naomi e mccormack

EDUCATION

YORK UNIVERSITY, Toronto, ON, M.F.A. in Film and Video (2005)
YORK UNIVERSITY, Toronto, ON, B.F.A. in Visual Art (1990)
SHERIDAN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND DESIGN, Miss. ON, Diploma in Glass Design (1981)
THE NEW SCHOOL OF ART, Toronto, ON (1972)
THE EVERDALE PLACE Free School, Hillsburgh, ON (1971)

BOARDS OF DIRECTORS

ARCADIA Co-op (Founding Board)
FEFF (Female Eye Film Festival)
LIFT (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto)
WARC (Womens Art Resource Centre)

PRODUCING, PROGRAMMING and ARTS MANAGEMENT

2017-20: FEMALE EYE FILM FESTIVAL: Guest Programmer

2016/18: CATCH AND RELEASE: Producer, feature film directed by Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert. Currently on the Festival Circuit.

2014: TRINITY SQUARE VIDEO: Executive Director of this not-for-profit centre that has been providing artists and community organizations with video production/post-production support and services, workshops, screenings, gallery exhibitions, artist residencies and festival sponsorships since 1971.

2001: CFMDC Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre: Acting Executive Director of the oldest artist run film and video distributor in Canada. Oversaw acquisitions, initiated and maintained broadcaster, institutional and government contracts, developed and coordinated touring programs, developed and managed fundraising campaigns and oversaw staffing and financial management.

1996-2000 CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Freelance writer/researcher and director/producer/ for “Man Alive” documentary television series and “Tapestry” Radio. Researched and produced/narrated commissioned and independent works.

1992: EUCLID THEATRE: Executive director and programmer for this independent film and performance theatre. Responsible for programming, film traffic, fundraising, grant-writing and festival liaison for “Images” Experimental Film Festival, “Desh Pardesh” South Asian Film Festival and “Inside Out” Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

1989: HARBOURFRONT CENTRE: “Art of the First People”
Curator, exhibition of contemporary visual art featuring First Nations artists, showcasing Jane Ash Poitras.

1988: W.O.M.A.D.
Curator and workshop programmer of First Nations and international art and design for this festival of world music, art and dance at Harbourfront, Toronto in collaboration with RealWorld Music, U.K..

1987: VIZ ART: Outreach and publicity – traveled across Canada giving workshops on artist’s copyright to artists and arts students at associations and universities.

TEACHING and CURRICULUM DESIGN

2018-20 HUMBER COLLEGE FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES PROGRAM, Adjunct Professor

2006-13 THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
• Assistant Professor – Film, Video and Media Studies Department, College of Communications (film studies, screenwriting, film and video producing and directing, experimental and documentary film, vampire cinema)
• Graduate thesis adviser – Integrative and Electronic Arts, College of Arts and Architecture.
• Assistant Professor – Interdisciplinary Design Studio, College of Arts and Architecture.
• Mentor Senior – Thesis Design Project, College of Arts and Architecture.
• Senior Project Adviser – “304” three camera live audience television sitcom, in collaboration with the Theatre Department, College of Arts and Architecture.
• “Romeo and Juliet” live streaming webcast course in conjunction with the Departments of Theatre, Telecommunication, and Information Systems Technology.

2005: TORONTO FILM COLLEGE, Instructor, Film History and Theory

2002-4: YORK UNIVERSITY Guest lecturer, screenwriting and film production programs

2000-1: INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN Instructor, studio television production.

1999: TORONTO WRITING WORKSHOP Instructor, screenwriting and screenplay development

1990: OJIBWAY-CREE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION: Team member, instructor, art workshop, Attawapiskat and Kashechewan reserves, in collaboration with the Ojibway Cree Cultural Association, Timmins, ON

ARTS JURY APPOINTMENTS

2008: ACADEMY AWARDS of CANADA, Nominating Jury, Animation, Short Drama and Documentary
2003: GEMINI AWARDS Jury Chair, Visual and Performing Arts and Short Documentaries
2002: GEMINI AWARDS, Nominating Jury, Visual and Performing Arts Documentaries
2001: ACADEMY AWARDS of CANADA Nominating Jury. Animation, Short Drama and Documentary
2000: CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: Jury Member, Media Arts.
1996: TV ONTARIO Telefest Awards: Jury member
1996: HOT DOCS! National Documentary Film Awards — Advisory Panel
HOT DOCS! Jury Selection and Coordination of Short Film Program.
1995: ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL: Community consultant and Jury member, Film and Video

FOUNDATION and ARTS COUNCIL AWARDS

2008 Annenberg School For Communication, Philadelphia, (Out of The Question)
2006 The Canada Council for the Arts (Arctic Project)
Dawson City Artist’s Residency Program (Penumbra)
2005 Toronto Arts Council (Plural)
2001 BRAVO!FACT (V)
National Film Board of Canada (V)
1999 Ontario Arts Council (Amazing Grace: Trapeze and Transcendence)
1996 Ontario Arts Council (Hangman’s Bride)
Toronto Arts Council (Hangman’s Bride)
National Film Board of Canada (The Hangman’s Bride)
1993 Ontario Arts Council Multidisciplinary Program (Memories of A Logical Mind)
1992 Canada Council for the Arts Explorations Program (How To Be a Girl)

