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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

Bell Media announces development project with all-Black executive production team

The planned bilingual anthology series Festivale, by and about Black Canadians, will also serve as an incubator supported by the Black Screen Office.

March 29, 2022

Sandrine Pechels de Saint Sardos tapped as Ottawa’s new film commissioner

The veteran media and entertainment executive replaces Bruce Harvey, who moved to Vancouver to work in production and be closer to family.

March 28, 2022

Je me soulève among Canadian winners at International Festival of Films on Art

The short We Are Not Speaking the Same Language also won an honour at the Montreal festival, which features films on art.

March 28, 2022

Canadians win Oscars for Dune, The Queen of Basketball

Patrice Vermette took a trophy for production design on Dune while director-producer Ben Proudfoot won Best Documentary Short for The Queen of Basketball.

March 28, 2022

Deals: VisionTV, Spin Master, Nelvana, TV5 Quebec

VisionTV acquires Servant of the People, Skydance names Spin Master as master toy partner, Nelvana makes deals surrounding Sesame Street and Babar, plus more.

March 25, 2022

Ontario saw a record $2.88 billion in film and TV production spending for 2021

Toronto is also reporting a record of more than $2.5 billion in direct spending in film, TV and digital media productions last year, surpassing 2019 figures.

March 25, 2022

CRTC gives conditional approval to Rogers’ takeover of Shaw

The CRTC says Rogers must contribute $27.2 million to initiatives and funds that benefit the Canadian content system – five times more than it had originally proposed.

March 24, 2022

In brief: Hot Docs adds buzzy Canadian docs to lineup

Plus: Quebec boosts presence at Series Mania Forum, Greater Hood Productions launches, Spike & Sadie Media acquires 10 projects from Breakthrough Entertainment, and more.

March 24, 2022

Slash/Back to open TIFF Next Wave Film Festival

TIFF has also announced this year’s Next Wave Committee as well as a partnership with Hot Docs to welcome youth audiences back to the cinema.

March 24, 2022

BANFF to launch first in-person Indigenous Screen Summit

The summit is in partnership with the Indigenous Screen Office and Canada Media Fund.

March 24, 2022

Network execs dive into global programming trends

BANFF Connect ’22: Programming heads at Discovery, Starz and CBC discussed what they’re looking for and how to pitch.

March 23, 2022

Boris Rodriguez wins TIFF–CBC Films Screenwriter Award

The filmmaker took the honour for Zoila and Andy, which he’s developing with the support of the CFC and Netflix.

March 23, 2022