Rudy Buttignol

President, NXT Strategy + Brand, Canada


Rudy Buttignol C.M. is President of NXT Strategy + Brand. Buttignol is an independent broadcast executive and a moderator of the documentary financing forums in Asia and Europe. From 2007 to 2022, he served as President and CEO of British Columbia’s public broadcaster Knowledge Network, and, concurrently, as President of BBC Kids (2011-19). In 1993, Buttignol was recruited as public broadcaster TV Ontario’s first Commissioning Editor in 1993 and served as Creative Head of Network Programming from 2000 to 2006. His award-winning commissions include documentary series Emergency Room; Search & Rescue North Shore; British Columbia; An Untold History; Emmy/Grammy-winner Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach; and Afghanistan, The Wounded Land. Feature documentaries include Manufactured Landscapes and Oscar-nominated Writing with Fire.

From 1975 to 1993, Buttignol worked as an independent writer, director and producer of documentaries and children’s series. He was born in Pordenone Italy, graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Toronto’s York University, and completed executive programs at Harvard and Stanford. Awards include nine Canadian Academy Awards, an honorary Doctorate of Letters, and investiture in the Order of Canada.

Company: NXT Strategy + Brand

Profile
NXT Strategy + Brand is an independent broadcasting consultancy, registered in British Columbia, Canada. As President, Rudy Buttignol provides professional development and consultation services for international broadcasters and producers. He is also a experienced moderator of documentary financing forums in Asia and Europe.

Current NXT clients include Berlin-based Documentary Campus Master School; Rome-based Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo (MIA); KBS, Korean Public Television; Aljazeera Documentary Channel; Italian Trade Agency (Trade Promotion Office of the Italian Consulate, Toronto); Paris-based Sunny Side of the Doc; Taipei-based CNEX Chinese Documentary Forum; Tokyo Docs.; and the Canadian Cultural Property Review Board, a quasi-judicial tribunal of the federal government.