Kalista Zackhariyas – lead actor (Parvati)
Kalista Zackhariyas is a multi-talented stage and screen actor, model, and dancer.

Her previous film and television credits include a variety of commercials, a stint as co-host of the morning show Dobro Jutro Slovenia, in Ljubljana (where she also appeared on the cover of the Slovenian magazine MAG), and the role of Meng Wong in the film A Visible World. Parvati is her first lead role.

A former beauty pageant winner (she was Miss Vaughan in the 2003 Miss Canada International Pageant), Zackhariyas has also been a long-time practitioner of martial arts, and has been part of several television and film stunt teams.

Born in Sri Lanka, Zackhariyas currently lives in Toronto.

Ria Mae - (Emily)
Halifax-based songwriter Ria Mae knows there is a flipside to every coin. She calls both heads and tails on her EP, Between the Bad.

Mae prides herself on telling it like it is. Her narrative-driven songs explore love, loss, forgiveness and redemption. Between the Bad is a five-track EP recorded at Spaces Between Studios, produced by Mae and Don McKay.

When she’s not sharing the stage with acclaimed performers such as Amelia Curran, The Cliks and Hidden Cameras, Mae lends her talents to the screen.

Pardis Parker - (Uthayan)
Pardis Parker is an award-winning director, writer, actor, and comedian.

A nominee for four Canadian Comedy Awards and a finalist for Canada’s Next Top Comic, he recently won British star
David Baddiel’s international stand-up competition and
previously became the first Canadian ever to book the CBS Diversity Showcase. He has performed at the Hammersmith
Apollo, Hollywood Laugh Factory, Hollywood Improv, Carolines
on Broadway, the Comedy Studio, Punch Line, Jongleurs (UK),
The Comedy Store (US & UK), and at comedy clubs across Canada.

Sobaz Benjamin - (Man in Room)
Sobaz is an independent documentary film writer, director, producer, picture editor actor and vice president of Sankofa Films. His work has been screened across Canada and in venues and Festivals in New Zealand, Bermuda Washington DC and New York. He has completed documentaries for the National Film Board and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. His most well known documentary, Race is a Four Letter Word, aired on CBC’s The Lens in February 2007. He has also co-produced a documentary for CBC Artspots and the Saiyde Bronfman Foundation focused on Craft and cultural identity: Handheld Handmade screened at the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa and was broadcast on CBC’s Atlantic Focus in May 2007.

Tarek Abouamin - Cinematographer
Egyptian-born Canadian Tarek Abouamin is a cinematographer, documentary filmmaker, and teacher at NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His cinematography has been showcased in numerous films featured in film festivals across North America and Europe, including award-winning film Masquerade, directed by Pat Blackie (Best Atlantic Short Film 2003, AFF);Recollection (2004) and Genie-Nominated The Wake of Calum MacLeod (2007), directed by Marc Almon; and Quiet at Dawn (2009), directed by Rob Blackie. Snow is his first collaboration with writer-director Rohan Fernando.

Abouamin’s photography has been exhibited in both Canada and Egypt, most notably in a solo exhibition at the Cairo Opera House in January 2010. His own recent documentary work,Colours of Exile (2009), and Gawab (2010), focuses on concepts of identity and explores notions of nationality, home and family.

Asif Illyas - Composer
Asif Illyas is a long-term collaborator with director Rohan Fernando. Asif has scored many features using his studio in Halifax, NS, named “The SHIRE”.

He has had extensive compositional and songwriting experience with his work in rock band, MIR, and also as a solo singer/songwriter. He is currently working on a full-length solo CD, titled, “Synesthesia”, due for release in 2011(www.asifillyas.com)

Asif on scoring Snow : “ I thoroughly enjoyed scoring this film. It is such a rich, deep, and moving film thus lending itself so well to an intimate musical approach. The opportunity to blend the two worlds that Parvati is struggling with was such a beautiful challenge to execute. I am really proud of the score that came out of working with Rohan on this film.”