Connie Edwards Producer/Director/Writer   Connie Edwards brings many years of diverse experience as a Producer/Director/Writer to her award winning career in television and series production.   Her most recent award winning production “The Musical Animal” was her fourth program for CBC’s The Nature of Things.  “The Nature of Invention” aired in 2019 and Ms. Edwards delivered the multi award winning “I Got Rhythm: The Science of Song” in December of 2016. This followed on the heels of her international award winning documentary “Survival of The Fabulous!”  Recently Ms. Edwards has completed writing 8 one hour episodes for Season 4 of the series “By Hook or By Cook”.  In 2022 she was a Finalist for “Writing, Factual” at the Canadian Screen Awards for this same series. Ms. Edwards has been a Creative Producer, Creative Director for a variety of projects including the Gemini Award winning series “Taking It Off” and “X Weighted” (Anaid Productions), as well as a director on the multi award winning “Family Restaurant” Season I – III (Anaid Productions).  Ms. Edwards produced and directed the one hour award winning documentary “Final Curtain” and produced “The Millionaires’ Club” a one hour documentary about lottery winners. She was co producer of “RIP Great Cemeteries of the World”, a 26 part half-hour series for PRIME TV that included two one-hours for Discovery Travel US.  She also wrote and produced the one-hour television documentary “Who is Watching the Children?”  In 2016 Ms. Edwards won a Gold Remi for Directing “Shooter on Campus: Know You Can Survive” and her program “You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know” was a Finalist for The Japan Prize.  Passionate and dedicated to television and film, Ms. Edwards is a tireless advocate for the production industry. Past President and 10+ years as a Board Member of the Alberta Media Producers Industry Association, she has also served for 10+ years on the Canadian Media Producers (CMPA) Broadcast and Regulatory Affairs Committee and the CMPA Documentary Committee. She is Past Chair and continues to serve on the Advocacy Committee for DOC – The Documentary Organization of Canada. She served for 5 years on the Edmonton John Howard Society Board and is Past President of the Board of the CTV Good Neighbour Fund where she served for 10 years. In 2006 she was honoured with an RBC Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year nomination. In 2023 Ms Edwards received The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal (Alberta) for her continued commitment to the Production Industry and Charitable Boards that she has served on.