Name:

Anne Carey

Title:

Producer Mentor

Biography:

Anne Carey is a New York based independent producer.

Together with Ted Hope, Anthony Bregman and Diana Victor, Carey founded the New York City production company This is that, Inc. in 2002, based on the collaborative work they had begun at their previous company, Good Machine, Inc. Specializing in unique content and innovative storytelling, This is that produced 18 films in its eight-year existence.

Carey currently has Anton Corbijn’s THE AMERICAN, written by Rowan Joffe and starring George Clooney in release through Focus Features. The film opened in the US on September 1st and internationally shortly thereafter.

In 2008 Carey produced ADVENTURELAND, written and directed by Greg Mottola and starring Ryan Reynolds, Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart. ADVENTURELAND was released through Miramax in April 2009.

In 2007 Carey produced THE SAVAGES, written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. THE SAVAGES won Best Screenplay and Best Actor honors at the 2008 Indie Spirit Awards and garnered two Oscar nominations. That year, Carey also executive produced Oscar-winner Alan Ball’s feature film directorial debut, TOWELHEAD, which premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.

Carey's other notable film credits include FRIENDS WITH MONEY, THUMBSUCKER,
THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR and THE LARAMIE PROJECT.

Carey was honored as one of Variety’s Top Ten Producers to Watch in 2004.

Name:

Christina Piovesan

Title:

Producer Mentor

Biography:

Christina Piovesan founded First Generation Films in 2007. Committed to producing quality film and television projects, FGF recently completed the feature film Amreeka. Written and directed by Cherien Dabis, Amreeka premiered in U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, was selected as the opening night film for New Directors/New Films and will screen at the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes.

Piovesan’s other projects include The Whistleblower, a true-life drama set up at HBO Films; an adaptation of Robert Hough’s acclaimed novel The Stowaway; and a teenage drama titled White & Rice, which recently won an honorable mention for Best Screenplay at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Prior to starting her own company, Piovesan worked for Telefilm Canada, where she oversaw production on the 2006 TIFF comedy Young People Fucking and Bruce McDonald’s experimental film Tracey Fragments starring Ellen Page, as well as dozens of projects in development.

Piovesan earned a master’s degree from the University of Southern California, where she won a student Emmy Award for her work on the short film Miracle Mile. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University and is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Science and IFP New York.

Name:

Damon D'Oliveira

Title:

Producer Mentor

Biography:

Producer Damon D’Oliveira has been responsible for bringing to screen some of Canada’s more innovative feature films – POOR BOY’S GAME, RUDE, LOVE COME DOWN, H, PROTEUS and LIE WITH ME. Under the umbrella of production companies, Conquering Lion Pictures (with partner Clement Virgo) and Flimshow Inc., D’Oliveira’s films have been distributed internationally and have been selected for festivals around the world including Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Sundance & Rotterdam.

Damon’s most recent feature, POOR BOY’S GAME (starring Danny Glover and Rossif Sutherland), premiered as a Special Presentation at the 2007 Berlinale and has been acquired to date in over 35 countries. It was also a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007, and has won best film and audience choice awards at the Atlantic Film Festival and Calgary International Film Festival. In 2005, D’Oliveira’s provocative sexual romance, LIE WITH ME, sold internationally to over 40 countries after causing a stir at the Toronto International Film Festival and the 2006 Berlin Film Festival.
Damon studied producing at Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre where he initiated many short films including Save My Lost Nigga' Soul directed by Virgo which was named Best Short Film in 1993 at Toronto and Chicago Film Festivals and at the 1994 Pan African Film Festival.

Born in Guyana, Damon moved to Toronto, Canada in 1976. After studying Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, he was a student of Sandy Meisner’s at the Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York City where he also worked for two years at the United Nations. In 1990, Damon was the winner of both the Chalmers and Dora Mavor Moore Awards for his work in the theatre as a co-writer on the play, “i.d.”.

