network programming, green lighting commissions such as: Genie Award-winning Champagne Safari (1995) by George Ungar Gemini Award-winning Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows (1998) by Paul Jay Emmy Award-winning Let it come down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1999) by Jennifer Baichwal The Corporation (2003) by Joel Bakan, Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott Multiple Gemini Award-winning Dying at Grace (2004) by Allan King Oscar-nominated Hardwood (2005) by Hubert Davis (filmmaker) Manufactured Landscapes (2006) by Jennifer Baichwal In 2004, he shared the Gemini's Donald Brittain Award with documentary filmmaker Allan King for Dying at Grace (2003). In 2007, Buttignol was awarded the inaugural Hot Docs' Doc Mogul Award. All together, Buttignol was the recipient of nine Gemini Awards, from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. In 2007, Buttignol was appointed as president and CEO of British Columbia's Knowledge Network. In 2011, he became president of BBC Kids. His mandate includes outreach through events throughout British Columbia. Along with his professional success, Buttignol contributed to and participated in a number of organizations. He is current Chair of the International Advisory Council of the Hot Docs Documentary Forum, Vice-Chair of the Canadian Association of Public Educational Media; and a Director on the Boards of the Vancouver International Film Festival, and the Cultural Properties Export Review Board which is a Canadian federal government tribunal. Buttignol is also a director on the board of the Britannia Mine Museum, Britannia Beach, British Columbia. In the past, he was founder of the Hot Docs Financing Forum, elected chair of the board of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television from 1997 to 2003, President of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Foundation, director on the boards of Banff Television Foundation, Canada Media Fund, Canadian Conference of the Arts, and moderator at the Hot Docs Documentary Festival Summit. Buttignol was also a member of the European Television and Media Management Academy's Advisory Council in Strasbourg. In 2013, Buttignol was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his contributions to British Columbians and Canadians, and for his role in transforming the Knowledge Network, British Columbia's public broadcaster. On December 30, 2015, it was announced that Buttignol was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions as a champion of Canadian documentary filmmaking and for his transformative leadership at the Knowledge Network. In 2017, Buttignol's arts advocacy was recognized with an