Véronique Bernard has more than 20 years’ experience as a producer, director and senior executive in film and television production and development. She has worked for WNET Culture & Arts Documentaries, Sundance Channel Original Programming, New York Times Television, National Geographic Television, ABC News Productions and SBS Television in Australia where she was Head of Production.

She has developed, created and produced hundreds of hours of programming including documentaries, public and current affairs, talk shows, specials and series and her work has been shown on TLC, Discovery, National Geographic Channel and PBS amongst others. She won a Grantham Prize for Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award of Merit for her senior producing work on the PBS/Sundance series E2: The Economies of Being Environmentally Conscious and her recent projects include feature documentary The Man Who Invented Himself: Duane Michals (winner of the Special Mention Prize at International Festival of Film on Art FIFA 2013, distributed by Kino Lorber), international documentary series Redesign My Brain (Mindful Media, Australia) and feature documentary Enter The Faun.

She teaches film and television at NYU and Hunter College in New York City, mentors emerging filmmakers and is on the Board of Global Action Project, a youth media and social justice organization. She is President and Executive Producer of Iliad Entertainment. www.iliadentertainment.com