Solange Attwood is a highly regarded media executive with a track record of building content businesses that deliver meaningful earnings growth. She has deep relationships with buyers and producers around the world with a keen commercial and creative sensibility evidenced by her success as a distributor, physical producer and content development executive.
Solange was an executive at Blue Ant Media from 2014- 2023, where she launched and then grew Blue Ant Media’s worldwide distribution arm into a global business. She spearheaded the strategic direction of the business and managed co-productions, pre-sales and worldwide sales activities while leading the business’ ongoing expansion and sales offices in Toronto (Canada), London (UK), Singapore, Australia (Asia-Pacific), New York (USA) and Los Angeles (USA). Under her leadership, the division built a slate of 4,500 hours of award-winning content.
An active industry advocate, Attwood is on the Board of Directors of The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, serving as Vice-Chair. Additionally, she has participated as a juror in industry awards events including Realscreen Content Awards and the TBI Content Innovation Awards. Attwood has also sat on Realscreen Summit’s Advisory Board and contributed to Banff World Media Festival’s Diversity of Voices program. Over the last decade, she has been a featured speaker on dozens of industry panels at Realscreen, MIPCOM, Content London, Wildscreen and Banff World Media Festival.
Prior to Blue Ant Media, she served as VP of international sales and development at Si Entertainment, where she headed up the development and launch of the company’s distribution arm and spent four years at Tricon Films & Television working across development, production and distribution.