INE WWQ Helping you put it TRADE NEWS ail together is wfiat we'ie oil about. Budget wreaks havoc with film THE indusby-one year delay sought FILM HOUSE MONTREAL- Various elements until 1983, a meeting was held munications' staff. of the federal budget, tabled on on November 18 at the National The meeting resulted in November 12 by Minister of Film Board in Montreal, which representations to the Minister Finance Allan MacEachan, brought together represen Francis Fox by a delegation have dealt a serious, if not tatives of the film organiza comprised of Jack Gray, presi mortal, blow to the Canadian tions in Canada. Federal reps dent of ACTRA, Roth, director film industry. were present, including James Robin Spry and producer Jo In a move which was applied Domville, film commissionner seph Beaubien. "We have every to all tax shelters, MacEachen and president of the NFB ; hope that the government will announced that "taxpayers Andre Lamy, executive direc hear our arguments," reported will be permitted to claim only tor, and David Silcox, president Beaubien. Open skies policy one-half of the normal full- of the Canadian Film Develop There is no doubt that indus year's capital cost allowance in ment Corp.; Ian McLaren, try reps have got the message the year of acquisition." This director of Cultural Industries through to the Minister of Com a tlireat to Cdn pay TV effectively reduces the CCA for for the Department of Commu munications. What is not clear Canadian films to 50% in the nications ; and several mem is whether he can reach the TORONTO - The federal De nals, such as U.S. pay-TV's first year and 50% in the second, bers of the Minister of Com (cOnt. on p. ZO) partment of Communications Home Box Office, and several applicable on January 1, 1982. is expected to reverse its pre 'superstations', without fear of In other measures, the bud sent policy and permit the pri prosecution. At issue for some get reduced the top income tax vate reception of U.S. satellite time has been the individual's bracket from 68% to 50% - re television signals by individu right to receive satellite TV sig ducing the incentive for the Filmplan phases out, David on move als, federal sources say. nals, as persons are entitled use of tax shelters- and will no MONTREAL - Pierre David has Gas, The Fright and Comics) Federal Communications by law to receive all conven longer allow the interest on announced the creation, in and Filmplan International II Minister Francis Fox is expect tional TV and radio broadcasts, loans taken out to finance 1982, of Mutual Prd«uctions which has made two more this ed to announce the new policy versus the ability of the satellite shelters, to be tax deductible. U.S.A. based in Los Angeles, year {Dreamworld and Video- November 28 in Toronto. It is antennas to steal pay-TV sign The effect of the measures and the simultaneous closing drome}. Claude Heroux has anticipated the new policy will als. on the already fragile film in down of production functions been line-producer for all permit only the private use of Apparently, Ottawa will dustry is the subject of a by Filmplan International. shoots. earth stations by individuals or come down on the side of the serious debate. Although most Filmplan's affairs will con "I've enjoyed working with families using their own anten free right of use for individual producers admit that they can tinue to be administered by Solnicki," comments David, nas, and that Ottawa still reception. live with the reduced CCA, the Mutual Films Corporation Ltd., "but with Mutual Productions would prosecute anyone bring The federal government has abruptness of its applications is a wholly owned division of in Montreal and LA., I'll be able ing in the signals and retrans lost two important court cases thought to be wholly inappro Civitas Corporation Ltd. to work without a partner. mitting them for commercial concerning the reception of priate. "The CCA system may David, president of Filmplan Mutual will be fully owned by gain, such as cable companies, satellite signals in recent not be the best system," com and of Montreal-based Mutual Civitas." Increased mobility, or owners of apartment blocks. months. Charges of operating ments Stephen Roth of RSL, Productions Ltd., told Cinema and a willingness to work in Earth stations - bulky satellite an illegal earth station were "but the government has no Canada that the new arrange L.A. are crucial, according to dish antennas about eight to dismissed against Shellbird business removing it until ment will allow him to "struc David, for continued success in twelve feet in diameter and Cablevision Ltd. of Comer- something else is in place." Al ture projects in the U.S. or the feature sector. costing close to $6000 - enable brook, Newfoundland, on Oc ternative methods of govern Canada outside of the hmits of Guy Desmarais of Geoffrion, users to receive television tober 29, after Newfoundland ment support must be forth the tax shelter," and says that Leclerc, an officer of Filmplan signals direct from satellite Provincial Court Judge Gordon coming, according to Roth, if he has already been hired by International and the broker transmissions, bypassing such Seabright ruled that satellite an independent production Universal in L.A. to produce a who handled its public offer conventional carriers as public reception and redistribution sector is to exist in Canada. film next year which it will ing in '79 and '80, told Cinema broadcasters or cable. Federal did not constitute broadcasting In an effort to convince the fully finance. Canada that recoupment on sources say the estimated as defined in the Broadcasting government to postpone ap Since 1979, Civitas and Jillian the '79 package had now number of known earth sta Act. The company had been plication of the half-year con Film and Investment Corpora reached 50% and that last year's tions in Canada is around 300, receiving and rebroadcasting the signals of the U.S. Public vention for film investment tion, owned by Toronto lawyer offering had already brought in with the actual figure possibly Victor Solnicki, have shared an 40%. "We're still missing the around three of four times Broadcasting System, and has interest in two companies, revenues on major sales to higher. resumed broadcasting the sig Contents^ Filmplan International which Home Box Office and the net If private use of earth sta nal even though the Canadian see page 6 produced six features [Dirty works, and we expect to fully tions is permitted, users would Tricks, Hog Wild, Scanners, (cont. on p. 4) be able to receive foreign sig (cont. on p. 4) r^ • • • • • ADVERTISING JO MOTION PICTURES IS OUR ONLY BUS NESS 1407Y0NGEST. • Product Reels • Theatrical Trailers TORONTO, ONTARIO IVI4T1Y7 • Teaser Trailers • Audio-Visuals •Television Commercials Michael Goldberg/Joel Reitman • Radio Commercials • Print Advertising (416) 964-7539 wsa^-'i^^^^
Cinema Canada/December 81-January 82/3 CIHE_MA^ Technical realities forcing political hand ..... C Fl loses key staff in dispute clude continuous updating Commission, not the CRTC. OTTAWA - Five employees of Radio-Television and Tele of the satellite signals andThe the Canadian Film Institute and computerization of data." communications Commission delivery point of that signal Under the terms of a 1972 Also, the CFIplans to establish Intergovernmental Agreement have tendered their resigna has announced its intention to into the home, if it were through tions over objections to the a new Documentary Film Fes appeal the decision. cable. between Canada and the U.S., tival in 1983 to complement the both nations agreed that neither manner in which the CFI was A County Court judge in Bri Paul .'Vudley, head of the being administered. The International Animation Festi tish Columbia also dismissed Tele-Canada application for a would, except on an incidental val currently being run every and periferal basis, beam any resignations were accepted by the Crown's appeal of an earlier Canadian pay-TV license, ex the management. other year. Plans for building pressed apprehension of the satellite signals across the decision acquitting Lougheed Piers HandUng, associate an Omnimax/Imax theatre in proposed federal move to per border without the prior con Village Holdings Ltd. of operat director of the CFI and spokes the capital are also in the mit the private use of earth sta sent of the other government. ing an illegal earth station at its man for the group (which also works. tions by individuals, fearing But recently the FCC has grant 760-unit apartment complex in includes the director of the that it would only be a matter ed several U.S. carriers the Burnaby. The Court decided National Film Theatre in Ot of time before the cable com right to provide trans-border that the Crown failed to prove tawa, the regional coordinator Distiibutors furious panies demanded their right to satellite services, including that satellite signals constitute and the editor of Film Cana- receive and retransmit satellite transmission of TV signals, TORONTO - Canadian distribu radio communication as de diana) called for a public in TV signals. Once the Canadian conditional on the subsequent tors are irate about the new fined under the Broadcasting vestigation of the CFI, claiming cable companies start receiv approval of the Canadian gov valuation rates, effective Nov. 4, and Radio Acts. that the board of directors is ing and retransmitting signals ernment. Canada was not con established by the Customs Communications analyst now "self-elected" and that "no directly from the U.S., said sulted in advance of the FCC and Excise Division of the Sandra Gathercole said the annual meeting of members Audly, they effectively would decision, but now appears Department of Revenue. The Cornerbrook and Burnaby de was held in 1980." Stating that be under the jurisdiction of the ready to officially allow the new valuation rates do not cisions were crucial factors the 1981 members' meeting Federal Communications signals into the country. affect the duty on films coming leading to the government's was held "in secret," Handling over the border, but will affect change of attitude concerning wonders "Who is the Institute's the sales tax due on imported satellite signal reception. She management accountable to ?" films. said the law has simply ac (from p. 3) David opens US office The CFI's total budget is The new rates changes are knowledged the technical real as follows : super 8 film, 8 cents ity. "Since there is no longer a Dreamworld and a 50% share $515,000 of which $360,000 recoup on both issues," Des come from federal and provin a fool; 16mm, hiked from 8 to technical barrier to receiving marais said. of Videodrome. MCA Theatric als Inc., an affiliate of Universal, cial agencies. It is the feeling of 10.5 cents ; 35mm from 3 to 15.5 these signals, they (the govern The restructuring of Film- cents ; and 70mm from 3 to 53 ment) are removing the legal is retaining a 50% interest in those resigning that the CFI plan in 1981 was made neces has abandoned its cultural cents. barrier," Gathercole said. sary when Geoffrion, Leclerc Videodrome, and has advanced $2,771,950 of the film's total mandate. These important increases Gathercole also said that declined to handle the public budget of $5,951,805. The bud Meanwhile, on Oct. 23, the come when independent dis while the CRTC would no issue for Dreamworld and get for Dreamworld is CFI, which has been plagued tributors in Canada are already longer be able to regulate the Videodrome. Larry Nesis ofl $5,820,145. By mid-November, with financial difficulties, an fighting for their lives and reception of satellite television Sleadford Securities Ltd. is David announced that $$2.5 nounced new orientations for American majors increase signals under an open skies handling the most recent million of the current issue had 1982. "Information services their domination of the Cana policy, their remaining control package, a $9 million offering already been sold. will be rationalized... to in dian market. point would be retransmission involving a 100% share of
