Farhan Umedaly

Farhan has a background in neurobiology and has worked as a consultant for renewable energy developments before establishing VoVo Productions in 2009. He is best known for his indigenous focused documentaries - ‘A Last Stand for Lelu’, and more recently ‘HA NII TOKXW: OUR FOOD TABLE’. He is also the Producer and creator of the Netflix documentary ‘Brave Blue World’. In 2017, founded the Empowered Filmmaker Masterclass, an intensive, hands-on educational program that has trained more than 325+ indigenous participants to be self-sufficient filmmakers. He is also an instructor at Simon Fraser University within the Beedie School of Business and a guest lecturer on the topic of Human Rights - International Studies program.