As Executive Producer/Creative Technologist Loc Dao heads up digital content and strategy for English Programming at the National Film Board of Canada. His work has been awarded dozens of major international and national honours including two 2011 Webby’s for Welcome to Pinepoint, a 2011 Gemini for the Test Tube, a 2010 Webby for Waterlife and a 2009 CNMA for the Test Tube.
Prior to joining the NFB, Loc worked on projects such as the Vancouver 2010 Olympic’s Cultural Olympiad, citizen journalism startups and publishing companies transitions from print to digital. Loc was previously at CBC Radio, transitioning from Sound Engineer to Webmaster to Producer to Executive Producer. Loc created one of the first websites for CBC in 1994 and in 2002 was Executive Producer and co-creater of the award winning CBC Radio 3 web magazine/FM radio/Podcast platform (archive.cbcradio3.com) that won over 20 awards, including a Prix Italia, 3 Webbys, and 2 NY Festival Grand Prizes.
