Shane Belcourt is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and musician based in Toronto.  His feature film, Tkaronto, has played many international film festivals, most recently winning best director prizes at the 2008 Dreamspeakers Film Festival and the 2008 Talking Stick Film Festival. The film has since been sold to a national distributor, KinoSmith Films, and released across Canada during the fall of 2008. (It also played on Air Canada and Super Channel). Belcourt was the recipient of the 2007 IFC Mentorship Award and participated in the Talent Lab at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.