Micheline Charest
Micheline Charest (1953 – April 14, 2004) was a television producer and founder (and former co-chair) of the Cinar (later Cookie Jar Entertainment and now DHX Media) television company.
Biography
Born in London and raised in Quebec, Charest returned to the UK to attend the London International Film School. In 1976, she traveled to New Orleans where she met her future husband, New Yorker and Tulane graduate, Ronald A. Weinberg. While in New Orleans, Charest and Weinberg organized an event for a women's film festival, and worked at distributing foreign films to US theatres. The couple moved to New York and formed Cinar, then a budding film and television distribution company.
In 1984, Charest and Weinberg changed their focus from media distribution to production, and moved the business to Montreal, where they concentrated on children's television programming because of the favorable tax haven for development and distribution of Television shows. During this time, Charest would go on to serve as either producer or executive producer for dozens of popular animated series for children, including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Animal Crackers, Emily of New Moon, Mona the Vampire, and The Wombles. As a production company, Cinar was also involved in the work of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Madeline, Space Cases, Zoboomafoo, and Arthur. By 1999, Cinar boasted annual revenues of $150 million (CAD) and owned about $1.5 billion (CAD) of the children's television market. The company had become known for quality, non-violent children's programs, was broadcast in more than 150 countries and was one of the founding partners in the Canadian cable television channel TELETOON.
Charest, Micheline Filmography
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2000, role: producer
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1999, role: producer
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1999, role: producer
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1999, role: producer
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1999, role: producer
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1999, role: producer
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1998, role: producer
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1998, role: producer
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1998, role: producer
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1997, role: producer
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1995, role: producer
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1995, role: producer
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1987, role: producer
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1982, role: producer
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