Banff Media Festival

2012 Advisory Boards

What are the Banff World Media Festival Advisory Boards?
Our Advisory Boards are comprised of key professionals - TV and Interactive Producers, Executive Producers, Broadcast Executives, Technology Providers, Mobile Operators and Service Providers, Agencies and Brands – who each offer their opinions on key issues facing the television and digital media industries. These are executives who represent the voice of the international media community.

 

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BANFF TELEVISION

Christine Shipton (CHAIR)
Vice President of Original Content
Shaw Media

Tara Ellis
Senior Director, Original Drama Content
Shaw Media

Harold Gronenthal
Senior Vice Preident & General Manager
Rainbow Media Holdings Inc.

Thomas von Hennet
Vice President, International Co-Production & Documentaries
ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutschland

Joey Plager
Senior Vice President, Co-Productions
Entertainment One Television

Angela Stephenson
SVP Programming, Co-Productions, & Acquisitions
BBC Worldwide

Glen Cockburn Glen Cockburn
Literary Agent
Meridian Artists
Kathleen McCaffrey, Manager, HBO

Kathleen McCaffrey
Manager
HBO

Greg Moyer, Strategic Consultant

Greg Moyer
Strategic Consultant


George Burger
Senior Media and Broadcast Executive

 

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Jesse Albert (CHAIR)
Digital Producer & Consultant

Lydia Antonini
Digital Media Executive

Dominique-Sebastien Forest
Vice President - Digital
Transcontinental Media

Joe Casale
President and CEO
Casale Media
Sara Diamond
President
Ontario College of Art & Design
Mel D'Souza
President,Executive Producer
SILO Entertainment
Matt Di Paola
Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer
Mediacom Canada
Nader Elm
Vice President
Enfortus

Phil Frappier
Partner
Searchlight Recruitment

Raja Khanna
Co-CEO & Co-President
Glassbox
Evan Jones
Partner
Stitch Media

Jim Louderback
CEO
Revision3

Mike Kasprow
Vice President & Creative Director
Trapeze

Anthony Lilley
Founder
Magic Lantern

Marina Mann
Digital Marketing eCommerce + Mobile, We Are Q Inc.

Alon Marcovici
Marketing & Communications Professional

Susan Nation

Susan Nation
President
Hop to It Productions

Simon Nelson
Advisor
Digital & Business Strategy

James Prudhomme
CEO
Recoset

Tony Novia
Executive Vice President, New Media & Business Development
Ryan Seacrest Productions

Jonathan Ford
Executive Vice-President, Digital Acquisitions and Distribution Content Media Corporation

   

BANFF NON-FICTION

Joanna Webb (CHAIR)
Founder and Managing Director
Mojojo Media

Julie Bristow
Studio and Unscripted Programming
CBC Television

Elaine Frontain Bryant
VP Non-Fiction & Alternative Programming
A&E

Simon Lloyd
CEO
Cineflix Programming

Justin Scroggie
Format Doctor, Producer, and Author
Format Doctor

Vibika Bianchi
VP, Original Programming
Lifestyle, Reality & Factual Entertainment
Corus Television

John Ritchie
Partner/Executive Producer
Force Four Entertainment

 


BANFF KIDS AND ANIMATION

Carole Bonneau
Vice-President, Programming
TELETOON Canada Inc.

Suzanne French
Vice-President, Children's and Family
Shaftesbury Films

Jocelyn Hamilton
Vice President, Programming & Production
Corus Kids Television

Matt Hornburg
Executive Producer, Partner & Co-Founder
marblemedia

David Levine
General Manager
Disney XD

Ira Levy
Executive Producer
Breakthrough Entertainment
Frank Saperstein
SVP, Animation and Children's Programming
Entertainment One Entertainment

Sander Schwartz
Executive VP, Head of Children's & Family Entertainment
Fremantle

BANFF COMEDY

Kenny Hotz (CHAIR)
Writer, Director, Actor, Producer

David Himelfarb
Corporate Commerical Lawyer

Jenny Hacker
Creative Head of Comedy,
CBC

Mike Scully
Co-Creator, Producer,
Napoleon Dynamite

Lou Wallach
President
Wallach Media LLC

 

  BANFF FRANCOPHONE

Suzane Gouin - CEO, TV5 Québec Canada Judith Brosseau - Senior VP,
Programming, Communications
& Digital Media, Canal D, Historia, Séries +,
Les Chaines Télé Astral
Erika Denis - Audiovisual Attaché
French Embassy
Cultural Service
Tom Perlmutter - Film Commissioner and Chair, National Film Board of Canada
Georges Leclère - Founder and President of LGMA Inc. Marc Beaudet - President and producer at Turbulent Media Inc.
Mathieu Béjot - Executive Director of TV France International Claire Samson - President and CEO, APFTQ
Natalie McNeil - Directrice générale, Alliance des producteurs francophones du Canada Marie Côté - Executive Director of the Specialty channels for CBC/Radio-Canada French Services

BANFF SHOWRUNNERS

Jack Bender - Lost Greg Daniels - The Office
Hart Hanson - Bones Jason Katims - Friday Night Lights
Richard Lewis - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Carol Mendelsohn - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Peter Murrieta - Wizards of Waverly Place Bill Prady - The Big Bang Theory
Arnold Shapiro - President, Arnold Shapiro Productions David Shore - House
Veena Sud - The Killing David Zucker - The Good Wife

 

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