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Marie-Claude Poulin
Marie-Claude Poulin This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it has been in the film and television business for 20 years, starting in 1985 at the Academy of Canadian Film and Television as assistant editor of the first Who’s Who in Canadian Film and Television. She moved into distribution at Norstar Entertainment as Vice President of Sales, handling television and foreign sales of all Norstar productions. In 1989, she moved to Montreal as Vice President of Sales and Acquisitions for Malofilm Distribution where she set up the international sales department. She was responsible for television sales nationally and internationally, and acquiring all Canadian and European product for Canada. After eight years, Poulin started an international department for Cinepix Film Properties (now Lionsgate Films) and represented and helped finance the films Eclipse, Shadow of the Vampire and American Psycho. In 1999, she was hired as Gap Financing Manager at FIDEC and then moved into production as Vice President of Production at Melenny Productions. From 2002 to 2004, she was Executive Vice President of TVA Films in charge of all Canadian and international distribution, responsible for all acquisitions in all media and for setting up partnerships for video and theatrical distribution in English and French Canada. Notable releases and acquisitions include C.R.A.Z.Y., The Pianist, Help I’m a Fish, White Noise, Undisputed and Brotherhood of the Wolf. In 2005, she was named Vice President of Distribution at Equinoxe Films.
 
Alexandra Raffé
Alexandra Raffé"Producer Alexandra Raffé's feature film credits include the commercial and critical success, Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, and her follow-up feature White Room, John Greyson's Zero Patience, Peggy Thompson's The Lotus Eaters and David Wellington's I Love a Man in Uniform, collectively winning 11 Genie Awards. In June 1993, she was appointed to co-chair the Cultural Industries Strategy for the Province of Ontario. Upon completion of the strategic plan, she was appointed CEO of the Ontario Film Development Corporation (1994 to 1998).
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Sandra Richmond

Sandra Richmond is a partner at Stohn Hay Cafazzo Dembroski Richmond LLP. Her practice focuses on media, entertainment and communications law, and on corporate and commercial law within those industries. She represents a variety of clients including producers, broadcasters, distributors, writers, performers, government agencies and financial institutions, and provides advice in a number of areas including rights acquisition, shareholder structures, co-productions, financing, distribution, broadcast licences, merchandising, new media, and errors and omissions insurance. Richmond has written and edited numerous articles on legal issues for various publications including Playback. She has also participated in panels and presented seminars on legal and business affairs in the entertainment and media industries for the Canadian Film Centre, the Ontario Media Development Corporation, Women in Film and Television, the National Screen Institute, Women in the Director’s Chair, the New Media Business Alliance, the Canadian Short Film Festival, the Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association, and the Manitoba Motion Picture Industry Association and Film Training Manitoba. Richmond started her legal career in 1996 at Toronto law firm McMillan Binch.

 
Lia Rinaldo
lia_rinaldoLia Rinaldo has been deeply involved in the film industry for the past 18 years. From her modest beginnings slinging popcorn at the of sixteen at Halifax's only repertory theatre, Wormwood's Dog & Monkey Cinema. She eventually managed and programmed the very theatre where she got her start while simultaneously climbing up through the ranks of the Atlantic Film Festival over the past 15 years.
Lia has served as Festival Director at the Atlantic Film Festival Association for the past five years and has seen the event grow from a small annual regional festival to four year-round programs each with a growing international reputation. This past September, the Atlantic Film Festival celebrated its landmark 25th anniversary with 30,000 people in attendance.

 
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