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4/Cinema Canada/December 81-January 82 SNt_MA^ CFDC announces expenditures over$4 M Rret Canada-Gennanco-pro goes MONTREAL - The Canadian Picture Plant production pro undertaken by the CFDC in Theumer. Film Development Corpora duced by C. Majda and G. Par TORONTO - Julie Darling, the conjunction with I'lnstitut que- The film stars Sybil Danning, tion (CFDC) spent a total of $4.2 sons, and The Wars, a Nielsen- first Canadian-West German becois du cinema, Radio-Cana feature film co-production, be Tony Franciosa, and Isabelle million assisting 80 film pro Ferns/National Film Board co- da, and Radio-Quebec. The jects between the beginning of gan shooting November 16 in Mejias. The Canadian portion production produced by Dick CFDC invested in the feature of the cast has not been decided its fiscal year, April 1, and Oc West Germany, one week after Nielsen. Interim loans to aid documentary Le futur inte- officially. Directing is German tober 31, announced CFDC receiving official co-production post-production totally $500,000 rieur by Les Productions Moni- certification from the Cana Lutz Schaarwaechter, with president David Silcox and ex were made to two films : Love, que Messier Inc. and the docu dian Film Development Cor Canadian director of photo ecutive director Andre Lamy. a Coup Films production. Re- mentary TV series Connais- poration (CFDC). graphy Miklos Lente. The art Silcox and Lamy said the nee Perlmutter producer, and sance du milieu, produced by Described by Canadian pro director is Lindsey Goddard, CFDC has participated in the Hanfc Williams: The Show He Jean-Louis Frund Inc. ducer John Pozhke as a "terror and the production manager Never Gave, a Simoom produc financing of 71 English and Three features received fiction mystery thriller," Julie for the Canadian shoot, sched French projects currently in tion. As well, the CFDC made equity investments totalling Darling is being made by Cine- uled for a week in mid-Decem the development, production, loans of $1,049,000 to 44 pro $44,000 to aid post-production ; quily Funding Corp. of Toronto ber, is Jason Paikowsky. or post-production stages, as jects in the script and develop Les bons debarras, a Produc and Tat Film of Berlin. Produc Cinequity recentiy completed well as participating in the ment stages. tions Prisma Inc. production; ing with Pozhke for Cinequity filming another terror-thriller. launching of nine films as part Au clair de la lune, a Les Pro is Maurice Smith, while the Death Bite, September 18 in of its new distribution policy. In French production, the ductions Albinie Inc., National German producer is Ernst von Toronto. William Fruet directed. The CFDC has made interim CFDC has made equity invest Film Board co-production ; and loans of $1,575,000 and equity ments of $609,000 in four fea Metier Bofceur, a feature length- investments of $825,000 to 13 tures, one feature-length docu documenlaiy produced by films or television series pre mentary, and a documentary Momentum Inc. Eighty-three Four team up to move on major sently before the cameras. The television series. The features thousand dollars were alloca CFDC also allocated $1,132,000 were : Les beau/c souvenirs, a ted as loans to nine films in the in loans to 53 projects at the Lamy-Spencer Ltee/National script and development stages. television production in Alberta script and development stages Film Board co-production ; Les The CFDC aided the distri CALGARY - Four production international distribution of the and provided $544,000 to help fleurs sauvages, a Cinak Inc. bution of nine films -.LesPlouf- houses, two in Edmonton and film. the completion of five films. production; Les doujc aveu!c, a fe. Cries in the Night, The Han one each in Calgary and Toron The ninety-minute drama Distribution investment totalled Animage Inc. production ; and dyman, Surfacing, Le plus to, are combining efforts to de was conceived by Edmonton $132,000: equity investments Les yeu!c rouges, by Les Pro beau jour de ma vie. On n'est velop Emperor Pic, a major writers Morley Price and Barry of $63,000 and interim loans of ductions Le Coup Blanc Inc., pas des anges, Improper Chan movie for television. Freeman, with development $69,000. which was also aided under nels, Girls, and Antoine et ses Emperor Pic will be based funding released by the four In English production, the the new 'first works' program anges. on the lives of Emilio Picariello, principals. CFDC made interim loans of a Crows Nest bootlegger in the $1,575,000 (its entire interim early twenties, and Florence loan participation so far this Shebib shooting drama for CBC Lassandro, the last woman to fiscal year) to five films : Video TORONTO - Director Don She lions of this killing. be hanged for murder in Al Tulips fail to bloom drome and Dreamworld, both bib is back with the CBC, di Alan Burke will produce By berta. Filmplan productions produced recting a television drama, By Reason Of Insanity, which is Nick Bakyta of Tinsel and in western climate by Pierre David and Victor Sol Reason Of Insanity, for the net expected to be broadcast early Sham Productions Ltd. (Ed WINNIPEG - The Astral film nicki ; Death Bite, a Hyperion work's For The Record series. in the new year. The executive monton) will act as producer in Tulips opened here and in Van Film Production and Distribu Starring Patricia Collins, Mi producer of the For The Rec developing the screenplay, and couver with dismal results. tion Co. Ltd. project produced chael Kirby, Barbara Williams, ord Series is Sam Levine. Pat Ferns of Primedia Produc During the week ending Oct. 8, by John Pozhke; B.C. -A Spe and John Wildeman, from a Shebib's latest comedy. tions Ltd. (Toronto) will be ex- the film grossed $1,821 in two cial Christmas, produced by script by David McLaren, By Heartaches, with Margot Kid ectutive producer. theatres in Winnipeg and $6,100 Cinema Productions; and Till Reason Of Insanity examines der and Winston Reckert, was CFRN Television (Edmonton) in four theatres in Vancouver. Death lis Do Part, a Seagull/ the controversial use of insan enthusiastically received at the and CFCN Television (Calgary) Starring Gabe Kaplan, Bernadet- Brady production, James Sha- ity pleas in murder cases. It be Toronto Festival of Festivals are involved because they are te Peters and Al Waxman, Tulips vick and Larry Hertzog pro gins when a young man com and will close the London Film committed to co-develop or co- was directed by Rex Bromfield ducers. Equity investments mits a murder during a rob Festival November 17. Its re produce television properties in 1979 and had extensive re- totalling $215,000 were made bery, and proceeds to explore lease is expected either in late in Alberta for national expos shooting done in 1980 under the in two other films : Stations, a the legal and moral ramifica- December or early 1982. ure, while Primedia will handle direction of Al Waxman. \ I.AJ.S.E. { Shi^ ^U^ Locaieef A.I!E.ST. welcomes applications from Camera persons across Canada ATS E Local 667: 36 Parklawn Rd., Toronto, Ontario MSY 3H8 1-416-252-6401 I 1150 Homer St., Vancouver, B.C. V6B 2X7 -^ 1-604-684-0667 j Ken Leslie Smith—Business Agent ^1^
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Dansereau wraps fictional pic in Quebec City No. 80 - December 1981 - January 1982 MONTREAL - Several low-bud community groups, his film is a fees for a 23-member crew, and Cover: Desperate for his unemployment cheque, George get features have been shot this departure. had four first-rale actors in lead Segal takes on the postman while The Neighbour's Irene year throughout Quebec: Jean- "It had been four years since ing roles, wrote music and the Cara stands caught in the crossfire. For an In Progress Pierre Lefebvre and Marguerite I had directed a film. I began to rest. I don't understand why report, see page 32. PHotoiBandy Munkacsi. Duparc have each wrapped one work on an idea with the young filmmaking has got so expen in Bedford, Anne-Claire Poirier people in the company, and sive these days; we would have Editorial: For a marriage of culture and industry 23 finished La quarantaine in St- slowly, a 'personage' began to been very comfortable with a Opinion; Preparelo engage the enemy, fay iWaJco/m Dean ... 23 Hyacinthe, while Yves Simon- grow and develop. It was an budget of $500,000." Letters 23 eau {Les yeujc rouges) and Fer- old woman, based on my grand After years of making films nand Dansereau [Les dou}c mother, and we decided to go tailored to the requirements of CineMag Trade News 3 aveux) have used Quebec City ahead and work on a scenario, the NFB, or with groups, Dans- National Pay-TV proposals 14-15 as the site of their films. putting older people and ado . ereau eventually felt a certain More from Les, by Les Wedman \\ Dansereau, who won a Ca lescents together." With obvi freedom in dealing with fiction. Shoot Alberta, by Linda Kupecek jg nadian Film Award several ous enthusiasm for the film, "The documentary tradition Production guide 40-43 years ago as one of Canada's Dansereau received backing runs deep, and Helene Loiselle Box office grosses 44-45 outstanding filmmakers, has from the Institut Quebecois du pointed out at the beginning of completed Les dou;t aveujc, a Cinema and the Canadian Film the shoot that I was simply Features theatrical feature starring Mar Development Corp and found asking her to play herself, not The war within; Culture vs. industry, by Connie Tadros 24 cel Sabourin and Helene Loi- a single investor who was ready really to develop a character. Out of the main stream, by David Clarke 26-27 selle. For Dansereau, known to put up the remaining $88,000. We soon got free and began to Abitibi summers and winters: Andr6 Blanchard, primarily for his work at the "We were limited by the use our imaginations in ways by Piers Handling 28 National Film Board in docu $368,000 budget, but the shoot that were new for me. I hope Double trouble, by Judee Ganten 31 mentary, and his many labor was far from impossible. We that this film will communicate shot it in 22 days, paid union films made in conjunction with (cont. on p. 7) In Progress "The Neighbour": Dead dog leads to cat-and-mouse, by David Clarke 32 "Death Bite ": A mean appetite, by David Sharpe 33
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Cinema Canada/December 81-January 82/7 i CINE JS^S Mann follows jazz with poetiy, De Antonio helps out inivinbusyasonepic tact with many leading Ameri TORONTO - Twenty-three year fil' m poetry anthology. Thie film Stead' y as She Goes, sound. ._„» ...:tK n^^ni, IpaHih^ Amei breaks, another films man David Joliat, and editor can, and particularly New York old Toronto filmmaker Ron will concentrate on the per TORONTO - Night School, an Mann, who produced and di formance aspect and examine Peter Wintonick. City, poets. Working as a consultant on The crew has already filmed American produced suspense- rected the highly acclaimed jazz the extension of poetry into thriller featuring the work of documentary Imagine the other art forms, music, dance, the film is director Emile De such notables as John Cage, Antonio, director of Painters William Burroughs, and John Canadian cinematographer Sound, has begun shtxtting a etc." Several crew members Mark Irwin, began its Cana new film about poets under who collaborated with Mann Painting, who also consulted Giorno in New York, as well as on Imagine the Sound. "Emile Tom Verlaine and Allen Gins dian theatrical release Novein- the working title Poetry in Mo on Imagine the Sound are ber 6 in Toronto. tion. working on the Poetry shoot : is my friend as well as being berg (with the Toronto rock director of photography Robert the major influence on my ca group The CeeDees) in per Paramount is distributing the Mann said the new film is film, which is directed by Ken similar in approach to his pre Fresco, who recently won a reer so far," said Mann, also formance in Toronto. Other Ca noting De Antonio's valuable Hughes {Cromwell, Of Human vious picture, adding that he 1981 Bijou Award for best doc nadian poets already filmed in contribution in making con- Bondage} and stars Leonard hopes to compile "the first ever umentary cinematography for clude Irving Layton, John Coop er-Clark, and Toronto street Mann, Rachel Ward, Drew Sny poets Stuart Ross, Mark Lada, der and Joseph R. Sicardi. Ir and Crad Kilodney, which Mann win photographed the film on said represented only one-fifth location in Boston during the of the project's total shooting spring of 1980. schedule. Irwin has just completed LOCAL 891 PRESENTS... Poetry in Motion is being work as director of photography made on a $200,000 budget from on William Fruet's Death Bite, private investors. Mann, who is and is currently working viath producing as well as directing, director David Cronenberg on expects principal photography Videodrome in Toronto. The to be finished by December director-cinematographer team 25, 1981, and anticipates the has previously collaborated on UNIQUE film will be completed and The Brood and Scanners. ready for screening sometime LOCATIONS in May, 1982. NOW SHOWING IN Meanwhile, good things con Pom fits the bill BRITISH tinue to happen with Imagine MONTREAL - In only three B.C.LR.B. COLUMBIA the Sound. Mann told Cinema weeks. Not a Love Story: A Film Canada that the film has been About Pornography has grossed CERTIFIED WITH purchased by British television's $36,244 in a small Cineplex thea Fourth Channel through the tre, seating less than 100 people. • THE GREY FOX CREATIVE film's agent, Murray Sweigman, Directed by Bonnie Sherr Klein of International Tele-Film. Also, and produced by the National • RECKLESS ART DIRECTORS the film was awarded the Sil Film Board of Canada, the film is AND ver Hugo Award as the best attracting both those who come • BY DESIGN FIRST CLASS feature-length documentary al for its anti-pomography message the Chicago Film Festival in and others who prefer its docu • HARRY TRACY TECHNICIANS early November. mentary footage. - DESPERADO Cockbum film on track in Toronto again TORONTO - Extra Modern Pro Danforth, Toronto, November ductions' documentary-concert 30 and December 1. film on Canadian rock musician The production delay meant Bruce Cockbum's 1981 North the filmmakers were unable to American tour, scheduled to record any of the western po^ begin shooting October 23 in lion of the tour, which included Denver, was postponed until stops in Denver, San Francisco, November 19, according to pro Seattle, and a successful ap ducer Bill House. pearance at Los Angeles's re House, co-producing the film nowned Roxy Theatre earlier with Peter Walsh in collabora this month. But House remains tion with Cockbum's manager, optimisHc about the project, Bemie Finkelstein, said shoot budgeted at $420,000, citing en I.A.T. S. E.LOCAL891 ing began November 19 in Bos thusiastic reviews of Cock MA(N P.O. BOX 5229, ton to follow the east coast bum's performances in the VANCOUVER, B.C., segment of Cockbum's tour press. He added the delay had V6B 4B3 through Philadelphia, New not caused any changes in the CONTACT (604)688-4718 York, Washington, Atlanta, and crew, headed by director IMar- Memphis. Two concerts are to tin Lavut, director of photog "We put great people together with great pictures.' be staged specifically for the raphy Vic Sarin, and sound film al The Music Hall, on the man John Thompson.
