Northern exposure…
Micheline Charest is chairman and ceo of Cinar Films Inc., Montreal….
Beverley Oda, who resigned her post as a full-time crtc commissioner this fall, is now chairperson of the Foundation to Underwrite New Drama for Pay TV….
Denis Harvey, who retired as cbc’s vice-president English television two years ago, recently joined Atlantis Films as president and ceo of YOU: Your Channel, a new specialty channel application….
The doc year in perspective…
commercials…
Wayne Sterloff is president and chief executive officer of British Columbia Film. May his predictions for ’94 be as on the money as his recap of the 1993 film and television scene….
Sutton Place Grande le Meridien Hotel is the nerve centre of the Toronto Festival of Festivals. For the 10 day screening and schmooze fest, executive director Helga Stephenson and her gang pack up their offices on Carlton Street and take up…
June 1990: Montreal filmmaker David Wellington is strolling down St. Catherines Street after midnight when suddenly, passing a parked police squad car, he sees a uniformed officer and a prostitute in a seemingly compromising position….
CIDC invests in first three projects…
Montreal: Trahir, a Romania/ France coproduction from director Radu Mihaileanu, beat out 19 other feature films to emerge as the 1993 winner of the Grand Prix des Ameriques, the top prize in official competition at the Montreal World Film Festival….