BANFF board elects Kevin Beggs as chair

TORONTO – The Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) announced today Kevin Beggs (above), television group chair of Lionsgate, has been elected chair of the festival’s board of directors. “Since joining Lionsgate in 1998, Beggs has guided the Television Group’s growth into a leading supplier of premium content for streaming, cable and broadcast networks,” a press release reads. In 2018 Beggs was named chief content integration officer at Lionsgate. He was “responsible for overseeing the Company’s “Lionsgate 360” efforts, the cross-collaborative approach to developing new content from iconic Lionsgate intellectual properties across all of its businesses, including the 1619 Project initiative,”...