Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos (she/her) is a director, producer, editor and founder of BC based production company Her Stories Inc. Based on the unceded Coast Salish territory, including the lands belonging to the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations.             

Jaime’s projects primarily concern the empowerment of womxn and environmental justice. Her award-winning documentary “O Florescer Da Voz” (The Blossoming Voice) portrays the underground African poet movement in Brazil and was screened across elementary schools in São Paulo. Her most recent documentary “What About Our Future?” was supported and funded by Creative BC and has appearances by David Suzuki and Greta Thunberg. The project screened at DOK Leipzig (2020), Aesthetica Short Film Festival (2020), St. John’s International Women’s Festivals (2020), Planet in Focus (2020), and Eco-Cine Film Festival (2020), BIFED (2020).

Integral to Jaime’s work is capturing the authenticity and resilience of the human spirit. She has first hand experience of this tenacity, placing herself in unique and eye-opening environments and accepting challenges whenever possible in order to gain new perspectives. She has filmed in a war-torn village in Kosovo, with a curandero in the mountains of Peru, and documented the youth climate movement in Vancouver. She also self-funded, directed and produced three short documentaries in South America which were presented internationally.

Jaime’s projects have been selected and screened at film festivals worldwide; these include: Melbourne International Documentary Festival (2017), Lisbon International Festival (2017), World Ayahuasca Conference (2019), Dance Outlet Project (2019/2018), Female Eye Film Festival (2017 ), Davis Feminist Film Festival (2017), Winner of the Women in Hollywood Short Film Award (2017) , Asian Centrum, 2017 , Byron Bay International Film Festival (2017).

Presently, Jaime is in pre-production on a poetic short documentary “Our Grandmother Inlet” (2021) with Kayah Geroge, and in early stage development on a hybrid documentary film “Ask The Plantain” (2021).