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Kim Ball

Kim joined Super Channel in 2012 and currently serves as the company’s EVP, Content & Communications. In this role, Kim leads the programming strategy for the company’s suite of four channels (Fuse, Heart & Home, Vault, Quest) including pre-licensing of Canadian productions and acquisition of foreign content. Her portfolio also includes oversight of media relations, programming publicity, corporate communications and industry outreach. 

Prior to joining Super Channel, Kim was Director of Marketing, Publicity & Promotion at 20th Century Fox / Incendo Television Distribution for over a decade. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from McMaster University and a post-grad certificate in PR from Humber College. She is also a graduate of the WIFT-T Media Leadership Program and Chair of the Foundation for WIFT-T Board.

Kai Bowe

Kai Bowe has been a creative force in TV and film for over 35 years. At just 16, she interned on Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, and continued climbing the production ranks to Assistant Director. After graduating from UCLA and Howard University School of Law, Kai returned to her filmmaking roots. She honed her screenwriting skills as the WGA Trainee for The X-Files and had the honor of having a character named after her. Kai bridged into the unscripted television genre near its inception, casting NBC’s Emmy- winning Starting Over and producing for some of the most successful franchises, including America’s Next Top Model and Project Runway. Kai was Supervising Producer for the Emmy-nominated LA Burning and Emmy-winning Red Table Talk, and Co-EP of the Emmy-winning Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath. She was EP/Showrunner of Resist (a documentary series that successfully thwarted LA County’s plan to fund two new jails), the Emmy-nominated, Peabody-winning We Have to Talk About Cosby, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Fight the Power and the award-winning Ferguson Rises. Currently, Kai serves as the Director of Current Programming, Unscripted for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network where she has shepherded multiple series, including Ready to Love, the NAACP-nominated The Hair Tales, Justice, USA, Breaking New Ground, and Time of Essence, a star-studded, five-part documentary series celebrating 50 years of Essence magazine.

Tara Burke

Tara Burke is a marketing and communications executive with over a decade of experience in Canada’s film and television industry. She is Senior Manager of Marketing & Publicity at Sony Pictures Entertainment Canada, where she leads marketing and publicity initiatives for television content licensed to major broadcasters across English and French Canada. Her work spans pre-sale and post-sale campaigns for globally recognized series including Doc, Outlander, and The Young and the Restless. Through her work, she has built strong partnerships across Canada’s media landscape, helping connect global content with Canadian audiences. Born and raised in the Greater Toronto Area, Tara holds a Master’s Degree in Communication and Cultural Studies from York University.

Hao Chen

Hao Chen is a Los Angeles–based Executive Producer and one of the leading creative forces behind the global rise of vertical drama. Specializing in serialized storytelling designed for mobile audiences, Hao has overseen the production of more than 100 scripted series across international markets.

As Executive Producer and Head of Studio for English-language productions at GoodShort, Hao supervises shows produced in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Turkey, and Ukraine. Under his leadership, GoodShort generated approximately $220 million in revenue in 2025, becoming the third-highest-grossing vertical drama platform worldwide.

Known for combining high-volume production strategy with emotionally driven storytelling, Hao has helped shape a scalable creative model that delivers cinematic narratives in short-form format. His work reflects a deep understanding of modern viewing habits and the evolving economics of digital entertainment. Through his leadership, vertical storytelling has moved from niche experiment to global mainstream.

Chanda Chevannes

Chanda Chevannes is the Executive Producer of the National Film Board of Canada’s Central Documentary Unit. For two decades, she worked on a wide range of projects as an independent filmmaker, writer and educator. She produced/directed 14 artful documentaries that sought to amplify women’s voices, including the award-winning features Living Downstream and UNFRACTURED.

In addition to making her own films, Chanda has supported the work of dozens of colleagues in the documentary community, producing or production-managing 25 documentary projects. She has also developed and facilitated creative filmmaking labs for diverse organizations, including the DOC Institute, the Toronto Queer Film Festival and the Toronto Public Library. These labs have guided 60 emerging filmmakers—mostly from marginalized communities—through the process of making their first film, resulting in the creation of dozens of new festival-ready works.

