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Discovery Canada Canada

The world is just awesome! With compelling real-life programming that inspires and entertains, Discovery reveals the world in all its wonder, diversity and amazement. Discovery offers a signature mix of adrenaline-charged stories, larger-than-life personalities and vivid imagery for viewers with curious minds. With the best non-fiction programming from Canada and around the world, Discovery captures the excitement of a passion for life – one lived fully and at its most extreme. Discovery launched in Canada in 1995 and is now available in more than eight million Canadian homes. Discovery is offered in standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) simulcast – for viewers who want an even bigger and bolder experience. Discovery Canada is a joint venture between Bell Media, which is owned by BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada’s largest communications company, and Discovery Communications Inc. Find more information and interactive online features at Discovery.ca.

Website:
www.discoverychannel.ca
Lindsay Cowan Dotchison
Lindsay Cowan Dotchison
Director of Programming 
Profession
Broadcaster
Bio

Lindsay Cowan Dotchison, as Director of Programming, is responsible for the acquisition of key content for Discovery's networks, along with the creation, development and execution of the broadcast schedules. Cowan Dotchison also oversees development and production related business and oversees and ensures regulatory compliance. She oversees the management of the programming budgets for the Discovery Networks allowing for strategic placement of content and inventory amortization. Cowan Dotchison joined the BellMedia family in 1989 at TSN Specialty and in 1996 moved to Discovery. Her vast broadcasting experience includes: live-event programming, graphic design, interactive, production, programming and acquisition (plus an early stint at the BBM). Cowan Dotchison has a creative vision, strategic leadership, proven experience and dedication to acquiring and monetizing strong programming.

Real to Reel Productions Inc. Canada

Real to Reel Productions, helmed by Bill Spahic and Anne Pick,  produces award winning films with compelling stories, strong characters, across a broad spectrum of subjects from series to docs to features.

Their latest film ANIMISM:PEOPLE WHO LOVE OBJECTS premiered last September and is enoying worldwide sales including Australia. Current production includes: ECCENTRICS and NO LIMITS both feature docs directed by Academy Award winner John Zaritsky respectively celebrating people who dance to the beat of their own drum and according to a study live longer, happier, healthier lives than the rest of us and the thalidomide survivors still fighting for justice 50 years after this crippling drug was released internationally. Their German co-production GAMBLING ON EXTINCTION is also about to go into production. Real to Reel also has signed four co-pro agreements, two in 3D, with Norm Wilkinson’s Visionquest in Queensland and look forward to launching them later in the year. 

I am interested in meeting potential co-pro partners interested in series suitable for both domestic and international markets particularly in wildlife and 'non destination' focussed travel shows.

Website:
www.r2r.ca
Anne Pick
Anne Pick
VP & Executive Producer 
Profession
Producer
Bio

Anne Pick is an award-winning independent producer, director and story-editor. Her passion for story telling began as a teenager writing for her father‚'s country newspaper in South Australia. This led to a career in print and television journalism in Australia and Canada then as an independent filmmaker based in Toronto. Under her company banner Real to Reel Productions. Anne has a reputation for engaging and popular films and series. Learning to write from the front to the back pages of a newspaper ingrained an interest in all kinds of stories from social and political issues, to history, performing arts, science and natural history. Real to Reel is currently involved in several International co-productions, specifically with Australia and Germany in both 2D and 3D. Anne was a founding Board member and former co-chair of Hot Docs and is currently Co-Vice Chair of DOC Canada and on the board of Imaginative.