WINNIPEG – APTN has appointed Wayne Clark as Senior Program Officer, Independent Production and New Media, to be based in the Aboriginal TV network’s Winnipeg headquarters.
Clark has more than seven years of new media production experience with Unlimited Digital Communications, producing projects for the CBC, converging TV properties, and the Virtual Museum of Canada.
“Wayne’s addition to our team in the APTN Programming Department energizes our efforts to find every means possible to reach and serve our viewers,” says Joanne Levy, APTN Director of Programming. “His knowledge and experience in new media will help us in our efforts to stay on top of innovation in our industry and assist our producers to develop multiplatform content.”
From 2002 -2004, Clark was a member of the Sub-Committee for the National Advisory Board for Canadian Culture Online for Canadian Heritage and was an active member of New Media BC helping to organize events such as the Vancouver International Digital Festival.
Most recently he has been employed as an Investment Analyst at Telefilm Canada in Vancouver where he worked across three industry sectors: feature film, television, and new media. He has also assessed funding proposals submitted to Canadian Culture Online and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Clark was voted to the board of directors of Fortune Cat Game Studios in Winnipeg as he is interested in developing Aboriginal cultural properties in animation and gaming. He is an alumnus of The Banff Centre for the Arts and is a graduate of Internet Studies at the University of British Columbia.