MEDIA and FESTIVAL AWARDS

CAATCH AND RELEASE
World Cinema Jury Award, Woodstock International Film Festival, Woodstock, NY 2018

OUT OF THE QUESTION: Women, Media and the Art of Inquiry
• Platinum Award Worldfest Houston, USA 2011
• Honorable Mention Columbus International Film & Video Festival USA 2010

AMAZING GRACE
• Honorable Mention, Religion and Ethics, Worldfest USA 1999

EVERDALE
• Honorable Mention, Columbus International Film & Video Festival USA 1999

THE HANGMAN’S BRIDE
• ACADEMY Award CANADA (Genie) 1997
• Gold Medal Award, Worldfest, Houston, USA 1997
• Golden Sheaf Yorkton Film & Video Festival Canada 1997
• Audience Choice Award, Real Networks Film Festival, Seattle USA 1998
• Nomination Top Ten screenplays, Writer’s Guild of Canada 1998
• Nomination George Melies Award, Taos Talking Pictures Festival USA 1998
• Honorable Mention, Pacific Coast Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, USA 1999

HOW TO BE A GIRL
• Director’s Choice, Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta USA 1994

INVITATIONAL AND TOURING PROGRAM PRESENTATIONS

2010: CARLETON UNIVERSITY, Ottawa, ON Invitational International Women’s Day Screening (Out of The Question)
2004: Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Filmmaker’s Retrospective Program hosted by the Dawson International Film Festival
2002: CFMDC GLBT touring program Torino, Italy (V)
1998: MOVING PICTURES Film Festival Tour – B.C., Alberta, Yukon Territory (The Hangman’s Bride)
1995: Ontario Institute In Studies In Education Toronto (How To Be A Girl)

NATIONAL BROADCASTS

2001: V BRAVO New Style Arts Channel Premiere, Oct. 15, 2001
1999: AMAZING GRACE CBC Premiere, March 14, 1999
1997: EVERDALE CBC Premiere Dec. 11, 1997
1996-8: THE HANGMAN’S BRIDE Cinema Canada, CBC 1997
A Change of View, WTN 1997
Canadian Reflections , CBC 1996
Knowledge Network, 1998
1995: HOW TO BE A GIRL WTN January 1995

APPENDIX: RADIO AND TELEVISION SERIES SHOWS

RADIO PRODUCER

2004: “Capoeira, Capuera” Radio documentary based on travels in Brazil, produced for Tapestry
Broadcast CBC Radio 1 (writer, director, producer, editor)

TELEVISION SERIES DIRECTOR/FIELD PRODUCER

2002: “TERMINAL LOVE” Story of Rick Quinn, a terminal cancer patient with a unique attitude about dying. Produced by Great North Productions (director).
Broadcast: Life Network

2001: “WONDERBOY” Story of Danny Steinkie, a teenage environmental advocate and survivor of childhood leukemia. Produced by Great North Productions (writer/director)
Broadcast: Life Network
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“COVER MODELS” Story about Leland Burbank, medieval knight and Leslie Metcalfe, romance writer, and their relationship as a cover model couple and romance industry icons Produced by Great North Productions (writer/director).
Broadcast: Life Network

2000: CBC “MAN ALIVE” Three half hour profiles on persons whose spiritual journeys have transformed society, broadcast on the Man Alive series (writer/director)
All broadcast on CBC Canada

• SOUL SONGS: Explores the creative journey of Ann Mortifee, a Canadian singer songwriter who gave up a successful career to bring music to palliative care patients and explore the healing power of song.

• A NEW STORY: Profiles the work of ecologian and visionary Thomas Berry, a Catholic priest who believed that humankind must develop a holy relationship with nature if we are to survive.

• BLESSING THE CITY: Follows the transformation of Rick Tobias from teenage dropout and drug user to biker Baptist minister, creator of Toronto’s Evergreen Centre for street kids, and advocate of disenfranchised youth everywhere.

SERIES EDITOR

2002: “LUCKY BREAKS” Cinefocus Productions, broadcast on STAR TV and BRAVO Arts Channel

• Stratford Theatre Festival 50th Anniversary
• Leslie Neilson (actor)
• Zacharius Kunuk (director “Atunarjuat”),
• Lynn Stopkewich (director “Kissed”, “Suspicious River”)
• Mump and Smoot (clowns of horror)
• Gene Simmons (lead singer KISS)
• Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival

SERIES RESEARCHER

1999: CBC “MAN ALIVE” Researcher for the millennial series “Facing God in the Next Millennium

CONTACT

naomi.e.mc@gmail.com