Staff Team 2025

Co-Artistic Director (current)
Associate Artistic Director (2024)
Youth Programmer (2022-23)
Programming Assistant (2021)
Commissioned Artist (2020)

You’ll often find me…

🎦Curating short films and coordinating festival programming
🌟Supporting artists on their filmmaking journeys through the Commissioning Fund Program
💗Leading outreach activities to engage Youth and the street dance community
🤸Connecting with my youth! 

“I have been involved with F-O-R-M since I was 17 as a 2020 Commissioned Artist, an experience that truly changed my life. Since then, I’ve been lucky to support the festival in different capacities as Youth Programmer and Associate Artistic Director with mentorship from Sophia and Tamar, before taking an exciting step this year as Co-Artistic Director alongside danielle. F-O-R-M has been such a pillar in my life and career, and I’m deeply honoured to continue growing alongside F-O-R-M and our inspiring team.”

Erin Lum (she/her) is an emerging artist based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples (Vancouver, BC). As F-O-R-M’s youngest staff member, she is passionate about fostering youth-engaged spaces in the arts. 

Erin is interested in art-making as a powerful form for (re)defining diasporic identity. This had led her to create films, dance, write, collage, and explore how these practices intertwine. In 2020, she was a F-O-R-M Commissioned Artist and created Zì Jǐ, which has since screened at international film festivals including a weeklong projection onto the National Arts Centre building in Ottawa. Her second short, Something To Forget Me By, premiered in 2022. Erin is completing her undergrad degree in Sociology and Communications at SFU. In 2022, Erin showcased a multi-media project Just By Existing in a group exhibition at the Art Gallery at Evergreen. She is currently expanding this project into a documentary film with the support of DOXA Documentary Festival. 

Photo by Nic Latulippe

Co-Artistic Director and Curator in Residence (current)
Associate Artistic Director (2024)
Programming Assistant (2023)
Commissioned Artist (2021)
Short Film Artist (2020)
Submission Screening Assistant (2019)

You’ll often find me…

💓 Leading artists through the Commissioning Fund Program, being a listening ear and anchor to return to during their creative processes
🫂 Developing a collaborative curatorial approach influenced by attending performances/screenings and holding generative conversations with mentors 
🫰 Expanding my knowledge of disability justice in relationship to artistic practices
🪨 Searching for the unlikely places where movement exists
🎉 Dreaming and writing (grants) about what the future of F-O-R-M can be

“Each year F-O-R-M has been in my life, starting back in 2019 when I was still a student, has shown me the powerful impacts that emerge from working as an artist. I would not be who I am today without the expansive hearts, curious natures and dedicated passions exuding from the staff, artists and audiences I have come across through this work. As I embrace more responsibility and newness this year with Erin I look to the countless connections forged and knowledge passed on as grounding guidance to honour the foundations of this magical entity that is F-O-R-M.”

I use a lowercase “d” because I desire to navigate the world by easing into spaces. I go by my full name to acknowledge my maternal lineage.

danielle Mackenzie Long, a queer emerging artist, resides on the stolen and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations. They seek to use new media and film to liberate gender non-conforming dance artists to create work that surpasses gendered bodies through various means of visual presentation and audience access.

Their creative practice has been supported by a recent commission from Company 605, as well as residencies with Toronto Dance Theatre (Pilot Episodes) and New Works. At this time danielle’s performance practice is being expanded through engagements with Action at a Distance/Vanessa Goodman, Shion Skye Carter, and self checkout/Lamont. Their past works have been shown through GRRL HAUS CINEMA, XINEMA, New Works, FAVA, and Cinevolution among others.

As Co-Artistic Director and Curator in Residence with Festival of Recorded Movement (F-O-R-M), they work alongside a small team of creatives, supporting the seeds of creations by Youth and Emerging artists whose works speak to the theme of “recorded movement.” They strive to navigate academic structures with an emphasis on curiosity, refusal, and rest, most recently through their studies at the School for Poetic Computation (New York).

Photo by Jaime Hewat

Creative Producer (2023-current)
Associate Producer (2022)

You’ll often find me…

💡 Developing and implementing sponsorship plans and outreach🫂 Coordinating and executing festival activities
💫 Creating and maintaining budgets and payment schedules
💌 Grant writing
💓 Curating vibes

“As I enter my 4th festival season with F-O-R-M, I have nothing but immense gratitude for the generative space this platform provides. It’s an honour to move through life alongside a team of magical humans who continuously inspire me to show up with care, intention, and creativity not only artistically and professionally, but personally as well.”

