Colette Loumède takes up the position of executive producer at the National Film Board’s Studio A (formerly known as the Society and Science Documentary Studio) on October 15. She takes over from Eric Michel, who has been at the helm of the studio since 1984, but was promoted in January to head of the NFB’s international coproduction unit. From 2000, Loumède worked for the government agency SODEC as a project manager. Prior to that, she conceived and developed La culture dans tous ses états, an award-winning series of 19 documentaries on Québécois culture that was broadcast on Télé-Québec.