Bournival moves to A&D

Andreanne Bournival is leaving her post as program director at TV5 Quebec/ Canada to become vice-president, programming at A&D Television, the new French-language specialty doc channel (formerly Arts et Divertissements).

One of Quebec’s leading broadcast executives, Bournival was responsible for coproductions and acquisitions at Radio-Quebec from 1970 to 1981. She held similar duties at Radio-Canada from 1981-88 when she was named director general of programming, the top programming position at Radio-Canada. In 1992, she was named director general programming with TV5.

Bournival takes up her new post Oct. 3.

WFF lineup

Nineteen feature films will vie for the Grand Prix des Ameriques – top prize at the Montreal World Film Festival – including four Canadian or Canadian-coproduced entries: Andre Forcier’s Le Vent du Wyoming, Micheline Lanctot’s La Vie d’un Heros, Claude Massot’s Kabloonak and Roger Spottiswoode’s Mermer.

Name appearances include Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gabriel Byrne, Catherine O’Hara, Fernando Ray and Gong Li, while tributes will be offered to Canadian producer/distributor Rene Malo and u.s. actor Steve Martin.

New films from Alan Rudolph, Kryzystof Kielowski, Zhang Yimou, Nanni Moretti, Jacques Godbout and Paul Cox are also part of this year’s promising program.

The wff’s 18th edition has scheduled some 250 features, four late-night outdoor screenings, plus 72 short films from 60 countries. It runs Aug. 25 to Sept. 5.