Damon is actively involved in the Canadian film community, sitting on the International Advisory Committee of the Toronto International Film Festival Industry Centre and the Board of Directors of Astral Media’s The Harold Greenberg Fund. He is a past member of the OMDC’s Feature Film Advisory Committee and a founding member of the Producers Round Table of Ontario, as well as having chaired the boards and juries of various Canadian Arts Councils and funding bodies. He has mentored and taught producing workshops across Canada including at the Canadian Film Centre, the National Screen Institute and the Atlantic Film Co-op. He was invited to join the Ateliers du Cinéma Européen (ACE) with his current project, The Book of Negroes, a screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Lawrence Hill which won the 2008 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize.

FILMOGRAPHY
Poor Boy’s Game (2007) – Producer, Feature Film, 105 minutes (Toronto, Berlin ’07)
Lie With Me (2005) –Producer, Feature Film, 93 minutes (Toronto, Pusan ’05, Berlin ’06)
Love Come Down (2001) –Producer, Feature Film, 99 minutes (Toronto, Berlin, Melbourne ’01)
RUDE (1995) –Producer, Feature Film, 95 minutes (Cannes, Toronto, London ’95, Sundance ’06)
Proteus (2003) – Co-producer, Feature Film, 100 minutes (Toronto, Rotterdam ’04)
The Law of Enclosures (2000) – Producer, Feature Film, 111 minutes (Toronto ’00, Rotterdam ’01)
H (1990) – Associate Producer, Feature Film, 94 minutes (Best CND Feature, TIFF ’90)

Name:

Isabel Gomez Moriana

Title:

Executive in Charge of Project Development & Marketplace

Biography:

Isabel was recently appointed Executive in Charge of Project Development & Marketplace, where she’ll be overseeing the development and packaging of the CFC’s film & tv projects, while building on international marketplace opportunities.
Previously, Isabel spent 4 years as the CFC’s Executive in Charge of Production & Post where she provided mentorship on the practical and creative aspects of producing and was responsible for overseeing the development, production and delivery of more than 20 short films, 32 TV productions, 2 web pilots and 300 productions. She played an integral role in curriculum development for the Cineplex Entertainment Film and Short Film Programs, the web series pilot program and co-designed the inaugural Actors Conservatory. She was responsible for building the CFC’s relationships with key suppliers, cast, crew, unions and guilds and was co-facilitator of the CFC/Whistler Film Festival’s Go West Project Lab for the last three years.

Isabel compliments her skills as a producer and production executive with years of experience both on and off camera. She holds a BFA in Drama in Education from Concordia University and an MFA in Acting from York University. Her extensive production experience includes work on projects for CBS, Fox, Sci-Fi, Disney, ABC and Lifetime, as well as her time working with talent and literary manager Perry Zimel. She was co-writer and co-host on WTN's Gemini-nominated lifestyle series, My Messy Bedroom, produced the NBC/Universal short films SPOONFED and FACE MACHINE, as well as the BravoFACT! shorts I MADE A GIRLFRIEND and THE PERFECT MATCH. A CFC producer alumna herself, she has consulted on numerous film & television productions and was a producer mentor for MTV's 48 Fest during the XVI International AIDS Conference.
Isabel is a voting member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, a member of Women in Film & Television Toronto and a workshop committee member of Green Screen Toronto.

Name:

John Paizs

Title:

Director in Residence

Biography:

“The most influential Canadian director you’ve never heard of.” — Mark Peranson, Take One Magazine

“A disgracefully neglected Can-Con treasure.” — Gemma Files, Eye Weekly

John Paizs was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Originally his ambition was to be an animator and while still in high school he created a four-minute Disney-style animation which in 1978 received a special citation from The British Film Institute.

Upon graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Manitoba in 1980, Paizs decided to switch to live-action filmmaking. Equipped with a secondhand Bolex camera he embarked on a series of ultra low-budget comedies which would earn him in the mid ‘80s the reputation as Canada’s leading independent filmmaker. He wrote, produced, directed and starred (as the Silent Man, a nod to Buster Keaton) in these six outstandingly imaginative films, both short and feature length. Taken together they remain today one of the most impressive and influential bodies of independent film work produced in Canada.

Of these six films two in particular stand tall: the suburban satire SPRINGTIME IN GREENLAND (1981), cited as Canada’s first postmodern film; and the feature-length “writer’s block” comedy CRIME WAVE (1986), hailed as the funniest Canadian movie ever made.

Paizs’s independent films have been presented at such prestigious venues as the Lincoln Centre and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Boston Museum of Fine Art; the Walker Arts Centre in Minneapolis; the Wexner Centre for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio; and the Centre George Pompidou and the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, France.

After completing CRIME WAVE, Paizs decided to retire from independent filmmaking. A new chapter in his directing career opened in 1990 when he was invited to direct for the hit TV series The Kids in the Hall. It was his first professional directing engagement.

Many more were to follow, both in TV and in features. They include helming the 1999 festival hit TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN (a.k.a. Invasion!), starring Campbell Scott and Tom Everett Scott, and the 2005 made-for-TV horror-fantasy Marker.

A third chapter in Paizs’s directing career opened in 2000 when he joined the Canadian Film Centre as its Director in Residence. He remains vigorously engaged there today, mentoring Canada’s brightest filmmaking lights of tomorrow.

Name:

Katharine Asals

Title:

Editor in Residence

Biography:

Katharine Asals has had a long career in documentary editing including award-winning films such as Kevin McMahon's Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii, Clint Tourangeau's Deep Inside Clint Star, Min Sook Lee's El Contrato, and Mary Ellen Davis' Tierra Madre.

Her documentary training ground was as assistant-everything on the film Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky and the Media. Her fiction training began as assistant editor on feature films in Quebec, and continued with the CFC's Editor's Lab.

Katharine has made several short films, including Past History, which screened at TIFF, won a Documentary Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and was nominated for a Multicultural Award at the Yorkton Film Festival.

She recently completed a Masters at York University, and has been presenting and publishing articles on film theory. She currently teaches editing at Humber College.

Name:

Lesley Krueger

Title:

Writer Mentor

Biography:

Lesley Krueger is a filmmaker and novelist born in Vancouver, Canada, and now based in Toronto. The author of five critically-acclaimed books, she is an in-demand screenwriter who script doctored the feature SILENT HILL, which opened number one at the box office and earned $100 million internationally, with $40 million in DVD sales.

Most recently, she wrote the screenplay for the feature SINGLE SHOT, a thriller due to go to camera in Winnipeg in fall, 2011. A Japanese-Canadian-UK co-production, it is directed by Toru Tokikawa of Japan, produced by Juliette Hagopian of Canada and executive produced by Yu Fei Suen of the U.K., with up-and-coming actor Devon Bostick playing the lead and Winnipeg playing Detroit.

Lesley is also scheduled shoot a short film in Toronto this September with director Craig Goodwill. INTO THE LIGHT has received funding from BravoFACT. Lesley and Craig are producing, and are in development on a feature film based on the same characters.

This summer, Lesley is in development on three other feature films, including STRICKEN, produced by Gavin James of the U.K. and Greg Dummett of Canada. It will be directed by Peter Webber, whose feature GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING was nominated for three Academy Awards.

As well as her work script doctoring big-budget films, Lesley story edits Canadian features. She recently worked with writer/director Karen Lam on her low-budget feature STAINED, which was screened in the Canadian Perspectives series at Cannes in 2010, and will be released this fall on DVD.

Lesley recently completed her fourth novel. Her previous book, The Corner Garden, was published by Penguin Books in 2003.

Name:

Marissa Richmond

Title:

Casting Director in Residence

Biography:

This is Marissa Richmond’s eleventh season as Casting Director-in-Residence at the Canadian Film Centre. Marissa is currently the casting director on the CTV/CBS series Flashpoint, and is currently casting the CTV pilot Stay With Me.. She also cast all 3 seasons of the highly acclaimed series Durham County produced by Back Alley Films; previous work for Back Alley includes the anthology series of female erotica Bliss, the hiphop dramatic series Drop the Beat and the critically acclaimed award winning series Straight Up. Other recent highlights of the past year include casting the Heroic Film Company series How to be Indie, as well as the Cookie Jar Pilots Mudpit as well as Debra!.

