Shel Reisler enjoys a 25-year career in the world pf broadcasting in the role of producer (both technical and content), director, writer, shooter, editor, and reporter for broadcasters that include CBC, Vision TV, Rogers, and a number of corporate clients. As Professor and Coordinator of the Broadcasting + Film program at Centennial College, he is presently in a job to which he feels all of his previous endeavours have led him. He continues to freelance as a writer, shooter and director for mini-documentary projects. He is also a consultant in areas of technical production to fit programming needs as well as story development.

For more information on the Broadcasting + Film program, contact:

• Shel Reisler at 416-289-5000, Ext. 8806
• sreisler@centennialcollege.ca

Chris Terry has been making award winning films and television programs since 1984. Well-known as a director of tv documentary series, he’s also an experienced cinematographer, writer and independent producer. He’s also busy in the independent music scene with his band Lost Anglers where he plays drums, writes songs and hopes to play the guitar well one day.
 
Chris currently teaches Broadcast Production and Broadcast Journalism at Centennial College’s Centre for Creative Communications. Recently, Chris produced and directed “Spiritual Gardens” for Vision TV, a 13 part TV series about public gardens that touch the human spirit. In 2003 Chris produced and directed “One World, One Family”, a film about humanitarian, Dr. Andrew Simone. The film won best cinematography award at the 2003 CSC awards. He directed several episodes of the Discovery series "The Body, Inside Stories", heart-felt stories of patients challenged by medical dilemmas. The episode “Survivors” was nominated for a Hot Docs Award in 1995.  
 
Chris also directed ten episodes of the award-winning Discovery series "Flightpath" chronicling the world of aviation from a unique Canadian perspective. His social-study documentary “Cities Fit To Live In, Toronto- Struggle for Neighbourhood” (TVO/Ch.4 U.K.) won numerous awards. His ethno-cultural documentary “Peru, The Hidden Empires” (CTV) also won several awards.   Chris has also continues his passion for arts programs. His visual essay “Leave Only Footprints” featured music by art rock band Perfect World. His documentary “Grafite” featured the music of master jazz percussionist Jim Norman. Currently, he is co-producing a feature documentary about Handsome Ned, a luminary rockabilly artist from Toronto. Chris also directed and produced more than thirty music videos including ones for Martha & The Muffins, Manteca, Honeymoon Suite, and the Nylons. He was also director on the CBC music video series “Vid Kids” for two seasons. Chris has also directed many dramas including the low budget feature   “Freeloading, legal series “A Question Of Justice” and film shorts “The Clog” and “Baby Cage”.
 
Chris counts his luck for being mentored along the way. Early in his career he worked under the tutelage of animator and graphic artist Don Snowdon. In 1989 Chris spent a rewarding year assisting famed British feature film director Lindsay Anderson. More recently Chris was one of the last directors to study under drama coach Maruska Stankova before she passed away in 2001.

Steve Lucas has been writing and producing award-winning films and tv shows for 30 years. His drama credits include CBC’s The Border, Canwest Global’s long-running crime drama series Blue Murder, the CBC mini-series Major Crime, and the independent feature film Diplomatic Immunity. His documentary credits include the Genie Award-winning The Champagne Safari, the Gemini Award-winning Last Call at The Gladstone Hotel, The New Ice Age: A Year in the Life of the NHL and Before Their Time, and the Academy Award-nominated After the Axe. A long-time member of the Writers Guild of Canada, Steve has represented screenwriters on the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television’s National Board of Directors and taught screenwriting at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto (CFC), the Canadian Screen Training Centre in Ottawa, the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival in China, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, and Ryerson University. A University of Toronto graduate, he currently serves on the CFC Features Selection Committee and is in active development on a new crime drama series.

John Struthers studied electronics and photography at Poole Technical College and Bournmouth College of Art in England four decades ago. He worked with CKEY, Toronto as a broadcast technician, CBC as a prototype wireman in their television studios, Radio Service Engineers in Vancouver, installing and calibrating audio and speaker systems in major halls. He started shooting AV in the early 80’s, opened first studio in 1985 shooting editorial assignments as well as ads for all the major builders, real estate and pharmaceutical companies in Toronto. Now he specializes in photography of room interiors and buildings for architects and builders. He started teaching photography at Centennial College in 2007.

From 2004 to 2008, Dorlene produced 3 seasons ( 39 episodes) of I Do…Let’s Eat!, 13 part, half-hour documentary series about the weddings and banquets of different cultures. I Do…Let’s Eat! is broadcast in Canada on Food Network Canada, and SLICE, and has sold to over 30 countries worldwide. The series was nominated for a 2006 Gemini Award for Best Lifestyle program.

