Walter Daroshin
Walter Daroshin is the President of Troika Productions Inc., Chair of The Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Foundation of BC, Founder and President of the Leo Awards, a Director of the Hands in Peace Society (Canada), a Trustee on the Board of the Vancouver Waldorf School and a Member of the Vancouver International Film Festival Advisory Council.
Since established in 1988 Troika has been active in film and television production, event design and management, photography and publishing. Troika’s film and television programs have been broadcast in 30 countries and screened at film festivals throughout
the world.
An award-winning photographer and filmmaker, Walter has travelled on assignment to Peru, Mexico, New Zealand, China, England, France, Germany, and throughout North America as well as India and Nepal; where he lived and studied for one year.
He has adjudicated the British Columbia Arts Awards Program, the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival, the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, the Utah High Adventure Mountain Film Festival, the Whistler Film Festival, the Reel 2 Real International Youth Film Festival, the Okanagan International Film Festival and the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television’s Gemini and Genie Awards.
In 2001 Walter assumed the Publisher’s chair at Shared Vision Magazine. Through balanced and topical editorial, Shared Vision advocated a model of healthy living that integrates physical and spiritual growth with a strong sense of social responsibility
circulating 40,000 copies monthly throughout British Columbia.
In 2006 Walter traveled to China to represent Canada at the Hands in Peace Festival in Beijing. Hands in Peace brings children together from all over the world, in particular those having experienced war and hardship, to share their cultural heritage through a celebration of the arts. The event in Beijing ran for 10 days and included 300 children and adults from North and South Korea, Japan, Tibet, Taiwan, the United States, Mexico, Ecuador, Canada and China.