Chiara Lucchetta (she/her) is an independent dance artist, writer, movement instructor, and arts organizer. Chiara’s artistic journey has led her down many paths, including art curation, dissemination, presentation, production, and performance in commercial and fringe settings, such as dancing with the A-Team for the Toronto Argos and taking part in a commissioned choreographic residency with The Garage (Toronto, 2020).

Chiara has trained in a variety of dance styles, journalism, creative writing, and holds certifications in various mind-body techniques including yoga, pilates, and mental health crisis response. She draws on the experience and knowledge she has cultivated in her role as a somatic practitioner to facilitate community programming rooted in embodied awareness. Her work reflects an ongoing commitment to fostering spaces that weave the personal with the collective.

Chiara is interested in how one’s bodily experience can shape and inform how we move through the world in the context of the different roles we hold, inspiring us to work and create from a place of intention and curiosity. Chiara believes that simply existing is a creative act and lives, works, and plays from this ethos.

Photo by Erin Lum

Grapher Designer (2023-current)
Graphic Designer Intern (2022)

You’ll often find me…

🖱️ Browsing graphic websites for inspiration and adding them to my collection
🔠 Photographing beautiful typefaces I encounter on the street
🌀 Laying out countless brand visual concepts for F-O-R-M in Illustrator on my laptop

“My experience at F-O-R-M has been incredibly joyful. It has allowed me to grow from being a design student to a design intern, and eventually a graphic designer. Not only has it honed my professional skills, but it has also cultivated a mindset that allows me to truly enjoy my career with the incredible team at F-O-R-M.”

Jingyi 景怡 (She/They) is a visual and user experience designer, and currently pursuing her master’s degree of interaction design at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

Born and raised in Tianjin, China, and currently based in Vancouver, BC (the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ peoples), Jingyi’s immigrant journey has instilled in a deep awareness of cultural adjustment and self-identity adaptation. This experience fuels her passion for empowering clients not only through striking visual communication designs but also through user-centric and problem-solving design solutions. Jingyi is currently passionate about collecting and digitally archiving objects that hold history around her, believing this to be a fundamental aspect of the interaction between humans and objects. In her professional practice, she explores and applies the transformative power of brand design to benefit the community. She developed and equipped these skills during her career at F-O-R-M, and she actively assists local clients in enhancing their product visuals through collaboration.

Photo by Erin Lum

Communications Coordinator (2024)
Technology and Interaction Artist in Residence (2023-24)
Short Film Artist (2020)

You’ll often find me…

💌 Digitally engaging with our F-O-R-M community from artists to audiences
💻 Social editing; posting festival gems + updates on our social media
👣 Planning the festival’s digital footprint
🙌 In hands-on collaboration mode with each of our staff members!

“Engaging with F-O-R-M as a team member has been so rejuvenating while we’re working towards creating accessible and nourishing pathways for youth and emerging artists! I hold gratitude for this abundant opportunity by working with artists in this role to amplify their vision and voices! I admire this team so much! At F-O-R-M, this understanding and curiosity for experimental recorded movement branches throughout the festival, where I feel this sense of belonging, excitement, and transFORMation!”

Jasmine Liaw (she/her) is a queer emerging interdisciplinary artist, director, and designer in contemporary dance performance, new media art, and experimental film. Evidenced in collaboration and community, her work leans into transcultural narratives intersecting her Hakka diaspora, and queer theories in temporality and ecology. Select presentations of her work include Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto, The Asian Arts & Culture Trust with Holt Renfrew, Northwest Film Forum, Gallery 44, Pleasure Dome, Images Festival and more. Liaw is a recipient of the 2023 Emerging Digital Artists Award presented by EQ Bank and Trinity Square Video. Recently, she co-founded inter-grit studios, an experimental auto-ethnographic research collaboratory.

Self-Portrait by Artist

General Manager (current) Artistic Director (2023-24) 
Associate Artistic Director (2021-22)
Youth Curator (2020-21)
Commissioned Artist (2019)

You’ll often find me…

🗺️Translating values into timelines, budgets, and behind the scenes workflows.
📙Writing grants with one eye on the present and the other on what’s possible.
🤗Checking in with staff, offering context, clarity, and guidance as they find their footing.
🌱Collaborating on shaping the future of this organization by making today’s work more sustainable.

