Daniel Cross
is the founding owner of EyeSteelFilm, a documentary production house. Previously Cross was an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina from 1999-2001. His award-winning documentary films include SPIT: Squeegee Punks in Traffic and The Street: A film with the homeless. His film Too Colourful for the League, produced for the CBC, was nominated for a Gemini Award. In 2005 he completed the films Inuuvunga: I am Inuk I am alive for the National Film Board and George: from Athens to Beijing for the BBC and CTV. Cross is a National Executive Board Member of the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association (CFTPA), the Documentary Organisation of Canada (DOC) and the Observatoire du Documentaire, and is a member of The Concordia Documentary Centre. He was also a Congress Co-Director and Convenor of the "Documentary Democracy" workshops for the Visible Evidence XII Conference (http://www.visibleevidence.org), held at Concordia University in August 2005. Cross's current research includes the new media project Homeless Street Archive (http://www.homelessarchive.org), "Documentary in Canada: Emerging Technologies, Aesthetics, Discourses, Cultures" (SSHRC Standard Research Grant, co-applicant with Thomas Waugh, Martin Allor and Liz Miller), and "Le projet de documentaire Nation Sans-Abris: vers l’appropriation d’un pouvoir de representation," (FQRSC, principal applicant).