BETSY CARSON
FACE TO FACE MEDIA LTD. / CANADA WILD PRODUCTIONS LTD
1818 Grant Street, Vancouver, B.C. V5L 2Y8
Tel: (604) 251-0770 Fax: (604) 251-9149 email: carson@smartt.com
BETSY CARSON
Betsy is a producer/production manager/ director with 19 years experience in documentary film and television. Among her producing credits are several feature docs including Nettie Wild’s FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2004 Genie Award), A Place Called Chiapas (1998 Genie Award) and Blockade, Gary Marcuse’s Nuclear Dynamite, and The Mind of A Child (both Gemini winners), Linda Ohama’s Obaachan’s Garden and Arlene Ami’s Say I Do (Executive Producer). One-hour documentaries she has worked on include Time Immemorial, Deconstructing Supper, The Lynching of Louie Sam and ARKTIKA :The Russian Dream That Failed. She also was associate producer / production manager for four years on Omni Films’s Champions of the Wild series, as well as Mystique Film’s doc series Healing with Animals and Beyond Invention, and is a consultant for many of Vancouver’s documentary filmmakers in the area of budgeting and financing. In 2006. she produced (with Dan Schlanger) and directed a documentary on ballerina Evelyn Hart for CBC’s Life and Times.
Recently completed projects include Bevel Up, an educational DVD directed by Nettie Wild for the Street Nurse Program of the BC Centre for Disease Control. The DVD contains a 45-min documentary and 3 ½ hours of additional teaching material. Betsy is currently executive producing with Mark Achbar (The Corporation) four theatrical feature documentaries: Fierce Light, The Cassandra Syndrome, WaterLife and A Short History of Progress, as well as producing Hugh Brody’s new documentary The Meaning of Life. Also in development with Mark Achbar are five feature docs: The Fembot Mystique, Sex, Breath and Death, The Perfect Pill, The White Coats are Coming, and Bananas.
Betsy Carson has been member of the Documentary Organization of Canada since 1996 and currently holds the position of Co-Vice Chair.
GARY MARCUSE
Gary is a writer, director and producer of documentaries and classroom resources.
He is the co-producer of the best selling classroom collections First Nations, the Circle Unbroken and Scanning Television. Recipient of Gemini and Genie awards, his television documentaries include The Mind of a Child for the Knowledge Network and CBC Newsworld, and Nuclear Dynamite and Arktika, the Russian Dream that Failed for CBC The Nature of Things. He also wrote and three episodes of Champions of the Wild (Great Sea Turtles, Jaguars, Siberian Tigers ) and The Search for Women Warriors for Ancient Clues, for Omni Productions in Vancouver. He was the Executive Producer for the feature documentary FIX:The Story of an AddictedCity for Canada Wild Productions.
Gary is the past president of the Documentary Organization of Canada and past president and national representative of the BC chapter of the Writer's Guild of Canada. From 2004 to 2008 he was a Programming Executive for CBC television and a liaison for the CBC documentary unit.
