Colour Me Free: Key Creative Bios ARETA LLOYD, Director/Producer Areta Lloyd is a journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada. Colour Me Free is her first feature-length film. Lloyd has a Master’s Degree in Journalism from Northeastern University in Boston and an Honours B.A. in Political Science from Carleton University in Ottawa. Recently, Lloyd worked with acclaimed Toronto director Albert Nerenberg, on his feature Escape to Canada, as well as with other independent filmmakers as a researcher and production manager. Lloyd started out as an on-air television reporter and producer in Toronto. She then built a successful career as a PR expert, writer and researcher in the fields of international development, human rights, press freedom and social welfare. She worked in Toronto, New York, Kyiv and Kuala Lumpur, for the Committee to Protect Journalists, Human Rights Watch, CIDA, and FPWA.  Her opinion-editorials, articles and investigative reports have been published in various newspapers and journals. Lloyd speaks English, Ukrainian and French, and now has a very good understanding of Russian and Belarusian. DOMINIKA DITTWALD, Cinematographer Dominika Dittwald is an independent cinematographer, writer, and director. Dittwald completed her B.A. at University of Toronto in Psychology and Peace and Conflict Studies. She also holds an M.F.A. in Film Production from the Ohio University School of Film. Dittwald recently finished working as a cinematographer on Color Me Free, an OMNI Television documentary following the democracy process in the Belarus. She is currently filming and editing work for the Soulpepper Theatre Company in Toronto. Her other credits include Escape to Canada, Jump like a Girl, Ulysses and over forty short film projects. Dittwald also served as a photographer and an actress in the award winning short Graffiti. She has worked as a freelance photographer, taking pictures of the renowned Canadian-Jewish poet Irving Layton. Dittwald produced six of her own short films that have been screened in various film festivals. Her work has shown continuous interest in combing film with other arts. Dittwald speaks English, Polish, Russian, French and Spanish. MARK STOKES, Picture Editor Toronto-based editor Mark Stokes has spent more than a decade in the film and television industry, lending his talent to a variety of documentaries, lifestyle television series and independent films. His work includes the films Colour Me Free (2007), Jihad – Struggling with Islam (2004), My Annie Ong (2003) and Wednesday Nights (2003), and can be seen on CBC, NFB, OMNI and Discovery Channel. Currently he is writing and editing the television series Rescue Mediums for W Network. He graduated from Sheridan College with a degree in Media Arts.