Academy Of Canadian Cinema And Television Announces New Board Of Directors

Academy APPOINTS NEW Put up "Toronto", July 13, 2011" - The Academy of Canadian Movie theater "> . ACCT Keep order - MARTIN KATZ, Leader, Prospero Silver screen . BARRY AVRICH, Leader, Endeavour Publicity. CELIA CHASSELS, Ally, The Gary Goddard Influence . JONAS Diamond, Representative Producer, Smiley Guy Studios . ANNE FITZGERALD, Director Legal Formal, Cineplex Reduction . BRYAN GLISERMAN, Co-President, eOne Movies . ROBIN MIRSKY, Representative Better, Rogers Round of Base . GABRIEL (GABE) NACHMAN, (retired playmate PricewaterhouseCoopers) . MARY POWERS, Leader, M. Powers Communications . Note down SLONE, SVP Publicity "> . KEVIN WRIGHT, Manager Vice Leader, Planetary Transmit Networks . JOHN Jade, Making do Better, Ridge Respect Productions"The yarn of this active new industry working group presents a real casement to give a boost to the Academy," says ACCT Keep order Martin Katz. "Now we can better connect our expound members with our corporate followers and brew out to some 400,000 professionals in service in the Canadian media industry today."ACCT Quebec Keep order Charles Ohayon welcomes the change: "We begin a new episode in the history of the Academy with this new Put up of Directors which has hard on the charge of the citizens as we move into the vocation."Mr. Ohayon, who to boot spearheaded the strategic changes, thanked the industry band who were on an place reproving council to marshal the ACCT overcome a tough move. In alphabetical order, they are: SANDRA CUNNINGHAM, Leader, Strada Films; ALAIN GOURD, Consultant; MARTIN KATZ, Leader, Prospero Pictures; MICHAEL KENNEDY, Representative Vice Leader, Filmed Reduction, Cineplex Entertainment; ROBERT LANTOS, Producer, Serendipity Tenacity Films; ROBIN MIRSKY, Representative Better, Rogers Round of Funds; JOHN RILEY, Leader, Planetary Transmit Networks; ANDRA SHEFFER, Representative Better, Fright Promote and New Media Fund; Note down SLONE, SVP Publicity and Wheeze, Alliance Films; JAY SWITZER, Draftswoman, Jay Switzer Media Consulting; and PATRICE THEROUX, Leader, Filmed Reduction, Reduction One.ACCT will soon art a Homespun Clarifying Ruling body made up of congress from with a leg on each side of Canada to verify explanation regions are represented.Watch the 26th Gemini Awards, ACCT will art a new Awards Ascendancy Authorize calm of congress from the nation's Unions, Guilds, and Relatives to review the rules and symbols governing the Gemini and Genie awards.Established in 1979, the Academy of Canadian Movie theater & Transmit is a national, non-profit, professional association serious to the improvement, star and celebration of exceptional achievements in Canadian gun down, vet and digital media. Unifying industry professionals with a leg on each side of Canada, the Academy is a significant physical exertion designed for all screen-based industries.For moreover information, demand contact VK "> Virginia Kelly, 416 466 9799, info@vkpr.caORSuzan Ayscough, ACCT Better Communications, Publicity "> NEW Put up OF DIRECTORS - MINI-BIOS ACCT Keep order - MARTIN KATZ - PROSPERO Silver screen Prospero Silver screen Draftswoman and Leader Martin Katz is one of Canada's peak rich gun down and vet producers. His long-time verification with distinguished director David Cronenberg includes the cherished "Spider" and continues with two new visage - "A Testing Type", starring Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender, and "Cosmopolis", starring Robert Pattinson, Paul Giamatti and Juliette Binoche.Katz's guarantee gun down and vet productions introduce the Academy Reputation and Golden World multi-nominee "Be a lodger Rwanda", in print and directed by Terry George; Michael Winterbottom's "The Look after"; the Gemini Appreciated music vet proceed "Spectacle: Elvis Costello Taking into account..."; and Bronwen Hughes' "Stander", which the "London Bystander" called "the greatest heist gun down past "Mass Dogs"."Katz holds degrees in law from the College of Toronto and the Universit'e de Paris (Panth'eon-Sorbonne), and has served as Instructor of Law at the French-language Universit'e de Moncton and as Chosen Tutor in Reflective Assets Law at the College of Toronto. Katz is a limb of the Law Village of Snooty Canada and a Better of the Rigid for Canadian Citizenship.Barry Avrich - Endeavour Publicity Barry Avrich, Toronto, Ontario. Inherent in Montreal, Quebec. Barry Avrich has been a marketing executive and gun down and vet director/producer for over 25 lifetime. As Leader of Endeavour, Barry has been legally responsible for hundreds of cultural marketing campaigns plus Row, Luminato, AGO and the Stratford Shakespeare Party, Barry is to boot the author of three marketing books plus the best selling "Business the Sizzle: The Mythical and Coherence of Reduction Publicity". As a gun down director and producer Barry is accepted for such predictable cinema The Concluding Tycoon, Unauthorized: Focal point Harvey Weinstein and The Typhoon and Caesar Cleopatra. Barry is to boot a director of The Toronto Corporation Net Party Round, and the Canadian Opera Company. Celia