社運導演Velcrow Ripper身兼導演、劇作家與音效設計多職，屢獲加拿大金尼獎肯定，執導作品逾三十部，包括劇情片與社會議題紀錄片等，除了自導作品外，也曾參與多部紀錄片之音效設計，如《A Place Called Chiapas》（Hot Docs紀錄片影展最佳音效、利奧獎最佳音效）、《CultureJam》（由Jill Sharp執導，獲利奧獎提名）、《The Falls》（Kevin McMahon導演），音效製作作品則包括《The Adjuster》（由艾騰．伊格言執導）、《Highway '61》（Bruce Macdonald導演），同時在Nettie Wild的影片《Fix》擔任音效顧問。Velcrow Ripper本身作品包括電視劇《In The Company of Fear》、電影《Open Season》（與Heather Frise共同執導，獲舊金山國際電影節金門獎）、非劇情類電影《Bones of the Forest》（與Heather Frise共同執導，榮獲七項獎座肯定，包括Hot Docs紀錄片影展大獎及最佳整體音效獎）及劇情片《I'm Happy》，近期作品為《 Scared Sacred》，與加拿大電影局及卑詩省電影委員會共同製作。

　 Activist filmmaker Velcrow Ripper is a Genie award winning filmmaker, writer, and sound designer. He has directed over thirty films and videos, both fiction and issue oriented documentary. In addition to sound designing his own films, he sound designed such documentaries as A Place Called Chiapas (Best Sound Hot Docs, Best Sound Leo Awards), CultureJam (directed by Jill Sharp; nominated for a Leo) and The Falls (directed by Kevin McMahon), as well as sound fx work on The Adjuster, (by Atom Egoyan) Highway '61 (by Bruce Macdonald) and sound consultant on Nettie Wild's Fix. Among his own films are In The Company of Fear (Vision T.V.), the Golden Gate Award-winning Open Season (co-directed with Heather Frise, CBC), the multi-award winning non-fiction feature Bones of the Forest (co-directed with Heather Frise; TVO; winner of over seven awards, including Best of the Festival and Best Over-all Sound at Hot Docs!), and I'm Happy, a feature fiction. His current project is Scared Sacred, a co-production with the NFB and BC Film.