* The Vancouver Film School has reorganized its senior management.

Newcomer Marty Hasselbach, a 17-year veteran of private post-secondary education management, is director of operations. Eileen Hoeter, director of film studies, adds writing, acting and makeup to her responsibilities. Likewise, animation dean Graeme Gish gets the new, expanded title of director of programming for new media and animation. Vancouver International Writers Festival alumnus Marci Crossan is the school’s new marketing and communications manager.

Other internal changes include the appointment of program managers for each area of study: Tiann Arnault (3D computer animation and Maya), Anne Denman-Wilde (classical animation), Bev Wood (film) and Carol Sill (new media).

* Leanore Copeland is the cftpa’s new director, external relations in Vancouver. She will be involved in national and provincial government activities, association affairs and events, and promoting the association’s profile in b.c. Most recently, Copeland was a senior policy advisor to mp Herb Dhaliwal, a one-time minister of national revenue.

* Sara Shaak, director of the Prince George Film Commission in northern b.c., has been elected to the board of directors for the Association of Film Commissioners International. Shaak is the first b.c. commissioner elected to the board and the second Canadian after Gail Thomson of the Ontario Film Development Corporation. President of the international board is Ward Emling of the Mississippi Film Office.

* Paul Mitchell, senior director of content standards and tools for Microsoft tv platforms division, has been appointed to Vision tv’s board of directors along with Dr. Harish C. Jain, professor of human resources and labor relations at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. *