SILVA BASMAJIAN

Executive Producer for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

Since 1976, Silva Basmajian's morethan 65 NFB films have garnered numerous awards, with many premiering at morethan 200 international festivals including Berlin, Toronto and Sundance.

As Executive Producer of the NFB Ontario Centre, Ms. Basmajian overseesEnglish-language production in the province, fostering partnerships amongbroadcasters and other industry leaders. Since her appointment in 2004, she hasexplored innovative ways to tell Canadian and international stories, andchampioned innovative projects like the ground-breaking NFB Filmmaker-in-Residence at St. Michael's Hospital and North America's firstinteractive dramatic feature film, Late Fragment, co-produced with the Canadian Film Centre.

Recently,Basmajian co-produced the critically acclaimed Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma, and is executive producer for Deepa Mehta's new feature drama Heaven on Earth, the 2008 Hot Docs award-winning FLicKeR; Tiger Spirit and the 2007 Hot Docsaward-winning Bodybuilder and I.

In addition to Fierce Light, Achbar is Executive Producer, with BetsyCarson, on the feature documentaries; Denis Delestrac's The Cassandra Syndrome;Kevin McMahon's Waterlife; and Mathieu Roy's A Short History of Progress. Achbar andCarson are also supporting six projects in development: Katherine Dodds's I,Fembot; Barbara Mainguy's Modern Madness; Oliver Hockenhull's The Perfect Pill; Jill Sharpe's Sex, Breath and Death; Ann Marie Slater's and Sarah Butterfield's The Curiosity Lab, and Fredrik Gertten's Bananas!.

Gerry Flahive

Producer for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

Gerry Flahive has produced morethan 40 NFB films including the Genie Award-winning Just Watch Me: Trudeauand the ‘70s Generation; McLuhan's Wake; The Next Big Thing; and the cult hit ProjectGrizzly, which he executive produced. In 2004, he produced the award-winning film It'sa Girl's World, a documentary about social bullying among girls which became the topselling NFB DVD in 2005.

His recent projects include producing the award-winning House Calls, Cricket and the Meaning of Life, This Beggar's Description and co-producing the critically acclaimed films Souvenir of Canada,and Manufactured Landscapes. Currently, he is producing the NFB Filmmaker-in-Residence, an experimental community-based alternative model ofmedia making that partners media with medicine. In addition, Flahive isco-producing The Dark Years, a three-part history of the Great Depression inCanada, and Paris 1919, a feature-length film based on the book by Margaret MacMillan.

In addition to producing films, Flahive is a freelance humorist and his work has appeared in Time Magazine, The New York Times and is a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail.

In addition to numerous documentariesshe has produced she was associate producer for the popular television series, Champions of the Wild. She also recently produced and directed, with fellow filmmaker Dan Schlanger, the documentary Evelyn Hart,about the life of the acclaimed ballerina for CBC Television.

Carson has been a member of the Documentary Organization of Canada since 1996, and currently holds the position of Vice-Chair.