Steven Cameau, founding partner and president of Halifax-based Collideascope Digital Productions, was presented the Industry Advocate of the Year award at Newmedia2000, the first annual Canadian new media awards, held in Toronto May 15 -18….

* Rick Brace has been appointed president of NetStar Sports and senior vp of CTV Sports and Outdoor Life Network….

Montreal: Cite-Amerique International is actively looking to build its Canadian and international sales catalogue. The distrib’s vp Pascale Hebert is attending the Banff Television Festival, June 11-16, where she says Cite-Amerique will offer distribution advances against Canadian and international sales rights…

Montreal: Marquise Lepage’s disturbing documentary Des Marelles et des petites filles…/Of Hopscotch and Little Girls has been awarded the Grand Jury Prize by Communications et Societe/Communications Sociales, a long-established Quebec cultural organization dedicated to promoting quality and ethical issues in communications….

Vancouver: The second and final awards night for the 2000 Leos on May 13 in Vancouver saw production titles like The New Addams Family, Stolen Lives, A Feeling Called Glory, Da Vinci’s Inquest and My Father’s Angel dominate….

Members of the Atlantic Film Partners – comprised of Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, the Newfoundland Labrador Film Development Corporation, Film nb and PEI Business Development – banded together in Halifax in early May and successfully negotiated a means to access…

Andre Provencher, president of TVA Group subsidiary TVA International, has announced Motion International will now be known as TVA International. ‘This choice allows us to drive the TVA Group’s strong brand image worldwide,’ says Provencher….

Montreal: Halifax-based Salter Street Films has re-acquired more than 1.2 million outstanding common shares of Salter New Media, including the common shares issued upon conversion of Salter New Media special warrants, bringing Salter Street’s ownership to 98%. Prior to the transaction,…

Montreal: BBM Bureau of Broadcast Measurement and Media Metrix Canada have launched a mini-convergence test in a handful of people-metered tv households in b.c. and Ontario….

Vancouver: The British Columbia Film Commission hosted a business development forum in London, Eng. May 17 to cultivate relationships between u.k. and b.c. producers….

Vancouver: StreamScapes, the webcasting and streaming division of Peace Arch Entertainment in Vancouver, has signed its first major deal and will provide live event webcasting services to Sharp’s Audio-Visual Ltd….

*TEAC ready to roll the TASCAM MX-2424…