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.