Brett Gaylor
Vice President Creative
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Gaylor is a creative technology leader and storyteller with 15+ years of experience building award-winning interactive documentaries, immersive media, and advocacy campaigns that have reached tens of millions of people. As Vice President Creative at Hololabs and owner of Imposter Media, he blends a background in game-rooted interactive design with documentary filmmaking to create engaging, platform-spanning experiences. He has led multidisciplinary teams at Mozilla and elsewhere, commissioning millions for VR/AR projects and shepherding work exhibited at festivals from Tribeca to Venice. His projects—like the Peabody-winning Do Not Track and the grassroots Homeless Nation—demonstrate a rare mix of technical fluency, editorial rigour, and social impact. Currently a Vanier-funded doctoral researcher, he studies how interactive documentaries can boost critical data literacy, bringing academic rigor to practical production. Based in Victoria, Canada, he’s known for turning complex digital-rights topics into compelling, participatory media that catalyze conversation and policy attention.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Cinematography and Film/Video Production at Concordia University
English, French
Github Skills (23)
popcorn8
javascript4
planning4
mozilla4
django3
foundation3
typescript2
react2
nodejs2
salt2
ansible2
golang1
decentralization1
markdown1
diaspora1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/toolsforactivism
May 2016 - May 2016
growing list of digital tools for activism things
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes in 1 day
growing
brettgaylor/ByeHarper
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
firefoxbrowserchromefirefox-extensionfirefox-addon
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