FIL FRASER has
been a life-long broadcaster, journalist, television program director
and CEO, and a television and feature film producer. Based in Edmonton
he is the author of the best-selling memoir, Alberta’s Camelot
– Culture and the Arts in the Lougheed Years and Running Uphill
– the Fast, Short Life of Harry Jerome, a biography of the Canadian
Olympic sprinter, soon to be a feature documentary film produced by
the National Film Board.
Fraser is an
adjunct professor of Communications Studies at Athabasca University,
Canada’s pioneering distance learning institution where he teaches
a graduate course on film policy. He is a former Chief Commissioner
of the Alberta Human Rights Commission, and the former CEO of Vision
TV.
When he’s
not trying to improve his tennis, he keeps his journalistic chops up
by writing a column on corporate ethics for Alberta Venture. He has
two more books under way; a biography of Toronto radio station owner,
Denham (Flow 93.5, Toronto and The Bounce, Edmonton) Jolly, and a novel
built around Black immigration to British Columbia in the 1850s.
Fil and his wife,
Gladys Odegard, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in 2008.