SHELLA RECORD A REGGAE MYSTERY

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Chris Flanagan is an installation artist and documentary filmmaker. His documentary  films Shella Record - A Reggae Mystery  and  Ruff and Tuff - Stranger Cole's Toronto Roots premiered at Hot Docs in 2019 and 2018 respectively.  He is currently developing a series of documentary shorts  with collaborator Graeme Mathieson for the National Film Board of Canada.

As an artist he has exhibited in numerous artist-run and public galleries across Canada and Australia for more than 15 years. His art practice has also included composing original including a fabricated band and a film score for a small town. His compositions featured in Hannah Gadsby’s Oz a three part series on Australian Art.

Chris is also a DJ, record collector, and runs Shella Records, a record label dedicated to reissuing incredible lost Canadian Reggae music in partnership with the original artists. 

Sonia Godding Togobo has close to 20 years of media experience as both an editor and director.  Sonia has edited television programs for BBC, Channel 4 and ITV in the UK and for OWN, CBC, HGTV, SLICE and E! in North America. Along with Shella Record: A Reggae Mystery, Sonia recently edited the CBC documentary Mr. Jane and Finch. Sonia directed the feature documentary Adopted ID that opened the Images of Black Women Film Festival at the British Film Institute and the Blackstar Film Festival in Philadelphia, screened at the Hollywood Black Film Festival and Caribbean Tales Film Festival in Toronto. Sonia also directed a second documentary short, Rosie Douglas : A Fearless Rebel. Sonia co-produced and directed a documentary web series and video installation In The Black Canada featured at the Art Gallery of Windsor. 

Herbie Miller is a Jamaican musicologist, social analyst, song-writer, music producer and cultural historian.  As Director and Curator of the Jamaica Music Museum in Kingston, Jamaica he has dedicated much of his life to preserving and archiving  Jamaica’s rich musical history.  Herbie Miller managed Reggae icon Peter Tosh at the height of his career until his death.

Matthew Bate is a multi-award winning writer, director and producer. His 2011 feature Shut Up Little Man! premiered at the Sundance Film festival before screening theatrically across the U.S and being picked up by Netflix. His follow up feature Sam Klemke’s Time Machine premiered at the 2015 Sundance New Frontiers Program and won the Doc Aviv Artistic Spirit Award. Matthew has created television series and one-off films for SBS, ABC, Al Jazeera and The New York Times. In 2013 Mathew wrote and directed the hybrid film I Want to Dance Better At Parties which won the 2013 Dendy Award, and that same year was the recipient of the David and Joan Williams Fellowship.  Matthew is a founding director of Closer Productions.

Graeme Mathieson is a Toronto-based Director, DOP and Editor, having spent the last 15 years in the industry, filming across the globe and is the Creative Director at Q Media Solutions in Toronto. He also moonlights as DJ Gramera, hosting parties such as SoulSkank and Rebel Hop and spent 15 years at the helm of StolenSouls show on CHRY 105.5fm radio.  He is currently developing a series of shorts on Toronto’s buried Reggae history in collaboration with Chris Flanagan and the National Film Board of Canada.

Andrew Alfred-Duggan is a Toronto based cartographer, artist and photographer. During his career as a professional map-maker, Andrew travelled to more than 65 countries over 15 years, and captured thousands of photographs of his travels.  Andrew makes map-based art that has received awards and been featured in numerous publications including Spacing Magazine and the book uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto.