Questions and Actor: Laurent Pitre

Broghanne Jessamine: Scottish-American Actress in NYC!

Broghanne Jessamine is a Scottish American SAG-AFTRA eligible actress, voiceover artist, and producer who works across film, television, theatre, and animation in both the US and UK. Originally from the North East of Scotland, she moved to New York City in 2012 to attend The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and has since built a career spanning NYC theatre, independent film, commercials, and international voice work. Her work can be seen on Netflix and HBO, alongside an extensive indie film résumé, with notable credits including Leviathan, Blue, Vellanus, and Prodigal. She often plays flawed women with lived in grit and emotional intelligence, frequently playing survivors, quiet authority figures, or ride or die support roles with a sharp point of view.  Follow her at: https://www.instagram.com/broghannejessamine [https://www.instagram.com/broghannejessamine] https://msha.ke/broghannejessamine [https://msha.ke/broghannejessamine]

Brian Quintero: Actor & Creator from Canadian Film Centre!

Brian Quintero is a Costa Rican-Canadian actor and filmmaker based in Toronto, known for combining steady genre work in film and television with a growing slate of self-generated projects through his company Dead Mariachi Films. A graduate of Seneca College’s Acting for Camera & Voice program, he has built a decade-plus career across independent features, shorts, theatre, commercials, and series work, with screen credits that include Beauty and the Beast (CW), Designated Survivor (ABC), The Umbrella Academy (Netflix), Billy the Kid (MGM+), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Rabbit Hole, Good Sam, and the western The Abandons for Netflix. He has also appeared in genre features such as Lifechanger and Last Resort, and earned a Best Actor in a Drama award at the Actors Awards Los Angeles for the short film Narcissistic. Parallel to his acting, Quintero has steadily expanded his footprint behind the camera as a writer, director, and producer. Through Dead Mariachi Films he wrote and directed the short Oldtimers, which won the Silver Audience Award for Best Canadian Short Film at Fantasia, plus the Youth Jury Prize and Audience Choice Award at the San Sebastián Horror & Fantasy Film Festival, while his directing portfolio also includes the backyard-wrestling comedy series The Ropes and the short Grievance. As a producer he has backed projects such as Last Resort, We Came to Wreck Everything, and the sci‑fi horror short The Fore-Men (which has surpassed 500K views on the DUST channel), and he has deepened his industry chops through programs like the CBC Actors Conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre, the Blood in the Snow Horror Development Lab, the Toronto Latin American Film Festival Filmmakers Lab, the Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada Showrunners Bootcamp, and the Cannes Market Readiness Program. You can follow him at: https://www.instagram.com/thisisquintero [https://www.instagram.com/thisisquintero]

Conor Forrest: Coming-of-Age Stories, ADHD, and Filmmaking!

Conor Forrest is a Toronto-based director, writer, and producer whose work spans narrative shorts, feature documentary, television, and music videos. His films lean toward character-driven dramas and dramedies about coming of age and messy family dynamics, with notable shorts including Friday Night Fish, A Summer’s Day at Sherwood Park, Used Furniture, The Two of Us, and Daddy-O, as well as the series Writers Room. Used Furniture was acquired for CBC Gem’s Canadian Reflections platform, and his feature documentary Unravelling The Ravelled Mind—exploring the lived experience and stigma around ADHD—was picked up by Amazon Prime Video, extending his reach into the documentary space. Forrest’s work has screened at festivals such as Catalina Film Festival, OutSouth Queer Film Festival, Toronto Shorts International Film Festival, and Yorkton Film Festival, where he was also selected for the RBC Yorkton Film Festival Mentorship Program as one of only three filmmakers. Alongside his festival run, he continues to direct music videos and shorts while building a reputation as an emerging Canadian filmmaker focused on intimate, emotionally grounded storytelling. Follow him at: https://www.instagram.com/director_conor.forrest [https://www.instagram.com/director_conor.forrest] https://linktr.ee/Conor_Forrest [https://linktr.ee/Conor_Forrest]

Kurt Evans: Actor, Teacher, Creator of "Artist2Artist" Showcase!

Kurt Evans is a Winnipeg‑born Canadian actor and director whose career spans more than 100 film and television credits, including work on “iZombie,” “The Man in the High Castle,” “The Good Doctor,” “Supernatural,” “Stargate SG‑1,” “Smallville,” and “The X‑Files,” as well as numerous Hallmark and cable movies such as “Autumn in the City,” “Christmas Town,” “A Family Christmas Gift,” and “Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made.” Based in Vancouver since the late 1990s, he has become a versatile character actor. Evans’ path began in theatre in Winnipeg, where a formative high‑school turn as Cyrano de Bergerac led to years of stage work in improvised murder‑mystery shows, Fringe productions, and lunchbox theatre before he transitioned into screen acting. A graduate of the University of Winnipeg with a Bachelor of Education, he has been an acting coach and teacher for more than two decades, teaching audition technique and on‑camera performance at Vancouver Film School while coaching actors privately. In 2019, he founded Artist2Artist, a digital actor showcase that lets emerging performers submit scenes for detailed feedback from working professionals and connect directly with major Canadian casting directors through recurring showcases in Vancouver and Toronto, which have involved thousands of actors to date. Follow him at: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262957/ [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262957/] Follow and join the Artist2Artist Showcase in the links below: (this month's showcase will end at midnight on March 31st, it will be with casting directors Lisa Parasyn, Annalese Tilling & Erin Lally) https://www.instagram.com/artist2artist.actor.showcase [https://www.instagram.com/artist2artist.actor.showcase] https://artist2artist.ca/current-showcases/ [https://artist2artist.ca/current-showcases/]

Naomi Guttman: Zany Actress Award Winner & Creative Cat Lady!

Naomi Guttman is a Belgian-born, Toronto-based actor and multidisciplinary artist working across film, television, and theatre, known for her fluency in multiple languages and her classical stage grounding. After earning a BA in Anthropology from McGill University, she completed conservatory training at the Tom Todoroff Acting Conservatory in New York. On stage, Guttman has distinguished herself in contemporary and classical work, with credits including Hedda Gabler, Ivanov, Rotterdam, Les Belles-Soeurs, and Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Richard III, among others. She has also been awarded the 2024 Scene Slam Champion title in Canada’s Monologue Slam and placed first runner-up at Hart House/Shakes BASHd’s Classical Monologue Slam. Guttman continues to expand her presence as an on-camera performer with festival-selected short films such as Beach and French Savant, the hit series Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Lestat), and a range of independent screen projects. As an actor, writer, dancer and all around creative, Guttman strives to bring forth the healing virtues of storytelling. (Rep: Shortlist Artist Management) You can follow her at: https://www.instagram.com/naomi.guttman [https://www.instagram.com/naomi.guttman]