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8/Cinema Canada/December 81-January 82 SitEZIHS^ Ontario Censors strike again, hitNFB'sNotaLoveStoiy TORONTO - The Ontario Cen identified, told Cinema Ca requirements for a 'Restric tive nature if coirectly chan film's accessability to the av sor Board has turned down nada that the Board "totally ted' classification (i.e., 18 erage viewer is limited. After an appeal by the National sijpported" the screening of nelled after viewing through years and over) would be open forum discussion the St. Lawrence Centre Film Board of Canada to per the film in a suitable forum as strictly enforced. Both screen groups. I recommend its screening, the NFB held se mit the conimercial release of an educational and social ings played to full houses. ven private screenings al its concern, but rejected com screening in conjunction Not A Love Story, the contro with open discussion after Toronto office's screening versial NFB documentary mercial release of the film on In a personal report on the Not A Love Story appeal, one wards." room (capacity 75) for those about the pornography in the grounds th^t its explicit, unable to get on the St. Law dustry. hardcore material might be Censor Board member wrote : Produced by Dorothy Todd "Controlled screening of this rence invitation list, a task exploited for financial gain. Henault and directed by Bon which regional officer John The Censor Board's sum The Board member pointed film is imperative. Funda mary report on the NFB ap nie Sherr Klein, Not A Love Boundy said required "every out that the film was not mentally, it communicates its Story was produced by Stu peal classified the film as concerns exceptionally well. film officer I had." The film banned, but merely restricted dio D of the NFB's English can also be purchased by any "not approved for public ex from commercial release. Use of hard-core footage is Production branch. While the hibition." The Censor Board's not gratuitous and, within the interested party from the NFB Censor Board maintains that library for private, unadver- ofBcial statement in the re "The Board totally supports context of the film's meaning, its treatment of the film is in tised use. port read: "Application for the screening of this film in a justified. The chief concern I line with all the other pro unlimited exhibition not ap responsible context, and have is that this is a film about vinces except Quebec (where After the Censor Board's proved. The original Board would be completely co exploitation which, under the film opened commercial Nov. 18 decision to reject the recommendation stands: - operative in issuing permits general distribution, could it ly October 30 at the Cineplex appeal, officials at the NFB's that the film be made avail for public screenings, as we self be exploited. Paradoxi in Montreal with six shows regional office in Toronto de able through the National tiid for the Festival of Festi cally, this film could be daily) in that screenings were clined comment on the mat Film Board library for private vals and St. Lawrence Cen shown for its hardcore foot arranged on a special permit ter. However, Deputy Govern screenings by such organiza tre," said the Board member. age, which transgress the basis, the film has subse ment Film Officer Frangois tions that request it, and that "But let's face it, this is not guidelines, in venues which quently passed the British Macerola had commented permit for public exhibition Saturday night entertain promote pornography... Un Coltimbia, Alberta, and Mani before the appeal decision be issued under conditions ment." less distribution and screen toba censor boards and will that pornography "is a seri stipulated in the October ings are controlled, and the open commercially at Winni ous social problem we can no 20th, 1981 Board minute and The Censor Board did issue film viewed vrithin a respon peg's Towne Cinema Novem longer afford to ignore. For followed in the November special permits for one sible context, its message (the ber 20 and in Edmonton De this reason the National Film 10th screening al the St. Law screening only to the Toronto justification for making it) cember 1. Board regrets the Ontario Censor Board's (original) rence Centre." Festival of Festivals for Sep may be abused. decision which, by restricting tember 11 and to the N^B for a Because public screenings public access to the film, pre A Censor Board member November 10 screening at the "Part of its benefit will be in of Not A Love Story in Ontario vents a much needed exami who heard the NFB appeal, St. Lawrence Centre, with the its capacity to elicict response, are by invitation only and nation of the issues." and who wished not to be understanding that the age concern and action of a posi cannot be advertised, the MJITIER LODE ON TIME AND ON BUDGET -tiarlton Heston CONGRATULATIONS TO Kim Basinger, Nick Mancuso Executive Producer ^ Peter Snell Production Manager Les Kimber Producer/Writer Fraser 0. Heston Production Accountant James Westwell Director Charlton Heston Production Designer Douglas Higglns Director of Photograpliy Richard Leiterman, C.S.C.
2nd Ujiit Director: Joe Canutt 1 St Assistant: Sandy McCallum Scenic Painter: Guenther Bartllk Wardrobe Assistant: Linda Langdon Location Manager: Gordon Mark 2nd Assistant: Bruce Ingram Greensman: Paddy Holleywell Editor: Eric Boyd-PerKlns 1st Assistant Director: Don Granbery Stiilsman: Chris Helcermanas-Benge Key Grip: John Dillard Brlnson 1 St Assistant Editor: Jack Hilton 2nd Assistant Director: Jacques Hubert 2nd Unit: 2nd Grip: James Hurford 2nd Assistant Editor: Michael Robison 3rd Assistant Director; Matthew O'Connor Director of Photography: Peter McLennan, Dolly Grip: David Gordon Head Special Effects: Joe Day .Scnpt Supervisor: Penelope Hynam Tony Westman Grip: Arthur Collier Assistant Special Effects: John Thomas Production Coordinator: Catherine Howard Operator: David Butler Gaffer: David Anderson Effects Man : Lee Routly, Michael Clifford Assistant to Producers: Marilyn Heston Assistant: Tom Fllllngham, Tim Sale Best Boy: Leonard Wolfe Stunt Pilot- Helicopter: Harry Hauss Assistant to Director: Carol tanning Studio Art Director: Michael Bolton 1st Lamp: John Scott Stunt Pilot - Cessna/Beaver: Joe Hughes Assistant Controller: Lisa Richardson Location Art Director; James H. Chow 2nd Lamp: Duncan McGregor Stunt Pilot - Cfiipmunk: Art Scholl Canadian Publicity: Holly Levine Apprentice: Lynn Trout Generator Operator; Barry Reld Pilot: Malcolm Falconer American Publicity: Murray Weissman Property iVfaster: Grant Swain Sound Mixer: William Nelson Transportation Coordinator: Jake Calllhoo Unit Publicist: Marilyn Heston Props Assistant: Gall Inrlne Boom Operator: Ralph Parker Driver Captain ; Brian Boyer, Publicity Journalist: Orin Borsten Head Set Decorator: Jim Erlckson Makeup Artist: Jamie Brown Ian (Moss) Urquhart Camera Operator: .Robert Saad Assistant Set Decorator: Delia Johnston Wardrobe Head: Maureen Hiscox MOTION PICTURE GUARANTORS Executive Officers: Douglas Leiterman, Philip S. Hobel 43 Britain Street, Toronto, Canada MSA IR7 Tel: (416) 361-1664
Cinema Canada'December 81-January 82/9 CINE MAC Strong Canadian content condition of deal Cineplex builds LA advisory board LOS ANGELES - Cineplex Cor Reed, president of the Academy poration president Garth H. of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and to renovate, iease and program Winter Garden Drabinsky has announced the Horror Films, and Phil Scheuer, TORONTO - The Ontario Gov Parking Authority. atre Alliance. The operators names of seven prominent 'critic emeritus' with the Los ernment and a consortium Along with the $4.5 million must stage three Canadian entertainment industry figures Angeles Times. headed by Garth Drabinsky, purchase -price, the Heritage plays in the first year of opera who have agreed to serve on The Board will meet on an Michael Cohl, and David Wo- Association will spend another tion, four in the second, and the Cineplex Advisory Board in informal basis to make recom linsky have become partners in $4.5 million on renovations, five in all subsequent years. Los Angeles, where the corpo mendations and assist in the a multi-million dollar project bringing the combined expen They must provide 200,000 per ration is scheduled to open a creative booking aspects of the to renovate Toronto's Elgin- diture for renovation to $8.5 formance seats for Canadian 16-screen complex in the new theatre's operation, said Cine- Winter Garden theatres. million. But the OHA expects to production in the first year, Beverly Centre in JVlarch, 1982. pltex spokesperson Lynda The Ontario Cabinet has recover all but $3 million of its 250,000 seats in the second, and Named were Joseph Barbera Friendly. Friendly also said approved the purchase of the investment through the sale of 350,000 for all subsequent of Hanna-Barbera Productions, that the Board members were building by the Ontario Heritage the Elgin-Winter Garden's com years. At least 75,000 seats must film critic Charles Champlin of enthusiastic about Cineplex's Association, the government mercial and residential density be given to transfers (from the Los Angeles Times, Women multiple-screen concept, which agency able to hold historical rights to private developers. local or regional theatres) of In Film president Bonny Dore, will be the first such operation property, from Famous Players productions written by Cana HoUjnvood Reporter critic Ar in the Los Angeles area. The Also part of the agreement Beverly Centre theatre will be Ltd. for $4.5 million, using Lot- were assurances that the inte dian playwrights. thur Knight, Barbara LaRue, tario funds. The consortium, director of the city of Los An Cineplex's first location in the riors of both theatres would be The theatres must be made United States. make up of Tiberius Produc restored to their orignal 1913 available to the Toronto Fes geles's IVlotion Picture Co-or tions Inc., the Cineplex Corp., condition by architect Mandel tival of Festivals each year for dination Section, Dr. Donald and W.B.C. Productions (vi'hich Sprachman. The two rooms 10-14 days, and can only screen owns both Concert Produc have not been used as perfor films for a maximum of 90 days tions International and the mance theatres since 1935 : the a year, excluding the Festival BASS ticket agency), will spend upper level Winter Garden has dates. Rogers buys control of U A-Columbia $4 million on renovations, and been closed since 1927, while In addition, two trusts will in exchange will receive a 40- the lower level had continued be established : one adminis TORONTO - Rogers Cablesys- UA Cable, and the acquisition year lease from the the OHA to operating as the Elgin Cinema tered by the ministry to promote tems Inc. of Toronto has an increases Rogers interest to 1.9 rent the property each year for until it was closed Novembers, Canadian theatre, the other nounced the purchase of 51% of million cable subscribers in one dollar. 1981. administered by the operating UA-Columbia Cablevision Inc., Canada, the United States, and In addition to the $4.5 mil The deal contains strict Ca consortium to help defray the a major U.S. cable television Ireland, according to Savage. lion received for the piDperty, nadian content programming costs of transferring produc company. In order to raise money for Famous Players will also receive conditions which the operat tions from smaller theatres to The final purchase was the purchase, Rogers had earlier concessions from the City of ing consortium must meet, the Elgin-Winter Garden site. made by Rogers November 19 sold its interest in Williams Toronto for the construction which will be enforced by a Fifty cents from each ticket will in New York at $90 a share, Electronics, Inc., a U.S. based of a multi-screen complex at five-member board consisting be contributed during the first according to Rogers vice-pres electronic game manufacturer, the comer of Bloor and Hayden of one member from the con year of operation, and 3% of the ident of investment planning, and realized $17,000,000 Cana Streets, with an adjacent park sortium, two from the ministry, average ticket price during all Graham Savage. 