Roddy McManus has been chosen to become Canada's next National Film Board Executive Producer of Animation, following in the footsteps of David Verrall, winner of 3 Oscars for 3 short films / producer of 240 films for the NFB .
Roddy..."spent the past 11 years as executive producer at the indie production outfit Pop6, producing such films as the Spanish-Italian-Canadian thriller Transgression , which plays the World Film Festival and the animated feature Ultramarines : A Warhammer 40,000 Movie... " (Montreal Gazette Aug 15 2011)
Roddy also produced (via Pop6) last year's documentary - The Montreal Canadians:100 Years-100 Stars.
See bkelly@montrealgazette.com for the full story.
It all had to start somewhere and that somewhere was H.S.B. with other recognized media people we remember ...see below .
Congratulations Roddy - you make us all proud! I know you will add to those Oscars.
Of the group above, Mark Stafford went on in the world of radio. The last time we met for the last '72 &Friends Reunion' he was at CHOM FM steering behind the scenes in Production, while Richard is an established poet in California. I believe Romy Royko is still involved in the production of music and probably just as good now as was then - if not better.
And now Roddy has filled some very big shoes and justly so!
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