Betsy Carson

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - BIG PICTURE MEDIA CORPORATION

Betsy is a producer/production manager/ director with 18 years experience in documentary film and television. Among her producing credits areseveral feature docs including Nettie Wild's 2004 Genie Award winning doc film, FIX: The Story of an Addicted City, 1998 Genie Award winner A Place Called Chiapas, Gary Marcuse's Nuclear Dynamite, and The Mind of AChild,Linda Ohama's Obaachan's Garden and Arlene Ami's Say I Do.

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.