In September 2002, OneStone Entertainment delivered it’s first independent film, an Al Waxman Calling Card documentary entitled Chinese Daughters, broadcast on TVOntario’s The View From Here, in February 2003. Chinese Daughters received the Best Documentary Short Award at The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival 2003. It was nominated for the Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary at the 2003 Gemini Awards and a Golden Sheaf Award at the 2003 Yorkton Short Film Festival.

Before launching OneStone Entertainment, Dorlene worked as a writer and researcher on several programs for CBC National Television News. Some of the programs Dorlene contributed to include The National, Newsmagazine, and Sunday Report.

Dorlene is a graduate of the University of Toronto. She is a member of DOC Toronto, and is pleased to serve on the board.

Since 2008 Michael Haydon has been a producer in Creative Services for Astral Media, home of the Movie Network, HBO & Family Channel. I started an internship program there when I began. He has produced on-air promotions for CityTV & worked in MuchMusic Creative Services as Creative Director and Senior Producer, where he started their internship program in the early '90s.This is the fourth year he has taught the On-Air Promotions course in the Broadcast & Film Program at Centennial College. he has been able to help a number of students start careers in Creative Services and editing. Many have gone on to success as producers and editors.

Lance Carlson, is an award-winning cinematographer and filmmaker, for over twenty years. He was Executive Vice President of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers for nine years during which he initiated numerous innovative programs. As Department Head for Film, Television and Post Production at Trebas Institute for four years he was Executive Producer on over 25 student and faculty generated films. He has personally mentored many of his students into film industry jobs. Lance currently teaches at George Brown College and Centennial College and continues to produce independent film and interactive projects.

Malcolm Byard began his Film/Television career in 1984 as the Director and Producer of his high school’s cable access show “Perspectives” which remains on the air over 20 years later. Following his graduation from Ryerson University, he began working at CBC television in Toronto as a Set Decorator, Props Master and Stagehand, working on all types of programmes such as Mr. Dressup, Kids in the Hall, Royal Canadian Air Farce and CFL football.

In 1998, Malcolm left the CBC after completing Ken Finkleman’s final episodes of “The Newsroom” and the highly controversial “More Tears”. That same year Malcolm joined the Sets/Props/Greens Department of Toronto Local 873 of I.A.T.S.E. Over the past decade Malcolm has contributed to over 20 feature films, 150 episodes of television, and various movies of the week as a Set Decorator, Leadman, Greens Coordinator, Set Decorations buyer and Props Master.

Notably, Malcolm completed his second feature film as a Production Designer. “One Week”, which shot in hundreds of locations across Canada, premiered as a Gala Presentation at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and won Best Canadian Feature Film at both the Calgary and Edmonton International Film Festivals. Over the Summer of 2010 Malcolm worked in the Set Decoration Department on “Take This Waltz” ; Written, Directed and Produced by Sarah Polly , Starring Michelle Williams, Sarah Silverman, and Seth Rogan.

Jason White has always strived to reach new media heights. He started in the .com industry in 1995 as a part-time employee at the online bed and breakfast directory www.bbcanada.com. Six years later he led the marketing team which reached the goal of attracting over ten million individual visitors to the site annually. Seeking new challenges he left the .com world and completed a master’s degree in Media Studies;then taught Film Studies at the prestigious Ligong University in China. After returning to Canada he began an internship at White Pine Pictures where he developed the groundbreaking mobile series CitySonic. He began developing the series a year before the iPhone launched in Canada in anticipation of the technology being available for the public to easily watch a location-based documentary on a mobile phone. At first there were many sceptics – it was very similar to marketing an online directory in 1995 – but once the iPhone launched there were many believers. City Sonic premiered at TIFF in 2009.

Jason has written and coordinated numerous successful funding applications including the OMDC Cluster Fund, Bell New Media Development and Production Funds, and the Telus Innovation Fund. He lives and works in Toronto.

Gillian Edwards is a seasoned media professional with over 22 years of experience within the Canadian entertainment industry, which includes television production and management, media relations, artist management, project management and education. Ms Edwards has worked for CBC, TVO, CHUM Television, STAR TV, the NHL and numerous other independent production and communications companies.

Ms. Edwards over her career has worked in a variety of television production settings: daily, weekly and live. The challenge of live television has always been of great interest to Ms. Edwards which is why the genre has spanned over her entire career. The Gemini Awards, Genie Awards, Juno Awards, NHL Awards are just a few of the live productions she has been involved with.

Presently Ms. Edwards holds the dual roll of professor and manager of the Broadcast studios and facilities here at the school of communication media and design. One of the factors that make Ms Edwards unique is that she is a graduate of Centennial College Radio and Television program (now known as the Broadcasting + Film program).