FILMMAKER

Elinor Svoboda is an award-winning filmmaker, sound designer, educator, with over 20 years of experience in the film, television, and audio industries. Her work has been nominated for both Grammy and Juno Awards, shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival, and premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival. Notably, her 2012 short Documentary Tegan and Sara: INDIA was broadcast and distributed internationally via Warner Brothers Music.

Alongside her directorial and sound work, Elinor works as a dedicated educator, having previously served as a sessional professor at Sheridan College and an instructor at York University. She has also been a faculty member of the Training in Power Academy of Meditation and Healing for the last 20 years.

Having spent several years in Toronto, Elinor recently returned to her home province of Alberta, where she is developing several television and feature narrative projects under her company, Ellefire Media, including the recently released limited series podcast Late in ’88.

STORY EDITOR

With two decades as a filmmaker, a decade of Academic teaching and many hours behind the editor’s chair, Elinor brings a wealth of experience in working with emerging and established storytellers. As a Story Editor, Elinor takes a personalized, per-project approach, addressing fundamental elements such as theme, structure, emotional line and character evolution. Always rooting the story consultations in the “why” of the project, Elinor is not afraid to address the artist in their relationship to the work, as our inner process is often the source of the blocks that can occur in the storytelling. With a niche for post-production, Elinor is available to work with your project from treatment to script phase, all the way to picture and sound edits.