At the National Film Board, government film commissioner Sandra Macdonald says she will be moving on when her term ends on April 9, but has not decided which direction her career will take next.

Macdonald, who was first appointed in 1995 for a five-year term, agreed to stay on for one more year when that term ended in spring 2000.

She joined the nfb just in time to plan for, and then oversee, major budget cuts and a substantial restructuring at the public filmmaking agency, which included closing the shooting stage and the film lab, and radically reducing the number of staff directors. Macdonald said the board would concentrate overwhelmingly on producing docs and animation and cut back almost all drama.

Since the cuts were implemented in 1996, the board has rebounded from the restructuring culture shock to push full throttle into the Internet age with a move to limited online content distribution. *

Susan Tolusso

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