2010 Speakers

Bill Nemtin
Executive Producer
History Makers 2010

Bill Nemtin began his career at the National Film Board of Canada over 40 years ago. He was one of the original team in the NFB’s Challenge For Change Program and worked on the groundbreaking Fogo Island project. He was Executive Producer for the Award Winning International co-productions, Canada: True North, Hand of Stalin, and a Special for PBS and UK’s Channel4, Maya Angelou: Rainbow in the Clouds . Within the US Public Television, Bill specialized in the setting up of foreign co-productions and acquisitions, first from Canada, and subsequently from London, UK, where he headed the operations of Lark International, a consortium of PBS stations. Lark's copros included the History of Magic, Viking Saga, Space Station, and America at War in Color. The record breaking hit Riverdance, as well as Cirque de Soleil’s Allegro, and Dennis Potter’s last drama series, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus were made available to US Public Television through Lark International. Mr. Nemtin also set up and co-organized the annual UK Immersion Seminars for Canadian Producers for the Canadian High Commission and Telefilm Canada. He began acting as Special Advisor to the Film Commissioner of the NFB on the setting up of International Broadcaster agreements and subsequently represented the NFB in co-production and presale activity in the UK. In 2005 he returned to producing feature documentaries with Diameter of the Bomb. He served as Executive Producer of Passage, which won best documentary awards from the CFTPA and the Atlantic Film Festival.