Early in her career, Chanda lived in Uganda and worked for Raising Voices, where she made SASA!, a film that explored the link between violence against women and HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa. SASA!’s tangible impact is one of Chanda’s proudest achievements: the film contributed to the passage of new domestic-violence legislation in Uganda and a community-wide decrease in women’s risk of physical violence from their male partners.

When not in the field herself, Chanda has sought to share what she has learned with other filmmakers, through her work as a writer and an educator. She has researched and written 15 documentary-focussed publications to date and has led myriad professional development workshops for documentary filmmakers in Canada and internationally. Altogether, she has developed and facilitated over 1,400 hours of educational experiences and trained more than 800 emerging film professionals.

Chanda is a graduate of Sheridan College’s Media Arts Program and is currently earning her MFA in Film Production at York University. She previously served as a board member for the Documentary Organization of Canada and POV Magazine. Chanda is a mother and a queer woman of colour—identities that inform her work.

DAMON D’OLIVEIRA

Damon is a veteran producer responsible for bringing to screen some of Canada’s most critically and commercially successful films and television (BROTHER, RUDE, THE GRIZZLIES, THE BOOK OF NEGROES and WILDHOOD). His latest film, STEAL AWAY, had its world premiere at TIFF in 2025. In 2022, BROTHER world premiered at TIFF to strong critical acclaim and played BFI London, Busan and Sao Paulo. It won 2 NAACP Awards for Best International Film and Best Independent Film, as well as 12 Canadian Screen Awards. Damon’s miniseries adaptation of THE BOOK OF NEGROES, the best-selling novel by Lawrence Hill, won 12 Canadian Screen Awards, earned two nominations for U.S. Critic’s Choice Television Awards, an NAACP Image Award and was a finalist for the prestigious 2016 Peabody Award. A recent member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Damon is the Chair Emeritus of the Canadian Media Producers Association. He was the inaugural winner of TIFF’s Amplify Voices BIPOC & Canadian Trailblazer Award in 2023.

Mackenzie Donaldson

Mackenzie Donaldson is Vice President, Scripted Television at Blink49 Studios, bringing a strong background in producing critically acclaimed, award-winning content. Her credits include the highly anticipated upcoming drama YAGA (Crave) as well as producing on Orphan Black, the Emmy, Peabody, and CSA Award–winning series, and the Emmy-nominated Snowpiercer (TNT/Netflix).

As President of The Donaldson Company, Donaldson has produced numerous award-winning short films, series, feature films and documentaries, including Citizen Bio (Showtime) and The Abnormal Beauty Company (Crave). Her directorial work includes the feature films The Definites and All the Lost Ones, the latter of which premiered theatrically before its December 2024 release on Paramount+ in Canada, with a U.S. release via Epic Pictures slated for Spring 2025.

Nancy Dubuisson

Nancy Dubuisson, a graduate of ETS University (École de Technologies Supérieures) and having worked for more than 20 years in the telecom industry, made the leap into the world of media by joining the founding team of Natyf TV, the first French speaking TV channel dedicated to cultural diversity, which now has more than 2.3 million TV subscribers. Highly respected by her business partners as a programming director, with her reputation well established and great sense of leadership, Natyf has triggered within the last two years more than $21 million of fundings for various films and TV projects for BIPOC producers in Quebec.

Andrea Griffith

VP of Content and Development of Sphere Media’s Kids and Family, is responsible for the growth and execution of Sphere’s exciting scripted, unscripted, and animation slate for the global marketplace. She leads the development strategy, builds strategic partnerships domestically and internationally and utilizes her deep knowledge of the media investment landscape to help finance series across multiple genres and demos – from preschool to school-age to adult. She champions underrepresented, emerging talent and regularly leads workshops, speaks on industry panels, offers keynotes, fireside chats, serves on juries, sponsors, and mentors. Andrea created and led BIPOC TV & Film x Bell Media’s Show Runners’ Producers Lab in 2023 (now in its third year) to address the large industry gap in racialized talent at the show runner level in unscripted/reality television.

