WHO - ARE THE PEOPLE INVOLVED

The Global Women's Memorial Web Project is a co-production between the National Film Board of Canada and the Global Women's Memorial Society.

National Film Board of Canada - www.nfb.ca
Created in 1939, the National Film Board of Canada has produced more than 11,000 films and won more than 4,500 awards, including 11 Oscars¨. As Canada's public film producer, the NFB produces and distributes distinctive, culturally diverse, challenging and relevant audiovisual works that provide Canada and the world with a unique Canadian perspective.

Global Women's Memorial Society
Incorporated in 2005 as a registered not-for-profit, the Global Women's Memorial Society is committed to the creation of a global web-based community that unites womens memorial makers and those affected by the murder of women.

Writer/Director: Christine McDowell, Global Women's Memorial Society
Christine McDowell has been a feminist activist since 1979. After the massacre of fourteen women in Montreal on December 6th, 1989, she initiated a national project to build a women's monument, which resulted in the creation of Marker of Change by Beth Alber in Vancouver. Moved by the many memorials she discovered while working on the monument project, Christine wrote the proposal for the Global Women's Memorial.

NFB Producer: Tracey Freisen
Tracey Friesen joined the National Film Board of Canada as producer in spring 2001 and has credits so far on one extensive internet documentary and eight films, including the multiple award winning titles: Being Caribou, ScaredSacred and The Weight of the World. She currently has another ten titles in production and development, plus is the NFB lead on three community-based initiatives around media making and disability. Before the NFB, Tracey was with Rainmaker Digital Pictures for five years and prior to that worked for six years as an editor and post supervisor. Actively involved in the Vancouver film community, Tracey spent three years on the board of Women in Film & Video Vancouver - serving one term as president - and was honoured last summer with their Lifetime Membership Award.

Co-producer: Cari Green, Global Women's Memorial Society
Cari Green is an innovative film and television producer with over twenty-five years experience in documentary films, dramatic features and television series, and a solid background in distribution, sales and marketing. Green has produced over 20 award-winning productions, including, ScaredSacred, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival and currently in theatres, as well as, The Corporation , an international theatrical hit feature. Green has produced the works of renowned Canadian, International and leading First Nations filmmakers.

Green has a twenty-five year history as an advocate for the Canadian film industry, serving on many organizations in executive and board positions. Including: DOC, Vancouver Chapter, founding board member & co-chair; Women in Film and Video, Vancouver chapter- co-founder, inaugural board member, honorary life-time member; Hot Docs board member and DOXA board member.

Green is currently distributing ScaredSacred through her company, Scared Sacred Films and is co-producing the Global Women's Memorial website project with the National Film Board of Canada and Flourish Media.

Co-producer: Karen Middleton, Flourish Media Inc
A producer born and bred, Karen started her career in the Canadian cultural sector over 15 years ago as a Festival Producer, for a variety of arts groups, in her hometown of Winnipeg. She moved to Vancouver in 1996 launching her own successful multimedia production company, Flourish Media Inc., in 2002. Her most recent productions include the short film Getting Married for CHUM Television's CineCity diversity programming strand -- as well as an interactive game-based production for the CBC. She is also the co-founder and Executive Producer of the New Media SLAM, an annual, competitive new media festival.

Currently, Karen is focusing her efforts on a number of new productions including the interactive property, Brocket99 a documentary & web community, that explores the relationship between aboriginals and non-aboriginal in Canada and Universe Village, a unique interactive project that weaves science, cultural diversity, imagination and technology together with the aim of connecting young people to global values and a sense of environmental responsibility.

Contact the Global Women's Memorial Society: info@globalwomensmemorial.org