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10/Cinema Canada/December 81-Jantiary 82 rrw HSTT MORE FROM LES Low (no) budget feature wraps in T.O by Les Wedman the production's deferred salary TORONTO - Freefoadin^, a Wertheimer cites the actual VANCOUVER - Where there's cinatory, visionary. nroiect conceived -by a film agreement. ACTRA gave the cost of shooting the film, ex Hope, you'll find Sylvester Stal His most recent presentation fechnician and a student at the film permission to sign non- cluding deferral arrangements, lone and Kirk Douglas. was Bad Timing: A Sensual Ontario CoUegeof Art, working ACTRA performers and allowed at under $10,000, but maintains Hope, B.C., is where, on Nov. Obsession, that starred Art with a practically non-existent them to present ACTRA mem that all film rental houses were 16, they started shooting First Garfunkel and Theresa Russell, budget and an armful of defer bers with the deferral agree paid cash by the production. Blood, an acHon-filled drama in a steamy love story that con ral agreements on a produc ment ; in return, the produc The film has some second in which Sylvester {Rocky} Stal tinued Roeg's experiments tion many skeptics said would tion will allow ACTRA to ap unit shooting to complete on lone plays a Vietnam War vet with advanced visual tech never get off the ground, com prove any distribution agree Decembers, but presently there eran who reacts violently niques. pleted principle photography ment the film can negotiate. is enough material for a 90- when he is hassled in a small "I create images and tell November 22 in Toronto after a "No one on the cast or crew is minute feature, according to town. stories on film," Roeg has said, three-week shoot. being paid," said Wertheimer, associate producer Fraser JVIc- The picture, reported to be adding that he doesn't hke the Conceived by Chris Terry, an "but we have kept the books Aninch. Wertheimer said the costing upwards of $10 mil film business. "I like filming. OCA film technician, and OCA based on the standard going shooting ratio was about 4;l, lion, is being produced by Buzz I'm a filmmaker." student Joe Sutherland, Free- union rates as if it was a normal but added, ""We didn't always Feitshans - a John Milius part Roeg started as a camera loading is a satirical look at production." have the confidence to cover ner- and directed by Canadian man, doing Farenheit 451 for freelance employees at a na the way we wanted to, because filmmaker Ted Kotcheff. Frangois Truffaut, Richard tional broadcasting network. Wertheimer said the produc we were afraid we would run Kotcheff gave Canada its Lester's Petulia (that he trans Terry co-directed with Suther tion has benefited from many out of film." best-known feature film. The formed into an offbeat master land, who also wrote the script, professional favours, including The production is currently Apprenticeship ofDuddy Kra- piece of kaleidoscopic nar did the cinematography, and a deal from Panavision to rent looking for a backer, either a vitz, which, with Outback, a rative), and John Schlesinger's served as associate producer $15,000 worth of camera equip producer with some cash or a film made in Australia, rates as Far From the Madding Crowd. with Fraser McAninch. Robert ment for $1500, purchasing lab willing to buy a piece of the his finest work. Now based in Then came Performance, Wertheimer, a veteran of ten over 20,000 feet of surplus film film in exchange for film pro Los Angeles, Kotcheff has had which Roeg directed with professional feature film stock from various Toronto-area cessing and sound transfer. Ac more lucrative works such as Donald Cammell. Despite the shoots, works as the film's pro production houses, the use of cording to McAninch, the pro Da//as North Forty, Who's Kil lure of box-office star Mick duction manager and accoun MTV's studios over two week duction has only been able to ling the Great Chefs of Europe. Jagger and a plot that mixed tant. ends, and the use of a plane, an print 2,000 feet of film stock so His latest film has yet to be music, drugs and sex, the film According to Wertheimer, airstrip, and some old airplane far. But Wertheimer was con released. gathered dust on a shelf at the entire cast and crew, total wreckage from King City Air fident a deal could be arranged On the job and geared toward Warner Bros. Nobody, it seems, ling about 65 people, signed port owner Brian Baker. soon. the shooting of First Blood that could fathom the movie's laby will last 10 weeks in Hope, is rinth structure and heady in Vancouver filmmaker Paul vocations of Jorges Luis Borges. Tucker. He is production man There was even talk of Roeg ager of the feature and it's the being sued for unprofessional- first time a Canadian here has ism because his contract said been named production man he would make a picture that ager of an American film with was "up to professional stan COHESIVENESS out playing second fiddle to an dard" and, to Warner Bros., American production man. Performance apparently did The Columbian Connection, not meet that requirement. a drug drama with Britt Ekland Finally Performance was Attracting mae film and television productions to starring, wrapped in early dusted off and Nicolas Roeg Oanada will create new jobs for dur industiy, November. became one of the top new Among the producers of the directors. After that came bring a sharp rise in activities and inject extra millions film are BCTV newsman Tony Walkabout, Don't Look Now, of revenue in the Canadian film economy. Parsons and Channel 8 new- The Man Who Fell to Earth, shen Pamela Martin. They each of which quickly substan Rim Canada Center is providing additional strength must have gambling blood in tiated the promise he showed and cohesiveness in promoting Canada's scenic them - taking that hard-earned in Performance. diversily, excellent studios, laboratories, aaftspeople television money and risking it Filmgoers hostile to his work on a Canadian feature link his name with an exasper and all the creative skills and talents needed for .;, Gene Hackman stars in a film ating habit of turning plain and professional filmmaking. called Eureka ! to be made in honest stories into cinematic British Columbia right afterthe labyrinths. For those who ad Ffomouroffice in Beverly Hills, we provide the Hollywood Christmas and New Year's holi mire him, Roeg's work may be producers with direct access to Canadian professional days. It's to be done in Barker- the shape of cinema to come. advice, location manuals, trade directories, guild ville, in the Mount Robson area And that is why you have to of the Rockies and in Jamaica look beyond the simple state membership listings, talent catalogues, ACT.RA. and estimated budget is $10 ment that Gene Hackman will agreements, etc. million U.S. star in a movie called Eureka ! It will be an unusual film. To It's about a miner who strikes The Center acts as a liaison with the provincial and forecast that, you only have to the motherlode in the Rockies Canadian city film promotion offices, unions, guilds know that Eureka! will be and retires, rich and satisfied, directed by British filmmaker to Jamaica. and trade associations who want to attract more Nicolas Roeg, whose films have Nicolas Roeg, you can be film projects to Canada. been called hypnotic, hallu sure, will take it from there. SIEIslsSlsISIslElSla^Ia^IsSHIsSlsSlslBlaglBlalalalEllBlBlslBlsIslsIs This initiative is sponsored by the National Rim Board IB IS! as part of Its mandate to support the Canadian i| the post pRODCICtlOO || film environnnent. Kindly v^mte or phone for a copy ig pKcjFcjssionaLs BI 13 , , 01 of our prospectus. IS l6/35rr)rrj SeUUK-CiS Bl ImS A . BEl FEATURE FLATBED EDITING TABLES pj \S DOCUMENTARY Sfi" FlUVI CENTRE \B TRANSFER FACILITIES ffl EDUCATIONAL Bl \S SCREENING ROOM Bl mm CANADA FI^M.,^, COMMERCIALS W PRODUCER SERVICES Bl flf! CENTER CANADA INDUSTRIAL BENCH ROOM Bl m PROMOTIONAL TOP PERSONNEL Bl 144 South Beverfy Drive, Suite 400, Beverly Hills. CA 90212 IS Bl (213) 859-0268 Telex 673-688 FILM CAN BVHL Bl le Bl Bl \s pecjascis Bl M • t-^PHOOUCTIONS LTD Bl 13 MARKE SLIPP Bl 13 El 1G]G]B|ElG]G)G)QlG|G]GlG]G]G|G]S]G]B]ElS|GlG]E|G]ElE|G)BlB]Sg|Cl^SSQllQ3 | Cinema Canada/December 81-January 82/11 CINE _M.S Hoffert new prez as AGM restructuresAcadem y KH"' TORONTO- The Academy of nine craft branches, 14 appoin bers. The nine craft branches Creative Support Branch. TORONTO-Two Canadian fea Canadian Cinema has restruc elect one member each plus The elected members ap ture films which were to have ted associate members from begun shooting in Toronto this tured its board of directors so support orgianizations, and an two members at large for a pointed Millard Roth to the Board as Treasurerand Ronald fall have been postponed until that all board members can be elected chairman. Appointed totdl of eleven; each of the 1982. elected by their peers. The members from the associations three newly-created associated Cohen as immediate past Chair change was made at the Acad could present opinions but did branches elect two members. man, leaving the third ap Star Tripper, a rock musical emy's third annual general not have a vote. pointed position vacant. produced by Jim Henshaw, Paul At the membership meeting, membership meeting Novem The new board now consists Chairman Hoffert brings to Hoffert, and Brenda Hoffert, was the Academy elected composer his new office 18 years of ex scheduled to shoot from No ber 3 in Toronto. of 17 elected members, an elec Paul Hoffert as Chairman of the Previously, the 29-member ted chairman, and three hon- perience in the Canadian film vember 9 to December U, but 1981-82 Board of Directors. Elec industry. Since 1965, Hoffert has has been postponed until early Academy board consisted of 14 ourary positions to be appoin ted to the nine craft branches elected members representing ted by the elected board mem- composed 17 Canadian feature 1982. Henshaw told Cinema were : August Schellenberg - film scores, including the 1979 Canada that the production was Actors; Ninkey Dalton - Art Di hit Outrageous; he has also postponed because some of the rectors; Richard Leiterman - served as musical director for film's financial backing fell Cinematographers; Richard through and could not be re Gilbert - Directors; Sally Pater- Outrageous star Craig Russell's stage show. Hoffert was a found covered in time to complete son - Editors; Lawrence Shragge filming by the end of I98i, He - Composers; Wayne Fenske - ing member of the Canadian rock group Lighthouse, which stated financing for (he film, Producers; Jim Henshaw - strictly a private offering, was Screenwriters; Partick Spence- enjoyed considerable popular and commercial success in the back in place and the project Thomas - Sound. Allan King was ready to resume pre-pro and Robin Spry were elected seventies. He also has experi ence in composing theatrical, duction in February and begin Arthur Winkler, CLU by the craft branches members- shooting in March. at-large. symphonic, and dance scores. Hoffert's involvement with Henshaw would not com Consolidated Insurance Agencies Ltd. Elected in the new Agents/ the ACC dates back to the or ment further on possible cast Casting/Public Relations branch ganization's inception in 1979, or crew changes other than to were Janice Kaye and Lawrle where he served as ad hoc say that director Zaie Dalen Creatively adapting Rotenberg. Leonard Bernstein chairman of the original com might not be available in Feb and Peter Lorimer were elec mittee. He served as vice-chair ruary. "We will make no com insurance protection for ted by the Exhibitors/Distribu man on the 1979 Board of Di mitments to anyone until key tors/Executive Branch, and Pen rectors, and on the Rules and creative personnel is set," he the entertainment industry ny Hyman and Alma Lee by the Regulations Committee in 1980. said. since 1968 That's My Baby, a serious comedy which was to begin shooting this fall, has been post poned until next summer, ac Consult us.for budget Heavy Metal and Plouffe run for Golden Reel cording to producer Edie Yoles. estimates, quotations or YoUes said the postponement TORONTO - Current statistics lead a list of contenders which was due to required summer inform'ation about indicate that Heavy Metal and include the comedy drama Tri weather for certain scenes in Les Plouffe are the leading films bute and horror films Happy the script, which could not be your insurance requirements in contention for the 1982 Gold Birthday To Me, Scanners, and shot in November in Canada'. en Reel Award, presented an My Bloody Valentine. nually by the Canadian Motion 3101 Bathursl St., -.uite 201, Torornto M6A2Y1 Picture Distributors Associa The winner will be an Telephone (416) 787-0304 tion to the Canadian film with nounced in January, with the the best box office gross for the award to be presented at an calendar year. industry luncheon March 2, Heavy metal, an animated 1982. Previous Golden Reel rock music fantasy produced Award winners include The by Ivan Reitman, and Les Plouf Changeling 181), Meatballs (80), fe, an adaptation of Roger Le- Why Shoot The Teacher (79), melin's novel of Quebec family Who Has Seen The Wind (78), life directed by Gilles Carle and and Lies My Father Told Me produced by Denis Heroux, 177).
