Join us on Thursday, April 8th @ 6:30 PM PDT for a virtual “pub” chat for a Behind the Scenes on Production Logistics with speakers Donna Luke, “Bachelorette Canada” and Jeff Wonnenberg, “Highway Thru Hell”. Registration info coming very soon but keep your next Thursday night open.
Register in advance for this webinar:
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Jeff Wonnenberg – Director of Business Affairs – Great Pacific Media
Jeff has a diverse range of professional experience in the Canadian film and television industry, and since 1994, has been involved with the production of countless hours of screen content on dozens of factual, scripted, commissioned, and independent projects. Prior to joining the team at Great Pacific in 2015 as the Line Producer of Highway Thru Hell, he was the Business Affairs Manager at Force Four Entertainment. Over the years, he has gained invaluable professional insights into the Canadian and international multi-screen industries. He also has the good fortune of working with an incredible network of colleagues, and an extraordinary roster of on-camera personalities.
Donna Luke – Vice President of Production – Marble Media
Donna has an extensive background in drama, documentary, factual entertainment and reality programming in both the UK and North America.
Donna began her career with BBC news and current affairs. After a number of successful years she moved across to drama where she worked on BBC’s primetime drama Casualty and then finally as manager of Wildvision the commercial arm of the BBC’s world renowned Natural History Unit where along with the Manager of the Natural History Unit, developed a five year plan which allowed the unit to open up its library for worldwide sales. After a short break Donna was approached by RDF, one of Britain’s biggest production companies, who opened its doors in the south west of England with a drama commission from FilmFour.
She was a driving force behind the success of BAFTA nominated Edwardian Country House which she Line Produced for UK indie Wall to Wall. The series screened across America’s PBS network as The Manor House.
Donna moved to Toronto in June 2002, where she worked as Supervising Producer for several drama documentaries and has Line Produced top rated reality, lifestyle and documentary shows, such as Showcases’ Kenny vs. Spenny, and Gemini award winning Canada’s Next Top Model, Project Runway Canada, and The Juno Awards. She joined Alliance Films in July 2011 and Produced 40 episodes of the highly successful series ‘Undercover Boss Canada’ and Exec Produced ‘The People’s Couch’ for Bell Media another All3Media Format.
Since joining marblemedia she has spearheaded production on a number of successful original formats such as the globally recognised ‘Blown Away’ and ‘Restaurants on the Edge’ as well as being responsible for all marblemedia’s production, both scripted and unscripted.
