About the Project

A closer look at the buildings and blocks Canada walks past.

stagevibefy.info is an independent documentary project telling stories about architecture, everyday city life, neglected spaces and the people who live around them, one Canadian street at a time.

Canadian city skyline at dusk with mixed old and new buildings
Sunlight streaming into an abandoned building interior

Why we started this project

Most cities are covered in headlines about their newest buildings and their biggest changes. Far fewer stories are told about the quieter corners in between — the closed storefront that used to be a bakery, the rowhouse block that has outlasted three generations of owners, the empty lot everyone has an opinion about but nobody has fully explained.

stagevibefy.info exists to slow down and look closely at these places. Since our first short documentary about a converted grain elevator on the Prairies, our small team has followed leads across Canada — from harbourfront warehouses to suburban strip malls — always asking the same question: what does this place mean to the people who still live around it?

We are not archivists and we are not architecture critics. We are documentary storytellers who believe a building's history is best understood through the voices of the people who know it.

Our Team

The people behind every story

A small, hands-on crew of filmmakers, researchers and editors who split their time between city archives and the sidewalks they write about.

Portrait of a middle-aged white man with a beard, documentary director

Callum Whitfield

Director

Portrait of a South Asian woman documentary filmmaker smiling

Ishani Kapoor

Filmmaker

Portrait of a Black man cinematographer holding a camera

Marcus Deveaux

Cinematographer

Portrait of an Indigenous Canadian woman researcher and writer

Naledi Bearclaw

Researcher & Writer

Portrait of a Latina woman producer and archivist smiling

Camila Reyes

Producer & Archivist

Portrait of an East Asian man sound designer with headphones

Haruto Sato

Sound Designer

How we work

We listen before we film

We take the time a place needs

Consent guides every frame

We show complexity, not conclusions

Know a place with a story?

Read our story submission guidelines, then reach out through our contact page.