LAST HARVEST

Hui Wang, Director/Producer/DP/Editor

 

Hui Wang (a.k.a. Jane) is an award-winning Toronto-based documentary filmmaker born and raised in Wuhan. Wang moved to Canada in 2001 and is a graduate of York University’s Honours English BA program and Toronto Metropolitan University’s Film Studies certificate program. Her debut feature-length documentary LAST HARVEST (2015) won the Tokyo TV Forum Award at the CNEX Chinese Documentary Forum in Taiwan and was the closing night film at Toronto’s Planet in Focus International Environment Film Festival and  won both the World Documentary Award and Best Female-Directed Documentary Award at the Whistler Film Festival. LAST HARVEST has been licensed for broadcast on major networks in Asia and Europe, including Singapore’s CNA and ARTE France. Wang is currently in post-production of her second feature-length documentary THE GARDENER AND THE DICTATOR with support from the Hot Docs CrossCurrents Doc Fund, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and the National Film Board of Canada.

 

 

Jun Zhang, Producer

 

Jun Zhang is a Chinese-Canadian documentary producer based in Toronto. She holds an Honours BA degree in Chinese Literature from Jiang Han University, and taught Chinese literature for a decade before immigrating to Canada, where she earned an Honours BA in Sociology from University of Toronto. With fierce creativity and subtle narrative sensibility, Zhang’s diverse background lends her work a distinct transnational perspective. Following her debut as producer and story editor of Hui Wang’s award-winning feature-length documentary LAST HARVEST (2015), Zhang is currently producing and co-writing THE GARDENER AND THE DICTATOR, Wang’s second feature-length documentary.

 

 

Peter Shepherd, Associate Producer

 

Peter Shepherd is a well-seasoned lover of documentary as an art form and social voice.  Long a ‘lay member’ of DOC 

(Documentary Organization of Canada), Peter observed the byzantine process of funding and making docs in Canada but 

only became involved as an associate producer in two projects - The Alley (2008)  by producer/director Philip Maglieri, 

and Hui Wang’s Last Harvest(2015).  Both are essentially self-funded projects - which is both limiting and liberating - 

and Last Harvest proves that good documentary comes from deep commitment and sacrifice. 

 

Peter had a long career in ‘special projects’ in the public service before retiring, but began his working life in construction, 

decades ago.  In between, urban planning, community development, social housing development, accessibility and 

disability issues have been passions and vocations or avocations (sometimes both). Now, Peter is a practicing student of 

sculpture and photography. 

 

 

Jeremy Edwardes, Composer

 

Born in Luton, England, Jeremy Edwardes has been performing on the stage and on television for over 50 years. Jeremy’s mother, an award-winning actress, was his first teacher. They appeared together on TV in 1962 when it was still black and 

white. Jeremy’s first soundtracks were for theater shows, then he began scoring films in Montreal in 1990. 

 

Jeremy is currently the Vice President and principal producer of Coptor Productions Inc. He has been producing for 15 

years, but has worked creatively and professionally with new media, audio and video for 40 years. Production highlights 

include winning the Academy Award in 2005 for best animated short film for Ryan. Jeremy has been living in Toronto for 

22 years, collaborating with the multitude of talented artists and storytellers that make up his creative community. The 

opportunity to score Last Harvest was an exciting challenge as he has been working in China since 2006. He and director 

Hui Wang worked closely together and agreed on an approach and execution that would set the right tone without alluding to any specific genre.

 

 

 

Alejandra Monreal, Animator

 

Alejandra Monreal is a multi-disciplinary artist and film school drop-out. Drawing from her childhood summers with her 

grandmother in the Colombian countryside, she merges traditional needle work, painting, and analog filmmaking 

techniques with the digital age and western pop culture. As a first generation Canadian, she tries to capture the loss of 

wanting to be in two places at once and the roaming nature of belonging neither here nor there.