Meritorious Service Cross
- Awarded on: April 4, 2018
- Invested on: June 21, 2023
Cynthia Lickers-Sage, M.S.C.
Lisa Steele, M.S.C.
Kim Tomczak, M.S.C.
Wanda vanderStoop, M.S.C.
Toronto, Ontario
Cynthia Lickers-Sage, Lisa Steele, Kim Tomczak and Wanda vanderStoop are the founders of the imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival, the largest event in the world showcasing Indigenous screen content. Held annually in Toronto since 2000, the festival fosters emerging talent through year-round programming, promotes social responsibility and ethics in filmmaking and brings stories by Indigenous artists from Canada and across the globe to vast audiences.