Lost in the Shuffle: Movie Screening and LIVE Video Q&A with Shawn Farquhar and Jon Ornoy

Elad is an award-winning director (DGC) producer and editor. Born and raised in Israel, he moved to Vancouver where he graduated from the Film Production Program at UBC and later co-founded Scopitone Films. He has worked internationally with brands like The Michelin Guide, Lululemon and Canadian Tire and has experience working with agencies across Canada.

Elad is a graduate of the 2018 TIFF Filmmaker Lab and the 2021 Whistler Documentary Lab. His directorial work includes ‘Unarchived’ (VIFF, ALFF, KDocs) for the NFB which examines historical erasure and the portrayal of diverse histories in our archives and museums, and the narrative short 'Run', which won various awards at the Leos as well as other festivals. As an editor, recent work includes: ‘Corrective Measures’ (Tubi) featuring Bruce Willis and Michael Rooker, ‘Portraits from a Fire’ (VIFF, CIFF, EIFF) which garnered him a Leo for Best Feature Editing, 'All Joking Aside' (Cinequest), 'Broil' and 'The Shipment' (TriBeca) as well as 'She Who Must Burn' (Fantasia) for Canadian director Larry Kent. Elad has produced various commercial, documentary and narrative content including the upcoming Heritage Minute ‘Paldi - A Place for Everyone’.

Originally from Maryland, Collin Morrison is a cinematographer and camera operator now based in Vancouver BC. Commercially Collin has shot for brands including Canon, Michelin, Canadian Tire and Shopify. He is the DOP for "The Wrestlers" on Viceland and the CBC show “Scout and the Gumboot Kids” for which he won the 2018 and 2019 Leo award for cinematography in a youth program. His feature film work as a cinematographer includes “Fall Back Down” and “Andie the Great.” As a camera operator Collin has been the “A” camera operator on over 20 films and worked on various series filmed in Vancouver.

Collin also has a strong documentary background. From shooting out of helicopters over the Amazon, along seafloor off the coast of Japan and from backs of trucks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Collin has traversed the globe and become adept at shooting in any environment. Starting his career in the lighting department he can still find himself at home in a studio, lighting anything from large sets to miniatures for stop-motion.

Born in Lima, Ana Carrizales is a Peruvian-Canadian award-winning writer, director, producer, and actress based in Vancouver, BC. She has 15 years of experience making fiction and non-fiction content. She has directed and produced a number of films that have screened internationally including Tribeca, Hot Docs, Palms Springs, and Hollyshorts. Just recently, she released a documentary piece commissioned by New York Magazine. She is a 2022 TEDx speaker and a producing instructor at the Vancouver Film School.

Jon Ornoy was born in Toronto has been producing and directing films for more than fifteen years. In that time has been responsible to bringing five shorts and three features to the screen for outlets such as Bravo, Superchannel, Starz and Peacock. Of note among his award-winning titles is the feature documentary With Glowing Hearts which found international distribution and a home on Canada’s Documentary Channel and the short True Love Waits which was produced in 2012 with a $100,000 prize awarded by the Whistler Film Festival. More recently, Jon produced the 2020 feature All Joking Aside which took home the New Visions Award at its festival premiere at Cinequest, and his feature documentary directing debut Lost in the Shuffle will premiere in competition at Hot Docs in 2024.

If you ever find yourself at a poker table with American Richard Turner, you’d better just pack up your chips and leave. Referring to himself as a “card mechanic” rather than a magician, he has nonetheless won several Close-Up magician of the year awards thanks to his unparalleled ability to manipulate, shuffle and deal out a deck. But what makes all of Richard’s accomplishments truly incredible is that he is blind – and has been since contracting a degenerative retinal disease when he was nine. Sought out by mobsters and Hollywood film directors alike, he has a card closet at home which is regularly filled with about 6,000 decks, a number which sounds crazy until you consider that he wears through several decks a day.

Michael Vincent is a British magician who has won The Magic Circle’s Close-up Magician of the Year award three times and earned a lifetime membership in the club’s elite Inner Magic Circle. Picking up the magic bug at age 6, he gave his first performance at 14. He gained world wide attention after two successful performances on Penn & Teller’s “Fool Us” TV series. Then in 2011, Michael suffered sudden, mysterious hearing loss overnight and was faced with the prospect of his career ending if he could no longer banter with his audience. But he persevered, taught himself to lip read, and continues to amaze and astound audiences around the world with his card magic.

After briefly pursuing a career in filmmaking in the 1960s, Juan Tamariz turned his talents to magic, and the world is a better place for it. Now widely regarded as one of our finest living magicians, the 78 year old Spaniard continues to perform, innovate and inspire yet another generation of performers. The author of five highly influential books and the recipient of innumerable awards and a full-fledged celebrity in Spain and South America.

One of the most prominent female members of the magic arts, Alexandra Duvivier has been the winner of the Mandrake d’Or in France, and the first French female magician to fool Penn and Teller on their show “Fool Us”. The daughter of Dominique Duvivier, a living legend in magic, she faced a double challenge; to make a name for herself under the shadow of her illustrious father and to become a highly respected artist in a field dominated by men.