Keram Malicki-Sánchez

Keram Malicki-Sanchez is an actor, filmmaker, musician/film composer and also noted new media producer/consultant who has been invited to speak at conferences across North America about the future of tech, social media, immersive technology and the intersection of technology and the arts. He is the executive director of the FIVARS (Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Stories) and founding organizer of VRTO (Toronto's virtual reality meet-up group) and Canada's largest Virtual Reality conference, which he founded in 2015. As the curator of FIVARS, Keram has created an international network of content partners and introduced many new artists in the field of spherical, immersive and interactive narrative to global audiences. Keram's made his professional acting debut at age seven, playing the title role in "Oliver!" in Toronto. His performance received widespread acclaim, and he went on to do roles in Mame and Evita for the same theatre. By the age of ten, Keram was busy recording radio dramas for the CBC and launched his music career, singing on various records. At age fourteen, he recorded a full length album in South America, which was signed to a major label there, and he also had two songs charting on the radio. Also that year, he was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award (Canada's Tony) for his performance in an adaptation of Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper". At fifteen, he met Degrassi High actor Keith White on a sitcom pilot, "Cutting Loose", and the two formed the band Blue Dog Pict for which Keram was the frontman for seven years. The band released three albums and toured across North America, charting in the top ten on several dozen College radio stations.

Keram played the title role of Chris Black in Skin Deep (1995) which won the People's Choice award at the Berlin film festival and was also an official selection at the Toronto Film Festival a year later.

Keram is a prolific musician who studied classical music, composition, piano and Gregorian chant for eight years before going off to start his own rock band - Blue Dog Pict, EDM project Automated Gardens and record label - Constant Change Productions - founded in 1993. In addition to acting Keram is currently a music producer as well as an actor who and scores independent films, TV and animation.

At seventeen Keram scored a lead role on the Franklin Waterman produced series Catwalk (1992) with co-stars Paul Popowich and Neve Campbell.

In 1992 he founded Constant Change Productions, an independent record label and film production company which produced several videos for the band, one of which received the largest request in MuchMusic history.

Keram has been involved in building online communities since the early 1990s - before the dawn of web browsers. He studied New Media at Ryerson University and later graduated from the Digital Media Entertainment Studies program at UCLA. He is a consultant to various companies on emerging media, social network marketing and search engine optimization as well as the chief editor for a wide variety of blogs and online portals.

Played Jacob in Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang at Toronto's Young People's Theatre, a role he shared with actor Adam Kositsky. [1984]