Television Writing and Producing

Catherine Carnovale is a professor and Toronto-based film and television professional with over 12 years of experience working in network, studio, agency and independent production company environments in Canada and the United States. As a seasoned development executive, she has successfully set up scripted and factual projects with domestic and international networks, and set up co-production relationships with Ireland and the UK. Television movies she has shepherded through development and production have aired on such networks as Crave/TMN, CityTV, Lifetime, W Network, UPtv, TF1 and M6.  As a producer, her work has screened at such festivals as Tribeca, Locarno and Sundance. Catherine has an honours bachelor of arts degree in Film Studies and Drama from Queen’s University, and a master of fine arts degree in Film Producing and Screenwriting from Columbia University.

Anne Fenn is an experienced writer and former TV development executive with over 25 years' experience writing for film, TV, radio, print and stage. Passionate about teaching, Anne has been teaching sitcom writing in the Comedy Writing & Performance program since 2010 and now also teaches creative producing and sitcom writing in the TV Writing & Producing postgraduate program. Anne can occasionally be found doing standup comedy in and around Toronto, and has a mainstage musical, Voiceless: A Musical, in development in the U.S. (staged production date of June 2025). Her writing has been nominated for multiple awards, some of which she won! Anne recently earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction (King's/Dalhousie), holds a BA from the University of Toronto, and is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre. For more information about Anne, please go to annefenn.com.

Diana Golts' industry work includes producing series for Netflix including the Critics' Choice-nominated Dirty Money, and writing the streamer’s first true crime series in Brazil, Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime. She has also produced the HBO Max con artist series Generation Hustle, and ABC’s The Last Defense, which premiered at Tribeca and was executive produced by Viola Davis. Her independent work includes Mal de Ojo, a Spanish-language short that premiered on HBO, and Chapa, an award-winning Brazilian short. Diana is currently the program co-ordinator of the TV Writing and Producing program at Humber College. She holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University.

Jessica Jennings has had a successful career for the past 20-plus years working as a producer, production manager, and in numerous leadership roles in the scripted, factual, and documentary space. Her work has aired on Netflix, CBC, Crave, TVO, Amazon, PBS, CBS, HBO Canada, National Geographic, Hallmark Channel, and CTV.

Production highlights include the Oscar-nominated feature documentary To Kill a Tiger and many CSA- and Emmy-winning and nominated scripted series and documentaries. For two years, she was the senior production co-ordinator at the National Film Board of Canada where she worked on various XR/VR immersive NFB documentaries, such as The Book of Distance and one in partnership with Parks Canada. Jessica was the producer on the CSA-winning CBC Gem comedy web-series Hey Lady, starring Jayne Eastwood and directed by Sarah Polley, which premiered at Sundance Festival in 2020. The TVO/PBS Emmy-winning series Odd Squad and the CBC/Amazon Prime puppet show Bookaboo are among other children’s shows she’s worked on at Sinking Ship Entertainment.

As an environmentalist and impact producer, Jessica has worked across the Sustainable Production space as a sustainability consultant, having worked for the consultancy Green Spark Group with clients like Disney and NHK. With a passion to tell stories that spark change, she's worked on Rob Stewart's environmental films Revolution and Sharkwater: Extinction, as well as in development of the CSA-winning CBC documentary Toxic Beauty. She has attended the Climate Story Lab in New York and the Redford Center Story Lab in Utah.