THE CREW
Writer/Director
ASTRA TAYLOR
Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, and political organizer. Her latest book is Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions (Haymarket Books, 2021). Her other books include the American Book Award winner The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age (Metropolitan, 2014) and Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone (Metropolitan Books, 2018). She co-authored and contributed the foreword to Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2020). She has contributed to outlets including The New York Times, New Yorker, the New Republic, The London Review of Books, The Guardian, The Baffler, Teen Vogue, and elsewhere. She is the director of the philosophical documentaries What Is Democracy? (TIFF 2018), Examined Life (TIFF 2008), and Zizek! (TIFF 2005). She is a current Ashoka Fellow, former Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and a former touring member of the band Neutral Milk Hotel. She is a co-founder of the Debt Collective, a union for debtors.
Producer
Lea Marin
Lea Marin is an award-winning Toronto-based producer with more than 18 years’ experience in the industry. A graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Producers’ Lab, Lea joined the National Film Board of Canada as a producer in 2006. Her most recent film credits include Charles Officer’s Unarmed Verses, which won the Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award at Hot Docs 2017. Other credits include Chelsea McMullan’s My Prairie Home, and Astra Taylor’s Examined Life.