Feature work includes LOVE, SEX & EATING THE BONES, directed by Sudz Sutherland as well as the Film Centre’s Feature Film Project’s SHOW ME, directed by Cassandra Niccolau and 19 MONTHS, directed by Randall Cole. Marissa Richmond was also the casting director on the MOW's AFTER THE HARVEST, directed by Jeremy Podeswa, and LUCKY GIRL, directed by John Fawcett, SCORN, directed by Sturla Gunnarsson and MURDER MOST LIKELY, directed by Alex Chapple.

Name:

Marlo Miazga

Title:

Editor Mentor

Biography:

Marlo has been working in the film and television industry for the last 18 years. A graduate of McGill University’s Film and Communications program and the Canadian Film Centre’s prestigious Film Lab, Marlo has worked with some of the leading voices in Canadian film and television. As a film editor some of her notable credits include: Peter Wintonick’s, multiple award winning NFB feature, CINEMA VERITE: THE DEFINING MOMENT, Rick Mercer’s 5 part series for CBC’s 50th Anniversary: Tuning In; Greig Dymond’s 8 part comedy series: Jimmy McDonalds Canada, Keith Behrman's award winning short film ERNEST, Paul Fox's psychological thriller and international award winner: THE DARK HOURS and Ann Marie Redmond’s critically acclaimed feature documentary: SEX,DRUGS AND MIDDLE AGE.

Marlo has worked on numerous series and programs for almost every major broadcaster in the country including, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, CTV, CBC, Radio Canada, TVO, Bravo, TSN, W Network, YTV, MuchMusic, MusiquePlus and Global. Marlo has also worked as the Canadian Film Centre’s, EDITOR IN RESIDENCE, where she has mentored and advised on more than 40 films in the last 5 years. In the last year Marlo created and produced with The Discovery Channel, the highly rated series: Curious and Unusual Deaths, now going into its second season. Most recently, Marlo and business partner Ann Marie Redmond have just launched a new production company - NEWROAD MEDIA - which opened its doors in March of 2011.

Name:

Maureen Dorey

Title:

Story Editor in Residence

Biography:

Maureen Dorey is a free-lance analyst and story editor who helps writers renew their inspiration and find their voices. Her production credits include: HIDDEN, by David Shamoon, directed by Agniezka Holland and produced by Filmworks (2010), AMAL, written by Shaun and Richie Mehta (2007), A STONE’S THROW written by Garfield Lindsay Miller and Camelia Frieberg (director) (2006). Her television work includes Moccasin Flats, Season II, and Random Passage, an eight-hour mini-series directed by John N. Smith, produced by Passage Films and Cité-Amérique for broadcast on CBC and RTE (Eire), as well as Extraordinary Visitor, The War Between Us, Lyddie, and On My Mind, 6x30 min. children’s dramas.
She has acted as consultant to the National Screen Institute, Praxis Film Works, NIFCO and B.C. Film, and has been Story Editor in Residence to the Canadian Film Centre’s Writers Lab for the past 9 years. She has acted as story editor on several Canadian Film Centre Feature Film Projects, including: NURSE.FIGHTER.BOY (produced 2008, nominated for 10 Genie Awards, including Best Screenplay), THE DARK HOURS, SIBLINGS, HORSIE’S RETREAT and SHOW ME.

Name:

Michael McMahon

Title:

Documentary Producer Mentor

Biography:

Michael McMahon
President and Executive Producer.

Michael oversees Primitive’s selection of projects and focuses on the company’s many relationships with broadcasters, distributors, co-production partners, industry organizations and government agencies. Internationally, Michael has forged partnerships with co-producers and investors in Britain, Europe, Australia and Japan.

Michael ‘s contribution to the Canadian documentary industry includes serving for 12 years on the board of the Documentary Organization of Canada, an industry group representing 700 documentary filmmakers across Canada. He is currently Co-Chair of DOC Toronto. For the past eight years, Michael has served as Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of Hot Docs, North America's largest documentary film festival. He is also a member of the Industry Advisory Committee of the Toronto International Film Festival Group.

