Folk fest’s Skromeda moving to Manitoba Film and Music
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This article was published 09/06/2023 (889 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Lynne Skromeda is returning to her film roots.
After more than a decade serving as executive director of the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Skromeda will be the new chief executive officer of Manitoba Film and Music and the province’s film commissioner.
She will begin in her new role Aug. 8, a month after what will be her final festival at its helm.
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Winnipeg Folk Festival executive director Lynne Skromeda has been named the new chief executive officer of Manitoba Film and Music and the province’s film commissioner.
Prior to arriving at the folk festival in 2012, Skromeda spent 13 years working in the film and television industry, primarily at Winnipeg- and Toronto-based Frantic Films, where she held several roles, including president of production.
“I am thrilled to bring together my passion for both film and music in taking on this exciting role,” Skromeda said in a media release. “I look forward to working in collaboration with the community and helping to grow the industries so we can bring more Manitoban stories and songs to life and more production to our province.”
Skromeda, an Asper School of Business grad, has served on the boards of Green Action Centre, Manitobans for the Arts, the West End Cultural Centre, On Screen Manitoba, the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art and the inaugural TEDxWinnipeg. She serves on the boards of the RBC Winnipeg Convention Centre, Canadian Live Music Association, Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce and Imagine Canada.
She takes over for former MP Rod Bruinooge, who has been serving in an interim capacity since November 2021, following the departure of Rachel Rusen, who was appointed a provincial court judge. Carole Vivier, who had been CEO of Manitoba Film and Music for nearly 30 years, retired in 2019.
No details have been released about who will succeed Skromeda at the Winnipeg Folk Festival.
Manitoba Film and Music is a provincial Crown agency that supports and promotes Manitoba film and music companies as well as independent musicians.
It also promotes Manitoba as a location for filming television and movie shoots by production companies and administers the Manitoba Film and Video Production Tax Credit, which has helped the province’s film industry to flourish since the agency began in 1998.
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Jen Zoratti is a columnist and feature writer working in the Arts & Life department, as well as the author of the weekly newsletter NEXT. A National Newspaper Award finalist for arts and entertainment writing, Jen is a graduate of the Creative Communications program at RRC Polytech and was a music writer before joining the Free Press in 2013. Read more about Jen.
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Updated on Friday, June 9, 2023 10:12 AM CDT: Corrects headline