{"id":2709,"date":"2015-11-23T18:47:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2015\/11\/23\/academy-announces-canadian-screen-award-special-award-winners\/"},"modified":"2015-11-23T18:47:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:47:23","slug":"academy-announces-canadian-screen-award-special-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2015\/11\/23\/academy-announces-canadian-screen-award-special-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"ACADEMY ANNOUNCES CANADIAN SCREEN AWARD SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Greg David \/ TV, Eh?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Academy of Canadian Cinema &amp; Television is pleased to announce six Academy Special Award winners for the 2016 CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS: Ivan Fecan, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Ana Serrano, Mark Starowicz, Karen Walton and the Performing Arts Lodges (PAL Canada).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academy Board of Directors\u2019 Tribute: Ivan Fecan <\/strong><br \/>\nIvan Fecan has been in the media industry over 40 years. Beginning at CBC Radio, he produced Quirks and Quarks, then went to Citytv, co-creating CityPulse News. In the 80\u2019s, legendary NBC programmer Brandon Tartikoff recruited Ivan as VP Creative Affairs where he was the executive on such shows as SNL. Returning to Canada as Director of CBC TV Programming, then VP of English Television, he greenlit such programs as Kids in the Hall, Degrassi Junior High, Codco, This Hour has 22 Minutes, Air Farce, Road to Avonlea, Love and Hate, The Boys of St Vincent. In the 90\u2019s, he became CEO of Baton Broadcasting (renamed CTVglobemedia). He acquired CTV, launched Sportsnet and the Comedy Network among others, bought TSN\/RDS, Discovery, CP24, MuchMusic, Bravo, E!, and Space, won the rights for the Vancouver Olympics, overseeing the broadcasts. He greenlit Corner Gas, Flashpoint, Canadian Idol. Under his watch, CTV dominated the top 20. Currently Ivan is Executive Chair of Thunderbird Films, which is comprised of multiple production and distribution companies. Ivan, with his wife Sandra, are philanthropists who believe in giving back to the arts, making major gifts to York University\u2019s Faculty of Fine Arts, the National Ballet, the AGO, the National Ballet School, and the Soulpepper Theatre Company, among others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academy Icon Award: This Hour Has 22 Minutes<\/strong><br \/>\nThis Hour Has 22 Minutes is an acclaimed, provocative Canadian satirical sketch\/variety show that skewers politics, culture and world events. No story is off limits, and no personality too big for dynamic cast members Mark Critch, Cathy Jones, Shaun Majumder and Susan Kent to tackle. Politicians and celebrities frequently make guest appearances, some willingly \u2026 some not. Produced by DHX Media, 22 Minutes is currently in its 23rd season on CBC, and continues to be one of Canada\u2019s best-known and top-rated comedy shows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital Media Trailblazing Award Sponsored by the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC): Ana Serrano<\/strong><br \/>\nAna Serrano is the Chief Digital Officer of the Canadian Film Centre and Founder of CFC Media Lab, the world-renowned and award-winning institute for interactive storytelling created in 1997. Serrano is driving the digital transformation of the CFC into a unique blend of talent, product and company accelerator and creative production house. Most recently, she launched Canada\u2019s first digital entertainment accelerator IDEABOOST with founding partners Shaw Media and Corus Entertainment. To date, Ana has directed the development of over 130 digital media projects, mentored over 50 start-ups, and has received numerous awards from the digital media, film, and theatre industries in both Canada and the U.S., including a DigiAward for Visionary of the Year, a Best Canadian Feature Film Award from the International Reel Asian Film Festival for her own transmedia production Prison Dancer: the Musical, and a Jim Blackaby Ingenuity Award for Body\/Mind\/Change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism: Mark Starowicz<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u201cThere\u2019s a persistent idea that Canadians aren\u2019t interested in their own stories,\u201d Mark Starowicz once said. \u201cI\u2019ve made a living proving that isn\u2019t true.