Join representatives from National Film Board of Canada NFB, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Ontario Arts Council, BravoFACT, the Rogers Group of Funds and Canada Media Fund CMF for an informal panel discussion on Factual Film Funding. Get familiar with the funding options available, and participate in a critical debate about the importance of accessible funding for producing and directing factual film projects today.

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All are welcome to attend. Seating is limited!

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MARVA OLLIVIERRE Ollivierre is a Gemini nominated Executive Producer, a management accountant, maskmaker and Floyd Chalmers awarded writer with over twenty years of arts-culture industry experience the last sixteen in screen media. She is also the creator of the cross Canada lecture series Making Your Art Your Business and was Executive Producer and Head of Business Affairs at Inner City Films www.innercityfilms.com. During her five-year tenure with Inner City Films, several productions received broad acclaim and continue in present day to deliver significant international sales earnings including US Broadcast revenues. They include: "Skin Deep" a Gemini Winning Best Lifestyle/Doc, one of the first internationally produced docu-lifestyle series; and "Jozi-H," the Canada/South Africa co-production medical drama series, a multiple Gemini Nominee including Best Drama. In 2006, Marva started her own independent production house where the commissioned feature documentary "Made In Canada" www.madeincanadadoc.com was released 2013; the documentary "I am not a Bully" is in post production, and the feature Bannock & Bratwurst, penned by 2013 Canada Screen Award winning writer Shannon Masters, is prepping for a summer 2015 production. www.doeeyedmedia.com

PANELISTS INCLUDE:

Producer LEA MARIN's film credits include a wide range of short dramatic films, documentary series and features that have screened at international festivals and on television, including: the 2014 CSA nominated documentary, "My Prairie Home;" "The Portrait," directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Hubert Davis; the interactive documentary co-production "The Next Day;" and Astra Taylors "Examined Life."

After completing a BFA in photography at York University, LISA PLEKHANOVA has been an arts administrator with various organizations for seven years. Starting out at Gallery TPW, she has worked in various capacities at the Toronto International Film Festival, Abu Dhabi Film Festival and Hot Docs. Lisa currently holds the role of Programming Coordinator, having just completed her sixth Hot Docs festival.

MARK HASLAM is the Media Arts Officer at the Ontario Arts Council. In his prior lives he was the founder and Executive Director of the Planet in Focus: International Environmental Film and Video Festival, and wrote, directed and produced documentary programming for three series on human affairs, the arts, and the environment for Vision TV.

ROBIN MIRSKY is Executive Director of the Rogers Group of Funds. Robin joined Rogers Communications in 1989 as the Project Coordinator for Rogers Telefund. Today Robin Mirsky is responsible for the Rogers Group of Funds, which includes the Rogers Telefund, the Rogers Cable Network Fund and the Rogers Documentary Fund. Robin also sits on a number of industry related Boards such as the Banff World Media Festival and the Canadian Film Centre. She is currently co-chair of the Board of Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival in Toronto and Vice Chair of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.