Leo Gambera Stillinger is a writer and filmmaker based in Montreal. His work focuses on the intersections of ecology, therapeutics, and politics in a variety of social practices, looking for the seeds of future ways of life in the rituals of today. His first film, An Urban Wild, was screened at the Festival International de Film Éthnographique de Quebec in 2023. He is currently completing a Master's in Anthropology at McGill University based on fieldwork amongst long-distance hikers on the Appalachian Trail, and producing a film on the same subject.