Kaio Grizzelle

Kaio Grizzelle is a Digital Commissioning Editor at Channel 4, where he commissions original, unscripted entertainment programmes for the broadcaster’s youth-focused, award-winning digital brand Channel 4.0. He has been working with digital talent and creators to build channels and create premium entertainment on YouTube since 2017. Kaio was recognised as a Broadcast Hotshot in 2023 for commissioning and is part of the TV Collective’s 2025 Breakthrough Leaders cohort.

JENNIFER HOLNESS

Jen Holness writes, produces, and directs. She recently produced RT Thorne’s thriller, 40 Acres, which was nominated for five NAACP Awards, including Outstanding Independent Motion Picture and Outstanding International Picture. The film is currently streaming and reached the #1 spot on Hulu. 

Her doc feature, #WhileBlack that she co-wrote and co-directed, will premiere at the SXSW this year and her doc, Subject of Desire was a TIFF Top Ten film. Over decades Jen’s films and TV shows have screened and sold globally, earning prizes from major film festivals, along with multiple industry awards. A CMPA Indiescreen Producer of the Year, Jen also received WIFT’s Creative Excellence Award and The Hollywood Reporter profiled her as one of the 40 Most Influential Women in International Film.

Marsha John-Greenwood

Marsha John-Greenwood is an international transformation leader specializing in organizational culture, leadership capability, and modern people practices. With more than 25 years of global experience across the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, she partners with executive teams to transform how organizations operate by aligning people’s strategy with business outcomes. 

Marsha is known for leading large-scale HR and culture transformations that enable organizations to evolve their operating models, adopt new ways of working, and strengthen leadership effectiveness. 

Throughout her career she has delivered complete transformation programs including end-to-end implementation of HR shared services, enterprise people practices, and diversity strategies that improve representation, accountability, and employee experience. Her leadership has helped organizations modernize their people infrastructure while strengthening culture and trust across large and complex workforces. 

Marsha currently serves as Vice President, People & Culture at the Toronto International Film Festival  (TIFF) where she leads the People & Culture function and oversees the organization’s diversity portfolio, shaping  the employee experience and inclusive culture for one of the world’s leading arts and cultural institutions. A  dynamic business leader with a strong commitment to Diversity, Marsha brings strategic oversight to an  organization-wide portfolio of programming designed to foster access, representation, and meaningful  engagement.  

With a focus on embedding inclusive practices across the business, she works cross-functionally to ensure TIFF reflects diverse voices and creates equitable opportunities for creators, partners, and audiences alike. Her  leadership bridges strategy and delivery—aligning organizational priorities with impactful, community-driven  initiatives. 

A key component of her work includes launching the Black Excellence Brunch (BEB)in 2022, an initiative that  brings Black creatives from across the wider ecosystem together to connect, collaborate, and elevate their work.  Through curated programming, partnerships, and community engagement, BEB serves as a platform to  strengthen networks, amplify underrepresented voices, and support sustainable pathways for Black talent within  the industry. 

Prior to TIFF, she served as Interim Chief People Officer at the City of Toronto, leading the Service Hub  implementation that supports HR services for more than 35,000 employees. Earlier in her career, Marsha worked  in the financial sector before becoming a leader in diversity and corporate responsibility initiatives in the UK. She  helped launch the first Cultural Diversity Network at Barclays Bank and led research that informed the housing  sector’s first supplier diversity framework. 

Marsha holds a Master’s in Strategic Human Resources and professional designations as CHRL (Canada) and  MCIPD (UK). She is also committed to mentorship and community leadership, and is currently on the Advisory  Committee of Access Threshold, an agency designed to provide support, access and resources  to PoGMI creators in Film, TV and New Media and to the clients who seek them. In the past was a Mentor  supporting newcomers to Canada through the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC). She  previously served as a Trustee of community based charities including Stella’s Place in Toronto for young people  supporting their Mental Health and was a former trustee to the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal, which  successfully raised funds to erect the first statue in the UK honoring a named Black woman, unveiled in London in  2016.

