User:KeithClarkson
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Keith Clarkson is an award wnning producer of online entertainment, TV and feature films. He has worked with partners such as Disney/ABC, BBC, Sundance Channel, Sympatico/MSN, CBC, the National Film Board, The Movie Network, YTV and TELETOON. Keith has produced cross-platform extensions of TV series such as Total Drama Island – Totally Interactive! (2008 International Emmy® Award, nominee), the Fallen Alternate Reality Game (2007 Primetime Emmy® Award, 2007 Banff World Television Award) and ReGenesis Extended Reality Game (2007 International Emmy® Award, 2006 Banff World Television Award, 2006 Gemini Award). Keith’s latest convergent project is xPod, an online game drama version of the Douglas Coupland novel and CBC TV series jPod.
Prior to this, at Telefilm Canada, he managed the Canada New Media Fund’s investment portfolio, as well as serving as Unit Director of Telefilm’s Atlantic Region Office.
Keith’s passionate interest in social issues and human rights has resulted in documentaries such as Grass, narrated by Woody Harrelson, which examines the futility of the US war on drugs (2000 Genie Award, Best Documentary), Voices of Change, which follows five courageous women working for social change in Guatemala, Australia, Pakistan, Latvia and Canada (1995 UN World Conference on Women in Beijing) and Our Daughter’s Pain, documenting the practice of female genital mutilation in Canada, (1996 B’nai Brith Media Award). Currently, he is developing a documentary with the NFB, The Death of Reena Virk, about school bullying and an online story inspired by the best-selling kids book, Inside Hana’s Suitcase.
As Executive Producer with Toronto’s ExtendMedia, Keith created and ran the company’s interactive entertainment division. Here, he pioneered some of the earliest interactive content work produced in Canada. Keith lead strategic development and supervision of productions such as the first Canadian interactive TV/web series, Drop The Beat, and the online, on-air and interactive TV cooking show, Dish It Out – both produced with Alliance Atlantis Communications and the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund. He produced an edutainment and e-commerce website for Cineplex Odeon, complementing the feature film version of Mordecai Richler’s classic children’s book, Jacob Two-Two. Keith also produced work for clients such as the Historica Foundation, CTV and Microsoft Network (MSN).
Keith earned his Master of Business Administration degree and Diploma in Arts and Media Administration at York University. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film and Television Production from the University of British Columbia.
