Gerry Flahive

Background

About Gerry Flahive

Gerry Flahive is a Toronto-based writer, producer and creative consultant at his media arts company, Modern Story. Until May 2014, Flahive was Senior Producer at the National Film Board of Canada, which he joined in 1981. He has done creative and storytelling consulting, strategic planning, course development and/or written for clients including Global Affairs Canada, the Toronto Maple Leafs, Cirque du Soleil, Telefilm Canada, MaRS, TVOntario, Humber College, TIFF and Giants of Africa. He is the author of the satirical fiction I OWN THIS TOWN: THE MAYOR BERT XANADU XANTHOLOGY, published in May, 2022. His productions have won many international awards including 2 Emmy Awards, a World Press Photo Award and a Peabody Award for HIGHRISE (highrise.nfb.ca), a global interactive documentary. He produced & co-produced more than 80 documentary projects, including the international co-production PARIS 1919, the ground-breaking Filmmaker-in-Residence multimedia project at Toronto's St. Michael’s Hospital, the NFB-Canadian Film Centre Feature Documentary Program, and short films for the Governor-General’s Performing Arts Awards. In the early 1990's, as Senior Communications Manager, he managed NFB involvement in the Oscars and the Sundance Film Festival, as well as corporate communications branding. Flahive has been a frequent contributor to the Globe and Mail and has been published in Time, The New York Times (e.g. https://nyti.ms/2JrUUZs) The Times, Huffington Post, The Walrus, and many media industry publications, and is a National Magazine Award humour nominee. He has been a member of the boards of the Toronto Irish Film Festival and POV Magazine, and a member of the Advisory Board for the MIT Open Documentary Lab report "Interactive Documentary & Digital Journalism". He has been a guest speaker, presenter and mentor at many international events and institutions, including MIT, the I-Docs Lab in Switzerland, the MEDIMED Documentary conference in Barcelona, the Venice Biennale, the New York Film Festival, and a juror in the 'Immersive Storytelling' category for the Canadian Screen Awards.