Valerie Creighton

Ms. Valerie Creighton has over thirty years of experience in leading cultural organizations.  Since joining the corporation in 2006 as President and CEO, Ms. Creighton’s focus has been to position the Canada Media Fund as a responsive and effective organization with funders, clients, and other stakeholders, to enhance relationships with national and international interests and to support and promote Canadian media
content.

Ms. Creighton successfully managed two major organizational events in the history of the corporation, including the transition of the Canadian Television Fund’s program administration to Telefilm Canada and the creation of the Canada Media Fund.  She developed a national stakeholder outreach program and restructured the organization to focus on policy development, research, and communications.

Previously, Ms. Creighton was the CEO and Film Commissioner for the Saskatchewan Film and Video Development Corporation and Manager of the Arts Section for the Province of Saskatchewan.  She has produced radio dramas for CBC Saskatchewan, sat on numerous CBC juries and won has several awards, including the Deputy Minister’s Recognition Award for her role in the creation of SaskFilm, the Distinguished Alumni Award –Theatre Department, University of Regina, Her Majesty the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Award for Community Leadership, and the Canadian Women in Communications Change Leader Award.  She has participated in trade missions led by the Prime Minister of Canada and Premier of Saskatchewan to Germany, Los Angeles, and China.  She has sat on 12 boards from 1979 to the present and currently serves as a volunteer Chair of the Saskatchewan Foundation for the Arts.

Ms. Creighton holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Regina and a Management Development Diploma for Arts Administrators from the Banff School of Management.  She owns and operates The Red Horse Ranch in Stoughton, Saskatchewan.