ANNE PICK
Executive producer and director
An award-winning independent filmmaker, Anne’s passion for story telling began as a teenager writing for her father’s country newspaper in South Australia. This led to a career in journalism with major Australian television and news organizations, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and for the past twenty years as an independent documentary and factual series writer, director and producer. Anne has a reputation for engaging, popular, high quality films and series in a variety of genres. She says learning to write from the front to the back pages of a newspaper ingrained a broad interest in subject matter from social and political issues, to history, music, sports and the environment. Her work under her Real to Reel Productions banner, or with Stone Soup Productions where she was a partner, has garnered many awards from Canada’s Gemini, to Australia’s Film Institute awards, a Golden Panda from China and major U.S. awards and festivals from San Francisco to New York. Anne’s work continues to find appreciative audiences around the world through theatrical, television and educational distribution.

Anne was a founding Board member, and former co-chair of both Hot Docs, and DOC Canada, and is currently an International Advisory Committee member for both Hot Docs TDF and the AIDC, Australia and an advocacy committee rep for DOC.

Anne has produced and or directed many hours of documentaries and factual television series over the past two decades including Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking (history drama/doc); Ronnie Hawkins: Still Alive and Kickin’ (music feature doc); The Prince of Pot: the U.S. vs Marc Emery (social/political doc); Yours Al (arts performance drama starring Gordon Pinsent as poet Al Purdy); Helen Caldicott: Portrait of a Dissident (social issue doc about iconic anti nuclear activist); Ryan’s Well (social issue doc about a very young boy who raised money to build a well in Africa); The Bunny Years (contemporary history feature doc about the women who were the first Playboy Bunnies); Getting Out (social issue doc about First Nations women in the prison system); The Notorious Mrs. Dick (tv history murder mystery doc); A Poisoned Workplace: Racial Harassment (edu-drama short); Jann Arden: A Work in Progress (music bio); Speak Out (social issue doc about teens in the child welfare system); Moe Norman: the King of Swing (sport bio); Harrowsmith Country Life (enviro/lifestyle series); Foodstuff (food science series); Out in the Cold (lifestyle/adventure series); Fire Station (science doc series).

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