MICHAELIN MCDERMOTT - Resume

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Michaelin McDermott, B. A.           
Apt. 601 - 2045 Barclay Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6G 1L6
(604) 687-5702

1999 – 2007    Self-employed as Independent Producer / Writer / Director.

Selected Produced Credits:

• Trying on Personas – 3:30 drama (Writer/Director)
• Savage Planet - Second Unit Production Manager – Sci-fi Channel.
• Light: More than Meets the Eye - 2 x 1 hour - Discovery Channel.
• Octopus- ZDF/Canal Plus. Associate Producer
• My Point of View – science interviews for NEC website
  

In Development:

• Pyramids – feature - Praxis Fellowship, 2002 winner Female Eye Film Festival Screenwriting contest, & 2003 finalist “Good to Go” Female Eye Film Festival.
• Art Force – feature documentary about the healing power of music. Canadian classical musicians perform and lead workshops in Rwanda.
• Light Fantastic – limited series about ornery artists who bend light to their creative will.

Writer

• Journey of the Blue Buddha – polish – Producers on Davie Street.
• At The End of Later – ½ hour - winner of Praxis short screenplay contest.
• Target Unlocked – action-musical feature co-written with C. M. Prevost

Researcher

• Ancient Clues - Omni Film
• Circumpolar Project  -- Face-to-Face Media
  
• Suicide – Face-to-Face Media

Consulting

• Dark Sky Exhibit – H. R. McMillian Space Centre
• Script Reader – CBC Signature Shorts & Alibi Reading Series
• Mentor – Vancouver Film School

Awards

• 2006 Banff Centre’s Women in the Director’s Chair
• BC Arts Council Grant
• BC Film – Pitcher Perfect & Passport to Market Award
• Vancouver Women in Film & Video Royal Bank Mentorship

Volunteer

• 2006/7 Documentary Organisation of Canada (DOC)
• BC Chair of Lobbying Committee & DOC National Vice-Chair
• Moderator Co-ordinator – Alibi Reading Series
• Member Cineworks

1997-1998    Writer / Producer/ Director  

• 1997-98 Animal Tracks – ½ hour TV pilot.
• Discovery Channel Fall Launch – ½ hour TV special.                                   

1994-1997    Service Producer

• Employed as Service Producer for Discovery Channel, Canada.
• Responsible for the writing, producing and directing of on-air promotional material and science based segments for Channel.

1985-1994    Writer / Producer/ Director           

Producer

• Heart to Heart - Rock Video.

Writer - work-shopped only

• Side Road 18 – ½ hour drama.                                            

Director

• Gentleman Be Seated- ½ hour video drama NFB
• Better Later – ½ hour video drama NFB

Volunteer

• “Toronto Women in Film & Television” board member responsible for Fund Raising.

1985-1994   Freelance Still Photographer    

Employed as freelance Still Photographer responsible for the promotional images of various national/ international television and film productions. 

Extensive credits include: Road To Avonlea, Anne of Green Gables – the sequel, Due South, Perfectly Normal, Down Came a Blackbird, April One, Montréal Vue Par.

1980-1985   Editorial Board Member   - Freelance Still Photographer      

Member of editorial board and features editor of Inland Magazine - a monthly general interest magazine based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Employed as freelance photographer.

Selected exhibitions include:

• Annual Show -The Maine Photographic Workshop, Rockport, Maine
• Persona - The Nickle Museum. Calgary, Alberta
• Five Photographers - Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

One Woman Exhibitions:

• Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
• Arthur Street Plug In, Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Work included in the permanent collections of The National Film Board, The National Gallery of Canada, Edmonton Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery and others.

Film Training and Study:

• Banff Centre’s Women in the Director’s Chair  - 2006
  • Carol Whiteman – President & CEO
  • Anne Wheeler – Director Mentor
  • Roger Vernon- DOP Mentor
  • Mary Ungerleider – Editor Mentor
  • Brenda Bazinet – Director Mentor
• Acting for Camera – Seascoast Studios – 2005-2006
  • Scott Swan – Director
• Upwords – Screenwriter’s Group – 2000 - present
  • Workshop for scripts in progress.
• Acting for Directors – NFB - 1990
  • Marushka Stankova – Director