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Funding & Info Panel: CBC Ottawa, CBC Creator Network & National film board of canada

with Adele Cardamone-Martel, Lise Hosein, Ariel Nasr
Dec. 11, 2020 @ 10:00 AM • ZOOM • 90 mins

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Join us as we learn about programming that includes work from independent filmmakers and content creators. Adele Cardamone-Martel and Lise Hosein from the CBC will share info about what kinds of films and digital content they're looking for and funds available. Then Ariel Nasr from the NFB will discuss their Filmmaker Assistance Program and other funding opportunities available to emerging filmmakers.

Panelists

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Adele Cardamone-Martel - Executive Producer, CBC Ottawa & Ontario region

Adele is an award-winning Executive Producer at CBC with more than 25 years of production experience in arts, entertainment, music, lifestyle and documentary programming. This includes the Absolutely Canadian series for Ontario, which showcases regional independent documentaries and short films, as well as CBC Ottawa's weekly talk and current affairs/magazine program, Our Ottawa. Adele has also produced and directed many network programs and co-productions for CBC Television, CBC Radio and Gem. This includes the multiple award-winning television series Creative Block & Solo (New York Festival Gold Medal, Gracie, Gabriel and CSA nomination). Adele works with independent filmmakers, content creators, and post-secondary students and professors throughout the Ontario region.

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Lise Hosein - Head, CBC Creator Network

Lise Hosein is Head of CBC's Creator Network. Previously, she was a producer at CBC Arts where she worked with filmmakers across the country and produced video series including the CSA-nominated Art Hurts. She still writes and hosts a video series called Art 101 and wrote and voiced a podcast last year for Black Coat, White Art called "Choosing Cancer". Over the course of her career, Lise has been an on-air arts reporter at Jazz.FM91 radio, an interview producer at CBC's George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight and a sessional instructor at various universities. In a previous life, she was an academic at the University of Toronto where her doctoral studies blended art history with animal studies. Despite this, Lise is terrified of bees and basically hates hyenas.

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Ariel Nasr - Interim Producer, National FIlm Board of Canada

Ariel Nasr is an English-Language Producer in the National Film Board’s Quebec Atlantic Studio. Previous to joining the NFB, Ariel directed and co-produced the award-winning film, The Forbidden Reel, a feature documentary drawing on thousands of hours of film archives to trace the second half of the twentieth century through the lens of Afghan filmmakers (IDFA, Hot Docs 2020). Producer of the Academy Award-nominated independent short drama Buzkashi Boys (2012), Nasr’s directing credits include the Canadian Screen Award-winning, The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2011) as well as Good Morning Kandahar (2008), and the interactive documentary, Kabul Portraits (2015). Other recent work includes his documentary, La Mosquée (2019), which documents the aftermath of the Quebec City Mosque Shooting. A citizen of Canada, Afghanistan and the USA, Ariel lives and works in Montreal.