Joel Goldberg Bio:

Joel Goldberg is an Award winning Producer/Director of television shows, television series, documentaries, music videos, commercials, and web content.

His ground breaking music videos have won every national award possible including the prestigious Juno award for best video for “Drop the Needle” by rap artist Maestro Fresh Wes. He has also worked with Colin James, Amy Sky, the Dream Warriors, and Zappacosta among others.

He directed a popular documentary about Samba Squad, a community based 40 piece Brazilian Drum band. The documentary, called “Drums We Love”, aired on VisionTV, Bravo, CLT (Now Viva), Access Alberta, and MusiMax.

Joel has also directed commercials for clients including: Nokia, The Hockey Hall of Fame, Wrigley’s, Kelloggs, Ford, Winners, and Energizer batteries.

He is also well versed in Producing and directing comedy series having directed two years of the successful Canadian comedy series “Comics” for CBC.

For 14 years he was Managing Director, Creative/Production Services for four CHUM Television (now CTV) specialty service. In this position, he oversaw all Creative and Production for Canadian Learning Television (CLT), CourtTV Canada, BookTV, and Access Alberta. During this time he created and was Supervising Producer for the daily, live talk show “HelpTV”.

He was also the Director of Creative/Production Services for CHUM Television International. In this job, he supervised all Creative and Production for CHUM Television’s international MuchMusic and Citytv affiliates. He also consulted on the building and development of the channels.

While at CityTV, he also Produced “Toronto Rocks”, Developed and Produced the hugely popular “Electric Circus”, and developed and Directed the Fashion series “Ooh La La”. He also directed the in-set sequences for Fashion Televisions 20th Anniversary Special.

He is currently producing and directing a full length feature documentary on the Downchild Blues band for a fall 2010 release and a doc on Singer/Songwriter Bruce Cockburn. He is in pre-production for the 12th Annual Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards (Third season on the Citytv channels across the country), and has just completed multi-cam directing the musical sequences for “Big Voice”.

Joel graduated from Kent State University with a B.A. in Communications. He is President of the Film and Video Production Company, “Joel Goldberg Productions Inc.”.

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