Speaker Marlo Miazga

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Marlo Miazga

President, Executive Producer, Unscripted

Bristow Global Media Inc.

A 25-year industry veteran, Miazga has built a reputation for her expertise in  creating, producing, and selling premium factual and drama content. Prior to joining BGM, Miazga was Co-President and Founder of Newroad Media, where she developed, produced and sold original content for both the domestic and global marketplace. Her production company created commercially successful television series including multiple seasons of Close Encounters (Discovery Channel Canada and Science U.S.), Curious and Unusual Deaths (Discovery Channel Canada, A&E UK) and the international co-production My Wild Affair (PBS, Animal Planet Canada and Discovery West) She has spent the last decade as a resident mentor at the Canadian Film Centre (CFC), where Miazga advised on more than 40 films, many of which went on to garner huge success in both the domestic and international markets. Miazga has held a variety of roles on a number of Canadian film and television productions, having first begun her career as an editor. Included in her credits are: Peter Wintonicks’ award-winning National Film Board feature, Cinema Verité: Defining The Moment; Paul Fox’s psychological feature thriller, The Dark Hours; Dan Cross’s Gemini Award Winning documentary, Too Colourful for the League; CBC Comedian Rick Mercer’s five-part series, Tuning In and comedy series for CBC, Jimmy MacDonald’s Canada as well as seven seasons of Rescue Mediums (OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network (Canada),W Network, WE tv, CBS Reality UK and Netflix). She is a CFC Film Lab alumna and a graduate of McGill University. In 2016 Miazga joined Bristow Global Media as Executive Producer and Showrunner on the epic ten part series for CBC, Canada: The Story of Us. She has since become BGM’s Vice President of Content.

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