Having entered the film industry as a self-taught editor in the go-go years of Toronto B-movie production in the 1980s, Michael retains a keen fascination with the fusing of technology and artistry that is filmmaking. As a result, Primitive has always been in in the forefront of embracing new technologies – from digital imaging to computerized special effects to web-based documentaries – which has enabled the company to consistently pioneer new non-fiction storytelling techniques.

Michael is the father of pre-school twin boys and lives with his family in Toronto.

Name:

Noel Baker

Title:

Writer in Residence

Biography:

Screenwriter Noel Baker is best known for his screenplay for the Canadian cult classic film, HARD CORE LOGO. He is also the author of the memoir recounting the making of that film, Hard Core Roadshow (Anansi/Stoddart). Among several TV credits, Baker was the co-creator of the Showcase/Oxygen Network dramatic series Show Me Yours, and he developed and co-wrote the pilot for the CBC dramatic series At The Hotel. His most recent film is BREAKAWAY, a cross-cultural hockey comedy set for release in 2011. He currently has three projects in active development – THE MOSTLY TRUE ADVENTURES OF SAM STEELE, a CBC MOW; and PIG TALE, a dark fantasy stop-motion animation feature; and FACES AND HEELS, a wrestling comedy.

As a script doctor/story editor, Baker has worked with dozens of writers, directors and producers on feature films, television series and television movies. He has been Writer-in-Residence at the Canadian Film Centre since 1999 and has taught writing workshops at places as diverse as the Praxis Centre for Screenwriters in Vancouver, the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, SIFT in Ottawa, The Nickel Festival in St. John’s, The University of Western Ontario. Willamette University in Oregon, and United Arab Emirates University in Al Ain, UAE.

Name:

Pen Densham

Title:

Writer Mentor

Biography:

Pen Densham is an award-winning triple-hyphenate: a writer, producer & director. He is co-founder of Trilogy Entertainment Group in Los Angeles and Canada (a company whose works have currently grossed more than $1 billion dollars worldwide). He worked with Marshall McLuhan, founded the twice Oscar-nominated Toronto based company Insight Productions with John Watson, and was mentored to Hollywood by Norman Jewison. He writes and directs both TV and features and is responsible for reviving THE OUTER LIMITS and THE TWILIGHT ZONE for television, feature films such as ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES, LARGER THAN LIFE starring Bill Murray, HOUDINI for TNT, and many others. His personal favorite is MOLL FLANDERS, a feature that he wrote and directed, starring Robin Wright and Morgan Freeman. Pen also teaches an annual MFA course at USC Film School that caused him to write his insider’s book on screenwriting, RIDING THE ALLIGATOR: Strategies for a Career in Screenplay Writing (And Not Getting Eaten)”, sharing his chapters with his students as he discovered their needs and goals. Published by MWP, the book has been hailed by Hollywood talent like Ron Howard, Paul Haggis, Norman Jewison, Robin Wright, Morgan Freeman, and by academics at top film schools like USC, UCLA, AFI, CFC and beyond.

Name:

Rosemary Dunsmore

Title:

Actor in Residence

Biography:

Rosemary is an award-winning actress whose career has taken her onto stages and film and television screens across Canada, the United States and Europe. In 2009 she was given the Actra Award for Best Actress in recognition of her work in THE BABY FORMULA. She began her career on stages across Canada playing leads in Stratford for two seasons and Canadian premieres of shows like Sam Shepherd’s BURIED CHILD and Marsha Norman’s GETTING OUT. Other highlights include a Dora nominated one woman show SINGLE, STRAIGHT AHEAD (selected Best Performer at the Edinburgh Fringe by the London Daily Telegraph), BLIND DANCERS (Dora Award) and plays ranging from PRIVATE LIVES to FALLEN ANGELS (Dora Nomination), THE DOMINO HEART, THE GLASS MENAGERIE and THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE. She was awarded the Masque Award for Interpretation Feminine for her performance in WIT and was nominated for her work in LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. Also in Montreal, she was given the MECCA award for Best Actress for her work in GLORIOUS! Recently in Toronto, she appeared in FESTEN, THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG, BURIED, KAYAK ,THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM ( for which she is nominated for a Dora Best Actress) and TOUT COMME ELLE in the 2011 Luminato Festival.

