NSI Totally Television faculty
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Brandice Vivier-Burns, Manager, Programs & Development
As Manager, Programs and Development, Brandice develops and delivers many of our training programs. In addition to managing NSI Totally Television, she is currently working with the NSI Online Film Festival and Featuring Aboriginal Stories Program. Previous program of which she was part include NSI Drama Prize, Storytellers, NSI Pitch to Win!, NSI Global Marketing, Telefilm Canada Spark Plug and DiverseTV.
Brandice has worked in the film and television industry for 15 years. Prior to NSI, she worked at CTV where she negotiated and drafted development and license agreements for CTV, The Comedy Network, and the Discovery Channel, as well as preparing compliance reports for the CRTC. She also worked in the Canadian Dramatic Programming Department where she acted as the business coordinator for independent producers on all Canadian dramatic programming developed and licensed by CTV.
Brandice began her career at Manitoba Film & Sound (now Manitoba Film & Music) where she worked in a number of positions, starting as an administrative assistant, moving to the locations program and finally working as a programs analyst.
In addition to being an alumna of the University of Manitoba, Brandice has completed business law, producer, multi media, marketing and french courses at various institutions including the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Canadian Screen Training Centre, University of Winnipeg, and La Collège Saint Boniface.
Finally, Brandice is a cheese connoisseur – the more aromatic the better!
Sam Linton, Program Advisor
Award winning producer and director Sam Linton currently works as Head of Factual Programming at Cineflix with
Simon Lloyd to oversee the company’s complete slate of factual
programmes including Mayday, Cold Blood, Austin Stevens, Eaten Alive, Cooler Facts, Final 24, Mad Labs and Trapped.
Previously Sam worked as Head of Development for RTR Media where she helped create the financial makeover series Maxed Out for W and Style Network USA, as well as From the Ground Up, a reality show for home design diva Debbie Travis.
Sam also worked as Head of Original Production for Discovery Channel Canada, where she oversaw and executive produced hundreds of hours of programming.
In 2001, Sam was responsible for launching two new digital channels: Discovery Civilization and Animal Planet. As Head of Programming for both channels she also created and directed the Animal Pet Awards franchise.