About

ABOUT BIG BABY

Creativity loves company.

Big Baby exists to make room. Room for productions that need a place to land, for ideas that need a team to carry them, and for a neighbourhood that wanders in to see what we’re making. We believe the best work still happens in person… real rooms, real materials, real people who love the craft. From concept to camera, we treat every project like a world worth building, and we stay with it from the first sketch to the final frame.

THE TEAM

The people behind it.

Stephanie Ajmeria

DESIGNER · CO-FOUNDER

Stephanie is a Canadian set decorator, art director and entrepreneur based in Vancouver, British Columbia, known for meticulous visual storytelling and a real championing of the local arts scene. She has built a reputation as an essential force across both high-budget network productions and the independent film landscape. She climbed the competitive BC film industry through the art department, mastering spatial layouts, sourcing rare visual pieces, and learning how the environmental psychology of a space shapes a character on camera. Her work spans major television and cinema, with collaborative ties to Canadian network giants like the CBC and major US streamers. She won Best Production Design at the 2023 Leo Awards for the historical epic Bones of Crows, has served as head set decorator on episodic television including FOX’s Animal Control and CBC’s crime drama Allegiance, and holds feature credits including the thriller Fresh and the Netflix romance Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between.

Beyond her network credits, Stephanie is deeply committed to grassroots filmmaking. To support local filmmakers facing steep infrastructure costs, she co-founded Big Baby Film Rentals in East Vancouver, a prop rental company and independent studio hub that gives lower-budget indie projects access to industry-grade resources they could not otherwise reach. At last year’s Production Designers Collective (PDC) Conference she was a guest panelist, delivering a well-received talk on resourcefulness in independent filmmaking: how to create high-production-value visuals within the financial constraints of low-budget projects. Drawing directly from building Big Baby, she spoke on community-driven resource networks, sustainable set decoration, and creative upcycling as ways to get a high-end look on an independent budget.

Lindsay Sy

DESIGNER · CO-FOUNDER

Lindsay is a designer and filmmaker who works at the intersection of high-end interior design and the film and television industry, a rare position that lets her move between two worlds most people keep separate. She completed her formal design training at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, a program rooted in technical drafting, spatial planning and building codes, and that structural foundation is exactly what lets her move so fluidly between real-world construction and the controlled make-believe of a film set. She brings a background in both set decoration and floral design to everything she touches, and as the founder and lead creative behind Dreamhausdecor she runs her own boutique interior practice built on spatial transformations, custom layouts and thoughtful staging, the kind of work that turns an empty shell into somewhere people actually want to be.

That instinct shows in how she treats every project as a composition first and a build second, planning the bones of a space with an architect’s discipline before layering in the texture, color and detail that give it a soul. On set she carries the same sensibility into the film art department as a set decorator and art coordinator, translating a director’s vision and a production designer’s structure into believable, lived-in narrative space while holding the sourcing, budgets and logistics that keep a design intact once the cameras roll. What drives all of it is a conviction that intentional design and careful planning, right down to the smallest detail, shape the mood of a room, the story it tells and the way people feel inside it. That belief is exactly why she co-founded Big Baby: not just a prop house and a studio, but a creative hub in East Vancouver where fine art, high-end design and film all live under one roof, and where the next person with an idea can walk in and find everything they need to make it real. Hand her an empty room and she will plan, compose and dress it into something that feels like a work of art.

Kristen Cussen

OPERATIONS & MARKETING MANAGER

Kristen is a Canadian filmmaker, writer and multidisciplinary artist based in British Columbia, recognized for writing, directing and producing independent short films that are often supported by regional cultural and film funding organizations. She is a production designer as well, shaping the look and atmosphere of a film from the art-department side, and her practice extends past the set and onto the page. She regularly publishes essays, cultural commentary and film reviews on everything from historical artifice to cinematic escapism, the kind of writing that reveals how closely she watches the way stories are built. That double life, maker and critic, is exactly what makes her so good at spotting the one precise detail that makes a scene land.

She wrote and directed Good Intentions after being selected as an emerging filmmaker for the TELUS Storyhive Scripted Edition, a project that earned top-up funding from Creative BC and filmed in Vancouver. She co-wrote and co-directed The Carol Show, also known as Cooking with Carol, alongside filmmaker Amina Luthi, with a showcase at the CineVic One Take Super 8 Screenings in Victoria. She served as production designer on Bagman, a ten-minute Canadian short directed by Connor and Vaughn Gaston, and worked as co-writer, cinematographer and editor on Happy Birthday, Harvey! with collaborators Liv Johnston and Nolan Rollins. At Big Baby she runs operations and marketing and keeps the whole place upright: bookings, schedules, quotes and emails all move through her desk.

Kashika Kaushal

IN HOUSE PROPS BUILDER

Kashika is an Indo-Canadian filmmaker, production designer and set decorator based in Canada, with a real love of horror and a deep involvement in the Canadian independent art department. She is primarily recognized for her work in indie cinema, where she moves between directing her own films and designing the worlds of other people’s, and she has a particular gift for the kind of detail that makes a space feel genuinely inhabited and a little bit haunted. Resourceful, unflappable and quietly a little bit magic with her hands, she is the person you want when a story needs to feel real on a budget that says it should not be possible.

She wrote and directed My Lily, an Indo-Canadian body horror short about the psychological weight and complicated love between a mother and a daughter on the edge of leaving for college, a film that gained critical traction and a screening at FOGFEST V. She also directed The Last DIY Show, an indie short built as a love letter to Canada’s DIY music subculture set against a zombie apocalypse. She has contributed on the production side of Strange Orbits, worked as a crew member and production designer on indie art departments for Expiry Date and G Is for Grief, and partners with local creative groups such as Capitalist Pigs Productions as a production designer. At Big Baby she works hands-on in the art department, dressing sets and customizing pieces from the collection so they read perfectly on camera and survive a working set.