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Mark Benard

@mbenard

Camp Denman 团队

Mark Benard brings a rare blend of high-tech wizardry and boots-in-the-dirt practicality to Camp Denman. With a 31-year career in the visual effects industry, Mark’s journey includes a highly decorated decade at the helm of his award-winning VFX house, Lost Boys Studios. Under his leadership, the studio delivered high-end visual effects across hundreds of feature films, television series, game cinematics, and commercial productions. This expansive, multi-medium portfolio earned the studio numerous industry accolades, including Leo Awards for Best Visual Effects and a Primetime Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for the hit series Stargate SG-1. Committed to cultivating global talent, Mark also served for several years as the Education and Technology Chair for the Vancouver chapter of the Visual Effects Society. Building on his studio's success, he founded and directed the internationally acclaimed Lost Boys | School of VFX. Over its 21-year history, he built the academy into what Variety and The Hollywood Reporter hailed as one of the top training grounds in the world. As Managing Director, Mark was a hands-on leader who designed the curriculum, mentored students, managed complex technical pipelines, and spearheaded marketing. Highly relevant to his new role at Camp Denman, he also acted as a one-man production crew for his students: Mark personally designed, built, and filmed hundreds of cinematic shots to simulate real-world production. This creative work involved everything from set building and costume creation to lighting, cinematography, and directing performance. After successfully launching the careers of over 600 digital artists into top-tier Hollywood studios (with an unprecedented 98% placement rate), Mark successfully exited his business, traded the Vancouver skyline for the coastal rainforest, and brought his passion for creative technology to Denman Island. Growing up just across the water in the Comox Valley, Mark has always considered this region home. Stepping onto the Camp Denman grounds is actually a literal homecoming: his very first "away-from-home" camp experience took place right here when the site was known as Elkhaven. A fiercely imaginative youth, Mark was a dedicated Lego maniac whose obsession with computer graphics began by relentlessly tinkering with the single Commodore 64 at his elementary school. With no one to show him the ropes, his early tech education was a self-taught, exploratory process, commonly spending every afternoon after class seeing what the machine could do. That drive for exploration extended to the outdoors, where years spent in the Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, and youth cadet programs forged his lifelong foundation in mentoring, teamwork, and wilderness adventure. Today, Mark is deeply woven into the local island community. When he isn't designing digital workflows, he proudly serves on the Board of Directors for both the Denman Island Museum and the Summer Art Gallery. He has also traded render farms for literal ones: Mark holds a Permaculture Design Certification from OUR EcoVillage, has served as a permaculture teaching assistant, and has spent years getting his hands dirty working at the Lake Farm Market Garden and helping out at Two Roads Farm. A proud father of two cool kids that are also computer savvy creatives, Mark’s mission at Camp Denman is simple: to inspire the next generation to craft jaw-dropping visual stories using cutting-edge tools, all while staying deeply connected to the natural world around them.

Tahiti Rey-Linton

@tahiti

Camp Denman 团队

Tahiti is a multidisciplinary artist and an integrated member of the Denman Island community, with a career built across music, culinary arts, content creation, and brand design. Raised in Hawai‘i, she trained in dance and musical theatre from a young age, built a professional music career as a singer-songwriter and recording artist, trained and worked as a chef, and founded two content-creation and social media companies, 808Viral and HashtagHawaii.

Ember Blair Hutchens

@ember

Camp Denman 团队

A multi-talented artist who produces ceramics and paintings imbued with movement and light, and a fearless explorer of mediums from printmaking to indigo dyeing. Her mission is to help campers get their hands messy.

Angela Abrahão

@angela

Camp Denman 团队

A multidisciplinary leader spanning business, technology, agriculture, and community health. Director of Operations at Camp Denman and co-founder of E.VENTURES, with 25 years at the intersection of software and rural community work.

Dr. Rebecca Nykwest

@rebecca

Camp Denman 团队

An educator, administrator, and organizational leader with a thirty-year career across classrooms and school leadership, from preschool through university. Executive Director of Camp Denman, long-time Denman Islander, and community choir member.

Katrina Rain

@katrina

Camp Denman 团队

Director of Photography at Camp Denman. Her photographs of the land, the water, and the people at work are the visual record of the camp — every image credited, every subject consenting.