Kirsten Kosloski is a documentary filmmaker, media artist, arts administrator and educator. Originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario, she turned a passion for pop culture into a career and has spent most of her adult life obsessing over music and film. She has been a music writer, film critic and editor at Canadian alternative weeklies. In Thunder Bay, she founded the artist-run media arts collective, North Light, and produced three documentaries about daily life in Northwestern Ontario — "Save the Drama" (2012), "The Dozen" (2014) and "Five Bucks at the Door: The Story of Crocks N Rolls" (2019) [Official Selection at the Calgary Underground Film Festival, Vox Popular Media Arts Festival, Sound Unseen, Female Eye, International Association for the Study of Popular Music Conference, North Bay Film Festival]. Her film subjects have ranged from high school drama clubs and heavy metal boot hockey teams to an indie rock oasis in the middle of the Boreal forest and her work aims to celebrate the desire people have to build their own worlds. Kirsten has been granted awards from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, taught media at several northern Ontario colleges and was the program coordinator Digital Creator North at Near North Mobile Media Lab (North Bay). Kirsten's latest project, "First Snow" (2024), is an animated short film based on the true story of her father’s childhood immigration to Canada from Iraq and his memorable experience of witnessing his first Canadian snowfall. The film looks at immigration from the perspective of a child and how the idea of foreignness can manifest itself in some surprising (and sometimes, frightening) ways.

For more information about Kirsten, please visit her artist's website kirstenkosloski.com.