FactualWEST 2021

Join moderator Deb Wainwright for a candid discussion with some of Canada's broadcasters on how they are now developing Canadian IP.  

Join us for a live streamed conversation with multi-Emmy award winning casting director- Executive Vice President, Casting & Talent | ITV America, Danielle Gervais. With more than a decade of experience developing and packaging talent for unscripted television, Gervais’s credits for ITV America include CBS’s Love Island, FOX’s Hell’s Kitchen and The Four, HISTORY’s Pawn Stars and Forged in Fire, and FYI’s Tiny House Nation, among many more. Gervais oversees the largest in house casting department in unscripted. Join us for this candid talk about her career path, her approach in finding the next big reality star and what you need to think about when packaging the next hit show. Guest will be joining via Zoom.

Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes is 6 x 30-minute docuseries will focus on Farrow’s interviews with whistleblowers, journalists, private investigators and others. It is billed as an expansion of the book and podcast series, the former of which played a major role in the downfall of disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein. Hear first hand from Emmy award-winning director Fenton Bailey on how this show came together and landed in your ears and on screen. Guest will be joining via Zoom.

Join two showrunners as they discuss their jobs, biggest successes and failures, learn what they want in a team and how they got their big break. Ever want to be a fly on the wall? This is your chance to listen in.

Join us on the main stage at the end of the day for an intimate conversation with Executive Producers Donald Albright and Payne Lindsey from the Atlanta based creative content company, Tenderfoot TV. They will discuss the rise of their pod cast company and the various series such as the hit show Up & Vanished which started the trajectory of the company. Recently, Up and Vanished was produced for the Oxygen network. If you've ever wanted to be inspired to just take a chance and tell your story, this is the session for you.