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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

Sort Of among winners at ACTRA Awards

Kelly McCormack of Sugar Daddy and Dayo Ade of Cinema of Sleep were among the other winners at the 20th annual ceremony, while ACTRA National names its Woman of the Year.

March 7, 2022

Canada Council for the Arts declares solidarity with Ukraine

The Canada Council’s statement that it will cease funding for “all activity involving the participation of Russian or Belarusian artists or arts organizations” has drawn some criticism on social media.

March 7, 2022

Sort Of leads WGC Screenwriting Awards nominations

The CBC dramedy scored four of the five nominations in the Comedy Series category, which also includes CTV’s Corner Gas Animated.

March 4, 2022

APTN, CBC/Radio-Canada pledge to work together on Indigenous content

APTN CEO Monika Ille and CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Catherine Tait discuss how the memorandum of understanding will enhance their abilities to create First Nations, Inuit and Métis programming.

March 4, 2022

Political Blind Date set for swan song season on TVO

The pubcaster says the fifth season of the unscripted series, in which politicians go on “dates” to discuss their viewpoints, will be the last.

March 4, 2022

In brief: Something Like Truth is tops at the 2022 JETS Initiative

Plus: Face to Face with David returns to Slice, Welcome to Soulshine set for Series Mania and AstroLab readies its first original production.

March 3, 2022

EAVE announces participants for program for racialized producers

Forty-two creators hailing from across the country will participate in the EAVE On Demand Access Program.

March 3, 2022

Incendo, Nicely Entertainment ink development and production partnership

The first project on the docket is the limited series The Christmas Checklist, set to shoot in and around Montreal.

March 2, 2022

Ashley Rice named president and co-managing partner of Cinespace

Rice joins Cinespace executives Eoin Egan and Keith Gee in managing the growth of the global studio platform.

March 2, 2022

Future of Film Showcase reveals new leadership team, programmers, advisory board

The appointments, including co-founder Eric Bizzarri as CEO, come ahead of the short film festival’s ninth edition this summer.

March 1, 2022

Ukraine 24 appoints VMedia as its official distributor in Canada

Toronto-based VMedia is among several broadcasters who’ve dropped Russian state-owned television network RT from their lineups amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

March 1, 2022

Canadian film community reacts to Oscars telecast category cuts

The Canadian Cinema Editors group is calling on the Academy to reconsider its decision to present several categories before next month’s Oscars broadcast.

March 1, 2022