docSHIFT Steering Committee

Nina Beveridge: Producer / Director / Creative Director
Beevision Productions

Nina Beveridge is the President and co-owner of Beevision Productions, a post-production and multimedia company that she founded in 1993. Currently she is busy developing a number of projects including series, documentaries and multi-platform projects. Definitely an innovator, she likes to approach every project with a fresh eye, always considering the audience perspective. Through Beevision, Nina has provided animation and broadcast design to many networks and broadcasters in Canada and the USA, seeking to create unique, original content, derived from the wealth of creative experience that the Beevision team has amassed. Her clients have included: ABC, CBC, CTV,  IOC, NBA, the Toronto Raptors, NHL, TSN, TVO, W, Alliance-Atlantis, Olympic Spirit and a wide range of premium ad agencies and corporate clients. In 1998 on behalf of Beevision Nina received a special Gemini Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement for their work on the development of the Puppetworks digital motion-capture system.

Blake Fitzpatrick, PhD: Documentary Media Graduate Program Director
Ryerson University

Blake Fitzpatrick holds the positions of Professor and Graduate Program Director, Documentary Media (MFA) Program, School of Image Arts, at Ryerson University. He is an active photographer, curator and writer. His research interests include contemporary documentary theory and practice, the representation of the nuclear era, war and disaster in contemporary photography. He has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States and his recent curatorial initiatives include War at a Distance (Co-curated with Karyn Sandlos & Roger I. Simon), Disaster Topographics and the highly acclaimed traveling exhibition, The Atomic Photographers Guild: Visibility and Invisibility in the Nuclear Era. He has held a number of senior academic positions including the position of Dean, Faculty of Art, at the Ontario College of Art & Design.

Gerry Flahive: Senior Producer
National Film Board of Canada

In his 25 years with the National Film Board of Canada, Gerry Flahive has produced more than 30 films and new-media projects on a wide range of subjects—health care, cultural diversity, criminal justice, national identity, diplomacy, globalization, Aboriginal spirituality, racism and more. He has been at the forefront of the NFB’s innovative work with new digital media, and he is the producer of the groundbreaking multi-platform Filmmaker-in-Residence project at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, winner of the 2007 Canadian New Media Award. His current projects include films based on the acclaimed books Paris 1919 and Nixon in China, along with A Short History of Progress; I Was A Child of Holocaust Survivors; and the innovative three-part history series The Dark Years, which uses animation to tell the story of the Great Depression. Flahive is a frequent contributor to the Globe and Mail, and his writing has been published in Time, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Toronto Star, Playback, Realscreen, Montage, P.O.V. and The Los Angeles Times.

Mark Greenspan: Achilles Media

Mark Greenspan is a new media producer and educator with a decade’s worth of experience in the field. During this time he has taught and designed new media curriculum in Singapore, Philippines and India. He worked for Razorfish Inc in London, England and Milan, Italy. He produced MTV Asia's first web cast, set up a boutique design and branding firm called methodgroup and produced a 12-series alternative travel show entitled Above the Clouds. Most recently Mark Greenspan was employed as Training Programmes Manager at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab where he oversaw the quality of the curriculum design and delivery of the TELUS Interactive Art and Entertainment Programme. Currently, Mark Greenspan is Director of Digital Media for Achilles Media.  Where he is Executive Producer of two digital media events - NATPE Mobile++ and nextMEDIA.


Lalita Krishna, In Sync Video
DOC Toronto Co-Chair

Lalita is a multiple award winning filmmaker whose work has been broadcast   nationally on all major networks, and featured at film festivals around the world. Her documentaries on kids who change the world have had successful sales in the Canadian and international educational market. Lalita has been awarded the DreamCatcher Award for using her craft to better humanity and her film “Jambo Kenya” is the first selection for TIFFG’S John Van Duzer Children’s Film Collection. Her company, In Sync Video, incorporated Breakout Media (2008) which specializes in new media production in partnership with award winning game producers, designers and developers. The In Sync Video group has multiple productions in the pipeline:  documentaries, television series, and cross platform interactive documentary projects.

Richard Lachman: Creative Consultant & Assistant Professor of Digital Media
Ryerson University

Richard Lachman is an Assistant Professor, Digital Media in the School of Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson University, and a Technology and Creative Consultant for entertainment and software-development projects. A Gemini-award-winning member of the Canadian new media scene, Richard has worked on some of the highest-profile Canadian interactive and convergent-media projects in the industry. Richard is a computer-science graduate of MIT, and holds a masters degree from the MIT Media Lab’s “Interactive Cinema” group. While at the Media Lab, he worked on networked collaborative entertainment environments and ambient/character-based interfaces, and has published and presented his work in Canada, Japan, Australia, Europe, and across the US.  Lachman has served as Tech Lead and part of the creative team on the Gemini-award winning “Degrassi.tv” project with Snap Media, Epitome Pictures and CTV. Degrassi boasts a vibrant community of 600,000 users who have collectively posted some 3 million message-board posts to the site. In the past, he has also served as Technical Director for the CNMA-nominated “Be The Creature” ITV project with Decode Entertainment and Videotron Quebec; Technical Director for the Interactive Genie Awards ITV/Web project with Xenophile Media; and Technical Director for “Code Zebra” with Sara Diamond at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

David Oppenheim: Head of Development / Producer, Interactive
Kensington Communications Inc.

David leads the development of Kensington’s documentary film and television projects and the production of its multiplatform projects. Prior to joining Kensington, David was Co-Producer and Content Lead for Kensington's award-winning interactive documentary, Diamond Road Online. He has worked as a Producer for CBC Newsworld, TVOntario, and the Discovery Health Channel, and as a story researcher for a number of leading independent documentary production companies. David recently edited the documentary Gore Vidal: History of the National Security State, and directed a short documentary for the National Film Board of Canada. He is a past resident of the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab.

Elizabeth Radshaw, Director, Toronto Documentary Forum
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

Elizabeth Radshaw is the Director of the Toronto Documentary Forum at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. She curates the Forum, International Co-Production Day and Rendezvous during Hot Docs' industry conference and market. In 2009, at the 10th edition of the TDF, Elizabeth introduced the first North American edition of Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation and the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program's Good Pitch, an innovative documentary pitching forum which provides a unique opportunity to pitch social issue documentary projects with associated campaign strategies to NGOs, charities, foundations, campaigners, advertising agencies, brands and media. Prior to this appointment, she was the Head of Acquisitions at TVF International. She was a member of Pact Council 2007. She joined TVF from the National Film Board of Canada and has a history of dramatic and factual production of film and TV in North America. She directed the Brooklyn based Rooftop Short Film festival at its Montreal premiere in 2005.