Alayna Silverberg

Alayna pulls from her own experiences to create heartfelt, personally driven stories with queer characters. She began her career in the top 3 of Elle Canada’s Fashion Film competition, then took home a $10k Telus Storyhive grant for their Female Directors edition. Alayna won the 2018 MPPIA short film award at the prestigious Whistler Film Festival. The award allowed her the support and sponsorship to create 'B-Side' the short film. Since it’s completion ‘B-Side’ has screened at Vancouver Short Film Festival, Whistler Film Festival and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2020, where Alayna was the proud recipient of the Gerry Brunet award in recognition of a BC short filmmaker. Most recently, Alayna was selected as one of 8 directors to participate in the WIDC’s Story & Leadership program.