Christa Dickenson tapped as new Telefilm Canada executive director

GATINEAU - Christa Dickenson is the new executive director of Telefilm Canada for a five year term effective July 30, Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly announced Tuesday.Dickenson (pictured) is the president and CEO of Interactive Ontario, and has also worked at Rogers Communications, CPAC and CTV. She has more than two decades of experience leveraging strategic partnerships and helping generate revenue, sponsorship and fundraising opportunities in her industry, reads the announcement.She succeeds Carolle Brabant who retired from the role in March after eight years.Telefilm Canada acts as one of the Canadian government's principal instruments for providing strategic leverage to the private sector, supplying...