Jill Walker: An Artistic Life

Penelope Hynam

Penny Hynam is managing director of Sea Weaver Productions Inc. She has had a 25-year career in Canada in film and television at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and CITY television, co-founded the documentary production company Mobius Productions which produced a variety of documentaries for clients, and worked as a script supervisor/ continuity on the set of over 40 movies and television dramas. She was the founding assistant director of Norman Jewison’s world-class Centre for Advanced Film Studies in Toronto. In Barbados from 1992, she was director of the Barbados National Trust and project director on George Washington House and Museum, and continued to work in filmmaking, writing, producing, co-producing and/or directing several films: “Chattel House” with Gladstone Yearwood, “George Washington in Barbados”, “A Day in a Bajan Life”, a series of 10 short film portraits directed and shot by Pelle Hybbinette and “Barbados Surfer Girl” an award-winning documentary on the Barbadian champion surfer Chelsea Tuach. She recently co-directed a workshop on television production for the Caribbean Broadcasting Union and runs workshops on film producing. She was the founding president of the Barbados Film and Video Association.