\u201d The ultimate expression of Starowicz\u2019s passion for Canadian history and culture is the 30-hour CBC documentary series Canada: A People\u2019s History (2000-01), which he created and executive produced. It attracted over 14 million viewers and won three Gemini Awards. Mark Starowicz was raised in Montreal and graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Arts in History. He began his career in newspaper journalism, then joined CBC\u00a0Radio in 1970, where he received particular acclaim for his reworking of As It Happens and his creation of Sunday Morning, a three-hour weekend review. In 1979, he joined CBC Television, where he was the architect and executive producer of the hugely successful current affairs and documentary program The Journal (1982-92). As Executive Producer of CBC\u2019s Documentary Production Unit and later executive director of documentary programming, he oversaw The Greatest Canadian (2004), Hockey: A People\u2019s History (2006), 8th Fire (2012), and a decade of acclaimed independent productions. Starowicz is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and has won the Canadian Journalism Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, a Governor General\u2019s Performing Arts Award, nine Gemini Awards and one Prix G\u00e9meaux.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Margaret Collier Award (for Writing): Karen Walton<\/strong><br \/>\nKaren Walton is an award-winning screenwriter and creative producer whose credits span an eclectic array of popular, critically-acclaimed and\/or ground-breaking film and television works. To film lovers, she\u2019s the sardonic scribe behind the international cult horror classic, Ginger Snaps. In television, she\u2019s been in the earliest writing rooms for game-changing series such as gay culture classic Queer As Folk, and science fiction sensation Orphan Black. A graduate of the Canadian Film Centre\u2019s Film and TV Writing programs, her other credits include the Gemini awarding-winning Mow script for the true rape-culture saga, The Many Trials Of One Jane Doe, biopic Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story and six other original drama series, Flashpoint, The Eleventh Hour, and The Listener among them. Her unique voice and dedication to social change through innovative content has won Karen a Canadian Comedy Award, a special jury citation from the Toronto International Film Festival, Canadian Screen Awards for Best Dramatic Series, and the Writers Guild of Canada\u2019s Writers Block Award for outstanding contribution to the national screenwriting community. Born in Nova Scotia, 2016 marks Karen\u2019s 22nd year living and writing in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Humanitarian Award: Performing Arts Lodges (PAL Canada)<\/strong><br \/>\nPAL Canada Foundation is a national charitable organization whose mandate is to create and encourage programs and services for senior and disadvantaged members and associates of Canada\u2019s professional artists\u2019 community, in the areas of affordable accommodation and overall well-being. PAL Canada Foundation supports 8 individual PAL chapters across the country: Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Stratford, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver. Each PAL chapter has its own unique requirements, which are defined by the needs of their local community. Depending on the chapter, the focus may be to provide and sustain quality affordable housing for seniors and\/or challenged individuals within their professional and performing arts community. Alternatively, some chapters may not require accommodations, but do need support for their members. This support typically takes the form of a volunteer-driven team known as \u201cSupporting Cast\u201d, a group of volunteers who offer personal assistance to PAL members so that they can continue to lead independent lives in their own homes. These services may include assistance in dealing with community agencies and health care providers, rides to medical appointments or running errands. Supporting Cast also offers companionship and checks in with members who are on their own. Some chapters also organize group activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg David \/ TV, Eh? The Academy of Canadian Cinema &amp; Television is pleased to announce six Academy Special Award winners for the 2016 CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS: Ivan Fecan, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Ana Serrano, Mark Starowicz, Karen Walton and the Performing Arts Lodges (PAL Canada). Academy Board of Directors\u2019 Tribute: Ivan Fecan Ivan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2015\/11\/23\/academy-announces-canadian-screen-award-special-award-winners\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ACADEMY ANNOUNCES CANADIAN SCREEN AWARD SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS - Thunderbird Entertainment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2015\/11\/23\/academy-announces-canadian-screen-award-special-award-winners\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ACADEMY ANNOUNCES CANADIAN SCREEN AWARD SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS - Thunderbird Entertainment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Greg David \/ TV, Eh? 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