Vanessa Magic is a Canadian Screen Award-nominated director and award-winning writer whose work centers around loneliness and grief, often from the eye of the outsider, with an Afrofuturist and Afrosurrealist lens. She is an alumni of Black Women Film, BIPOC Film & TV, The Warner Media Discovery Access x Canadian Academy Writers Program ’22 and Women In the Director’s Chair ’23, Slamdance Mentorship ’23 and the Blood in the Snow Horror Lab ’23.