Loc Dao

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Loc Dao is a Canadian digital media creator who is the chief digital officer (CDO) of the National Film Board of Canada. Dao was named CDO in March 2016, after serving as executive producer and creative technologist for the NFB English-language digital studio in Vancouver since 2011.{{cite news|url=https://www.straight.com/movies/699026/vancouvers-loc-dao-becomes-national-film-boards-new-digital-czar|title=Vancouver's Loc Dao becomes the National Film Board's new digital czar|last=Smith|first=Charlie|date=May 16, 2016|work=Georgia Straight|publisher=Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corporation|access-date=May 20, 2016}}{{cite news|last=Hutter|first=Kristy|title=A documentary like no other documentary|url=http://www.macleans.ca/2012/01/18/a-documentary-like-no-other-documentary/|access-date=January 19, 2012|newspaper=Maclean's |date=January 18, 2012}}

In December 2011, Dao was named Canada's Top Digital Producer for 2011 at the Digi Awards in Toronto, formerly known as the Canadian New Media Awards.{{cite news|last=Maloney|first=Val|title=NFB and CBC win at Digi Awards|url=http://realscreen.com/2011/12/07/nfb-and-cbc-win-at-digi-awards/#ixzz1g0NSMCep|access-date=9 December 2011|newspaper=Realscreen|date=December 8, 2011}} His credits include the web documentaries Welcome to Pine Point,{{cite news|last=Mackie|first=John|title=NFB soars in cyberspace |url=http://www.vancouversun.com/health/soars+cyberspace/4931332/story.html |access-date=December 9, 2011 |newspaper=Vancouver Sun |date=June 11, 2011|format=Cached copy}}{{dead link|date=February 2024|bot=medic}} the NFB/ARTE France co-production Barcode.tv,{{cite news|last=Anderson|first=Kelly|title=NFB, ARTE France launch 'Bar Code'|url=http://realscreen.com/2011/10/06/nfb-and-arte-france-launch-bar-code/|access-date=October 7, 2011|newspaper=Reelscreen|date=October 6, 2011}} Circa 1948, Bear 71, God's Lake Narrows, Waterlife, The Test Tube With David Suzuki and Cardboard Crash.{{cite news |url=http://lightbox.time.com/2014/04/17/vancouver-street-view-circa-1948/ |title=Vancouver Street View, Circa 1948 |work=Time Magazine |date=April 17, 2014 |author=Rothman, Lily |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419012226/http://lightbox.time.com/2014/04/17/vancouver-street-view-circa-1948/ |archive-date=April 19, 2014 }}{{cite news|url=http://www.screendaily.com/reports/in-focus/canadian-crossmedia-crosses-borders/5047776.article?blocktitle=In-Focus&contentID=1521|title=Canadian crossmedia crosses borders |last=Romanek |first=Neal |date=October 14, 2012|work=Screen International|publisher=EMAP Ltd.|access-date=October 15, 2012}}{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/meet-the-visionary-behind-one-of-the-worlds-hippest-content-hubs/article16327140/ |title=Meet the visionary behind one of the 'world's hippest' content hubs|last=Houpt|first=Simon|date=January 15, 2014|work=The Globe and Mail|access-date=January 23, 2014}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.northernstars.ca/nfb-wins-11th-digi-award/|title=NFB Wins 11th Digi Award|date=November 16, 2016|work=Northern Stars}}

Prior to joining the NFB, Dao worked on the Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver as well as citizen journalism initiatives, and helped publishing companies transition from print to digital media. He previously worked at CBC Radio, working first as a sound engineer then a webmaster, then serving as a producer and executive producer. He created one of the first websites for CBC in 1994 and in 2002 was executive producer and co-creator of CBC Radio 3.{{cite web|title=Executive Producer and Creative Technologist at the National Film Board of Canada|url=http://www.doclab.org/people/loc-dao/|work=IDFA DocLab|publisher=International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam|access-date=December 9, 2011}}

Dao's replacement as NFB Digital Studio head is Rob McLaughlin, with whom he had previously worked with under the company name Subject Matter Inc., collaborating with Katerina Cizek to develop the NFB transmedia project Filmmaker in Residence, which won the Webby Award for Best Documentary Series in 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/press-room/index.php?id=20276 |title=NFB webdoc Welcome to Pine Point a two-time Webby winner |publisher=National Film Board of Canada|access-date=November 19, 2012}}{{cite web|title=A Mention in the Globe and Mail|url=http://filmmakerinresidence.nfb.ca/blog/?p=137|publisher=Kat Cizek, Filmmaker in Residence Blog, May 7, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304140048/http://filmmakerinresidence.nfb.ca/blog/?p=137|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}