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Rhiana Ehara is a writer, documentary film director, and Creative Director at Verity Creative Inc., and a past recipient of a National Magazine Award. She studied International Relations and East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. She is a proud mom, loves roller derby and travelling, and speaks Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin, and some French and Spanish. Kaz Ehara is a documentary director, an award-winning photographer, cinematographer, and Director of Photography at Verity Creative. He studied Journalism at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan, and graduated from the Photojournalism program at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario. Kaz is a past recipient of a National Magazine Award, and a Past Participant in the DOC Institute Breakthrough Program. Together, Rhiana and Kaz were commissioned by the organizing body of the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games to create nine documentary short films for the Games, each about a different Ontarian who had immigrated from another Pan Am country, and who works in Arts and Culture. Sweet Dreams for Chiyo is their first television feature documentary, and they live in Hamilton, Ontario with their two fantastic kids.