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Day of double awards for city TV producer
Meeches honoured twice for business endeavours
Lisa Meeches and Larry Chartrand, co-nominees for the Excellence in Aborigional Business Leadership Award. (PHIL.HOSSACK@FREEPRESS.MB.CA)
THURSDAY was an award-winning day for Winnipeg TV producer Lisa Meeches.
The day began with the Women in Film & Television -- Toronto naming the executive producer and president of Eagle Vision Inc. and Meeches Video Productions as one of the winners of this year's Annual Crystal Awards. She is to be presented with the Crystals mentorship award at a ceremony Nov. 30 in Toronto.
And it ended with Meeches being unveiled as the 2009 winner of the University of Manitoba's Excellence in Aboriginal Business Leadership Award at a gala awards dinner at the Fort Garry Hotel.
The aboriginal leadership award is presented annually by the U of M Asper School of Business's Aboriginal Business Education Program (ABEP) to honour an individual or company that has exemplified leadership in the context of aboriginal business.
The other nominee for this year's leadership award was Larry Chartrand, co-founder of Labels Unlimited, a successful Winnipeg-based firm that manufactures pressure-sensitive labels, tags and other print-packaging products, primarily for the food-processing industry.
ABEP director Wanda Wuttunee said nominees are judged on a number of criteria, including their impact on the aboriginal community, the mentoring they do with young aboriginals, and the financial stability of their businesses. "We chose her (Meeches) because she is outstanding in all of these areas," Wuttunee said. "But it was a very tough choice (to make) because Larry has also done an outstanding job."
Meeches began her media career in 1986 compiling radio reports for a native talk show on the Winnipeg-based Native Media Network. She went on to become a news reporter for the network, to study broadcasting at Minot State University in North Dakota, and to graduate from the Banff Television Festival's executive program.
She has since carved out a reputation as one of the country's leading aboriginal television and movie producers. She is executive producer of two successful television shows -- The Sharing Circle and Tipi Tales. Eagle Vision has also co-produced a number of movies, including Walk All Over Me and the Academy Award-winning Capote.
"She's a really great role model for young people," Wuttunee said.
This is the fifth year that the Excellence in Aboriginal Business Leadership Award has been presented. Previous winners are Tribal Councils Investment Group; Arnold Asham of Asham Curling Supplies; Pat Turner of E.T. Trucking; and Bernie Vermette of B. Vermette Backhoe Service.
murray.mcneill@freepress.mb.ca
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 9, 2009 B4
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