Just the facts…

* Motion International cfo Pierre Guilbault has been promoted to the post of senior vp and cfo, assuming new responsibility for the company’s legal and human resources services. Guilbault was named cfo in January….

Montreal: The Coalition for Cultural Diversity has established a permanent secretariat and is rapidly building its membership, says its new executive vp Robert Pilon….

Montreal: Discreet Logic has won the International Image Outstanding Achievement Award for 2000, a technical program managed by the board of directors of the Banff Television Festival….

*Videotron gets $200M from U.S. investor…

James Weyman is program consultant, skills development and marketing initiatives, at the Ontario Film Development Corporation….

Montreal: Fifty-three documentary films from 25 countries, the majority North American premieres, and four evenings of roundtable debates and workshops are among highlights at this year’s Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire du Montreal, Dec. 1-5….

*AAC broadcasts for the blind…

Sharing Stories, the u.k.’s annual international coproduction conference, has chosen two u.k. programs as winners to share the £10,000 prize in its CyberPitch competition….

Bill Roberts is secretary-general of the North American Broadcasters Association….

Newfoundland will be well represented on Canada’s production list in the new year as many production houses are hard at work on several projects currently in various stages of development….

Montreal: Cite-Amerique and distrib Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm have announced a deal to bring the story of Seraphin Poudrier to the big screen. Seraphin is perhaps Quebec’s most notorious fictional character, a terrifying rural miser who first emerged in Claude-Henri Grignon’s 1933…