Our Team

Will has been working in film and video since co-founding Sad Hill Media in 2009. Since completing a degree in film production at Simon Fraser University, they have been involved in the art film community in numerous roles: as the co-host of the movie podcast Film Formally, as a regular volunteer at The Cinematheque from 2014–2019, as a workshop instructor at VIVO Center for Media Arts, as a film critic who maintains their own blog, as a writer-director of numerous independent short films, and as an editor and sound designer for fellow filmmakers. Both their personal works, and those they have worked on as a collaborator, have been screened in major film festivals around the world. Whether for their own projects or someone else’s, their work behind the camera and the keyboard is always focused on finding fresh, gripping new approaches to cinema that encourage people to see their world in new ways.

Jessica Bradford is an award-winning writer, director and educator based in Vancouver, Canada. Her films include the GEMINI winning, When I Was Seven and the Director’s Guild of Canada Kickstart Award-winner, The Telescope. Jessica has spent over 15 years in the industry as a writer, director and producer. She is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre and Women in the Director’s Chair and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Currently she is developing her kids’ adventure feature film, “Tess and the Hunt for Toad” and teaching screenwriting at Vancouver Film School.

Jessica is a labour and employment lawyer originally from San Francisco, practicing at Harris & Co. in various sectors including the film industry.  She spends her free time hiking and camping with her husband, two small kids and dog.  She has been a member of the Board since 2016.

Kam Sein Yee is currently an Occupational Health Nurse with Health Canada, where she has provided health assessments for government employees for the past 10 years. She specializes in immunization and outbreak response. She also provides a guided meditation and stretch class for office workers. Kam Sein is an active member of the arts community. She is a published poet and her work is included in the Chinese Canadian Poetry anthologies, “Swallowing Clouds” and “Strike the Wok.” She rejoined Reel to Real in 2017 as a Director.

Kam Sein has previously been a director at the Roundhouse Community and Arts Centre, a member of Asian Canadian Writer’s Workshop and ONSA, an Occupational Health Professional Practice Group. She lives in Vancouver and has two teens who also love international film.

Harry is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University, where teaches courses in Film, Video + Integrated Media, and Media History. His award-winning dramatic films have been screened at several international festivals including Bilbao, Toronto, Palm Springs, Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, Torino and Vancouver. His documentaries have been broadcast on the BBC, CBC, Bravo!, NHK, CTV, Knowledge Network, and SCN. He is a graduate of Stanford University and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Renate holds a Master of Pedagogy, with a concentration in media, from the University of Bielefeld. She has had professional experience in film and media since 1983 and since that time has held a has been a director, organizer, manager of film projects and events, festival agent and jury member in countries around the world. She has been the director of the Kinder Film Fest of the Berlin International Film Fest and of Kodomotachino Kinder Film Festival Tokyo. In 2010, she became a program advisor for international film festivals for children and young adults in Jakarta (Indonesia), Mexico City (Mexico), Montevideo (Uruguay), Seattle (USA), Winnipeg (Canada) and Kathmandu (Nepal). She is currently the official program advisor for Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth in Vancouver and the Golden Elephant Film Festival in Hyderabad (India).