Title: Creative Technologist: Storykeeper of Art & Process, MPCAS Technical Coordinator
Pronouns: she/her
Email: tech@grunt.ca
Ask them about: MPCAS, videos and photography
Name Pronunciation: Şebnem is an original, Persian female name meaning “morning dew”. The “Ş” is pronounced like the English “sh”, and “e” is short. The stress falls on the first syllable: SHEB-nem. Phonetic Spelling:[ Shaebnaem ]
Biography
Şebnem Ozpeta, Creative Technologist, is an immigrant filmmaker, multimedia artist, mentor, and curator. She has worked mostly on community-focused projects and collaborations with artists on stolen land. At grunt gallery, she supports the Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen as a technical coordinator, working closely with programmers since 2018. She also co-facilitates the Digital Storytelling workshop alongside lead filmmaker Lorna Boschman. Additionally, she applies her filmmaking skills to produce Tactile Residency Videos with Kay and the AEP team and document gallery events and artist talks.
She is passionate about experimenting new techniques in digital and analog filmmaking—from hand-processing film to crafting data-driven visual narratives. She is part of “Our World Language Film Programme” led by Lisa g Nielsen where she travels remote areas to share her skills with Indigenous youth and elderly “how to make films” and curate their works.
Contact Information
Email: tech@grunt.ca
Best way to contact Sebnem : Email or call the gallery 604-875-9516
Visual Description
Şebnem is a middle-aged woman with brown eyes and self-cut funkish wavy black hair from the Middle East, with brown skin reflecting her mixed roots from both Eastern and Western Turkey. She is 5’4 and carries her in balance. You will see her generally wearing casual anything black.
Image Description: Sebnem wears all black, standing in a busy-looking industrial hall. She takes her photo using a reflection in a mirror with her mobile phone. She has a canvas tote bag with a Coast Salish image of an animal, and a yellow bag strapped to her waist.