A Note from Incoming GMSC President, Heather Gardner
Dear friends and colleagues,
I am honoured to take on the role of President alongside the GMSC’s new Board of Directors! With our new co-Vice Presidents Andrea Higgins and Cody Partridge, Treasurer Kyle Merkley, and Officers Natasha Duprey and Everton Lewis Jr., I can’t wait to see where we can take the GMSC together.
The GMSC is a small but mighty organization, whose power lies not in the number of our members, but for the passion each of us have for the craft of music supervision and our sync community. As a guild, our job is to support and celebrate our members by providing resources and opportunities to further the profile of music supervision within both the music and filmed media industries, and to work with each of you to strengthen our ecosystem. I’m excited about our overarching goals for this year, as well as diving deeper into how we can meet not only the needs and expectations of our members, but of our friends and partners working in both the music and filmed media industries.
As we work to plan community building events, create educational outreach, and pursue opportunities for recognition of our craft, a major goal of the GMSC is to continue to strengthen our industry partnerships — we want to work with each of you to bring knowledge of sync to your memberships, companies and communities, and I’d love to chat about how we can make that happen. Each and every one of your insights and expertise is invaluable, and I look forward to working with you all!
Lastly, I wanted to express a huge thank you to Michael Perlmutter and the outgoing Board of Directors (a massive shout out to Christine Leslie and Valerie Biggin for your years of collaboration!). You have created an incredible foundation upon which we are excited to build and grow. Michael — you have left big shoes to fill, and I promise to keep your spirit of collaboration and community going.
My inbox/zoom/phone/texts/ears are always open — please reach out absolutely any time with ideas, questions, concerns, or if you just want to chat/grab a coffee (and stay tuned for more information on the 2025 Canadian Sync Awards very soon!).
All the best,
Heather