Margie Bryant, Executive Producer, Serendipity Productions (Australia)
Margie Bryant began her broadcasting career in 1989 in London at BBC Radio, interviewing writers and as a freelance contributor to ABC radio and television. Throughout the 1990s, Margie worked in a number of creative roles for ABC and SBS Television in all areas of specialist factual. As executive producer for the millennium broadcast 2000. Today, Margie was responsible for commissioning live performances all over Australia and serving on the international editorial committee. Margie established Serendipity Productions in 1995 with a focus on specialist factual programming. Recent productions include Singer: A Dangerous Mind (BBC and ABC) and Calling the Shots (For NGI, co-production with Context TV, Berlin and WDR, selected for the 2005 International Showcase, Hot Docs). With Artemis International, Margie has secured the rights to one of Britain’s top rating factual formats, Who Do You Think You Are, which was the highest rated Australian factual program ever for SBS Television. Serendipity’s most recent international documentary, Race for the Beach, is a co-production with Films of Record for BBC 2 and SBS Television. It won the Commonwealth Broadcasting’s Award for Human Rights. Stressbuster, a four-part science series about stress at work, was screened on ABC Television in early 2008.
