* New appointments to the Canadian Association of Broadcasters executive committee are: board of directors chair Paul Robertson, president, televison, Corus Entertainment; television board chair Trina McQueen, president & COO, CTV; specialty & pay board chair Lisa de Wilde, president & CEO, Astral Television Networks; television board vice chair Glenn O’Farrell, senior VP, specialty services, Global Television Network; specialty & pay board vice chair Serge Bellerose, director general, Le Canal Nouvelle; and special delegate Jay Switzer, president, Chum Television.

* Catherine Donohue has been promoted to VP, distribution and Canadian sales for Nelvana.

In her new position, she will continue to oversee the sales of Nelvana’s animation programming to Canadian broadcast and home video markets. Additionally, she will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the company’s international sales distribution and creative services activities. Before joining Nelvana in 1998, Donohue served as a sales executive for seven years, most recently at Cinar.

* Christina Pochmursky has been appointed programming director of The Documentary Channel, effective May 21.

Pochmursky is a seasoned documentary maker, with such credits to her name as Incredible Medical Mysteries: Dwarves – Little People, Big Lives.

The Documentary Channel is a partnership of Corus Entertainment, CBC, the NFB, Barna-Alper Productions, CineNova Productions, Galafilm and OMNI Film Productions.

* Gerry Legros has been appointed VP/head of production for Calibre Digital Pictures. In his four years at Calibre, Legros has held such positions as compositor and senior visual effects producer.

Prior to joining Calibre, he was a compositing assistant at Dave.

* Johanna Lunn Montgomery has been appointed to the position of director of programming for the Independent Film Channel Canada, effective June 4.

Most recently, Johanna was head of independent production for Atlantic Canada for CTV, responsible for commissioning award-winning documentaries, dramas and comedy series for the network. From 1992 to 1997, she was the program director for the Atlantic Film Festival and expanded the festival’s International Perspectives program by strengthening ties with Celtic and Scandinavian countries. She is also the founder of ScreenScene: Film and Television for Young People, English Canada’s first competitive children’s film festival.

* Veteran Canadian film and TV producer Murray Shostak has joined Productions La Fete in the newly created post of senior VP, corporate development.

A former president of Universal Productions Canada, an MCA company, and Canadian International Studios, Shostak assumes responsibility for La Fete’s business expansion and strategic partnerships, including the development of a digital specialty TV service called Equestrian Planet/ Planete Equestre.

La Fete has also announced the nomination of Xiao Juan Zhou to the position of VP, distribution. Zhou was supervising producer on the Shanghai, China-leg of the new Radio-Canada drama series L’Or, produced by La Fete president/founder Rock Demers and Pierre Gendron, and has been with company since 1998.

* Paris-based Julie Bergeron has left her functions as deputy manager of the European office of Telefilm Canada. Bergeron will work as a consultant to the European office on two major industry events to be announced during next month’s Banff Television Festival.

Sophie Grandmagnac has joined Telefilm’s Paris office as executive-assistant to director Sheila de La Varende.

* Former Bell Canada consumer markets director Marc Pichette has been named communications director with Tele des Arts. The new French-language arts specialty channel is scheduled to launch this fall.

* Tracey Friesen has joined the National Film Board as a Vancouver-based documentary producer. Previously, she worked at Rainmaker Entertainment Group as a visual effects producer, post supervisor and director of sales.

* Richard Cederlund has been promoted to operations manager at Vancouver’s Northwest Imaging & FX. Previously, he was senior engineer.

Digital effects artist Matthew Talbot-Kelly, an Inferno specialist, has returned to Vancouver to join the staff roster of Northwest Imaging.

* Leslie Krueger has been appointed Teletoon’s new director of promotions. Krueger joins the animation station with 12 years of agency experience and was appointed VP, group media director at BBDO in 1997.

Most recently, he was a senior digital artist at Windmill Lane Pictures in Dublin, Ireland. Previously, he worked at Gajedecki Visual Effects in Vancouver.

* Alan Hibben, CEO of Royal Bank Capital Partners, has joined the board of directors at Peace Arch Entertainment.

* Former Radio-Canada Washington correspondent Guy Gendron has been appointed SRC’s new Paris correspondent, replacing Celine Galipeau, who’s been named to the Beijing bureau.

Christine Saint-Pierre moves from the Ottawa parliamentary beat to SRC’s Washington desk.

Public affairs journalist Jean-Francois Belanger, previously with doc showcase Zone Libre, is the network’s new correspondent in Abijan.

* Bohdan Zajcew, general manager of Knowledge Network, has been appointed president of the Association for Tele-Education in Canada, for a two-year term starting May 7.

Established in 1974, ATEC is the only national organization dedicated to promoting and advancing the interests of educational broadcasting in Canada.

Member agencies include Access Alberta, the Saskatchewan Communications Network, TVOntario, TeleQuebec, APTN, CLT and the Open Learning Agency. *