Media Releases: 2024

With unprecedented access to patients and rarely seen footage from the operating room, Transplant Stories is a four-episode TV series that follows the intimate and dramatic stories behind just a few of the thousands of organ transplants performed each year in Canada.  Transplant Stories will have a Broadcast Premiere starting November 19 (BC only), and stream for free online on www.knowledge.ca/

Burnaby, B.C. (July 10, 2024) – Knowledge Network is pleased to announce the appointment of Mitch Bunda as its new Director of Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology. Mitch will lead on the technical design, management and execution of Knowledge Network’s broadcast television channel and corporate IT infrastructure, as well as provide support for the operation of the Knowledge Network and Knowledge Kids streaming platforms. Mitch steps into the role left by Oliver Eichel, who retired from Knowledge Network in March.

Burnaby, B.C. (June 4, 2024) – New work by Marie Clements and Mina Shum among slate of production and development projects green-lit by Knowledge Network. Reclaim My Skin is a creatively audacious three-part limited series about reclaiming Indigenous women’s history and authority from different nations across Turtle Island. Acclaimed filmmaker Marie Clements (Bones of Crows, The Road Forward) is writing and directing this series, employing her signature blend of music, choreography and stylized documentary techniques.

Burnaby, B.C. (January 29, 2024) – Knowledge Network has moved three new documentary projects from B.C. filmmakers into production.