 

Floyd Kane

Floyd Kane started his career as an entertainment lawyer working on productions such as the long running satirical news program “This Hour Has 22 Minutes” and the Oscar winning documentary,  “Bowling For Columbine”. He transitioned into writing with his creation of the half hour CBC drama  “North/South”. Since that time, Floyd has written for a range of series including “Continuum”, “Slasher”  and “Backstage” as well as producing several feature films including the award-winning, “Across the Line”  (for which he also wrote the screenplay), “Shake Hands with the Devil” and “The Incredible 25th Year of  Mitzi Bearclaw”. Floyd is the creator, showrunner and executive producer for the CBC drama  DIGGSTOWN, currently in development on its third season. Earlier this year, he was the recipient of the  Sandi Ross award from ACTRA Toronto which recognizes the efforts of individuals striving to create a  more inclusive media industry.

Nataly Kudiabor

Nataly Kudiabor started her career at Medienruppe RTL. Soon followed positions at RTL II, ARD Degeto, Ziegler Film and Grundy UFA. As Head of Development and producer, she headed the Berlin office of ndf, neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft, for eleven years. From 2015 until 2018 Kudiabor was Managing Director of the production company “good friends” and led the company to success within a few years. The most notable developments were the award-winning comedy noir series “Arthur’s Law” and the German adaptation to the Swedish series “Bonus Family”. Since May 2019 Kudiabor has been working as Executive Producer for UFA Fiction and was appointed to the management in June 2022. The series „All you need“ (ARD Mediathek) and „The Mopes“ (TNT) were very well received, both by critics and audience. The director of “All you need” – Season 1 was nominated for Bunte New Faces Award 2021. “The Mopes” was honoured with Audience Award of Grimme Award 2022. In 2022 her romantic comedy “Die Liebeskümmerer” (The Heartbreak Agency) (Netflix) was completed and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film 2024 by National Film Awards. Nataly Kudiabor is one of the Executive Producers of the recent produced first German language series of Apple TV+ “Where’s Wanda?”. Season 2 is currently in production. Her latest projects are the neighbourhood series “Marzahn Mon Amour” (ARD Mediathek), the film adaptation of Katja Osskamp’s bestseller, and the TV-movie “Fabian und die mörderische Hochzeit” (Amazon) with Bastian Pastewka, She is a member of European Film Academy and International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Nataly Kudiabor is committed to promote diverse narrative perspectives in front of and behind the camera.

Juleyka Lantigua

Juleyka Lantigua is the Founder of LWC Studios, an award-winning digital media studio whose original work reaches rising audiences with programming that has a social-justice vein. She created and executive produces 70 Million, the first open-source solutions journalism podcast chronicling how locals are tackling jail reform around the country. In 2020, LWC Studios received a Peabody Award nomination, earned silver in the audio documentary category at the New York International Radio Festival, and won “The Director’s Prize,” their first Third Coast award, also known as “The  Oscars of Audio.” In 2021, “Driving the Green Book,” which she edited and the company produced for Macmillan Podcasts, earned the inaugural Ambie for Best History Podcast. A Fulbright Scholar, Tory Burch Fellow, and Latino Business Action Network alumna (Stanford University), Juleyka holds a BA from Skidmore College, a Master’s in Journalism from Boston University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She has served on the board of governors of The Podcast Academy and Latino Media Network. And currently serves on the Tory Burch Foundation President’s Advisory Council and the board of directors of TechBridge Girls.

Joy Loewen

Before joining the CMF, Joy was CEO of the National Screen Institute (NSI), where she successfully completed a three-year strategic plan before stepping down in April 2024. She originally joined the NSI in 2005 as a Program Manager, then left in 2010 to pursue other opportunities. She returned to the nonprofit in 2016 as Manager of Programs and Development and was named its Acting Executive Director in May 2019, before taking the role of CEO in January 2020. In addition, Joy has worked as a broadcast and festival programmer at WTN (now W Network), CBC, and Gimli Film Festival. Based in Winnipeg, Joy holds a bachelor’s degree in radio and television arts from Ryerson (now Toronto Metropolitan University). She is an active volunteer and a member of several community and nonprofit boards and councils, including The Winnipeg Foundation, Canada's National Ballet School, the Order of Manitoba Advisory, and Manitoba King’s Counsel Advisory. In 2023, Joy was named Playback Changemaker of the Year.

