Barry Avrich
President / CEO / Director
Veteran producer and award-winning director Barry Avrich is the creative force behind Melbar Entertainment Group, one of the largest producers of non-scripted content in North America. Barry has produced and directed over 60 documentaries and filmed productions including the internationally acclaimed Born Hungry, Without Precedent: The Supreme Life of Rosalie Abella, The Talented Mr. Rosenberg, The Last Mogul, Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary Life of Ben Ferencz, David Foster: Off the Record, and Oscar Peterson: Black + White. He has produced over twenty award-winning stage-to-screen adaptations of Broadway and Shakespeare productions including The Tempest with Christopher Plummer and King Lear with Colm Feore. He recently released The Devil Wears Rothko, a book based on his acclaimed documentary Made You Look; Barry released his best-selling memoir, Moguls, Monsters and Madmen, in 2017. Avrich also built the world's first movie theatre in a hospital at Sick Kids in Toronto.
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Mark Selby
Producer / Head of Development
Mark Selby won two Canadian Screen Awards for Oscar Peterson: Black + White (Bell Media / Hulu), which received its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. Additional documentary credits include Born Hungry (Tribeca Films / Palm Springs 2024 / Hot Docs 2024); Without Precedent: The Supreme Life of Rosalie Abella (CBC / PBS / Hot Docs 2023); The Talented Mr. Rosenberg (CBC / Hot Docs 2022); and Howie Mandel: But Enough About Me (Bell Media / Peacock). Recent TV variety credits include annual live primetime special for the Giller Prize; the CBC music special FreeUp! Emancipation Day; screen adaptations of three Stratford Festival productions: Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, and Edward Albee's Three Tall Women; and From Ontario With Love, a live all-star New Year's Eve TV concert. Mark has also programmed live comedy for the Stratford Festival and Just For Laughs, and produced top-rated specials for the legendary Air Farce comedy troupe. For more information, visit www.markselby.ca.
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