The Team

Silva Basmajian
Executive Producer, National Film Board of Canada

Since joining the NFB in 1976, Silva Basmajian has been associated as producer, writer or researcher with more than 60 productions. Her work has won numerous awards and appeared in over 200 international festivals, including Sundance, Berlin and Toronto.

Her credits include My Father’s Camera, winner of a Peabody Award, and Rape: A Crime of War, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Banff Television Festival.

Basmajian was instrumental in the development of North America’s first interactive dramatic feature film, Late Fragment, a co-production with the Canadian Film Centre that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.