Each year, Playback puts out a call for the industry to recommend its best and brightest up-and-coming talent for our 10 to Watch list. And the search keeps getting tougher, as the professionals who make up the screen entertainment industry keep getting better. The selection represented here were carefully chosen with input from a variety of industry sources and organizations. This year’s 10 to Watch were revealed in Playback‘s Fall 2012 issue; featured here are longer versions of the Q&As that appear in the print publication.

In no particular order, here they are:

David Cormican

Cassie Steele

Mark De Angelis

Calum DeHartog

Lisa Jackson

Michelle Ouellet

Xavier Dolan

Patrick Tarr

Dev Singh

Mark Montefiore