Philip Szporer is a freelance writer, broadcaster, filmmaker and international lecturer living in Montreal. He is Scholar in Residence at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and was awarded a Pew Fellowship for the National Dance/Media Project at the University of California (Los Angeles). He also is lecturer in Dance Traditions at Concordia University.

Amongst other media projects, he worked as dance consultant on the experimental National Film Board production Lodela. He co-directed, with Marlene Millar and Carmella Vassor, the documentaries World Tea Party, part of the feature-length World Festival of Sacred Music for PBS-Los Angeles, Creating Across Cultures, commissioned by the UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance, and Standing on the Edge, We Dance for WYBE-PBS Philadelphia. He also co-directed with Marlene Millar and choreographer Lynda Gaudreau the video installations for Encyclopedia-Document 1.

Co-founder with filmmaker Marlene Millar of the arts Mouvement Perpétuel in 2001, they have co-directed and produced the documentaries Moments in Motion/Au fil du mouvement, Raising The Bar: The Fresh Voices Project, and Byron Chief-Moon: Grey Horse Rider, as well as the experimental shorts The Hunt, a soft place to fall, and Butte. All are broadcast on the Bravo! arts channel and are presented at festivals worldwide.

He has done various broadcast work for the CBC radio and television networks for over twenty years in the arts, music, variety and public affairs divisions, as well as BBC-Radio, and Radio-Netherlands. He was a correspondant for Public Radio International's The World, and he served as dance columnist for Radio-Canada's cultural magazine, Aux arts, etc. Publication credits include Hour (for which he is dance columnist), ballettanz, The Dance Current, plus contributions to the Village Voice, the Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, and Dance Connection. A chapter on Canadian dance for the screen appeared in the publication project, Envisioning Dance on Film and Video (Routledge Press).

Philip is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

With a background in design, contemporary dance, and film Marlene has been producing and directing documentary and experimental films for the last several years. Early work includes dance films The Woman and the Sink, Le Toit (a collaboration with Sylvain Delisle, Roland Goguen and Anne-Marie Giroux) and the documentary Warsaw Diary. In 1999, she received a Pew Fellowship at UCLA where she produced Eko & Sun Hea, a journey beyond with collegues Philip Szporer and Carmella Vassor. Further collaborations include World Tea Party, part of the feature documentary World Festival of Sacred Music, Creating Across Cultures - commisioned by the UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance - and Standing at the Edge, We Dance supported by the National Initiative to Promote American Dance and PBS, Philadephia.

In 2001, Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer founded the production company Mouvement Perpétuel and have since created the arts documentaries Moments in Motion, Raising the Bar : The Fresh Voices Project, and Byron Chief Moon : Grey Horse Rider, and dance films The Hunt, a soft place to fall, and Butte. All productions are currently being broadcast on Bravo! as well as screening in festivals internationally.

Marlene has worked as an editor since 1993 (National Film Board of Canada, Productions Multi-Monde, White Pine Pictures, Foreign Ghosts). She also mentors emerging filmmakers and has taught filmmaking and editing at Centre Imagine in Burkina Faso, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, the National Film Board of Canada, Concordia University and Main Film.

Marlene's interest in capturing creative process has taken her to the Pacific Arts Festival in New Caledonia, the Asia Pacific Performance Exchange in Los Angeles, and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. She has worked with choreographers Lynda Gaudreau, Loise Lecavalier and spoken word artist Ian Ferrier among others.

Marlene Millar is a member of the executive committee of Main Film and the Documentary Organization of Canada, Québec chapter.