Canadian Film Centre
The Canadian Film Centre (CFC) is a charitable organization offering training in film, television and digital media. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario and was founded in 1998 by Norman Jewison[1]. Until 1992, the CFC was called The Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies.
CEO's
Since 2022
Maxine Bailey[2] was appointed CEO on April 29, 2021.[3] She took up the post on May 3, 2022.[4] She has expressed a preference for the avoidance of capital letters in her name, so in many sources, she is styled maxine bailey.[3] Bailey started her career in entertainment as a playwright and theatre producer.[4] She was a founding member of Black Artists Network in Dialogue (BAND). Bailey had started working at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2000, eventually becoming its Vice President in charge of government liasons.[5] According to Now magazine, Bailey is recognized as playing a key role in increasing TIFF's role as a prominent film festival, and in establishing a year-round presence for TIFF, in its youth out-reach programs, and in the construction of its beautiful King Street headquarters and theatre.[6] In 2017, Bailey launched the Share Her Journey initiative to encourage the sharing of women's stories.[5] Now magazine reported that bailey was inspired, in part, by then recently emerging accounts of sexual harrassment and sexual abuse by figures within the entertainment industry.[6] Bailey retired from TIFF in 2018, and spent the two years prior to her appointment to the Canadian Film Center, as an invited expert and judge at other film festivals.[5] In December 2019, Bailey was honored with a Special Jury Award of Distinction from the Women in Film and Television Toronto.[7] After her 2021 appointment as director of the CFC, Bailey went on record that she would continue to work towards gender equity in the film and television industry.[3][5]
Before 2022
Slawko Klymkiw is a Canadian philanthropist who was the CEO from 2005 until 2022[8][9] Prior to heading the CFC, Klymkiw was an executive at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[10] Klymkiw joined the CBC in 1980, rising to assume the executive directorship of network programming in 1996.[11][12] Klymkiw is also an ex-officio member of the Toronto International Film Festival's Board of Directors.[13]
Notes
- ↑ You can read more about Norman Jewison in Wikipedia.
- ↑ Doollee.com, The Playwrights Database. MAXINE BAILEY. Retrieved on 2022-05-18.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Jordan Pinto. maxine bailey appointed executive director of CFC, Playback online, 2021-04-29. Retrieved on 2022-02-18. “The organization announced Thursday (April 29) that maxine bailey has been appointed as executive director, taking over from 15-year CFC topper Slawko Klymkiw, who retired from the CEO post earlier in the spring. She begins the role May 3 and will report to the CFC’s board of directors.”
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 MAXINE BAILEY: Executive Director. Canadian Film Centre. Retrieved on 2022-02-18. “Prior to the CFC, maxine served as the Vice-President of Advancement at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)”
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Jordan Pinto. maxine bailey wants to do a ‘damn good job’, Playback online, 2021-09-15. Retrieved on 2022-02-18. “Before joining the CFC, bailey – whose name is stylized without capital letters – spent 18 years working at the Toronto International Film Festival, most recently as its VP of advancement, before departing at the end of 2018.”
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chaka V. Grier. Local hero: TIFF’s maxine bailey sets out on a creative journey, Now Toronto, 2018-10-29. Retrieved on 2022-02-18. “But her biggest and most lasting legacies are the funds she helped raise to build the festival’s permanent home, TIFF Bell Lightbox, and Share Her Journey, her creative baby. Launched in 2017, the campaign to empower and raise money for female filmmakers ultimately inspired her decision to move into writing and producing.”
- ↑ 'We are not each other's competition': maxine bailey's must-read call for women in film, CBC News, 2020-01-06. Retrieved on 2022-02-18. “We in this room always have received the memo about the value of women. I'm proud to have played a small part in the movement while working at TIFF and launching Share Her Journey, a campaign and a movement dedicated to building a vibrant, diverse and active community of female creators.”
- ↑ Jennie Punter. Netflix, Canadian Film Centre Cement Partnership, Variety magazine, 2018-09-09. Retrieved on 2018-12-21.
- ↑ SLAWKO KLYMKIW: Biography, Canadian Film Centre. Retrieved on 2018-12-21.
- ↑ Jennie Punter. Four That Soar for the Canadian Film Centre, Variety magazine, 2013-03-18. Retrieved on 2018-12-21. “Since 2005 the former CBC-TV exec has shaped the strategic vision of the center’s initiatives, led the charge to grow its annual budget from $7 million to $13 million (60% from private investors), overseen several program launches and stoked the board of directors with industry and finance leaders keen to chime in.”
- ↑ Klymkiw leaving CBC, The Globe and Mail, 2005-08-17. “Klymkiw began his CBC career in 1980 in Winnipeg where he produced award-winning supper-hour news shows there and in Toronto before joining CBC Newsworld in its early years.”
- ↑ CBC program director leaves for Canadian Film Centre, CBC News, 2005-08-18. Retrieved on 2018-12-21.
- ↑ TIFF Announces Two New Appointments to Its Board of Directors. webwire (2018-10-19). Archived from the original on 2018-12-22. Retrieved on 2018-12-21.