* L’Association des Producteurs de Films et de Television du Quebec elected a new board of directors at its annual congress earlier this month.

Jacquelin Bouchard, president of Productions Pixart, has been elected chairman. Louise Gendron, president of Productions du Cerf, is the new first vp and section head for feature films. Pierre Mercier, an executive with Sonolab, is the apftq’s new secretary/treasurer and technical industries section head, and Lise Lafontaine, a producer with Verseau International, is co-section head for feature films.

Claude Veillet, president of Telefiction, has been elected section head, television. Sylvie Berthiaume of Video 30 is the section head for corporate film and video.

Other apftq board members include Sovimage producer Vincent Gabriele (tv), information producer Nathalie Barton (documentary) and Cinelande producer Pierre Lalande (commercials).

Claude Heroux and Nicolas Clermont are the outgoing apftq cochairs.

* Richard Genin has offically retired from his post as Quebec vp, Television Bureau of Canada after a 40-year career in the industry. Genin was a longtime sales and marketing executive with Tele-Metropole.

* Former TVA Television Network executive Marc-Andre Menard has been named director, multimedia projects for Videoway Multimedia, the sales and marketing and production arm for ubi.

* Scott Garvie has joined Shaftesbury Films as vp, business affairs. For the past three years, Garvie has been in-house counsel at Telefilm Canada.

* The Canadian Film Centre has announced this year’s residents. They are: Aaron Bushkowsky, Jennifer Kierans, Arlene Hazzan Green, David Strupp, Carol Clusiau, Graeme Manson, Scott Smith, Toinette Terry, Brenda Terning, Karen Walton, Andrew Ainsworth, Oscar Fenoglio, Kris Lefcoe, Vincenzo Natali, Margaret Webb and Mark Wihak.

* Robert Blair, formerly with Malofilm Distribution, is the new director of television sales for Polygram Filmed Entertainment Canada.

* Daniel Weinzweig, president of Norstar Entertainment and former chair of Cinephile Limited, has been appointed managing director, business development and operations for Mayfair Entertainment International. Mayfair is a London, Eng.-based film and tv sales company which was recently merged into TMN Capital.

* Marie Collin has left Tele-Metropole to join Television Quatre Saisons as its new director of communications.

* Wendy MacKeigan is the new fund chairperson. MacKeigan, formerly number two at the Ontario Film Development Corporation, was most recently executive director for the animation channel application fun tv.

* Rob King is now president, creative affairs at Minds Eye Pictures, where he’s been a partner for three years.

* Sophie Ferrand is licensing manager at newly formed Gaumont Multimedia, a division of Gaumont.

* At The Summer Institute of Film and Television’s gala awards ceremony in Ottawa last week, Gordon Pinsent was presented the lifetime achievement award and Jean Pierre Lefebvre was honored ‘pour son oeuvre entiere.’ The outstanding corporate achievement award went to Alliance Communications and Suzette Couture received the outstanding achievement in screenwriting award. Denise Robert was named the Institute’s outstanding graduate. The gala also paid tribute to Due South and Exotica.