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Victoria Ahearn

Victoria Ahearn is Editor of Playback. A veteran multimedia arts journalist, she was formerly chief film and TV writer at The Canadian Press and reporter-editor in various departments at the national wire service, landing bylines in the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star and many major publications across the country. She's a Humber Radio Hall of Fame inductee, been a copywriter for Corus Entertainment and written for community paper Danforth CentreTown News. At Playback, she oversees content for the publication's daily newsletter.

Posts by Victoria Ahearn

BIPOC TV & Film’s Unscripted Producers Lab reveals cohort

This inaugural crop of participants for the lab, presented by Bell Media, will undergo six months of professional development and training.

February 16, 2023

Sphere Films acquires Toopy and Binoo the Movie

The distributor will release the Echo Media-produced children’s animated feature in theatres in August.

February 15, 2023

BANFF’s ISS pitch forum adds documentary, unscripted genres

The Indigenous Screen Summit program, in partnership with the ISO and CMF, also accepts pitches in scripted drama and comedy.

February 14, 2023

Makers to traverse the globe for The Blind Couple From Mali

Principal photography is set for several countries for the feature-length doc about married musical duo Amadou & Mariam.

February 14, 2023

Deals: eOne, Crave, Sinking Ship Entertainment, Boat Rocker

Entertainment One has landed international distribution rights to Australian pop-group drama Paper Dolls, Crave acquires drama series The Congregation, and more.

February 13, 2023

Kavalry Productions partners with Wind Sun Sky on Bhalla

The Canadian companies will develop the Kavalry original adult animated comedy series, about a basketball-loving Indian teen living in a racially diverse suburb.

February 13, 2023

Photo gallery: Prime Time 2023

A snapshot of the Canadian Media Producers Association’s annual conference, which returned to in-person events with a record 900 delegates earlier this month.

February 10, 2023

APL Film boards Canadian queer drama Polarized

The company has picked up foreign sales rights to the Manitoba-shot feature from Shamim Sarif and plans to represent it at EFM.

February 9, 2023

CBS president, CEO George Cheeks set for BANFF ’23 keynote

Cheeks, who is also CCO, news and sports, for Paramount+, will speak about the evolving industry as part of the festival’s Summit Series.

February 9, 2023

SODEC chooses 14 docs for production funding

Les Productions des Films de l’Autre and the National Film Board of Canada are among those with two docs apiece on the list.

February 8, 2023

CSAs ’23: Samantha Bee to host as in-person events return

Canadian Screen Week in April will include a series of awards shows, culminating in a CBC broadcast show hosted by Bee.

February 7, 2023

SODEC launches new program for strategic projects

The new grant offers a maximum of $750,000 per year and follows another recently announced SODEC support program for cultural events, including film festivals.

February 6, 2023