Nancy Basi
Executive Director - Film & Media Centre Vancouver Economic Commission
As Executive Director of the Film and Media Centre, Nancy works strategically to grow and support the digital entertainment and interactive industry for the City of Vancouver. Included in her portfolio are film, television, visual effects and animation, games and virtual reality.
Additionally, Nancy promotes the City of Vancouver as a world-class destination for business opportunities and a city where industry talent can thrive in the screen-based entertainment sector. Her work to strengthen the Vancouver economy includesfocusing on foreign direct investment and trade as well as promoting Vancouver in foreign markets worldwide.
Locally she founded and continues to manage the cities largestdigital entertainment career fair and promotes the opportunities within the industry to universities and high schools. Government advocacy and industry research is also part of Nancy’s mandate and The Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC)
With her move to the VEC in 2011, Nancy bought with her, 20 years of experience in the film, television and commercial industry in physical production, visual effects and animation. Clients included Walt Disney Studios, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Nike and Mercedes.