Nikki Love

Nikki Love is Senior Vice President of Development and Production, Scripted, for WE tv and ALLBLK, AMC Networks’ premier streaming service for Black television and film. In this role, she serves as the primary liaison between the networks and content partners across all phases of scripted development, production, and post-production, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, premium programming. She also acts as the on-set executive for all scripted original series.

ALLBLK’s expanding slate of scripted originals under Love’s leadership includes the highly successful series G.R.I.T.S., Double Cross, and A La Carte, as well as the Daytime Emmy-nominated series A House Divided. Most recently, the network’s hit series Wicked City received a GLAAD Award nomination.

Beyond her programming responsibilities, Love is the co-chair of VIBE, an AMC Networks Employee Resource Group, and a founding member of the DEI Future of Film Committee. The committee was recognized by Cablefax in 2025 as a leading employee-led initiative (spearheaded by Nikki). Through the Future of Film initiative, Love has helped establish partnerships with film festivals nationwide, providing sponsorship opportunities, mentorship programs, pitch panel participation, and facilitating the acquisition of curated short-film collections for AMC+ heritage month programming.

Love’s work as a production executive has been widely recognized. Her honors include the 2021 NAMIC Luminary Award, the 2022 Top Women in Film & Television Award (Production Pacesetter), the 2022 Wonder Women Award, and the 2025 Cynopsis MVP Award. She remains a dedicated advocate for underserved filmmakers and storytellers across film and television.

Lana Maclin

Lana Maclin is a Creative Producer at award-winning comedy studio New Metric Media (Letterkenny/Hulu & Crave, Shoresy/Hulu & Crave, Children Ruin Everything/CW & CTV, Bria Mack Gets A Life/Roku & Crave), overseeing a diverse slate of comedic television series in various stages of development. She was the Creative Executive overseeing seasons 3 and 4 of Children Ruin Everything and producer of Hate the Player: The Ben Johnson Story, a six-episode limited series with GameTV and Paramount+ in Canada. Lana previously worked as a freelance producer/director in film, television and commercial production. 

Lana graduated from TMU’s (formerly Ryerson University) Radio & Television Arts program and has received a certificate in Advanced Media Management from UCLA. Through the Director’s Guild of Canada, she has also previously worked as an assistant director on various film and television productions, including True Dating Stories, Backstage and Baroness Von Sketch Show.

LEA MARIN

Lea Marin is the Director of Development, Drama, for the CBC, and is responsible for driving and overseeing the quality and diversity of the drama development slate including recent productions, Saint-Pierre, Wild Cards and Allegiance.

A graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Producers’ Lab, prior to joining the CBC, Lea was a Senior Producer with the National Film Board of Canada where she developed and produced several documentaries and interactive projects. Some of her credits include Ever Deadly co-created by Tanya Tagaq & Chelsea McMullan, and Charles Officer’s Unarmed Verses.

Nicole Mendes

Nicole Mendes, VP Scripted at Lark Productions, oversees strategy and development for the scripted arm of the company. Nicole executive produces Allegiance, an original police procedural for CBC and Universal International Studios, which has sold to over 100 countries around the world. 

Prior to Lark, Nicole spent over a decade at the CBC, overseeing shows including the hit Canadian drama Murdoch Mysteries, the critically acclaimed Anne with an “E” and the Peabody nominated adaptation of The Book of Negroes.   

Nicole has served on multiple juries and sat on various industry panels for organizations such as TIFF, WGC, DGC, and WIFT. She also served on committees for POV and BIPOC TV & Film, organizations that aim to increase inclusion and representation in the industry.  

PAIGE MURRAY

Paige Murray is the Director of Development at The Walt Disney Company, where she oversees the slate of Canadian original content for Disney+. In this role, she leads local content strategy, championing stories that reflect the breadth and diversity of the Canadian experience. Previously, Paige spent more than 14 years at CBC, Canada’s national public broadcaster, where she contributed to the success of beloved series such as Heartland and oversaw the development of acclaimed primetime titles including Allegiance, Saint Pierre, and the SXSW Episodic Jury Award–winning series Something Undone. Throughout her career, Paige has also played a key role in talent development initiatives, including AccessCBC, ISO’s CBC/APTN Early-Stage Development Program, and the Academy Executive Residency Program. She is passionate about supporting bold storytellers and is excited to bring distinctive Canadian voices to audiences at home and around the world.

