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Kez Margrie
CBBC
Executive Producer, Independents
Kez Margrie is on the indie commissioning team for factual and fact/ent formats for CBBC. Her portfolio includes the hit medical series ‘Operation Ouch!’ and the BAFTA-award-winning ‘My Life’ strand – a series of one-off documentaries about ordinary children living extraordinary lives. Kez is particularly interested in ideas that work on all platforms, delivering distinctive and challenging content to children in fresh ways; relevant to the way they consume media.
The Creative Edge?
Diversity in the workplace should not be about boring quotas and ticking boxes: it’s about what fresh perspectives different types of people can bring to the table. Either through disrupting thought processes, challenging assumptions or simply by being their brilliant selves, this panel know first-hand what being different and including different perspectives can mean in terms of fuelling creativity. The children’s media industry misses out creatively if we overlook differently-abled and neurodiverse people. Creativity is the lifeblood of what we do, after all! This lively panel brings together some amazing and diverse talent to discuss how inclusion in working teams…
The Doc Unboxed
What do today’s children define as a documentary? Exploring a variety of ways to tell real stories that economically connect children with the world around them.
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