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Indigenous Screen Summit

Sunday, June 11

8:00 AM	Indigenous Screen Summit Pitch Forum: networking breakfast + opening ceremonies (8:00am - 9:30am) In Partnership With Van Horne Ballroom Featuring: Host Adam Garnet Jones Director of TV Content and Special Events APTN - Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
9:30 AM	Indigenous Screen Summit Pitch Forum #1: unscripted/documentary (9:30am - 10:30am) In Partnership With Van Horne Ballroom Five Indigenous producers present their unscripted/documentary projects and receive questions, comments, and expressions of interest from leading buyers, co-production partners, and funders. Featuring: Saxon Decocq Writer & Creative Producer 3 Story Pictures Host Adam Garnet Jones Director of TV Content and Special Events APTN - Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Harold Joe Producer Orca Cove Media Nadia Mike CEO/Producer Umik Media Inc Paulette Moore Filmmaker The Aunties Dandelion Tanner Zurkoski Writer, Creator, Producer Two Hounds Media Expert Commentators: Expert Commentator Rachel Goldstein-Couto Head of Development, Original Programming Bell Media Expert Commentator Alanis Obomsawin Cultural Attaché, First Nations, and Producer-Writer-Director NFB The National Film Board of Canada Expert Commentator Jessica Schmiedchen Director of Development, Unscripted Content CBC Expert Commentator Lauren Whitelaw Head of Programming OUTtv Network Inc Expert Commentator Llinos Wynne Head Documentaries & Specialist Factual S4C
10:45 AM	Indigenous Screen Summit Pitch Forum #2: drama series (10:45am - 11:45am) In Partnership With Van Horne Ballroom Five Indigenous producers present their unscripted/documentary projects and receive questions, comments, and expressions of interest from leading buyers, co-production partners, and funders. Featuring: Victoria Anderson-Gardner Executive Producer Howah Productions Inc. Host Adam Garnet Jones Director of TV Content and Special Events APTN - Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Tasha Hubbard Filmmaker Katawak Productions Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Director, Producer Neegan Trudel Director/Producer Cayenne Medias Expert Commentators: Expert Commentator Marina Di Pancrazio Chief Content Revenue Officer Just For Laughs Group Expert Commentator Nua Finau Co-Founder, Executive Producer and Showrunner Tavake Ltd Expert Commentator Tom Hastings Head of Original Programming in Canada, Paramount+ Paramount Expert Commentator Jean La Rose General Manager Animiki See Distribution Inc Expert Commentator Lisa Meeches Founder and Executive Producer Eagle Vision Expert Commentator Mal Stares Senior VP, Global Scripted Blink49 Studios
12:00 PM	Indigenous Screen Summit Pitch Forum #3: comedy series (12:00pm - 1:00pm) In Partnership With Van Horne Ballroom Five Indigenous producers present their unscripted/documentary projects and receive questions, comments, and expressions of interest from leading buyers, co-production partners, and funders. Featuring: Sage Daniels Writer-Producer Code Breaker Films Mary Galloway Filmmaker Bright Shadow Productions Inc Host Adam Garnet Jones Director of TV Content and Special Events APTN - Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Judy Iseke Producer Turquoise Sky Entertainment Megan McNeill Artist, Filmmaker Megan Nicole illustration Janet Rogers Producer/Writer Ojistoh Publishing and Productions Expert Commentators: Expert Commentator Greig Dymond Director of Development, Comedy CBC Expert Commentator Gwenllian Gravelle Head of Scripted International S4C International Expert Commentator Nick Lee Commercial Director, Drama & Comedy Channel 4 Expert Commentator Tara Woodbury Director, Content - Canada Netflix-Toronto

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