12/Cinema Canada/December 81-January 82 National Office Film Board national du film of Canada du Canada NFB NEWS Oscar Fever year. The film was made by Andre and Jean-Jacques Leduc and Heating Up cameraman Eric Chamberlain. Prior to Academy Award submis On the same night look for "E", an sion seven NFB shorts are being animated fantasy by Bretislay screened at the Los Feliz Theatre Pojar. in Los Angeles. Titles include lea ; Top Priority, a new film by Filmstrip Awards Ishu Patel; and Janet Perlman's latest caper. The Tender Tale of NFB sound filmstrips have taken top honors at two international Cinderella Penguin, an animated festivals. La Corriveau, directed interpretation of the famous by Andre Theberge and produced children's story played by cast of by Colette Blanchard, won the porcine sea birds... Miss Piggy Cold Award at the 1981 Inter watch out! national Film and Television Fes tival in New York. The produc Tuneful Opening From Ishu Patel's latest animation film, "Top Priority" tion is based on the true story of leen McAuliffe (who plays the wan. Director Bill Canning was Marie Josephte, who became a of "First Winter" mother in the film) came to the there to introduce the film and legendary figure in 19th century The Pembroke Ontario com rescue, asd sang a few choruses present a print to the University's Quebec. "/ lust Didn't Want to munity hall was the scene of a of "Oh, Danny Boy." A good time Diefenbal Eric Patrick Godfrey and Sharon O'Neil - two of the stars in "First Winter' Scene from NFB's award - winning sound filmstrip, "La Corriveau" NFB Offices in Canada: Headquarters Regional Offices: Public Relations Division Pacific Region Ontario Region Quebec Region P.O. Box 6100 1161 West Georgia St. 1 Lombard Street 550 Sherbrooke Street West Station A Vancouver, B.C. 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The multiplicity of means given on a planned basis. its subsidiaries will discontinue whereby the American culture Bearing all this in mind, I production activities, if Astra- penetrates our counhy, other The CRTC's pay-TV hearings were carried by cable opera would like to take this oppor Tel receives a pay-TV license. than over-the-air methods, the tors live to their subscribers, and generated an unpreceden tunity to explain what Astra- I think what is important atre films, magazines, records, ted amount of coverage in the press and on air. Last month. Tel is proposing: and exciting is that the pay-TV radio and newspapers; Cinema Canada published the verbal presentations made In analysing the needs of concept we envision will be a 5. The fact that several genera by First Choice and by Performance. In this issue, Harold producers, we have separated unique Canadian undertaking, tions of Canadians have already Greenberg and Philippe De Gaspe Beaubien state the case our funding in two segments ; in which producers will utilize been raised on U.S. TV pnj. a flow of funding from all over grams from a very young age to for Astra-Tel while Allan King outlines the position of Tele- 1. The creation of program the world. We are building a adult life, and that this kind of canada. In our next edition, presentations from Premiere ming; distinctive Canadian produc consumer behaviour is very a. The acquisition of program and L.A.M.B. will be published. tion industry which allows us hard to change rapidly; ming. to control our own destiny. Our schedule requirements 6. What may be even harder to This will also be a most signi accept is the fact that a signi cannot be met if we do not help ficant step towards slowing Astral Bellevue Pathe has been of the projects under its direct create the product. ficant number of Canadians down the export of our creative actually prefer American pro involved in various aspects of control. Therefore, 15% of all revenues talent who, in the past, have gramming to their own, to the the motion picture and televi Over the years. Astral Belle received by Astra-Tel, unen had to leave our country to point of equating Canadian sion industry for over 15 years. vue Pathe has been involved in cumbered by overhead and Our involvement started in the either the production, co-pro achieve recognition on an inter content with something not expenses, will be put into a national basis. appealing. early days when there was only duction, and/or financing of 66 separate fund called the Cana a small group of Canadian fea Mr. Chairman, members of Our national dilemma is motion pictures, as well as dian Production Fund. This ture film producers, with the the Commission, it is a most therefore ; How can we manage mini series and television se Fund will be used as follows •. concentration of the produc exciting time in the history of to reconcile our legitimate ries. Amongst them are : Echoes - Knowing that it all starts tion industry being in the areas of a Summer, The Apprentice the Canadian production in aspirations of promoting our with an idea, there will be of documentaries, educational ship ofDuddyKravitz, Lies My dustry. I think we can create an own cultural identity with the bursaries to young writers, films, television series and spe Father Told Me, Terror Train, important legacy forouryoung hard communications realities monies available to Canadian cials. Slipstream, Rituals, A Man people who are eager to utilize that surround us ? universities to help them to Called Intrepid, Mary and Jo- their talents for the making of a And how can we manage to We have been part of the improve their screenwriting industry's growth to its present ' seph and Kidsworld, as well as viable and important contribu produce Canadian program courses, and writers who will stage, which has taken us SO other projects including, tion to Canada. We must give ming that will not only be ex be engaged in the writing of through the lean years and the more recently, Les Bons De them that opportunity. hibited but seen by Canadians, screenplays. "boom" years. Even though barras, Les Plouffe, L'affaire Our alternatives in resolving - Our commitment for the there are fewer feature films Coffin and Being Different. Harold Greenberg • the issue are relatively simple: balance of the funds will be being produced today, there is These projects have ranged offered at the discretion of the still a viable feature film pro from low budget television First alternative producers, either in the form of • • • duction industry in Canada. productions of $10,000, to fea We can prevent further ac bridge financing or equity in There has been much criticism ture films ranging from $150,000 cess of U.S. programming in vestment. relating to some of the Cana to $7 million. I will conclude our presenta Canada. In other words, lodi Over the first five broadcast dian film productions, but we We have also expanded our tion by highlighting some of out from our countiy the tradi years, we expect to provide to believe that Canadian quality production throughout Cana the dilemmas vve all face in tional entertainment wave that the Canadian production in standards and commercial da : Echoes of a Summer, and introducing pay-TV in Canada comes across our borders every dustry some $100 million dol viability are starting to meet Neptune Factor, were done in and what opportunities can be day. This course of action lars - totally unleveraged. consumer standards, not only Nova Scotia ; Rituals was shot derived from this important would be a difficult strategy to However, we must face the in Canada but all over the in Northern Ontario; Slip event in our Canadian broad adopt, considering U.S. signals reality that the Canadian pro world. stream, which won the Cana casting industry. are a fact in Canada. It would ducer cannot be dependent on During all these years of dian Film Award for best fea All of us are preoccupied mean that we would have to funds from pay-TV to fully fi growth, Canada has been de ture film in 1973, was filmed in with the tremendous influx of retrench and isolate ourselves nance his production. He will veloping a talent pool which, Saskatchewan, and the film American culture that crosses from other cultures. require the expertise, knowl today, can meet the production Bleu was done in Alberta. our borders every day and edge, assistance and, above all, requirements to satisfy the Astral Bellevue Pathe's policy would like to find ways and Second alternative the leverage of the pay-TV net needs of pay-TV. Canadian is to work with producers from means to encourage more We can increase the exposure work to assist him in arranging producers have expanded various parts of Canada, as awareness and viewing of TV of Canadian content program other sources of financing. their expertise in both the thea sisting them at all stages of programs that reflect our own ming to Canadians as a means Using leverage, the $100 mil trical feature film and the tele their projects, either through identity. of countering the strong U.S. in vision industries, and are at lion production fund should script development, bridge All of us are preoccupied fluence. present providing program generate at least $300 million financing, providing technical with finding better ways and The advantages of this strat ming to these markets. We, as worth of production in Canada services, or assisting them in means of promoting our own egy would accrue mainly at Canadians, at times, have the the distribution of their pro (during the first five broadcast culture if we are to survive as a first to the Canadian produc tendency to focus on the nega jects. years). The importance of the strong and distinct nation. All tion industry with no guaran tives, rather than on the posi Production Fund, therefore, We are dedicated in our be of us appreciate that the best tee, however, that such pro tives. Today, Canadian writers, takes on significant tlimen- lief that the Canadian produc weay to resist the homogeniza- gramming is of a quality neces directors, actors, technicians, sion with regards to the Cana tion industry is capable not tion of North America into a sary to attract a large number and producers are part of the dian production industry. only of meeting the needs and single mold is to have vital of Canadian viewers. nucleus of talent prepared to standards of pay-TV in Canada, In addition to the Produc creative communication media The difficulty would be to take on the challenge of pay- but, next to the United States, tion Fund, and again under that reflect what we are to establish a process that would TV. of becoming the largest pro standing the requirements of ourselves and to others. ensure that a sufficient percen vider of program material for producers, we expect that an What is even more exciting, tage of Canadian content occurs world markets. additional $190 million will be On the other hand, there are and which is positively a vital in all categories of programs,iii spent on the acquisition of pay- some realities that Canada can stimulant to the production The introduction of pay-TV both our official languages, and industry, are the numbers of TV rights to Canadian pro not escape: in Canada will be one of the from the different regions o young people who are coming gramming. As such, the inde 1. Its geographical position most important elements in Canada. Such a proliferationot out of the colleges, trained and pendent producers will be able and proximity to the most pro stabilizing the Canadian pro control might well reqi^"* educated in the creative arts. duction industry which, in the to receive monies from two lific producer of television and administrative procedures« Knowing this, I believe that our past, has been extremely de sources: film entertainment in the world; would risk taking away froB future growth is in good hands. pendent upon the Canadian 1. Money invested by the Ca •a. The fact that the majority of the much-needed creative * Astral Bellevue Pathe has tax shelter funding and was nadian Production Fund for Canadians live within "over- tention which is required it we been deeply involved with handicapped by the reality that the creation of new product ; the-air" reception distance of are to succeed. young people, counselling these funds oniy became avail 2. Money invested by Astra- American TV signals; them in relation to the motion able during the latter part of Tel for the acquisition of Cana 3. The impending advent of Both these strategies wcuM picture and television industry, the year. For the first time, dian pay-TV rights. satellite-to-home TV systems have the coitJllaryeffectofrii^ and has adopted an apprentice funds will flow continuously As mentioned in our applica that are bound to bring into ing artificial barriers arou'"' training program on every one throughout the year, and as tion, Astra-Tel will not do any Canada further American sig 16) in-house production. In addi nals; (cont on P- 14/Cinema Canada/December 81-January 82 MAC King speaks forTelecanada and a universal system Ladies and Gentlemen of the city a year. Here the figure is, it as play. It is the way we professional careers for them the country. And what for ? To Commission. My name is Allan what ? Forty, Fifty, Sixty ? watch people play at terror, at selves. But, and this is the point go out into the world in feature King. I'm a producer and direc This is perhaps our last joy, being good, being bad, so of the story, very few of them in films disguised as Americans. tor of motion pictures. I made chance to claim our heritage, that we have some experience Saskatchewan. That's foolish How bizarre! This ambiva my first film Skidrow in Van to embody it and pass it on to in handling these things in our and unnecessary. lence borders on national couver twenty-five years ago our kids. own way when we face real Vve watched the process pchizophrenia. this summer and I have been It is ironic that in my genera terror in real life. It's why the closely for twenty-five years. I Is it any wonder that the • very fortunate in having had a tion, the generation following movies of David Cronenberg, was proud to be a founding applications of most of your rich, full and immensely varied World War II, we have had a for example, are so valuable member of the so-called West major applicants are greeted career since - in documenta massive explosion of creativity and ordinary people flock to Coast School of filmmakers at with profound doubt and cyni ries, cinema verite, drama, and in the other arts : a Canadian them. It is the shared experi the very beginning of television cism ? theatrical features everything literature now exists to be en ence of entertainment which in Vancouver. We watched in Let me repeat, we have the from commercials for Saniflush joyed and even studied where allows us to agree or disagree fury as the bureaucrats gradu talent in this country to produce the Bathroom Bowl Cleanser only sporadic