Biography
Barbara Willis Sweete is a Canadian director and producer. Born on 6 January 1953 in Kamloops, she studied music at the University of Western Ontario and film at York University. In 1979 she co-founded the production company that became Rhombus Media with Niv Fichman; Larry Weinstein joined soon after.
She produced Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) and has directed music documentaries, theatre adaptations and opera films. Notable credits include episodes of Great Performances, Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach (1997), Perfect Pie (2002) and more than thirty Metropolitan Opera HD Live transmissions from 2008 onwards. She received an Academy Award nomination for producing the short documentary Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra (1986).
Sweete left Rhombus Media in 2015 and later co-founded Willis Sweete Productions and Artemis Pictures in Toronto.
