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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

OUTtv Proud, Shades of Black join Pluto TV Canada

Pluto TV and Fuse Media have secured the first North American distribution deal for OUTtv Proud, and partnered to bring Shades of Black to Pluto TV Canada.

February 3, 2023

BDC launches $30 million financing envelope

BDC has also announced a partnership with Telefilm in tandem with the new envelope, which is targeted at rapidly growing businesses in the creative, cultural industries.

February 2, 2023

Dark Slope, Immersion Room set new collaboration

The Toronto-based virtual production studios are joining forces on an “all-in-one solution” that’s billed as a “game-changer” for the industry.

February 2, 2023

Blue Ant Media greenlights three series for 2023

The programs span the mystery, crime and paranormal genres and will air on the company’s Canadian specialty TV networks and global free streaming platforms.

February 1, 2023

Infinity Pool makes a splash at the box office

Elevation Pictures says Brandon Cronenberg’s sci-fi horror grossed the largest opening for an English Canadian film release since 2021.

January 30, 2023

Aren Prupas appointed president, CEO of Muse Entertainment

He takes the reins from Michael Prupas, who stepped down on Jan. 1 and became executive chairman of the board.

January 30, 2023

imagineNATIVE, Netflix launch $125,000 Jeff Barnaby Grant

Named in honour of the late Mi’gmaq filmmaker, the grant is open to First Nations, Inuit, or Métis film and television creatives located in Canada.

January 27, 2023

Former TIFF co-director Noah Cowan dies at 55

Cowan’s career also included roles as founding artistic director of TIFF Bell Lightbox and executive director of the San Francisco International Film Festival.

January 26, 2023

CosMedia launches LatAm distribution arm

Alongside the launch is CosMedia’s new distribution deal with Incendo to represent its catalogue of movies to Latin American buyers.

January 25, 2023

How to Fail as a Popstar takes off as a limited series

Sphere Media is producing the adaptation of Vivek Shraya’s one-person play, now in production as a CBC Gem original with Vanessa Matsui as director.

January 24, 2023

WPBS cranks up the heat on MBI Productions’ Hot Buttons

The PBS member television station has greenlit the factual series from the production arm of Toronto-based Media Business Institute.

January 23, 2023

Playback’s Changemakers of the Year 2022

Shamier Anderson and Stephan James, co-founders of The Black Academy and Bay Mills Studios, want to level up the Legacy Awards and help creators.

January 23, 2023