Banff World Media Festival 2025 Agenda - Print Version

Monday, June 9

9:00 AM

Banff World Media Festival
9:00 AM-9:30 AM

Speaking

Table host

Marianne Lambert

Director Co-Productions & Acquisitions

TFO

Host

Nadine Bhabha

Writer, Actor, Co-Founder of Hot Pilot Party

Nineteen90 Productions

Table host

Effi Eustace

SVP, Sales, The Americas

Incendo

Table host

Ava Knight

Director, Acquisitions

Fifth Season

Table host

Carolyn Newman

Executive Vice President, Global Scripted

Blink49 Studios

Table host

Jessica Schmiedchen

Director of Development, Unscripted Content

CBC

Table host

Cori Wellins

Senior Partner

WME

Anjali Sud

CEO

Tubi

Table host

Leena Minifie

CEO & Owner

Stories First Productions

Table host

Yi Qiao

Director Drama

ZDF Studios GmbH

Table host

Grace Tran

Director of Global Series

NBCUniversal International Studios

Table host

Dayna Zipursky

Executive Vice President

NESHAMA Entertainment

Christian Vesper

CEO, Global Drama and Film

FremantleMedia

Adam Lewinson

Chief Content Officer

Tubi

Agapy Kapouranis

President, International Television & Digital Distribution

Lionsgate Entertainment

Meghan Lyvers

Executive Director, Original Scripted

Sky Studios

Host

Julian De Zotti

Writer, Actor, Co-founder of Hot Pilot Party

IPF Fellowship/Whatever, Linda

Table host

Mary-Anne Taylor

Head of Content Distribution, Canada

Roku Inc

Table host

Tassie Cameron

Showrunner & Executive Producer

Cameron Pictures

Table host

Rachel Nelson

Vice President, Original Programming and Head of Corus Studios

Corus Entertainment Inc

Table host

Graham Ludlow

Head of Development and Production

Table host

Saleena Lockett

Producer

Host

Hannah Antaki

Casting Director, Co-founder of Hot Pilot Party

Alon Aranya

Producer/Writer

Paper Plane Productions