Consultant | Art, Culture + Screen
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Northway-Frank Consulting
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Consultant Daniel Northway-Frank is a seasoned cultural professional with 20 years experience in both the commercial and non-profit charitable arts sector. Active in the queer and Indigenous screen industry, he has built a career on reciprocal passion for positive change in the industry and for audiences, championing partners and people who want the same. Daniel’s experience includes coordination and management of both commercial and non-profit companies such as Technicolor, Hot Docs, TIFF and most recently as Institute Director at imagineNATIVE. In his 10+ years at the imagineNATIVE, he oversaw all aspects of year-round professional development programming including the imagineNATIVE Festival’s Industry Days and managing a portfolio of over 25 industry partnerships for funding/in-kind support. He has developed and executed both creative and market initiatives, most recently the ground-breaking 2167: Indigenous Storytelling in VR, the first Indigenous Feature Futures Forum and aggregated support and execution of two industry reports including On Screen Protocols & Pathways: A Media Production Guide to Working with Indigenous Canadian Communities, Cultures, Concepts & Stories, a ground-breaking new initiative that is a touchstone for informed and collaborative media production practices with Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadian creators and communities.He is a former board member of Work in Culture, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and Pleasure Dome, and juried for CMF, Telefilm, TIFF Talent Lab, CBC’s Short Film Face Off and Worldwide Shorts Film Festival.He is also a father, a husband and short film producer with a BAA in Film Studies from Ryerson’s School of Image Arts.