* Denise Donlon has been elected to the board of directors at CHUM Ltd. A longtime CHUM employee, and former VP and GM of MuchMusic, Donlon was also president of Sony Music Canada from 2000 to 2004.

* Martin Markle is now the executive in charge of production of CBC children’s and youth programming. Markle was executive producer of the CBC kids’ series The X and The Morgan Waters Show.

* Nathalie Courville is now director general of marketing and communications at the National Film Board. Courville has worked in communications for more than 20 years, at companies such as L’Équipe Spectra, Zone3 and Livent.

* Carrie Dumont has joined Cookie Jar Entertainment as its VP of business affairs, returning from a U.S. post. Dumont was previously at Nelvana as its VP of business and legal affairs.

* Breakthrough Entertainment has appointed Nat Abraham its head of Canadian sales and acquisitions. Abraham has held posts at 20th Century Fox and Astral Communications and was SVP of worldwide sales for Sullivan Entertainment International.

* Susanne Bell is now interim CEO of SaskFilm, following the departure of Valerie Creighton, who was recently named president of the Canadian Television Fund. A former producer and production coordinator, Bell has served as SaskFilm’s director of programs and services for the last seven years.

* Original Pictures producer Kim Todd has been elected chair of the Manitoba Motion Picture Industry Association, replacing Frantic Films’ Jamie Brown, who has stepped down. Brown will remain on the board as a producer representative.

* Sophie McGarry is the new president of Women in Film & Video Vancouver. McGarry has served on the WIFVV board of directors since April 2004.

* Alliance Atlantis Communications has appointed Sara Moore to SVP of marketing and communications. Previously, she was in marketing with Rogers Wireless.

* Mike McConnell is the new GM of Casablanca Magnetic North, but will also continue as its director of sales. Carolyne McLean has been named studio manager.

* Liz Shorten is now the partnerships executive for CBC in British Columbia, coming over from the B.C. Film Commission. Alden Habacon has also come aboard, to CBC B.C.’s newly created position of partnerships manager, ZeD and Radio 3. Habacon previously served the Ceeb as a consultant on diversity.

* Anne Liota has been promoted to director of marketing solutions at Rogers Sportsnet. Liota is a five-year employee at Sportsnet, and has also held posts at Alliance Atlantis and CTV.