Rosemary entered the world of the camera with equal success. Her first major television appearance in CBC’s Blind Faith won her the Earl Grey Award for Best Performance in a Leading Role. Her frequent television appearances have garnered her four Gemini nominations. She is probably best known for her role as “Katherine Brooke” in Anne Of Green Gables-The Sequel, and the title role in the CBC series MOM P.I. She split her time between Los Angeles, Vancouver and Toronto. While in LA she appeared in many TV series and movies of the week. Some favourite roles were in Total Recall, Twins, The Interrogation of Michael Crowe, Dreamcatcher and Citizen Duane. Recent projects include episodes in Crash and Burn, Living in my Car, Unnatural History and The Murdoch Mysteries, MOW's Red, The Good Times are Killing Me, Too Late to Say Goodbye, Playing House, Wedding Wars, St. Urbain’s Horseman, The Santa Suit and features At Home By Myself with Me, Orphan and Faces in the Crowd.

Rosemary is also a sought after theatre director. Some of the plays she has directed are VIRGINIA, HOCKEY MOM. HOCKEY DAD MEASURE FOR MEASURE, DINNER WITH FRIENDS, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, JANE EYRE, FIGHTING WORDS (Dora Nomination for Best Director), WALKING ON CRIMSON, THE GLACE BAY MINER’S MUSEUM, WHALE MUSIC, HERE ON THE FLIGHT PATH, SEXY LAUNDRY, BORDERTOWN CAFÉ, THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE and THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH. Next spring she will direct MY GRANNY THE GOLDFISH at the Factory Theatre.

Rosemary teaches at Equity Showcase, the National Theatre School, University of Toronto, S.I.F.T., George Brown College, Humber College, Film Training Manitoba and Halifax Shortworks. Rosemary is listed in Who’s Who in Canada and in 1990 was included on Maclean’s Magazine’s Honour Roll as “a Canadian who makes a difference.”

Name:

Ruba Nadda

Title:

Director Mentor

Biography:

Ruba Nadda is a critically and internationally acclaimed Canadian filmmaker. Cairo Time (starring Patricia Clarkson & Alexander Siddig 2009) had its worldwide premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (2009) as a Special Presentation where it was awarded Best Canadian Feature Film. It had its U.S. theatrical release in August 2010 by IFC and has since received stunning critical and commercial success culminating with winning the best reviewed film (Romance) of 2010 on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ruba’s films include Sabah (starring Arsinee Khanjian) and 13 shorts (Aadan, Blue turning grey over you, Black September, I would suffer cold hands for you, Laila, Slut, Damascus nights, The wind blows towards me particularly, So far gone, Do nothing, Wet heat drifts through the afternoon, Interstate love story, lost woman story) Her films have been shown over 500 times in film festivals around the world with over 30 retrospectives of her work.

She is currently going into production this fall (2011) on her next feature film, a thriller called Inescapable with Daniel Iron and Christine Vachon as producers.

Name:

Susan Alexander

Title:

TV Producer Mentor

Biography:

Susan Alexander is a Production Executive with Shaw Media for their dramatic channels Global, Showcase and TVtropolis, overseeing the development and production of a variety of dramatic series including Haven, Endgame, Jack of Diamonds, Exes & Ohs and Producing Parker.

Prior to becoming a broadcaster, Susan was a producer on the Showcase comedy series G Spot III, the CBC series Drop The Beat and CBC’s Little Mosque on the Prairie, for which she received a Gemini Award.

Susan has been involved in the development and production of many successful Canadian TV projects including CTV’s The Bridge, CBC miniseries Keep Your Head Up Kid and Prairie Giant, based on the lives of Don Cherry and Tommy Douglas, and Da Kink in My Hair and Traders for Global TV.

In addition to drama, Susan has been a supervising producer on over 100 episodes of lifestyle series, including Designer Guys for HGTV.

Susan is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre and is currently the TV Consultant for their film programme. She is a member of the Writers Guild of Canada and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.