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Basmajian Silva
Silva Basmajian's more than 80 NFB films have garnered numerous awards, with screenings at more than 200 international festivals including Berlin, Hot Docs, IDFA and Sundance. As Executive Producer of the NFB Ontario Centre, Ms. Basmajian oversees English-language production.
Since her appointment in 2004, she has championed cutting-edge projects like the ground-breaking NFB Filmmaker-in-Residence project at St. Michael's Hospital, the award-winning mobile series Shorts in Motion in co-production with marblemedia, and North America's first interactive dramatic feature film Late Fragment co-produced with the Canadian Film Centre. She continues to champion projects that re-define documentary such as the award-winning and ongoing HIGHRISE, a multi-year, multi-media, collaborative documentary project about the human experience in global vertical suburbs.
Recently Ms. Basmajian co-produced the critically acclaimed Life With Murder and Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma. She is also executive producer for Paris 1919, Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action, Examined Life as well as the 2009 Hot Docs award-winning Waterlife and Invisible City.
»See also Silva Basmajian at IMDB
