Cavan, Susan

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Cavan, Susan

PERSONAL

Education: Graduated from University of Toronto.

Addresses:

Office—Accent Entertainment Corp., 114 Manning Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6J 2K5. Agent—Andrew Cannava, United Talent Agency, 9560 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 500, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Producer and executive. Alliance Communications Corp., founding partner and president; Accent Entertainment Corp., Beverly Hills, CA, founder, president, and chairman, 1989—.

Awards, Honors:

Gemini Award nomination (with Bruce McDonald), best comedy program or series, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, 1998, for Twitch City; Gemini Award nomination (with others), best television movie or dramatic miniseries, 2000, for Dead Aviators; Gemini Award nomination (with others), best children's or youth fiction program or series, 2003, for Fast Food High.

CREDITS

Film Executive Producer:

The Bay Boy (also known as Bad Company and Un printemps sous la neige), Orion, 1985.

Magic Hunter (also known as Buevoes vadasz), subtitled version, Shadow Distribution, 1996.

Superstar, Paramount, 1999.

Fast Food High, CCI Entertainment, 2003.

Co-executive producer, Luck, Odeon Films, 2003.

Waking Up Wally: The Walter Gretzky Story (also known as La longue Absence), Monarch Home Video, 2005.

Everything Is Connected (short film), Ouat Media, 2007.

Film Producer:

South of Wawa, Accent Entertainment, 1991.

Wisecracks (documentary), Alliance International Pictures, 1992.

Coproducer, Mesmer, Mayfair Entertainment/Nomadic Pictures, 1994.

Joe's So Mean to Josephine, Alliance, 1996.

Dog Park (also known as Reserve aux chiens), New Line Cinema, 1999.

Entertainment Life, Alliance Atlantis Communications, 2000.

Kids in the Hall: Same Guys, New Dresses (documentary), Video Service Corp., 2001.

Stealing Harvard, Columbia, 2002.

Citizen Duane, Shoreline Entertainment, 2006.

Television Executive Producer; Series:

Bordertown, CTV, 1989.

Material World, 1990.

Sweating Bullets (also known as Tropical Heat), CBS, 1991.

Twitch City, Bravo, 1998.

Television Producer; Series:

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors (also known as Jayce et les conquerants de la lumiere), 1985.

MASK (also known as Mobile Armored Strike Kommand), syndicated, 1985.

Television Producer; Movies:

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (also known as Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris), CBS, 1992.

Executive producer, City Boy, PBS, 1992.

Dead Aviators (also known as Restless Spirits), Showtime, 1999.

Comeback Season, Lifetime, 2006.

Television Work; Episodic:

Produced a series of short comedy film clips for Saturday Night Live (also known as NBC's Saturday Night, Saturday Night, and SNL), NBC.

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