* Valerie Gray has joined Montreal’s Cine-Groupe as the director of development and will work out of the company’s Toronto office. Luce Pellerin has also come aboard as Cine-Groupe’s legal counsel of business affairs and will be working out of head office in Montreal.

* Alliance Atlantis Communications’ former director of merchandising and licensing, Sharon Copotosto, has been promoted to vp, merchandising and licensing.

* Brad Van Arragon has been promoted to vp of production and development at Vancouver’s Shavick Entertainment. Most recently, he was director of production for the company.

* Radio-Canada has announced the nomination of Brigitte Lemonde as program director, culture and variety. Lemonde assumes her new duties immediately and has been with the network for since 1984 in a variety of senior programming and production positions. She replaces Marie Perreault who left in late September.

* Jamie Wynne has been appointed head of development and production at Telegenic Productions, the production division of Telegenic Communications. Wynne is former manager of original production at TMN-The Movie Network.

* Vancouver’s Lost Boys Studios – an effects company for projects such as mgm’s series Stargate – has hired three new visual effects artists: Mark Meloche, Allan Henderson and Kevin Genzel.

* The Canadian Film Centre has appointed three new members to its board of directors: Alain Gourd, president and ceo of BCE Media in Montreal; Charlie Coffey, Royal Bank’s exec vp of business banking; and Larry Wasser, founder, chairman and ceo of Beamscope Canada.