Tamar Zehava Tabori (she/her) dances, creates videos, and works behind the scenes in the arts. With a BFA from Concordia University, her career has spanned national and international stages and screens, shaped by collaborations across disciplines and a deep commitment to shared learning.

Tamaris the General Manager of Recorded Movement Society, home to F-O-R-M (Festival of Recorded Movement). Over the past six years, she has held many roles within the organization, from Commissioned Artist to Artistic Director. Her work reflects an ongoing interest in collective decision-making, thoughtful infrastructure, and building systems from the ground up, shaped not by conventional templates but by the real needs and values of the people they serve.

Alongside her artistic and administrative practice, Tamar is pursuing a Project Management Certificate at BCIT, driven by a belief that everything is a kind of project: from making a film, to shaping a team, to building new systems of care. She’s interested in how structure can support creativity and how strategy can hold space for values.

Tamar is currently an uninvited guest on the stolen and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples: the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. She carries deep gratitude for the ability to learn from and be shaped by these lands and their peoples.

Photo by Erin Lum

Organizational Director (2023-current) 
Founding Artistic Director (2015-2022) 

You’ll often find me..

💗Supporting and mentoring our current F-O-R-M AD’s as well as our 2025 Commissioned Artists
✨Building, researching and getting curious about best practices and models for succession planning in Youth led organizations 
🤝Writing grants, developing partnerships and dreaming up more programs and presentations to uplift dance/movement-on-screen Locally, Nationally and Internationally

Sophia Mai Wolfe (she/her/hers) is a queer, Japanese-Canadian independent artist. She is currently the Organizational Director of Recorded Movement Society and the founder of F-O-R-M (Festival Of Recorded Movement). She is a grateful guest of what is colonially known as Vancouver, on the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Her interdisciplinary practice moves through dancing, filmmaking, curation, editing, mentoring youth artists and emerging arts leaders, and, on occasion, acting. Her dance practice has taken her abroad, performing and touring internationally with local companies and independent choreographers.

At the heart of her work is movement, and an ongoing exploration of embodiment, a practice that informs not only her performance and filmmaking, but also her curatorial and administrative roles. She holds an MA in Screendance from the London Contemporary Dance School (2022), and is interested in making films and creating experiences for audiences that challenges and slows our attention. She uses film and dance to invite connection and empathy toward the bodies we witness on screen, as well as sensation within the bodies of those witnessing. She works independently and collaboratively with artists and communities to engage audiences in work that moves them through embodied and imaginative experiences.

Photo by Erin Lum

Kira Doxtator (Anishinaabe, Oneida, and Dakota) is an independent film director & producer, changing the dynamic towards meaningful representation for Indigenous people in the film industry, and creating artistic work centred around Indigenous futures, Indigi-queer identities, and relationships to place.

The recipient of the 2024 ImagineNATIVE Originals 16mm film Mentorship in partnership with LIFT; her second director’s credit for ‘The Fourth World Problems Collective’, is a short film premiering at imagineNATIVE this June 2025. Her first film, ‘a poem for my future’, premiered in Seattle in 2024, and was funded through the Indigenous Filmmaker Bursary from Vancouver Film Studios & Pacific Backlot. Her next endeavour is producing Telefilm Talent to Watch feature film in 2025.

Photo by Patrick Shannon

Tanisha Kumar is a Toronto-based media artist and student in the RTA Media Production program at TMU, with a focus on film, television, and live production. Their work blends collaborative storytelling and technical skills, often centering themes of identity and representation. In 2023, they debuted in the F-O-R-M Festival’s Mini Commissions Program, a short film ‘BALD GIRL’ exploring their experience of being bald. Tanisha is passionate about inclusive media, hands-on learning, and amplifying underrepresented voices both on and off screen. Through camera operation, graphics, and creative collaboration, they aim to tell stories that are bold, intentional, and emotionally resonant.

Photo by @funnkybag

Clarence is an artist with a deep appreciation for music, dance, film, and photography.
As an amateur dance filmmaker, I am deeply honoured to be a part of this year’s Artistic Committee for the Commissioning Fund Program. Music videos have been my inspiration and have shown me how music could be interpreted not only through movement but through colour, texture, pace, narrative, and aesthetics. This careful curation of all these elements is what I think makes film such an intricately beautiful art form. It’s been a pleasure to review applications that showed immense passion and care for the craft of film, and I am excited to see how these artists' visions take shape. I am grateful to be welcomed into this role with F-O-R-M and for the support I’ve had from organizations I am a part of, like Vancouver Street Dance Association, and ongoing artistic collaborators/friends from Konichiwaack.

