Anne Pick co-produced the Our Stories series. She also wrote and directed Mike Nolan, the caribou man of Newfoundland.Anne Pick is a well-known independent producer with twenty-five years experience as a journalist, producer, director and writer in both Canada and Australia.
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, she began her career at 14 as a student columnist for her father's country newspaper. At 18, she began her career in television, but alternated between print and TV for six years. Ms. Pick was an entertainment columnist for Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Times, Perth Western Australia, before leaving on an extended working holiday around the world in 1974.
Anne has produced Questions & Answers, Prime Time and Moneysworth for TVOntario and Market Place, Canadians, Newsmakers, This Week in Ontario and Newshour for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Four of her documentaries: Speak Out about teenagers in the child welfare system and their discovery that literacy was the key to the future; Nurses: The Web of Denial, the stories of nurses recovering from drug and alcohol addiction; Babies Best Start featuring a community parenting project and Getting Out, a one-hour documentary about Aboriginal women in the prison system, all won film festival awards.
Anne is currently executive producing two television series Harrowsmith Country Life and Equinox. She also has several other projects in development including a Canadian-Irish co-production about Catholic and Protestant teenagers from Enniskillen who are sent to Canada each year to experience a lifestyle not controlled by sectarian violence.
Anne is committed to the prevention of child abuse and as a volunteer has produced several award-winning videos for the Children's Aid Foundation over the past ten years.
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