Chassels -The Gary Goddard Influence Celia Chassels has worked in the world of gun down and vet all her life. Her unfortunate lifetime were no more as a business assistant/researcher for such many hosts as Pierre Berton, Morton Shulman and Stephen Lewis. The repose time in fill seminal sparkle was no more departure to all the gun down and theatre ready in Toronto.She has been an typical with the Gary Goddard Influence past l982, and moral represents such artists as Oscar competitor Sarah Polley and Gemini Award-winner Michael Riley. The agency represents an perfect theatre/film cross-over with such actors, writers, and directors as Jacob Tierney, Scott Speedman, Peter Stebbings, Luke Kirby, Kristin Compartment, Ken Welsh, Allan Hawco, Raoul Trujillo, Alberta Watson, and Wes Williams.Ms. Chassels was a setting up limb of The Centre for Reasoned Script and Endorsement Artists for Nuclear Disarmament, and continues her input in Toronto Women in Net and Transmit and the Academy of Canadian Net ">Jonas Diamond - Smiley Guy Studios; iThentic Jonas Diamond is the Representative Producer of Smiley Guy Studios and CEO of iThentic. Jonas associate up with the Guys as a contractor in the fall of 1999 and proudly tidied up financing for and managed the company's lobby group of "Odd Job Jack." For expert than a decade, Jonas has been instrumental in growing the company's business venture as well as arranging financing for its bountiful new shows.Jonas is producer of the cherished noisy proceed "Odd Job Jack"(52x30). The proceed established a Gemini, CFTPA Indie, Banff Rockie and Canada New Media Reputation for Principal Beside yourself Platform Give out. Different Accolades for "Odd Job Jack" introduce a nomination for Principal Interactive Establish and Principal Perky Capture at the Banff Rockie Awards, Principal Convergent Give out by the Banff Rigid as well as fused Gemini and Canadian Wittiness Reputation nominations. Jonas' producer credits introduce "Odd Job Jack", "Hotbox" and "Bigfoot" for The Wittiness Get / CTV, "Pillars of Independent status" for TVO, "Turbo Dogs" for CBC / Qubo, "The Dating Guy", "skatoony", "Sons of Crush"and the advent "GreakZ" MMOG for Teletoon, "The Construction of Bruce McCall "for CBC, and the interactive storyteller" Myths of Me "as well as bountiful out of the ordinary projects for varied platforms.Anne Fitzgerald - Cineplex Anne oversees all legal and route relations issues for Cineplex Inc., having associate the company in 2004 in order to direct the purchase of Sparkle Party, making Cineplex the largest theatre show company in Canada. Being that time, she has directed fused out of the ordinary acquisitions and divestitures, community aid, story appointments and instance matters. As a limb of the Cineplex executive team, she is laboriously byzantine in venture matters, plus the instigation of the Scene Dedication Establish, the lobby group of the Municipality Opera route programming proceed, the lobby group of the Cineplex Prevent and the lobby group of captioning and commissioner technologies to make cinema untaken to the tribulation and visually impaired. She was to boot instrumental in the direct of Canada's anti-camcording legislation.Anne has been trained to practice law past 1990 and has proficient in North Carolina, Illinois, New York and Ontario in areas of business and villain instance as well as corporate securities and alteration. She has produced theatre whichever in the US and in Canada and has two times been a finalist for the Homespun Post/ZSA Indiscriminate Advise of the Blind date Awards. Anne holds her apprentice degree as well as a Juris Doctorate from Duke College and attended the Harvard College Kennedy Instruct of Manufacturing for leadership studies. She to boot has the ICD.D label from the Rigid of Establishment Directors managed by the College of Toronto Rotman Instruct of Manufacturing.Bryan Gliserman - Reduction One A weathered of the Canadian gun down industry, Bryan Gliserman brings expert than 25 lifetime of mode experience to the Academy of Canadian Movie theater and Transmit.Bryan is straight away Co-President of Reduction One Movies Canada somewhere he oversees lobby group, acquisitions, marketing and sales. Undercurrent successes include: "Barney's Sketch, Incendies, Gnomeo and Juliet"and "The Sunset Story."He some time ago served as move of Odeon Movies, a portion of Alliance Movies, somewhere he oversaw all aspects of mode inwards a fourteen time name that included the absolve of "Brokeback" Fence in", Eastern Promises" and "Atonement."Bryan's mores in gun down in mode to boot includes positions at Orion Silver screen, Columbia Silver screen, MGM/UA and Telefilm Canada. He is straight away Co-Chairman of CAFDE, the Canadian Buzz of Net Distributors and Exporters.Robin Mirsky - Rogers Round of Base Robin Mirsky is Representative Better of the Rogers Round of Base. Robin associate Rogers Communications in 1989 as the Give out Daybook for Rogers Telefund, the place financing fund park by Rogers to aid in the business of fine Canadian programming. Now Robin Mirsky is legally responsible for - the "Rogers Telefund" which has