Self-Portrait by Artist

Born in Nigeria, Kosi Eze (she/her) honed her creative influence through her love for music at 18. As a young woman, Kosi drew many connections between her ancestral roots and the street dance forms which she became increasingly involved with in 2012. Through those connections, the Enugu native discovered her passion for dance and performance art.
Kosi seeks to promote a healthy knowledge of self and emotional intelligence - as it impacts the ways we engage within street dance culture as messengers, leaders and mentors for the generation to come - through her art.
Kosi is continues to work toward increasing music and movement literacy through her studies and teaching. She is currently contributing to the works of Compagnie de danse Ebnflõh and proudly represents the Symbiotic Monsters, the Unknown Floor Force and Sourpatch movement collective(s).

Photo by Jerick Collantes

Andy Liu (he/him) is an emerging Chinese-Canadian filmmaker, director, writer, cinematographer, and producer based in Vancouver, Canada. He enjoys exploring new and unfamiliar media through his work, both as a challenge and as a learning experience. With a BSc in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, Andy's creative practice focuses on the interaction between self-consciousness and one’s surroundings through audio-visual experimentation. Drawing from his past experience as a dance videographer, he also enjoys capturing spontaneous moments as highlights in his work. Andy was a commissioned artist in F-O-R-M 2024 and a participating artist in New Works' NWXR 2025 program. His work has been exhibited at the Polygon Gallery, Lobe Studio, Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, and SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. He is currently working on his next experimental short film, which is in post-production.

Photo by Daniel Xiao

cát nguyên (they/them | @_cat_nguyen_) is a queer, non-binary storyteller. as an experimental poet, performance artist & wanderer of worlds, cát nguyên searches for solace beyond society’s borders & bones. they are a diasporic dreamer & living manifestation of the u.s. war in việt nam.
through their art, cát nguyên converses with love, grief, intergenerational trauma & healing, queerness, discrimination & migration. they aspire to transform poetry into an immersive experience rather than one limited to reading.
cát nguyên is best known for their unique performance style, cảm diễn (emotional embodiment in vietnamese), because of its deeply expressive nature in which cát nguyên connects with not only their own soul, but also the audience’s. their performances conjure a dramatic spell of poetry, movement, and sound. cát nguyên’s performance practice is influenced by vietnamese spirituality, folklore & ancestral wisdom, and experiments with elements of vietnamese traditional music, theater & narrative forms.

Photo by Đạt Vũ

Shay Erlich (they/them) is a disability justice world builder, artist, and disability educator based in T:karonto/Toronto, Ontario. Their work imagines a disability-centered world where disabled people are empowered to love themselves and live free from stigma, shame, and ableism. Their practice is centered in storytelling, told through the lenses of writing, dance, film, and games. Shay is the Founder and Program Co-Lead with Paulina Drohomyrecky for Pushmakers- a national initiative focused on excellence in manual wheelchair dance. They also currently serve as a disability arts curator with the National Creation Fund. Shay holds an MA in Child and Youth Care from Toronto Metropolitan University.

Photo by Paulina Drohomyrecky

Sasha J. Langford employs sound, writing, facilitation, and performance to investigate how bodies attune to one another across varied historical and social conditions. As a composer and musician, Sasha employs sampling, field recordings, and digital and analog synthesis to create rhythmically-driven and spatially-sensitive compositions. In her collaborations with choreographers and media artists, as well as her solo live performance practice, Sasha's work has been presented at Ehkä-Kutomo (Turku, Finland), FestivALT (Kraków, Poland), Lines of Flight Festival of Experimental Music (Dunedin, New Zealand), Ende Tymes (Brooklyn, NY), Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montreal, QC), Western Front (Vancouver, BC), and the International Noise Conference (Miami, FL). She has collaborated with performing arts companies such as Mardon + Mitsuhashi, battery opera, and The Biting School, among others.
Sasha is Faculty at Columbia College, where she teaches media and cultural studies on occupied xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ territories known as Vancouver, BC.

