{"id":2515,"date":"2019-05-01T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/neshama-entertainment-appoints-new-vp-production\/"},"modified":"2019-05-01T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:50:44","slug":"neshama-entertainment-appoints-new-vp-of-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/neshama-entertainment-appoints-new-vp-of-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Neshama Entertainment Appoints New VP of Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian production house Neshama Entertainment has tapped Suzanne Berger for the newly created role of VP of production.<\/p>\n<p>Berger, a 20-year production veteran, will be based out of the company\u2019s headquarters in Toronto, and her new responsibilities will include driving the production of content originating in Canada, as well as Canadian co-production partnerships. She is currently spearheading a slate of 27 projects in development and nine in production, including MarVista co-productions <em>Merry Hannukah<\/em> and <em>Christmas Crush<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Neshama, Berger worked at Halfire Entertainment, serving as supervising producer on <em>Another Life<\/em> for Netflix, as well as <em>Aftermath<\/em>, a drama for SYFY and Space that stars Anne Heche (<em>Men in Trees<\/em>). With her own production company, Rosetta Media, Berger produced <em>The Pinkertons<\/em> and <em>Spotless<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>She also previously held the role VP of production at Entertainment One Television, supervising the production of all formats of television with a focus on movies of the week (MOWs) and scripted one-hour dramas. Berger is also an experienced producer of long-form drama, overseeing MOWs such as Hallmark Hall of Fame biopic <em>When Love is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story<\/em> starring Winona Ryder and Barry Pepper, as well as <em>Playing House<\/em>, <em>Gospel of Deceit<\/em>, <em>Cradle of Lies<\/em>, <em>Absolution<\/em> and <em>Intimate Stranger<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am thrilled to be working with Suzanne to oversee production at Neshama as we prepare for our rapid and exciting growth,\u201d said co-founder and executive producer at Neshama, Arnie Zipursky.<\/p>\n<p>Berger added: \u201cThere is a wealth of established and emerging talent at every level of the creative process here in Canada, and I am delighted to be bringing this talent together with Arnie and the MarVista team to create high-quality content for global distribution and build Neshama into a world-class production company.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian production house Neshama Entertainment has tapped Suzanne Berger for the newly created role of VP of production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1049,"featured_media":2516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[442,470],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-neshama-entertainment","tag-suzanne-berger"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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