Chelle Turingan

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Video Producer
+ Filmmaker
based in Toronto

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Chelle Turingan is a National Magazine Award-winning editor and cinematographer with over a decade of experience producing and creating video and audio content for numerous digital publications including Maclean’s, Chatelaine, Today’s Parent, Hello! Canada, Canadian Business, *MoneySense**, and* Sportsnet.

Producer, Cinematographer, Editor | Today’s Parent

Editor | Maclean’s
(National Magazine Awards 2013 Gold Winner, Best Online Video)

Currently, Chelle Turingan is a Video Producer at CBC Unscripted creating digital content for Q with Tom Power, CBC Arts, CBC Life and CBC Gem originals.

Editor | Q with Tom Power

Cinematographer, Editor | CBC Arts

Previously, they were the Managing Producer, Video at Xtra Magazine where they oversaw production and strategy for all video and audio content.

Small Town Pride

Come out wherever you are

Chelle Turingan films Zeynep Tonak at Annapolis Royal’s 2019 Pride march in Nova Scotia

Chelle Turingan is the co-director, producer and editor of Xtra Magazine’s feature documentary film, Small Town Pride, which is available to stream for free in Canada on CBC Gem.

In 2021, Small Town Pride was selected to screen at various film festivals across Canada—Inside Out in Toronto, FIN Atlantic International Film Festival in Halifax, Reel Pride Film Festival in Winnipeg and Rainbow Visions in Edmonton—and received a Gold Award from the Spotlight Documentary Film Awards.

Inspired

video series profiling LGBTQ2S+ taste makers & game changers

Cinematographer, Editor | Xtra Magazine (Digital Publishing Awards 2020 Nominee, Best Online Video - Short)

Witch Prophet on uncovering her East African queer roots

Catherine Hernandez on allyship and fighting white supremacy

Tee Fergus on Black queer representation in tattoos and art

Danny Ramadan explores belonging and home for queer refugees

TRP.P talks queer love in R&B and hip hop

Decolonizing fashion with Riley Kucheran

Singing queer love songs with Casey Mecija

Sébastien Provencher explores masculinity through dance

Exploring the drag scene with Tanya Boteju

Baking beyond the binary with Jennifer Crawford

Telling queer female-driven stories with the creators of Barbelle

Diversifying the narrative with Tricia Hagoriles

Off The Chart

The L Word Generation Q recap show

Co-Hosts Erica Lenti and Chelle Turingan record an episode of “Off The Chart” at the Xtra Magazine podcast studio.

In 2020, Chelle Turingan produced and co-hosted Xtra Magazine’s podcast series, Off The Chart, which received a Digital Publishing Award nomination for “Best Podcast - Arts & Culture”.

In 2019, Chelle Turingan was accepted into the prestigious Poynter Institute’s Leadership Academy for Diversity in Digital Media, in partnership with The Washington Post.

Formerly, Chelle Turingan was Deputy Editor, Video at Rogers Media where they shot and edited digital content for eight nationally revered publications. They also freelance from time to time.

Editor | Maclean’s
(National Magazine Awards 2015 nominee, Best Online Video)

Cinematographer, Editor, Photographer | United Way’s Local Love

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