work existed be on values which makes it so ally took control of the studio, entertainment of the highest to directing Her Majesty's fore. A wide range of painters urgently important. as funds from the East were quality. Because of the public of all styles flourish. World- Christmafe Message to Canada And you know, this self-doubt squeezed. funding we have had in the class architecture exists in our in Centennial Year. would be fully skeptical if it One by one we left: David past, through the Canada cities and we send examples You have before you, in the were not so serious. Maybe it's Duke, Mario Prizek, Ron Kelly, Council, the CBC, the CFDC abroad. But in the mass media, coming months, the opportuni both. many others - as people like and many government agen in popular entertainment, we ty to provide the foundations for Because some people seri Norman Campbell had left be cies, as well as through private a body of Canadian film and have proceeded in fits and fore us in order to realize their and commercial filmmaking, starts. In the single most im ously question if we are able in television production such as Canada to produce the volume talent. There is no reason it it's safe to bet we have a higher this country has never had be portant field for the cultivation could not have been realized in number of writers and film and preservation of our values, of feature films and other en fore. It is an immense challenge tertainment required for pay- Vancouver, and no reason that makers per capita and a higher and it is not too much to say we have almost lost the battle. we could not have gone and quality of experience per capita This need not be. TV. For example, to question that the future of this country whether we have the skills and come back had there been than almost any country in the depends on your judgement. It is no mystery, the building talent. Well, let me tell you. something to come back to. world. Your predecessors in the of a national culture. It's been I've just come back from There wasn't enough. There Let me repeat, what we have Board of Broadcast Governors done in many other countries ; shooting a batch of commer should be and it will be a never had is consistent, stable and the Broadcasting Commis not just in giant countries like cials in Vancouver. Contrary to primary task of Telecanada to financing placed in the hands sion had the first and daunting Russia and America iii the 19th the blight on filmmaking in help make that happen: in of experienced producers. It task: to provide us with the centuries, but in the small the rest of the country, Vancou major citites across the country seems to me that you have to means of talking in the language countries of Europe. Bela Bar- ver has three features in pro from coast to coast. find the cheapest possible way of television. In the thirty years tok writes with great clarity of duction at once. I happened to bypass Toron to put the most dollars over the or so since we have grown the genesis of Hungarian mu Some people say there is to when I left Vancouver, and longest period into the hands from the most rudimentary, sic. The same thing was ac only one first-class crew in set up shop in England with a of independent producers. almost analphabetic expres complished by the Czechs with Vancouver. I had, therefore, the small group of filmmakers - In the early days of the CBC, sion to the highly sophisticated Dvorak. The emergence of a "fourth" crew. Let me tell you mostly Canadians who had with GM Theatre and Startime, language our craftsmen com national theatre in Norway that I wouldn't hesitate to use been unable to find work in there was money. Not lots, but mand today. with Ibsen and Bjorn Bjornson that so-called fourth crew as Canada. Among other things money. A flood of talent Then came the financially ex a century ago is a vivid lesson the core for a feature produc they helped pioneer what was emerged, the money was turn hausting task of making that for Canadians. If you read the tion anywhere. They were first- then the new form, cinema ed off, the talent emigrated. expression available the length account in Michael Meyer's class. verite. They emerged as among In the firstyears of the CFDC, and breadth^ of the land - in classic biography of Ibsen you I have worked with crews the very best craftsmen any policy switched from expensive networks private and public, in will blush with self-recogni and casts, labs and mixing stu where in the world. Years later American co-productions, to tion at the follies of ambivalance English and French. dios all over the world and, I I discovered that they were the art films, to imitation Ameri and self-doubt with which we What has never been avail can tell you that those who lack envy of their peers in England, can movies - of- the - week and Canadians now, like Norwe confidence in the talent in Ca in Europe and in the U.S.. Be then back again. Despite the able in a// that time is adequate gians then, cripple ourselves. funding to produce a significant nada are merely expressing cause they had a studio, they vagaries of policy many good had a stable base to work from. body of work (in either light or "Nationalism" and "culture" fears of their own inadequa films were made : Duddy Kra- It was a committed group with vitz, Goin' Down the Road, serious entertainment) through have become dirty words for cies. Clearly this country has some people today. For obscure an extraordinary ability to pro a clear policy and modest but Mon oncle Antoine, Why Shoot which we Canadians could steady income. The studio still the Teacher, Meatballs, Les experience ourselves or ex reasons, perhaps lying in the duce outstanding talent, for it is unconscious fear of asserting a truism that we have filled the flourishes - ten, fifteen years bons debarras. Ticket to Heav press ourselves to people after I left it. en, Les ordres. Silent Partner abroad. The money has been their own independence, Ca studios in London and Los An geles with our people. - to list names is to offend by spent on housekeeping, not on nadian internationaUst histo Real commitment expressed rians would almost have you But just as Los Angeles and in clear-headed policy and with omission. A core of people is programming - at least not in established across the country any consistent, clear-sighted believe that nationalism caused London are filled with Cana the financial consistency to the First World War. But you dians so are Toronto and Mon carry it out is the essential who can make polished films way. And we have put in place of quality on budget. a vast edifice of technology know it was not the Serbians, treal staffed by those who have ingredient we have never had for the massive importation of the Czechs and the Poles who had to leave Vancouver, Ed in this country. Unfortunately the good films caused the war. Declarations a culture which, however vital monton, Winnipeg and Halifax You know, we are a funny appeared sporadically and of war were made by their because they could not fulfill and entertaining, has values country. We liceiice UHF sta were often obscured by the masters, the Imperial Govern themselves in their home town. tions in our major cities to steady output of imitation quite different from our own - ments of Austria, Russia, Ger This need not and should not different traditions, language, provide local expression and movies-of-the-week. Built on many and so on. It's as curious be. We are all impoverished by hand-me-down leftover scripts constitution, and so on. Our then find them programming an inversion as to suggest that a lack of adequate expression wall-to-wall American movies bought off the shelf in Holly kids are growing up with the if war breaks out in Eastern from all the different regions of prime-time. wood, scripts L.A. Tiad reject notion that wrong is righted, Europe today its "cause" Canada. Again, permit me a We set up a private network ed, with low grade, minor justice done, by a guy going out would be Polish nationalism. couple of stories. American stars with whom our in the street, guns blazing. Ours to diversify and give us inde Nationalism is simply an asser When we did Who Has Seen pendent production. It invents audiences could not identify, is a much more civil society. It tion of independence and in guaranteed mediocre bucks at always has been. I'm not saying the Wind in Saskatchewan, we what is, unhappily, the proto dividuality. It is not aggressive, employed 35 trainee film typical Canadian form : The the box office, which totally it's better: it's different. In the it is not hostile. confused critics and audien States, people are used to the makers in addition to the re Canadian TV serial set in Mid- town, U.S.A.; It is called Simon ces abroad as to what a "Cana notion of seven, eight, nine Culture got a bad name, of gular crew. People said, "Allan, you're crazy. Ifs hard enough Locke, and later grew into Po dian" film really is. No wonder. hundred murders in a major course, when it was used earlier to make a movie at the best of lice Surgeon. It provided a It has confused the Canadian in our history as a way for the creative community as well. upper and established classes times, but all these apprentices model for our feature films. hanging about ?" Well, the The absolutely fundamental ** * As prepared for delivery to to lord it over the newer and As a matter of national policy, work of script development poorer classes. And it still trainees were so valuable they national cultural survival, we f the Canadian Radio Telecom- weren't even called that after and of production teamwork if/munications Commission in tends to have that connotation. have collected millions of tax But perhaps the best way of the first week. Almost all of dollars (i.e. tax deferrals) from (('Hull, Quebec on October 7, them have since established 1981. looking at culture is to describe doctors and dentists all across (cont. on p. 17) / Cinema Canada/December 81-January 82/15 CINEWLA: i Syndicat des employes du theatn St-Denis and the Syndicat dei travailleurs des cinemas di Canadians must measure Yorkton fast gains grpund Complexe Desjardins. Botl unions are affiliated with thf YORKTON - Over 100 producers Yorkton operates with a full- Confederation of National Tradi and filmmakers registered for time, two-person staff, and is Unions ICNTU) and the Nationa films against worid standard the Film Workshops held in the only Canadian festival to be Federation of Communications conjunction with the 17th housed in its own festival (cont. from p. 14) It is time for us to measure Both sides have now ratified i Yorkton International Short building. Screenings of films ourselves with the unnatural ourselves to the dimension of collective agreement, the firsti r Film and Video Festival, Nov. 2- throughout the year are planned consequences of overprotec- the world, not only that of our the three-year history of the tionism. 8 in Saskatchewan. for the building, which doubles ovv'n backyard. as the local art gallery. unions. We suggest, Mr. Chairman," What we need to do is, first, "Attendance was up for the that the object of our pay-TV be good at it. In that way, we evening screenings, and for the A list of the winners can be All employees fired by France exercise is not so much the pro will regain our much-needed first time ever, all the awards found on the opposite page. Film prior to November 11, iggo duction and exhibition of a sense of pride and confidence save one were picked up as have been re-hired; it was those great many Canadian content in ourselves. Then, the specific they were announced on the firings which provoked the programs, but rather that good expression of our own identify closing evening," reports fest strike. Still before the arbitration qualify Canadian programs be will naturally rise to the sur director Sheila Harris, under board is the question of whether produced, watched and appre face. lining the progress the festival France Him or not France Film will be al lowed to sub-contract out work ciated by Canadians. There have been times-rn our has made over the years. Yorkton, which used to be a to non-union workers, as it did Therefore, we favour the past when we have been able during the durafion of the strike. third alternative of encourag to do international things well, bi-annual event, is getting new fight is over ing our production industry to with competence, may I add, to mofnentum now that it is being The collective agreement is produce to world qualify stan the amazement of the world. held annually. Canada's oldest MONTREAL - The ten-month the first to be signed in Quebec dards. We can no longer get away short film fest is run on a bud old strike against several thea with theatre employees who are tres owned by the Compagnie If Canada wants to remain a with the excuse that it is not get of $95,000, with the majority affiliated with the CNTU During distinctive entity, it must find possible for us. We have already of funds coming from the Sask France Film is ended in Mont the strike, the unions obtained the means, the way, the imagi done it, and when we did, Trust for Sports and Culture, real, though both sides are still an injunction against France nation and creativify to speak there was no finer place to live the provincial lottery pool. The working with an arbitration Film for using "scabs" and con out in a strong competent voice. and be than just here, being provincial department of Cul board to tidy up remaining dif travening Law 45 in the Work In other words, the only way ourselves... Canadian. ture, the federal Bureau of Fes ferences. Code. France Film plans to appeal this decision before the we can promote and encourage Maybe if we have as an ob tivals and public and corporate The dispute pitted France our own cultural identity is not donations make up the remain Film against theatre personnel Superior Court in February, jective the pursuit of excellence 1982. to cloister ourselves. It is to to world standards in our pro ing amounts. belonging to two unions, the produce, with competence, duction industry, we can make with excellence, and compete this feeling of ours last far successfully with the messages more than 180 days of 1967. coming from the U.S. We, at Astra-Tel, believe that By producing programs of Canada has a great opportunity international standards, Cana in pay-TV. We think that our The Canadian Independent da could benefit from the con proposal realistically answers tribution of foreign co-produc many of the preoccupations tions in funding a larger pool of and dilemmas that face us, and Short Film Showcase Canadian programming fare. you. We would like the oppor We could benefit from re tunity to tackle this national a program of the Canada Council venues of after-market sales in challenge. administered by the Academy of Canadian Cinema other parts of the world. We could be creating pro Philippe grams that would have a better DeGaspe Beaubien chance to be viewed by more Canadians. Entries are now being accepted for a national juried competition of sfiort films. Winning stiorts will be distributed with feature films to commercial theatres across Canada. Film Alts Winning filmmakers will receive an honorarium of $2500. To be eligible, films which may be live action or Film Arts animated must meet the following criteria: • be produced and directed by an independent Canadian filmmaker • be 10 minutes or less • be either 16mm or 35mm 16/35 post-production • have been made within the last 3 years • have dialogue in either English or French Television and feature • have copyright clearance and no previous run in a production 35mm commercial theatre. Where applicable, the Canada Council will assume ttie expense of sub-titling, multiple prints and a blow-up to 35mm. