KingCrip Productions is an ever-shifting collective of amateur video artists
who create activist-oriented videos. KingCrip's two founders are Melisa Brittain & Danielle Peers
who create activist-oriented videos. KingCrip's two founders are Melisa Brittain & Danielle Peers
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Melisa BrittainMelisa lives, teaches and creates collaborative video art in Edmonton, Alberta. As co-founder of KingCrip Productions, they have co-directed, edited and produced four videos that have screened at international film festivals, and at activist, arts and academic events across North America. They also collaborated with Lucas Crawford on the short video Elephant in the Room (4:36, 2012). A scholar by trade, Melisa learned video making through hands-on experimentation with KingCrip collaborators, and with the help of local video and media arts organizations: FAVA (Film and Video Arts Society Alberta of Alberta) and the Intermedia Research Studio (Dept. of Sociology, University of Alberta). Melisa uses video as an extension of critical thought to expose normative ideas, images and identities, and to document creative modes of resistance.
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Danielle Peers
Video is the most recent medium through which Danielle has tackled social justice issues relating to gender, sexuality and ability. Danielle is a graduate student, a filmmaker, a curator, a public speaker, and a community organizer in her disability, queer, arts and wheelchair sport communities. She is working on her Ph.D.at the University of Alberta in the critical study of disability sport and social justice movements. In her past career, Danielle was a world champion and Paralympic medalist in the sport of wheelchair basketball. Learn more about Danielle
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