BGM hires Corus exec in creative rejig
Sphere Media-owned Canadian prodco BGM has expanded its creative team by appointing Corus Entertainment executive Andrea Griffith to the newly created position of director of content.
Andrea Griffith
Griffith will report to BGM president Marlo Miazga and will oversee the company’s creative activities. For the past 10 years she was production executive at Corus Entertainment, making series for Food Network Canada and HGTV Canada.
Meanwhile, Miazga has widened her role to president of unscripted for the whole Sphere group and Aidan Denison of the creative team has been appointed as director of development, taking charge of creating and pitching unscripted and kids’ content.
A look at the past from the pages of the Pine River Journal. 4:00 pm, Apr. 7, 2021 ×
60 years ago, March 31, 1961
Contrary to their usual procedure of extinguishing fires, members of the Pine River Fire Department chose to set one Wednesday evening in the village and did just as fine a job with their burning as they always do when they are called on to put one out.
Galen Filsmeyer and Steve Patton will sing and play guitars on the Slim Acres program on Saturday, noon, April 1 on Channel 7.
50 years ago, March 25, 1971
(Headline) Smith Hauling institutes change in garbage service
(Headline) Kevin Doty, Julie Bristow win Pine River School spelling contest
CCF hires unscripted trio, reveals first slate
Julie Bristow’s development and investment vehicle Content Catalyst Fund (CCF) has hired a trio of unscripted specialists to support its growing portfolio of projects.
Vibika Bianchi
Vibika Bianchi, Maria Farano and Heather Findlay have joined the CCF as executive producers.
Bianchi is a curator, format creator and executive producer who has delivered unscripted content for the likes of HGTV, Food Network, Discovery and the CBC.
In addition to guiding the creation of lifestyle hits Property Brothers and Love it or List It, she has overseen local adaptations of formats including Undercover Boss, Come Dine With Me, How to Look Good Naked and Jamie Oliver’s Pressure Cooker.
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In celebration of International Women’s Day,
Realscreen has put together some of our most recent interviews with and stories about female filmmakers and recently announced industry initiatives aimed at women creators.
The film and television business as a whole has had a lot of catching up to do when it comes to gender parity behind the camera. According to the Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film, in 2020 percentages of behind-the-scenes women working on the top 100 and 250 (U.S. domestic) grossing films comprised 21% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers, from 20% in 2019.
However in the documentary category, the numbers jump. The same organization states that “documentaries continue to offer more opportunities for women than narrative features.” In fact, women accounted for 40% of people working in key behind-the-scenes roles on documentaries, compared with only 29% working on narrative features.