian filmmaker, based in Vancouver, BC. At age 53 she went back to school to learn documentary filmmaking. She is passionate about telling stories of defiant women who strive to change themselves and the world around them. Her short docs have shown in festivals nationally and internationally, including the Uppsala Short Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival, Toronto’s Inside Out LGBT Film Festival, and the Women Over Fifty Film Festival. She has received funding from Rogers, Creative BC, and TELUS Originals, has awards from the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council, a Ph.D. in geography from McMaster University (1997), and a Certificate in Documentary Film Production from Langara College (2019). Ali is a member of the International Documentary Association, the Documentary Organization of Canada, and Women in Film and Television Vancouver, and is the founder of On The Creek Films.
Cari Green
producer
Cari Green has been producing social issue documentary films for over thirty-five years. Films such as The Corporation, Scared Sacred, and When I Walk have screened at Sundance, IDFA, Hot Docs and TIFF. She has a background in distribution and marketing, and an MFA in film production from UBC, where she has taught, along with other institutions for over fifteen years. A long-time advocate for the documentary film industry, Cari recently served on the board of the Hot Docs Film Festival and was co-chair of the BC Chapter of the Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC). She received the Mayor’s Arts Award and an honorary lifetime membership from Women in Film for service to the community. Cari is a producer of Not Quite That at On The Creek Films.
