Martha Davis has been making films and photographs for the past 40 years in Toronto, Canada. Self-taught, she has created two feature-length films, one of which has screened internationally (“PATH,” 1987), and 18 shorts, two of which were nominated for Genies and were screened at TIFF (“Elephant Dreams”, 1988 and “Reading between the Lines,” 1990). Her films have been screened in festivals, galleries and artist-run centres throughout Canada, and she has received grants from the Canada, Ontario and Toronto Arts Councils to fund her work. In 1991 she began a 2nd career teaching elementary school for the TDSB. During her teaching career she continued making videos with her classes (16 in all) and in her last five years wrote and published eight books of photographs and text with her students. Since retiring in 2017, she has returned to film, and during the pandemic alone has created and self-funded four new short films. With PANDALAND, she has returned full-throttle to working with children, but on her own terms and outside the paleolithic bureaucracy of the school board!