expression 34 million ready for mediate financing for Canadian programs. The "Rogers Documentary Ago", with a family of 2,000,000 per time, has unconditional grants to expert than 300 Canadian documentary cinema. The "Rogers Route Get Ago"an equity backing fund for Canadian lead channels will potion an brutal 8 - 10 million annually into Canadian single business.Robin to boot sits on a number of industry concurrent Boards such as the Banff Construction Media Party and the Canadian Net Centre. She is straight away co-chair of the Put up of Hot Docs Documentary Net Party in Toronto.Gabriel (Gabe) Nachman - FCA, ICD.D Gabe is a retired playmate of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and one of its predecessor firms, Coopers & Lybrand (C&L). All the way through his 38 lifetime with PwC / C&L he served as the Homespun Keep order of the C&L Business and Type Amenities Round from 1986 to 1998, The Partner-in-Charge of the C">Mary Powers - MPowers Communications Mary Powers is Leader MPowers Communications, specializing in strategic communications and dent course for media companies, producers and ecstatic distributors in the residence and international open market. Powers enjoyed a long and prohibitive career in means of communication with Buddy Restricted, somewhere she directed all Communications as well as Explorer Relatives and Establishment Backing for the publicly traded company. She later became SVP Establishment Communications for Canada's leading announcer CTVglobemedia (now Fright Media), before to debut her own firm.A marketing and communications weathered who has been distinguished for her support of the media industry, Mary has been active on unique industry boards, plus current as Keep order of The Banff Construction Transmit Party Crux, Keep order of the international marketing and improvement association PROMAX, as well as farther than working group limb of CWC and the Toronto Symphony Stripe. She to boot served as Keep order of the Communications Authorize for the Canadian Buzz of Broadcasters and was a limb of the Toronto Corporation Net Party Publicity Authorize. Mary is straight away a working group limb of the Rogers Documentary and Route Ago and the Homespun Swathe Rigid (NSI).Note down Slone - Alliance Movies Note down Slone is the Manager Vice Leader for Alliance Movies. He is a graduate of McGill College with a mores in community radio and arts. He specializes in acquisitions and communications for wide absolve, Canadian, sort and arthouse cinema. He has completely served as a Put up Better for the Images Party and the Toronto Jewish Net Village and provides marketing guidance and mentorship for a number of growing filmmakers. He lives in Toronto with his partner and newborn.Kevin Wright - Planetary Media Kevin Wright is Manager Vice-President of Planetary Transmit Networks, a portion of Planetary Media. In this role, Wright oversees the purchase, commissioning and preparation of programming for The Draw Get, HBO Canada, Mpix, Family members Dance, Disney Insignificant and Disney XD.The new programming teams under Wright keep bent bountiful hours of popular and cherished programming plus "Vitality with Derek, Stella and Sam, Label Me Fitz and Durham Expanse."Wright on your own initiative associate the Planetary team in December 1995 as Vice Leader of Signs for Family members Dance. Harmonizing to this charge, Wright was to boot Vice Leader of Signs for the high spirits streak channel TELETOON(November 1996 to October 2001).Earlier to Planetary Transmit Networks, Wright worked for expert than six lifetime at YTV. He was Paragon International's Planner of Operations and past worked in Telefilm Canada's Ingenious Associations Class. Wright started his career as a camera political party.Wright is on the Put up of Directors for Planetary Media The Harold Greenberg Ago. He established the Alliance for Variety and Transmit "Manager Play in Reputation" in 2005. Wright graduated from McGill College in 1981 with a B.A. in Psychology and holds a B.A.A. in Forward motion Regard Deal out from Ryerson.John Jade - Ridge Respect Productions John Jade was untutored and raised in Loch Lomond, Scotland and graduated from the College of Dundee with an LLB (honors). He to boot established a Qualifications in Legal Tradition from Glasgow College.Mr. Jade is the Making do Better of Ridge Respect Productions, one of Canada's leading vet business companies; producing shows such as Heart Erica, Wingin' It, Canada's Subsequently Top See and Explanation to Prosperity. In accumulation to pure Ridge Street's day to day operations, John has spearheaded the company's move into recognized ecstatic and digital media, acting as the lead on deals with some of Canada's largest brands, while forging new relationships with leading digital agencies.Mr. Jade some time ago served as Making do Better of OMERS Genus Equity.Mr. Jade is a graduate of the Directors Ascendancy Camaraderie at College of Toronto's Rotman Instruct of Manufacturing.He is Vice Chairman of the Toronto Corporation Net Party Group's Direction-finding Authorize, and in 2005 was chosen as one of Canada's top 40 under 40 interior alert.