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Joan Jenkinson - Executive Producer (Vison TV)
Joan Jenkinson is Director of Programming/Executive Producer for VisionTV and One: the Body, Mind & Spirit channel, where she creates and executive produces lifestyle and drama programming. She also participates in long-range planning for VisionTV's programming department and cultural diversity initiatives. Before joining the VisionTV group of channels in 2001, Jenkinson served for five years as Executive Director of Women in Film and Television - Toronto. In addition, she boasts a wealth of production experience, having earned producing, directing and/or writing credits on nearly a dozen projects. Jenkinson is a Founding Board Member of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival, as well as Founding Board Chair of the ReelWorld Film Festival.
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Michael McNamara - Director and Writer (MSF)
Born in Chicago and raised in the US, England and Canada, Michael McNamara presently lives in Toronto, Canada where he works as a filmmaker, screenwriter and television director. In February 2002, he launched Markham Street Films with his partner, Judy Holm, a production company specializing in projects that are edgy, smart, provocative and funny. McNamara received a 2004 Gemini nomination for writing Radio Revolution: The Rise and Fall of The Big 8 (History Television), which he also directed and narrated. The film went on to win the 2004 Best History Documentary Gemini. Since 2002, he has created eight one hours, a feature doc and an 9 part series for MSF, as well as writing and directing the Frederick Banting episode for the CBC’s Greatest Canadian series. McNamara has won awards not only in documentary, but also in children’s and variety television. He directed the feature length doc, 100 Films & A Funeral, (The Documentary Channel, Sundance Channel & AVRO) and is currently directing Season Two of Driven By Vision, (Vision TV).
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Judy Holm - Executive Producer (MSF)
Judy Holm is a producer and writer with over fifteen years’ experience in the film industry. In February of 2002, Holm and her partner Michael McNamara launched Markham Street Films to develop and produce provocative, informative, and entertaining documentary and narrative television programs and feature films. The first project to be produced by the new company was Radio Revolution: The Rise & Fall of The Big 8, (History Television), for which Holm won a 2004 Gemini Award as producer for Best History Documentary. Over five years, Holm has produced, co-written and often narrated eight one-hour docs, a feature doc and a series for MSF, including Meet the Sumdees, a personal story of cross-cultural marriage. She recently produced 100 Films & A Funeral, and is producing Season Two of Driven By Vision and overseeing international sales for Markham Street Films Inc.
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