Producer: Betsy Carson
Betsy Carson is a producer/ EP/ director with over 35 years’ experience in documentary film, television, and digital projects. She has collaborated for decades with filmmakers Nettie Wild, Mark Achbar, Velcrow Ripper, Gary Marcuse and Hugh Brody and has produced over 100 hours of innovative projects ranging from television, theatrical features, VR and websites to public art installation. As an early adopter of “impact distribution” since 1988, her career has been focused on activating social and political debate in communities around the world, and the films she has collaborated on have won numerous awards and honours including multiple Genie and Gemini awards, AFI, Berlin Forum of Young Cinema, Hot Docs, IDA, Prism, Grantham, two Cinema for Peace nominations and other awards. She also served as Co-Vice-Chair of the Documentary Organization of Canada for 6 years.
With Gary Marcuse she has also created classroom materials for the National Film Board of Canada, Pearson and Nelson publishers. Recent film credits include: 500 Days in the Wild, directed by Dianne Whelan; The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel directed by Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott (coproduced with Trish Dolman); the Global Environmental Justice Documentaries Project, directed and curated by Gary Marcuse; and UNINTERRUPTED, a public art project directed by Nettie Wild and co-produced with Rae Hull.