Suzanne Lacey

Deputy Director, English Canada, Bell Fund

Suzanne is Bell Fund’s Deputy Director, English Canada, a CRTC certified independent production fund which provides approximately $15 million annually to over 100 independent production companies to support the development and production of high-quality Canadian content. Previously, Suzanne was Director of Multi-Platform Content and Broadcast Scheduling for TVO. She was responsible for TVO’s first drama series Hard Rock Medical (Distinct Features) filmed in Sudbury and North Bay, and its first factual series The Water Brothers (SK Films), winner of the prestigious BBC Earth Panda Award. Before that, she production managed various programs including the multi-Gemini Award winning documentary, Before Their Time (Discovery U.S. & TVO). She is a graduate of Queen's University film studies with a certificate in digital media from OCAD.