Photo by Pascha Marrow

Sarah Wong (they/she) is a writer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Grounded in the archive of their queer, disabled, and 2nd(ish) generation body, their practice traces lineages of family history, community resistance, movement across land, and slow gestures of care. They make space for the multiple, creating across and between performance, site-specific installation, textiles, poetry, art criticism, and film. Sarah also has an emerging practice as an access consultant, approaching accessibility as a creative practice that is inextricably tied to movements for justice and collective liberation. sarahwong.ca / @swongski

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Joshua Lam is an early career Director, Writer & Creative Producer working in the Vancouver Film & Media Industry. Josh focuses on fostering the Asian Arts Community while crafting diverse narratives through short comics & animated mediums. He currently serves as the Lead Creative Producer of the Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon hosted by Vancouver Asian Film Festival, working in TransLink in the Communications Department creating content, and is funded on his Queer Asian Short through Canada Council for the Arts and BC Arts Council. Josh's stories involve comedic & dramatic stories intersecting with self-identity, queerness, family, relationships, and culture.

Photo by Jared Yu

Crow is an indigenous 19 year-old aspiring marine biologist currently doing their undergraduate degree at UVic. They joined FORM in the 2022 Mini-Commissions program with their film ‘Crooked’, which focused on the feeling of grieving alone and the impact it has on an individual.

Recently Crow has been figuring out self love by mixing biology and conservation with art and music; finding the similarities between things they love in nature and themselves. They currently live in Victoria, BC, in the traditional territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.

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Pedro Chamale (he/him)is a playwright, director and performer who was born and raised on treaty 8 territory, Chetwynd, BC. He creates on the unceded and traditional lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He completed the acting program at Douglas College and then received his BFA from SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. He was the Artistic Resident at Neworld Theatre in 2014, guest curator of the 2018 rEvolver Festival and in the 2019 Playwright’s Lab. Pedro is a co-founder of the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition and sits on the Latinx Theatre Commons steering committee. He was awarded the young alumni excellence award in 2021, from Simon Fraser University's FCAT department. In 2023 Pedro was a nominee for the BC multicultural and anti-racist “Breaking Boundaries” award for which he is grateful to be recognized for the work he has done both personally and at rice & beans. His latest play Peace Country is available at https://www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/P/Peace-Country

Photo by Brendon Hart Photography

Sonia Medel is an interdisciplinary curator, artist, and researcher-analyst completing a doctorate in Educational Studies. Her research explores arts and culture in Vancouver through a decolonial, intersectional feminist lens, with a focus on the Latin American dance scene and the socio-political impact of Latina dancers. Alongside her scholarly work, she has returned to stage performances internationally and within Canada and is actively furthering her dance training and engaging in dance film, curation, and two major publishing projects. For over a decade, Medel has advanced decolonial and feminist approaches to arts, culture, and education across the Americas. An Indigenous-descendant Latina, the daughter of a Chilean exile and an immigrant Peruvian mother, she is especially grateful to the Coast Salish peoples and lands where she was born and continues to develop her creative-professional practice. She is very happy to have followed F-O-R-M’s journey from the beginning, serving as a long-time Board Member and recently as curator of the Latinx short film selection for F-O-R-M’s May 2025 partnered screening with Vanguardia for the latter’s dance festival.

Photo by @emzlabyrinth

Ashley Sugimoto is a fourth-generation, biracial Japanese Canadian (JC) filmmaker. Her work aims to decolonize the intergenerational trauma within her JC community. She is an alumni of SFU where she directed her short documentary, Aiko (2016) which went on to stream through Yahoo Japan. Recently, Ashley has found a passion for helping organize and participate in programming JC community events. Currently, Ashley is working as a programmer for DOXA Documentary Film Festival.

Photo by Jon West

Ashley has received mentorship through VIFF’s Catalyst and Story Money Impact’s Empowering Creators for Community programs and currently sits as Chair for the Board of Directors for F-O-R-M Festival.

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Flory Huang is a multidisciplinary visual artist and designer based on Tongva Land also known as Los Angeles, California. As a graduate of Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) with a Minor in Communications, she gained extensive experience and developed both strategic and production roles in human-centric design, integrated marketing, branding, and business development through a 10+ years commercial career. Flory is currently primarily painting, drawing and tattooing; her work is often rooted in meaning-making, exploring/honoring identity, concepts of time, and the relational contemplation of the spiritual human experience. Flory had the joyful privilege of being F-O-R-M’s own branding and graphic designer through years 2017-2022 onto eventual mentorship of emerging youth graphic design.

Photo by Kezia Nathe / @kezianathe