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS DECEMBER 31,1981 461 Church Street- For application forms or further information loronto • Cdnddd please contact: Alison Reid M4Y2C5- 'y • Academy of Canadian Cinema a*iiiH 653 Yonge Street, 2nd floor Telephone: 416-962-0181 Toronto, Ontario M4Y 129 (416)967-5414 16/Cinema Canada/December 81-January 62 ZOKt_MAG Funding and commitment is formula for quality programming (cont. from p. 15) thing whatsoever about scripts, satisfied. Audiences want a tainment, we will be able to higher. We have no conflict of has never been property fijnded script development and pro- fresh taste and a steady diet. connect viewers with the su interest as between sharehold nor its goals focused. You ducfion values. You wouldn't That's fundamental marketing. perb documentary and anima ers' profits and the best possible wouldn't set out to build a sky place university teaching and You know. Ladies and Gen tion work which year afteryear Canadian entertainment. We scraper by arriving on wite scholarship in the hands of the tlemen, you have the oppor this country has produced and have exciting ideas about di a full crew on sod-turning day freshman or sophomore class, tunity to change the random, which has made us famous in rectly involving the production and then hand them a sketch or brain surgery in the hands of haphazard way we have ap film throughout the world. community in our decisions on the back of a napkin. Some a pre-med student but that too proached film and television Now, many claims will be and I'd be glad to answer ques thing like that happens too often is what happened in the production in the past. put before you about the gen tions about that. often here. The director of past few years of filmmaking. With funding and commit eration and development of As I said at the outset, I have Kramer VS Kramer, Robert ment, the absolutely essential funds for Canadian production. had a long and varied and Benton, required the writer of The Australians have proven work of script and production We have seen charts about au immensely rewarding career. Kramer VS Kramer (Robert what many of us have argued development can be provided. dience penetration, proceeds I've had the pleasure of work Benton), to produce 23 drafts of for years. Films made with in With funding and commit and so on, from the so-called ing and associating with some the script before he was satis tegrity reflecting a fresh sense ment, production teams can discretionary services. Let me of the best filmmakers in the fied. We don't afford that and of place and character, can form confident and enduring be blunt, blunter perhaps than world, all over the world. What we must. One of the best writers make a real mark in the world relationships - such as we've my Board would be comfortable you in your wisdom decide no in this country. Max Cohen of and bring great pleasure not had with the growth of Cana with, I just don't believe those longer affects me profession- Montreal (he wrote the last only to home audiences but to dian theatre : Bill Glassco, Da figures. nally in a very significant way. four episodes of Boots and had audiences around the world. vid, French and the Tarragon I don't know how you can But, as with you, I cim concerned some audience acceptance!) Let me emphasize to you writers, Michel Tremblay and believe those figures. The cable about the world in which my hasn't written for production that we also have a unique Andre Brassard in Montreal, companies have put nothing children and family are going in this country since the early advantage no other country George Ryga and the Playhouse into Canadian production. The to live. I would like them to be days of television, though he has; we speak the same lan long ago in Vancouver. Film is landscape of Canadian televi able to see the very best enter lives here. His fees aren't out guage as the Americans. Thus the most collaborative of arts, sion is littered with promises tainment in the world. I would rageous but we don't spend an Australian or an English too often our teams have been broken or maimed by those also like them to be able to see money where it ought to be film is often confined to PBS thrown together in haste never who offered the earth for a Canadian entertainment, not spent. and the art house circuit be to work together again. license and then had to come as from a deprived ghetto, but In the last few years, we have cause in Texas they need sub With funding and commit back and say, "Gee, we tried as vigorous, well-dressed and placed feature film finance pri titles Canadian films don't. But ment, proper use can be made hard but we're going broke so healthy as that of any other marily in the hands of deal- if we are going to be able to sell of regional talents. We will see we'll just have to bury our pro country in the world makers - accountants and abroad the answer «s not to the vision of the Prairies, the mises to Canadian producers." The problem of what our lawyers, who understand the make imitation American films West, the Atlantic Provinces. The cost of Telecanada's pro children in English Canada tax system, but who have little but to make fresh and interest With funding and commit posals are modest, far less than will see in five, ten years, time in their background which ing films in sufficient volume ment, we can build a solid any other major. The returns to is grave ; in Quebec the question would suggest they know any so that a taste aroused can be audience for Canadian enter Canadian production are far is desperate. Allan King • iiiininnmnnfumiimiinmiimninmii The Best of Film and Video Festival has come and gone. The quality of entries was Another successful Yorkton International Short the festivities were tremendous fun. Thanks to oil, particularly our excellent, the workshops were great, and screeners and conference co-ordinators. adjudicators, pre VIDEO The 1981 Golden Sheaf Winners were; GOLDEN SHEAF AWARD - The Persons' Case" - ACCESS Alberta - Edmonton BEST in HUMAN CONDITION Category The Persons' Case'^ - ACCESS Alberla FILM - Edmonton GOLDEN SHEAF AWARD - "Crac" - Cinematheque - Monlreal BEST in HUMAN DYNAMIC Category "The Curse of Ponsonby Hall" - CKT BEST in HUMAN CONDITION Category - "Nose 4Tifia~ -NFB - Winnipeg TV-Winnipeg BEST in HUMAN DYNAMIC Category — "It's A Hobby tor Harvey" - Barry Lank BEST in SPONTANEOUS HUMAN — 10 Toronto Street" - CBC - Toronto - Winnipeg CRAR AWARDS BEST in SPONTANEOUS HUMAN — "Les Clocties" -Serge Denko -Montreal BEST DIRECTOR -•- John Wnght - "The Persons Case" - ACCESS Alberla - Edmonton CRAR AWARDS BEST PERFOPfvlER — Francis Hyland - The Persons' Case" - ACCESS Alberla -Edmonton BEST DIRECTOR — Sturia Gunnarsson -'After the Axe" NFB- Montreal BEST CINEfviATOGRAPHY - Vic Sarin & Ian Elkin - "Beginnings" - FSI BEST PERFORMER — Ed McNamara - ••Capital" NFB- Winnipeg Productions - Winnipeg , BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY — Nicholas Kendall -The Lost Pharaoh"-Nicholas Kendall - Vancouver BEST PICTURE EDITING — Margaret Chandler - '10 Toronto Street" - CBC - Toronto BE.'^T PICTURE EDITING — Wolf Ruck - ••Winning" Wolf Ruck Production - Mississauga BEST SOUND EDITING — John f,«ighl - •The Lost Pharaoh' - Vancouver CERTIFICATES OF MERIT 1 Points West - Series ' - CBC - TV - Winnipeg 2 'Stories and Stuff" - CFAC Lethbndge TV - Leihbridge SPECIAL JURY AWARDS 3 "Sur Le boute de la Langue' - SGME. Disbribution - Montreal 1. "L'Impossible Oublie" -NFB- Montreal 4 "The 2nd National Driving Test' One tor the Road" - OTV - Toronto 2. "Childhood's End" - Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre - Toronto $500 CASH AWARD for THE NTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS , CERTIFICATES OF MERIT • Melanie' - Roberta Osemlak - Moose Jaw - Video Produclton t "Galaxy" - William Davern - Hamilton 2, "Introducing . Janet" - CineFlics Ltd -Toronto $500 CASH AWARD for BEST CHILDREN'S PRODUCTION 3. "The Sweater" - Ni^.B - Montreal "The Curse of Ponsonby Hall". CKT - TV - Winnipeg - Video Production 4 "A Fine Line" Allen Rogers Productions Ltd - Torpnto 5. 'Vn Chat Au Courant" - Techniques Audio-visueffes - f^^ontreal NETTIE KRYSKI CANADIAN HERITAGE AWARD "Diet" -NFB- Winnipeg Cineina Canada/December 81-January 82/17 ^^Bravo!'' The Performance team would like to thank the many people in the production industry for the overwhelming support we received from across the country in developing our application now before the CRTC to be granted a license to operate a pay television network. L'impact declenche par notre presentation repose hautement sur les espoirs et la foi que vous nous avez accordes. Aux producteurs canadiens, bravo! Thank you, Performance The Canadian Entertaininent Network "We wish to congratulate Performance: The "I believe that Peter Pearson and Jack "I would simply like to note that if, given Entertainment Network for its philosophy McAndrew have an intimate knowledge with a national licence, the Performance organiza which we strongly believe will both stimulate the stuff of Pay Television which is Canadian tion keeps its commitments to the public and the economy of the Independent Producer and production, the stuff that concerns us - the the production community, we may yet sustain a the awareness of the Canadian viewing public." meat and potatoes of it - they have an unique, indigenous and culturally and economically understanding and a care for it. I think that is fruitful film and television industry." Luciano Lisi, Niall Burnett, extremely important. I think they have Douglas MacLeod, Points East Productions demonstrated that in their previous work." Charlottetown, P.E.I. Banff, Alta. Peter Bryant, "Many of the production people are lined Vancouver, B.C. "The Performance application cleariy goes up behind the Performance application of -beyond the often heard promises of assistance microelectronics entrepreneur John Shepherd "People, that is what is impressive about for Canadian programming by having and TV veterans Jack McAndrew and Peter Performance at every level: new players with developed an industrial strategy, which will Pearson." an acute concern for cultural sovereignty: benefit all in the industry." Maclean's, strength, credibility and support from coast to Robin Phillips, October 26, 1981 coast in French and in English." Stratford, Ontario "I believe that through the Performance Richard Nielsen, Pat Ferns, group, Atlantic area producers can develop a Primedia Productions Ltd. "Performance offers independent producers solid, strong national voice." Toronto, Ontario the chance to compete on the merits of their creative ability for production dollai-s on Colin Campbell, a dollar-matching basis, which would cer Halifax, N.S. "Performance offre plus qu'un service frangais distinct. U offre la possibilite de programmer tainly be a great boost to our ability to raise money from independent investors. Without "I believe that the Performance philosophy is aussi nos produits frang;ais au service anglais, ce qui amene done la participation du fran^is Performance, and the principles it embraces, the opportunity Canadian producers need in I fear our industry will suffer." order to succeed in the Canadian and world a 40 pour cent du reseau, et gs. nous permet d'aller chercher ce marche de 17 millions marketplace." Anne Garber, Merv Newlands, d'Anglophones du Canada." Les Weinstein, Vancouver, B.C. Vancouver, B.C. Nicole Boisvert, ASA Productions Inc. "As Canadian Producers we heartily endorse "Performance has made the growth and Montreal, Quebec the Performance philosophy of showcasing stability of independent industry in Canada high-quality Canadian entertainment pro the philosophical base of their application gramming. This philosophy offers the in • and that is the reason why we support "I believe Performance has the strength to dependent Producer an alternative in the Performance." provide what the Canadian production in distribution of his programs other than the Michel Roy, dustry needs through Pay Television." traditional existing networks." Film Accord William Hutt, C.C, M.M., Michael Watt, Montreal, Quebec Stratford, Ontario Gibson-Watt Productions "Je supporte Performance parce que je vols Vancouver, B.C. urie certaine attitude tres realiste dans leur ap- "J'appuie Performance parce que, d'apres moi, proche du sujet et une base industrielle qui est de toutes les demandes qui ont ete deposees de- "The' group leading "Performance" is out tres necessaire a I'industrie." vant vous, c'est le groupe qui a pu formuler et standing and their approach sensible and Rene Bonniere, developper une vraie strategie industrielle pour realistic." Toronto, Ontario aider le cinema. Cette strategie industrielle est Leonard Kowalewich, evidente par-le fait que Performance est pret a "We support the Performance submission mettre une somme substantielle des le debut Vancouver, B.C. because it demonstrates an awareness of the in des productions ce qui, a mon avis, va aider le dustrial aspeas of our business, and addresses producteur independant." the problem that we all face." Performance Joseph Beaubien, The Canadian Entertainment Network Nick Bakyta, ASA Productions Inc. 43ColborneSt., SuiteBlZ, Edmonton, Alta. Montreal, Quebec Toronto, M5E 1E3 18/Cinema Canada/December 81-January 82 (416)366-1676 ilNt_MAC7 Primedia and National Ballet team for a-vcontracts Manklewicz fails to TORONTO - Alexander Grant, better reconi with on all matters pertaining to the recordings. Association of Professional artistic driector of the Nation marketing of the National's per Ferns and Richard Nielson, Dance Organizations ICAPDO), al Ballet of Canada, and Pat formances in media other than chairman of Primedia, left Niel- and done some production Les beaux souvenirs Ferns, president of Primedia live theatre. son-Ferns International, which