Tracy Michelle Legault

Combines a wealth of expertise, with a wide and varied experience in visual arts, media production, and arts management. Founded Carte Blanche Films (CBF) in 2008 initially focusing on French language dramatic television series.

Having achieved multiple season runs CBF amplified its vision to offer a wider range of cross-platform content including an educational documentary-based web series, for school-age children, family, and general audiences, as well as a large number of digital media cross-platform projects.

The work has garnered several notable awards and nominations in collaboration with broadcast partners: Le Groupe Média TFO, Idéllo, TV5-unis, Radio-Canada and TV-Ontario.

Key roles:

• Lead production on a range of television programs , includes creative innovative thinking, ability to identify commercial, marketable projects.
• Play a key role in ensuring that projects eventually become broadcast programs
• In charge of successful financing and marketing of projects, and responsible for overall quality control of production
• Kept all key stakeholders informed of status and vision through milestone updates and work-in-progress presentations
• Oversee and complete funding proposals
• Involved in most aspects of scripting, casting, and crewing
• Often work on a number of projects simultaneously, work irregular hours, and travel frequently
• Ensure the film is completed on time, within budget, and to agreed creative and technical standards
• Skilled negotiator, keen business sense, with intimate knowledge of film production, financing, marketing and distribution.
• As a businesses owner: responsible for corporate planning, budgeting and reporting

• Assembled and managed some of the company's critically acclaimed productions.
• Managed a team of fifty (50) keeping projects on schedule and within budget.
• Revised schedules and control expenses to keep the project on time and within budget.
• Worked with director, production manager and department heads to prepare final budgets, shooting schedules and production dates.
• Created filming schedules by determining production timeframes for shootings.
• Monitored production costs to keep in line with approved budget.
• Projected costs for crew salaries, equipment rentals, insurance, wardrobe, set design and location filming.
• Liaised with studio, crew and producers while effectively addressing on-location crises and issues.

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