Director

Leib Kopman’s work spans documentary, fashion, music, and fine art photography, integrating traditional film and digital mediums. His art explores contemporary and historical themes with a focus on resilience and unity. Represented in notable collections including the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Kopman has captured icons like Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, and Leonard Cohen. His commissions include projects with Lamborghini, News Wire, and The Munk School of Global Affairs.

Zach

For the first 15 years of his life, Zachary Colton was a healthy boy with a passion for history and long-distance running. However, shortly after a major track meet, his digestive system suddenly failed. Diagnosed with a rare motility disorder, Zach's life became a relentless cycle of surgeries, hospital stays, and medications. Unable to eat or drink, he relied entirely on IV nutrition and hydration, enduring constant nausea, infections, liver disease, and debilitating pain that confined him to a hospital bed.

Despite these challenges, Zach never lost hope, holding on to the belief that one day things could change. That change finally came in the fall of 2023 at the UHN Transplant Center in Toronto, Canada. After more than a decade of waiting and suffering, Zac received the call for a life-saving multiorgan transplant, including a stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, and pancreas. Though the procedure was one of the most dangerous surgeries possible, Zach chose to face it with courage.

Following a grueling surgery and four months of intense rehabilitation, where he had to relearn how to eat, Zach was discharged with a second chance at life. Yet, his journey was far from over. He faced the challenge of adjusting to life without IV nutrition, managing the side effects of transplant medications, and gradually weaning off years of pain and nausea treatments. Emotionally and spiritually, Zach had to navigate the difficult transition from merely surviving to truly living, after spending so long as a prisoner in his own body.