Jaime Leigh Gianopoulos
is a film director , producer, and editor based in Vancouver, BC and the Greek Aegean Islands. She is passionate about empowering women and advocating for social and environmental justice through her films. Jaime Leigh is currently working on an ancestral reclamation thesis related to cultural and artistic re-connection to her roots in Greece as well as working as an ally and partner with multiple Indigenous communities in Canada. Her work explores how we can re-establish land based cultural knowledge into our modern lives by becoming the living antidotes to climate crisis through story, music, tradition, ceremony, food sovereignty, and community building.
Jaime Leigh's filmography includes works such as "Our Grandmother the Inlet," produced by Boldly “Our Sacred Earth” produced by Earthrise Studios, "Ask the Plantain," and "What About Our Future?" These thought-provoking films have been showcased at prestigious venues like The Natural History Museum of America in New York City, The Vancouver Museum and Museum of Anthropology, The Canadian Museum of Human Rights, The Polygon Gallery, and more… Her films have received recognition at international film festivals including Slamdance, DOK Leipzig, The Vancouver International Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, ImagineNATIVE, DOXA, and more...
In 2022, Jaime Leigh's talent was acknowledged when she was selected for "The Documentary Organization of Canada's Breakthrough Program."
She has also been invited as a director panelist at film festivals such as the Vancouver International Film Festival 2023 and the Vancouver Gender Equity Media Film Festival 2024/2025. Her films have reached a wide audience through various distribution channels, including BBC, Earthrise Studios, Air Canada Flights, Hot Doc’s Doc’s for Schools, the SIMA network, Hollywood Suite, and hundreds of classrooms and schools across Canada and the US. These films act as catalysts for transformative conversations, igniting thought-provoking discussions and evoking emotional responses. "Our Grandmother the Inlet" received an honourable mention for the Best Canadian Short Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2023.
In addition to her directorial and editing work, Jaime Leigh is a member of IASTE 891 in the editing and costume department. She has worked as a cinematographer and editor for the 2022 and 2023 Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week. She has collaborated with notable forward thinking brands and foundations like Indi City, BeaYOUtiful Foundation, Sacred Earth, Malmama Boutique, and musicians such Evangelia, Bobby Alu, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zero’s, Alysha Brilla, Desiree Dawson and more...