Doc Summit - Getting Real: The Canadian POV Paradox
Fri, May 6 10:00am - 10:50am | Rogers Industry Centre, 93 Charles Street West, 2nd Floor
Access: Industry Pass holders
A half-day town hall forum at which key film industry stakeholders share their ideas on the sector’s burning issues, with an aim to building consensus and progressing beyond current obstacles.
POV audiences are thriving across Canada, but why are so few POV docs being produced? Find out the underlying causes of the POV production decline.
Moderators
Rudy Buttignol - President & CEO, Knowledge Network
Rudy Buttignol is President and CEO of Knowledge Network, British Columbia’s public broadcaster, and President of BBC Kids, a national subscription channel. He also moderates financing forums in Amsterdam and Leipzig, and serves as a Board Director of several arts organizations. Currently, Buttignol is the President of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Foundation; Chair of the International Advisory Council of the Hot Docs Trade Forum; Vice-Chair of the Association of Education Broadcasters of Canada; and a Director on the Board of the Vancouver International Film Festival. He was recently appointed by the federal government to the Cultural Properties Export Review Board. In the past, Buttignol was TVO’s Creative Head of Network Programming, Head of Independent Production, and Commissioning Editor. His notable commissions included The Corporation and Manufactured Landscapes. For 18 years, he worked as an independent writer and producer.
Panelists
John Christou
John Christou is an award winning producer, owner of Prospector Films and Chair of the National Board of the Documentary Organization of Canada. He?s produced a dozen films over the past 8 years, including the Genie winning Up The Yangtze! and the Genie nominated short File Under Miscellaneous.
Cameron McMaster
Cameron McMaster is a media consultant specializing in communications and cultural policy, digital media, and film and television. His clients include the Documentary Organization of Canada and Digital Theory Media Consulting.