Cédric Pierre-Louis

Cédric Pierre-Louis, has successfully launched and run several linear TV channels in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and Rwanda. In Nigeria, Cedric was appointed Vice President of Linear TV at Iroko, formerly dubbed the Netflix of Africa, where he created an entirely new business unit aimed at developing television channels broadcast in Africa and beyond. He harbours a deep passion for constructing bridges, particularly those that facilitate connections between the Continent and its diaspora.

Cedric has gained extensive experience in the audiovisual industry, collaborated with various industry players, and contributed to various projects, publications, and initiatives such as the digital television migration process in Rwanda. Passionate about storytelling, he has also contributed as a writer / producer to various local TV shows. He is now Director of Programming of the African Fiction Channels at Canal+ International, where he has been supervising a portfolio of 6 TV channels since 2019.

Nichole T. Roberts

Nichole T. Roberts is Executive Producer, HOORAE Film & TV., overseeing strategy, development, and production for Issa Rae’s unscripted slate, including HBO’s Seen & Heard and the relaunch of HBOmax’s Sweet Life: Los Angeles on OWN. Prior to joining HOORAE, Roberts served as the Director of Non-Fiction Programming for HBOmax Originals where she was responsible for Sweet Life: Los Angele, the first unscripted series to come from HOORAE. She also oversaw the new season of Project Greenlight: A New Generation helmed by Issa Rae, Kumail Nanjiani, and Gina Prince-Bythewood, also serving as an Executive Producer for the corresponding scripted feature film, Gray Matter. Roberts also covered Jason Momoa’s The Climb and International Format Award-winning series Full Bloom, among others. Before joining the streamer in 2020, Roberts served as VP of Development & Current Programming at LOVE Productions, the company behind The Great British Bake Off and The Great American Baking Show in addition to series for Netflix, Amazon, Discovery Channel, OWN, and NatGeo Wild. A graduate of Northwestern University’s Radio/TV/Film program, Roberts started her career with internships at George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures, The Gotham Group, and Comedy Central, leading to a staff position at MTV Networks. There she supported executives across scripted and unscripted series, including Hard Times of RJ Berger, Teen Wolf, Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory, and the Jackass franchise, among others. After MTV, Roberts moved to field producing formats, including the Emmy, Critics Choice, and Streamy award- winning seasons of CBS’ Undercover Boss, Syfy’s Face Off, and branded digital series, Prank It Forward, respectively. Roberts was honored by Realscreen as a member of their 2025 Factual Under 40 cohort, recognizing the industry’s top executives under 40. She does regular speaking engagements, serving as a panelist and Rockie Awards Grand Jury judge and presenter at the 2024 BANFF World Media Festival. She was also a speaker for Soho House’s Un/Real Speaker Series and AFI’s Lunch and Learn Panel Series in 2025.

Jean-Yves Roux

Jean-Yves Roux made his debut in the music industry as a hip-hop artist manager in the
middle 90’s. In the beginning of 2000’s he started producing music videos, then in 2004
produced his first TV show for MAtv (community TV station owned by Quebecor). It’s in 2008
that Jean-Yves finally decided to get its first CRTC license to launch an urban music channel
named Clovys TV but never got on-air. Ten years later Jean-Yves finally comes back with
another TV project dedicated to multicultural diversity: Natyf TV, launched in June 2018.
Since this independent media has a reach of over 2.3 million TV subscribers in Canada
with an average weekly rating of 410 000 viewers.

Jill Samson

Jill brings 20 years of Film and Television Industry experience to her role as Deputy Director – Portfolio Management for the CMF fund at Telefilm Canada. Jill joined Telefilm in 2008 and leads a national team of business analysts and jury members for several highly competitive funding initiatives including Indigenous, POV Documentary, Diverse Languages, French outside of Quebec and the Digital Linear Series program as well as the new Pilot Program for Racialized Communities.  In addition, Jill collaborates with international agencies to finance shared projects through the many new co-development and co-production incentives offered by the Canada Media Fund.