who we are
Only by bringing together the major strands of creation, production and financing from across a spectrum of media, art, scholarship, technology, government and industry can we hope to understand and address the enduring and far-reaching marginalization of women.
Women in View is:
Rina Fraticelli,
Executive Director
Marsha Newbery,
Conference Program Director
Amanda Coles,
Eastern Co-ordinator
Natasha Patterson,
Assistant Co-ordinator, Researcher
Stefany Brown,
Conference Coordinator
For the Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities– Simon Fraser University :
Alison Beale
Associate Dean of the Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology
Catherine Murray
Chair of the Department of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies
Elizabeth Seaton
Faculty Associate, Department of Women and Gender studies, University of British Columbia
National Advisory Committee
| Marguerite Pigott
Mireille Dansereau |
Creative Group Leader, Super Channel,
Writer, Director, Producer |
| Gayle Abrams
Marquise Lepage |
President, Oscars, Abrams & Zimmel Talent
Filmmaker |
| Jennifer Baichwal | Filmmaker |
| Rita Deverell, CM | Broadcaster, Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies, Mount St. Vincent University |
| Sara Diamond | President, Ontario College of Art and Design |
| Ferne Downey | National President, ACTRA |
| Lucille Pacey | CEO, Arts Umbrella |
| Gerri Sinclair | Executive Director, Center for Digital Media |
| Judy Gladstone | Executive Director, Bravo!FACT |
| Sylvia Hamilton | Producer, Maroon Films,Nova Scotia |
| Eleanor Wachtel | Author & Broadcaster, CBC |
| Anne Wheeler | Filmmaker |
| Phyllis Yaffe | Vice-Chair, Ryerson University Toronto |
| Tantoo Cardinal, CM | Actress |
| Elizabeth Klinck | Producer, Researcher |
| Joyce Zemans, CM | Professor Emerita, York University
Director of Media Lab, Canadian Film Centre |
Steering Committee
| Rina Fraticelli | Wild Zone Films, Producer |
| Liz Shorten | CFTPA, Managing Vice President |
| Jo Bates | UBCP, Executive Board Director |
| Sue Biely | The Nimble Company |
| Prem Gill | Director of Content at Telus |
| Linda Johnston | Canadian Heritage Former Director, BC & Yukon |
| Kay Leung | Marketing Communications Consultant |
| Maureen Levitt | Superchannel, BC & Yukon Region |
| Marsha Newbery | Mars Entertainment & SFU School of Communications |
| Sharon McGowan | UBC Film Studies, Chair |
| Teri Snelgrove | National Film Board, Production Manager |
