A North Bay woman, now living in Oakville is a winner in the Canadian Screen Awards competition.
Lisa Barley is part of a team that won in the "Best Picture Editing, Reality/Competition" category for CTV's The Amazing Race Canada.
The show was up against Big Brother Canada, Iron Chef Canada, and Top Chef Canada.
"I was really happy. It's important to stress that it was a team effort," she told BayToday. "There's a whole bunch of us that edit Amazing Race, separated into teams, and I worked on five episodes last year. We all cut segments of the show, then they piece it all together."
Unfortunately, COVID 19 prevented a live ceremony.
"To me, that was really disappointing because I've never been nominated for a CFA before so I've never been to the awards show, but they did it virtually this year and it was on social media platforms so me and my fiance watched it on YouTube live and it was pretty neat and I was quite excited."
Barley grew up in North Bay, attending St. Joseph Scollard Hall, then went to Nipissing University for a year for English."
"It really wasn't my thing, so I decided to try broadcast journalism because I always loved watching MuchMusic and MTV, as teenagers do."
So she applied to Sheridan College in Oakville.
"I then realized I didn't want to be an on-air person but I really got into editing."
From there she got a pair of intern jobs, one at MTV and MuchMusic, which ticked off a couple of boxes on her bucket list. In 2013 she got a picture editor's job and now mainly works on reality and lifestyle shows.
Barley, who still has parents and family living in North Bay, is now a television editor who works on contract and is currently working on a Netflix show called "Blown Away."
While fun, Barley says editing Amazing Race is a lot of work.
"They are constantly shooting while following the contestants all day so we have tons of footage to go through. Because it's not a scripted show with anything written we have to watch all the footage and piece together the stories that are the most entertaining."
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television is a national, non-profit, professional association dedicated to the promotion, recognition, and celebration of exceptional achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media.
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