Melanie Wood is a Vancouver filmmaker who has written, directed, produced, and executive-produced a wide variety of current affairs and documentary programs for the CBC and others. Selected credits include executive producer of the series Spilled Milk for CBC which received Gemini nominations, New York Festival awards and Columbus awards and has gone into syndication and been sold around the world. She’s produced and directed two documentaries on the borderlands between the internet and the human spirit: A Stranger In Our Home, about internet child sex predators and O.com, about cybersex addiction. O.com won awards at New York Festivals, Worldfest Houston and was selected for the Montreal Film Festival. Wood’s previous international documentary credits include To Have and To Hold, profiling the victims of stalkers, and The Sweet Assassin, which reveals the devastating effects of diabetes on First Nations. Other work includes On Wings and Dreams: The Men Who Built Canada’s Airlines, an historical documentary for Global Television and Chasing The Cure: Brett Finlay, Man Against Microbe, a one hour science biography in a series for Paperny Films broadcast on Discovery Health. Wood has just completed School Of Secrets, a film about girls who were told to keep their sexual relationship with their male teacher a secret.
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Director of Photography Steve Rendall. A Gemini-Award winning former CBC News cameraman, Steve and Director Helen Slinger are the creative team behind many of Bountiful’s docs. Steve brings to the process a still photographer’s eye for composition and an editorial sense both sharp and deep. A great cameraman to have beside you when the going gets tough. And just as good when the subject matter is sensitive. -
Steve Rio has been involved in web for 10 years. He began his career developing magazine advertising campaigns & branding for SMBs, and transitioned in to web design and strategy in 2000.In 2009, Steve founded #BRITEWEB, specializing in web strategy, social media consulting & education, and Wordpress website development & design. BriteWeb helps organizations realize the full potential of the web, empowering them with knowledge, guidance and training. He and his small team work closely with his clients developing plans, RFPs, execution strategies, designing websites, facilitating development cycles, and web marketing campaigns.
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Dreamfilm Productions was formed in 2001 by Sue Ridout, who chose the life of an independent producer/director after twenty award-winning years in network news and current affairs at both CTV and CBC Television. Dreamfilm’s mandate is to create high-quality arts and science documentaries and factual programming. The first Dreamfilm documentary was Depression: Fighting the Dragon, broadcast by CTV Television and winner of several awards. Since then Sue has produced, written and directed documentaries for CBC’s Life & Times, the History Channel, and CBC Documentary Specials, and she has series produced for Life/Slice in Canada and Oxygen in the U.S. Dreamfilm’s most recent documentary, Embracing Bob’s Killer was written and directed by Helen Slinger, and aired on CBC Television in February 2007. Dreamfilm is currently producing the documentary Canadians Without Doctors for the CBC, and is in development on two documentaries for CTV. -
Yvette Brend is a hard-nosed journalist with a heart of gold.A former CBC reporter, Yvette has worked across Canada - from Whitehorse to Toronto, focusing on bringing to light stories that would otherwise have remained hidden.
She’s currently facing her toughest challenge ever - wrangling two children - while trying to appease her need to dig up something close to the truth. And that’s why Bountiful Films is lucky enough to have cornered this award-winning journalist as our chief researcher.
