As a teenager,  Karin Hazé set a Guinness World Record for watching the longest silent film in the world, by Gérard Courrant, Les Cinématons.   She graduated from Concordia University in Film Studies & Film Production with a minor in Photography, and at Parson's University, in multi-media computer graphics. She was a dj and promoter at the legendary, Sticky Mike's Frog Café in NYC. Amongst the 13 films she has  produced, Cercles , toured around the world in 30 bienales and was awarded & selected to represent Canada in the One Minutes Film Movement in the Netherlands and as part of the One Minutes Anthology. With over 20 years of experience within the non-profit sector, Karin has worked as the Founder, Executive Director and Curator to several international film festivals. (see below) She is currently the Founder  & Executive Director of 75 SHOTS POCKET CINEMA,  a non-profit film production organization for marginalized lgbtq+filmmakers from the Global South. 

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• EstDocs Short Film Festival (Jury Member)

• Massimadi Afro Caribbean LGBTQ Film Festival (Sponsorship/Partnership Officer)

• Rencontre du documentaire de Montréal, RDIM (Guest Panelist)

• Cinema Politica (Guest Curator)

• Bermuda International Film Festival (Guest Curator)

• World Wide Short Film Festival (Guest Curator)

• Canada Council for the Arts (Jury Member)

• Ontario Arts Council (Jury Member & Guest Curator)

• Regent Park Film Festival (Executive Director/Artistic Director)

• Les Nomades: Toronto International French Short Film Festival (Executive Director/Artistic Director)

• ReelWorld  Film Festival (Guest Curator)

• Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival (Guest Curator)

• ImagineNative (Jury Member)

• Toronto Arts Council (Jury Member)

• Women on the Verge (Executive Director/Artistic Director)

• Haida Gwaii's imagineNation (Executive Director/Artistic Director)