Professional Dreamer. Tech Savvy Educator. Creative Storyteller. Dr. Helen Sianos brings more than 20 years of national live, field, remote and studio broadcast television experience as a senior producer, writer, video editor and director with most of Canada's top networks such as CBC, Corus, and Bell Media. Her passion for children and youth programming in the broadcast arena led to a fulfilling career working for CBC, YTV, and TELETOON.
At the CBC she was an interstitial writer, producer, director, and chase producer for the after-school block of programming. She booked a wide range of celebrities from the world of sports, music, film and television and worked with children who were then prepared for their on-camera interviews with the celebrities.
After YTV, the marketing department at TELETOON hired Dr. Sianos. She was a promo producer, writer, non-linear digital editor, and director of live-action promos and multi-platform interstitial content for TELETOON and TELETOON Retro. She worked on campaigns for both the English and French specialty animation channels.
At the CBC she was an interstitial writer, producer, director, and chase producer for the after-school block of programming. Dr. Sianos booked a wide range of celebrities from the world of sports, music, film and television and worked with children who were then prepared for their on-camera interviews with the celebrities.
Dr. Sianos wrote and produced interstitial content for The Zone on YTV. After YTV, the marketing department at TELETOON hired Dr. Sianos where she was a promo producer, writer, non-linear digital editor, and director of live-action promos and multi-platform interstitial content. She worked on campaigns for both the English and French specialty animation channels.
In 2010, she was one of only twenty broadcast media professionals across Canada who was awarded a scholarship to the CWC / Corus Digital Media & Technology Executive Development Program.
As faculty at Centennial College, she was a 2014 recipient of two President's Spirit Awards at Centennial College.
Dr. Sianos continues to freelance, with her most recent work as a movie trailer editor for Harlequin film collection adaptations airing on Netflix, NBCUniversal, UPTV, Super Channel (Canada), Channel 5 (United Kingdom), M6 (France), RTBF (Belgium).
Dr. Sianos weaves together her industry work, teaching, and academic research. Her current research interests include media curriculum development, the careers of Ontario college media professors, the history and future growth of college media programs in Ontario.