ReCON
Toronto
2017
MAY 2017 \\ TORONTO \\ CANADA
PRODUCTION PANEL
Appearances were subject to change due to unforeseen professional or personal commitments.
CHRIS HEYN
production coordinator for reality series like Fox’s Celebrity Boxing. Before arriving in Southern California, Heyn also wrote a variety of feature articles, music and film reviews for regional publications and local newspapers in the eastern and southeastern United States. In recent years, Heyn has moved from TV production into TV advertising, where he manages national campaigns for several clients across the automotive, health and online retail sectors. In his free time, he enjoys exploring US national parks, and has currently spent extended time hiking through 42 out of the 59 parks to date.
Biography: Natalie Fokes was the Canadian script coordinator and 2nd unit coordinator from Seasons 1 to 3 on La Femme Nikita. During that time, Natalie was involved with all aspects of script revisions throughout the production prep phase, readying stories for camera. The 2nd unit coordinator’s position, allowed for Natalie to experience the script-to-shoot process, as she worked
NATALIE FOKES
Though script is Natalie’s favourite domain, she decided to reach beyond her story world to learn the financial aspects of film and television production. Since Nikita, Natalie relocated to Vancouver, BC, where she is presently a construction accountant on the popular ABC Studios television series, Once Upon A Time.
In Natalie’s free time, she heads into the coastal mountains of beautiful British Columbia where she researches and writes stories giving light to the world’s most unsung courageous and amazing women who changed the world. Indeed, Nikita continues to be a muse and inspiration in Natalie’s works.
with the 2nd unit team coordinating production logistics in regards to shooting all the Nikita action and stunt sequences.
Biography: Christopher Heyn was the assistant to executive consultants Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran for all five seasons of La Femme Nikita, and served primarily as the series’ script coordinator in the Los Angeles office. During the run of the series, he also ran one of the most popular La Femme Nikita message boards, and made several personal appearances on behalf of the producers to three of the four La Femme Nikita fan conventions in Toronto. As the special features consultant to the La Femme Nikita DVD releases, his voice can be heard on the commentary tracks for the deleted scenes included on the Season Four boxed set. After La Femme Nikita concluded, Heyn spent the next five-plus years writing the ultimate insider’s guide to the making of the series, and the book "Inside Section One: Creating and Producing TV’s La Femme Nikita" was published in October 2006, with a special introduction from series lead Peta Wilson.
Beyond La Femme Nikita, Heyn has worked on a number of other high-profile television series, either as a story coordinator for action dramas like Baywatch, or a post-