REBECCA GIBSON
PRODUCER
As a writer, director, producer, series creator, story editor and actor, Rebecca’s work in documentary, drama, and comedy has played in festivals, in theatres, and on TV screens around the world. Following graduation from the New York Film Academy, a CFTPA International Internship took Rebecca to Los Angeles at the start of her film career.
Formerly a Partner and Head of Development for Eagle Vision, Rebecca continues to work with Eagle Vision to develop several feature and series projects around the world, including her own. With her partners she shared in the 2022 Banff World Media Festival’s Innovative Producer Award. Credits include her ACTRA Award-winning role in The Pinkertons (Netflix); co-writing and producing the award-winning feature H&G; and serving as co-creator, executive producer, showrunner, a writer, and director for four seasons of the series Taken, for which she won a Beyond Borders Media Award and was nominated for three CSAs. Recent projects include the factual series 7TH GEN (co-creator, executive producer, showrunner, writer, director), and the comedy web series DJ Burnt Bannock (executive producer, showrunner, director).
Rebecca is devoted to mentorship, working with the CMPA, ACTRA, WIFT, WIDC, among several other organizations to support equity, diversity, accessibility, and inclusion. Rebecca founded Orange Daisy Project, a social action campaign in support of mental health for teen girls. She was honoured nationally as a CAMH Difference Maker and was ACTRA Manitoba's 2018 Woman of the Year. Recently, Rebecca wrote and directed on and shared show running duties with Dinae Robinson of Snapchat’s first Canadian original series, with Dinae Robinson. She is also producing the soon-to-be-released feature films Diaspora and Finality of Dusk and executive producing the feature doc Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On, and the feature doc True Story for History Channel and Global.