Laszlo Barna is executive producer of Barna-Alper Productions, and chair of the Canadian Film and Television Production Association.

Veteran producer Laszlo Barna, this year alone, has garnered 30 Gemini Award nominations, including 10 for Da Vinci’s Inquest and 10 for Blue Murder.
Those were the good old days – but you never realize these things at the time. All I could focus on then was that none of my shows were nominated for a Gemini. Self-pityingly, it seemed to me that everyone else had a reason to go to the live broadcast and awards dinner, everyone but me.
I tried various rationales to make myself feel better: the Geminis were fixed; they had a secret rule that only one Hungarian could be nominated per season and Robert Lantos was clearly unbeatable, forever. I told myself the broadcast sucked; the wrong program always won; the juries were made up of drunkards and drug addicts. But the fact was that none of these excuses made me feel any better – until I found the perfect Outsiders Retribution – gate crashing.