work for Lively Arts Market MONTREAL - Luke warm re Productions Ltd., have an Discussions between the Na they founded in 1972, this past Builders (LAMB), a special in views and an opening which nounced an agreement relat tional Ballet and Primedia have summer to form their new pro terest pay-TV license applicant. competed with the baseball ing to the dance company's taken place over the past year. duction company. Since then, Nielson is currently complet play-offs may have contributed film, videotape, and audio-vis According to a news release Primedia has served as a con ing The Wars, a $3 million fea to the lackluster performance of ual activities. from the two groups, future sultant to the Performance ap ture film based on Timothy Les beaujc souvenirs in Quebec. Primedia will produce adap moves may include the cre plication for a national pay-TV Findleys novel and directed by Playing on two screens (Mont tations of the National Ballet's ation of a separate production license, headed by Jack McAn Robin Phillips, which com real and Quebec City) for fwe repertoire, as well as consult entity which would handle all drew. They have also served as pleted shooting August 3. Ferns weeks, the film grossed $38,000, and advise the dance company National Ballet film and video consultants to the Canadian is currently executive pro falling far short of Les bons ducer of the 13-part television debarras which was the first series Ark On The Move. Up collaboration between director coming Primedia production Francis Mankiewicz and Rejean SHOOT ALBERTA plans for 1982 include Billy DuCharme. Although this second Bishop Goes To War, a co-pro film provoked lively debate in by Linda Kupecek duction with the BBC and the Le Devoir, the production by the Colonial Repertory Theatre National Film Board and Lamy "I've lost all the awards. I don't from under an umbrella on my prepare a drama, but a docu Company, to be shot next March Spencer never found its audience know where they go," said Ter knees in the rain." In another, a mentary takes so much re- at the BBC's Glasgow studios despite distribution through Les ence Macartney-Filgate, pro Chinese laundry cancelled the earch. with original cast members Eric Films Mutuels. ducer/director of The Golden use of a location, so he im "I would like to direct a dra Peterson and John Gray; Grey Mountain: The Chinese in Can provised a picnic scene in ma, but have been told by the Owl (based on Lovat Dickson's ada. "Bits of paper ...but good stead. CBC drama department that I biography Wilderness Man}, for the next budget," he con Television confuses news re am not experienced enough." and Heaven On Earth (screen tinued mildly. portage with documentaries, (At this point, the grim-faced play by Margaret Atwood and Public buys Ticket If that is so, Macartney-Filgate Macartney-Filgate commented. CBC puljlicist from Toronto Peter Pearson), both British co- should be optimistic: in Sep "News reporting records the grew even grimmer.) productions with Yorkshire as film plays on Television; Pelagie-la-Charrette, tember, he was given the On event, while a doc«mentary Of the rewards of filmmak bas.ed on the Prix Goncourt tario Film Institute Award for filmmaker takes certain things ing, he said, "The real reward is two in Montreal winning novel by Antonine outstanding contribution to film and gives them a certain emo that the film has a life of its MONTREAL - By November 19, Maillet, in a co-production with in Canada. With a screening tion, tone, and feeling... Docu own." after four weeks on two screens, Societe Radio Canada and Gau- ^and retrospective of his past mentary filmmakers are a dwin Ticket to Heaven has grossed His future plans include a mont, the major Parisian theat films for Canadian television, dling band in Canada," he said. $48,836 in Montreal and was musical documentary profile rical distributor; The Adven- he was given a miniature zoe- continuing its run. Directed by Comparing documentary on Oscar Petersen, and a major turs of Hudson's Bay, a six-part trope in honour of his work. Ralph Thomas and starring Nick with drama, Macartney-Filgate series based on Pierre Berton's dramatic mini-series co-pro Mancuso and Saul Rubinek, the This is not the first award for said, "In a documentary, one is Flames Across the Border. duced with France's Telecip; film was produced by Vivienne Macartney-Filgate. In his long trying to find the structure of "Filmmaking is a vice," said and nine-part children's dra Leebosh for executive producer career, he has collected an the film. You never know what the multi-award winner. "You ma The Little Vampires, a Ger Ronald I. Cohen, and is distribut Academy Award to Television you are going to get. A drama can't give it up. Because you man co-production with Poly- ed in Quebec by Les Films Reporting, Cine Golden Eagle, script is more defined." Also, never really learn to master it." phon of Hamburg. American Film Festival Award, "It only takes three weeks to Mutuels. Grand Prix Cannes, Eurovision Television Award, Ohio State Award, and Canadian Film Award. "Money's the name of the game," he said recently in Cal gary. "No money, no film." He pointed out that the $170,000 budget on Golden Mountain (the ninety-minute film docu- CINESYNC mentaiy aired November 11 on INTERNATIONAL CBC) was one-half the price of a drama per minute, and one- half the cost of an NFB docu mentary. Golden Mountain was shot in Victoria, Ontario, Lethbridge DOUBLAGE ET POST-SYNCHRONISATION and Winnipeg. Macartney-Fil gate and his crew researched FOREIGN LANGUAGE DUBBING in 1379, shot for one month in June 1980, and edited in 1981, while he continued with other projects, including Barker Fair ly at 93, and In Memory of Norman Bethune. MONTREAL PARIS NEW YORK "I like to stir things up," he said. "I like to keep busy. Other wise, it's boring." Macartney-Filgate outlined 1025, rue de Bleury 69, rue de Rochechouart 35 West, 90th Street the flexibility required for the Montreal, Canada H2Z 1M7 75009 Paris, France New York 10024 Golden Mountain shoot. "The Telephone: (514) 866-8933 Telephone: 878-16-41 N.Y., U.S.A. re-creations were shot in two Telex: 055-61916 Telex: 270105 Ref. 394 Telephone: (212) 873-6390 to three days at great speed. I rubbed dirt on the faces of the railway workers because I wanted them to look realistic. I re-cycled people from one scene PHILIPPE GARCIA, president to another. 1 photographed it myself. At one point, 1 shot Cinema Canada/December 81 -Janiiary 82/19 CINEJL^ year; Bob Cooper has a net "Los Angeles is a place to apart then the ultimate effect work movie-of-the-week in the be," says Andre Link, with con of Canadian film policy since works. Pierre David is moving cern. "The capacity to generate the introduction of the COA in his operation to Los Angeles business there is unrivalled, 1974 will be to have prepared and will work, like John and we must be able to go on some of our strongest theatric- Budget Blues (cont, from p. 3) Kemeny, from an L.A. base, making films."" their place in the American Larry Nesis, the king of Cana If producers are unable to film industry. put back together the deals Minister of Finance. "We have dian film financers, has an office up a strong, creative and cul which the budget has taken gathered together a strong tural element in the industry." and family in California. case, and bureaucrats in the Feeling that the past three ministry of Finance support us. years had been a "learning But we aren't able to reach the curve for both producers and Minister of Finance himself. investors," he concludes that He's just not around," com the industry is stronger now mented one member of Fox's than it was three years ago. staff. Said another, "We're not Commenting on the time it will the only group trying to reach take producers to replace the MacEachen. Groups from all CCA money with pre-sales and over the country are lobbying co-production arrangements, to have various aspects of the Macadam worries that " a lot of budget modified." companies may no longer be The consensus of those at around." the Nov, 18 meeting is that the Roth too feels that those who government did not appreciate devoted themselves to creat the disastrous results the bud ing viable companies with get would have on the film in permanent staffs will be the dustry. This opinion is contest hardest hit, and that the budget ed by a long-time observer of will tend to favour the one-shot the industry who has close ties producers. "You can't build an to government. "Either the industry infrastructure if it is move was stupid, or the govern subject to government whim." ment decided to wind up the Despite the precarious fu film industry. There were ture, producers seem confident phone calls made prior to the that film issues for 1981 will budget, evaluating its probable sell out. "There's really not effects... I don't think they much out there for sale," com didn't know they were closing mented one observer, stating it down," said the observer. that there was certainly still a "The carnage out there is just market for about $100 million unbelievable." in film units (compared to just What the "carnage" amounts under twice that amount last to is the undoing of all the year). Adds film lawyer G. movie deals which were in Chalmers Adams, "There could place for 1982 and predicated be a rush on the remainirig on the 100% tax shelter. Also in issues because the 100% film jeopardy are the promises of tax shelter survives until the performance contained in all end of this year, making film a the pay-television applications. hospitable market for invest Without exception, those ap ment." plications were based on the John Pozhke of Cinequity presence of the 100% CCA and Funding Corp., commenting the incentive for private in on the changes affecting other vestors to contribute to the tax shelters, believes '"relatively Canadian production industry. speaking, good times are "It takes at least eight ahead. If 1% of the available months to a year to structure a money flows into feature film deal," comments Beaubien. from the tax rules changes, it "It s not that v^e can't find other will be a significant bonanza " means of putting films together, Cinequity has just become list but we need al least a year to ed on the Toronto stock ex put those structures in place." change, joining Astral Bellevue Adds Roth, "The problem is not Pathe as a publicly-owned pro really with the reduction in the duction company. CCA. We can work with that. Underlining the discussions The problem is in the percep surrounding the budget and its tion others have of the effect of effect on the film industry is a the budget on the industry. sense of futility and lack of Interim financers and brokers vision on the part of those who were already nervous. This is make policy decisions. "Its giving them a good chance to partly the industry's fault be step back, to wait and see." cause no one cared about all Comments producer Andre the aspects of the problem. Link, more succinctly, "The People were caught up in their interim financers have disap narrow concerns. By now, the peared." problem is beyond the scope of Citing healthy returns to in anyone to deal with it. Even the vestors on films like Happy Minister of Communications, Birthday to Me, Heavy Metal with his 300-odd agencies, is and Paradise, Link underlines helpless," said one observer that the budget was brought Certainly, pay-television will down just as Canadian films be seriously affected, both by were beginning to show real the CCA changes, and by the strength. open-skies policy which the Many producers lament the government is expected to ap poor timing of the budget. Bill prove. Macadam of Norfolk Commu Meanwhile, producers are nications comments that the getting weary of coping with governments decision "let the vagaries of making a"Cana- down those in the industry dian" film. Garth Drabinsky who stayed in Canada to build made an American film this 20/Cinema Canada/December 81-January 82 mtjsAc Academy announces contenders for 1982 Genie Awards TORONTO-The Academy of Amateur, Bells, By Design, Fin entheses) 'includes Alligator rie Ruvinsky); Melanie (Rich Luna (Francine Desbiens); Pi>c- Canadian Cinema has an ishing Touch, Head On, Hank Shoes (Clay Borris, John F. Phil ard Simpson, Peter Simpson); ilation (Roger Cantin); Spec- nounced the complete list of Williams: The Show He Never lips); The Amateur (Garth Dra Les Plouffe (Denis Heroux, Jus trumSpectrumSpectrum (Kar feature, documentary, and short Gave, Heartaches, and Melanie. binsky, Joel B. Michaels); Les tine Heroux); Scanners (Victor en Firus); Splash (Mouton Rose); films entered in the competi For all feature film award Beaua Souvenirs (Jean Dans Solnicki, Pierre David, Claud Top Priority (Ishu Patel); The tion forthe 1982 Genie Awards. categories, nominations will be ereau, Pierre Lamay); Bells (Rob Heroux); Silence of the North Way of the Willow (John Kent In all, 19 feature films, eight made by Academy members ert Cooper); By Design (Beryl (Murray Shostak); Surfacing Harrison, Robert Miller); Zea theatrical documentaries, and following membership screen Fox, Werner Aellen); Cries In (Beryl Fox); Ticket To Heaven (Robert Forget). 14 theatrical shorts are eligible ings of all entered films in Ed The Night {Barry Allen, William (Vivienne Leebosh, Ronald I. The films elibible in the the tor the awards, which will be monton (January 2-4), Vancou Fruet); Finishing Tough (Robert Cohen). atrical documentary are: Being broadcast live on the CBC Tele ver (January S-7), Montreal (Jan Lantos, Stephen J. Roth); Hank The films eligible in the the Different (Harry Rasky); Bill Lee vision Network from Toronto's uary 8-14) and Toronto (Jan Williams: The Show He Never atrical short category are: "E" (Bill Brownstein); Challenge: Royal Alexandra Theatre on uary 15-21). For the documen Gave (Peter Simpson, Richard (Robert Forget); Ensoleille avec The Canadian Rockies (Wendy March 3, 1982. tary and short film categories, Simpson, William Marshall, passages nuageu^ (Louis La- Wacko); Metier Bojceur (Pierre Despite this year's general special expert juries will both Henk Van Der Kolk); Happy verdiere); Fijced In Time: A Roy); On n'est pas des anges slowdown in the industry, the make nominations and select Birthday To Me (John Dunning, Victorian Album (Barry Cow (Claude Godbout, Marcia Cou- 19 eligible features are only the winning films. Andre Link); Head On (Michael ling); Free Dive (PauUe Clarke, elle); P4W: Prison for Women one short of last year's total of All nominations will be an Grant, Alan Simmonds); Heart Wendy Campbell); Le Jongleur/ (Janice Cole, Holly Dale); Voy 20, a factor Academy president nounced at a press conference aches (David Patterson, Gerry The Juggler (Helene Verrier); age de Nuit (Carole Mondello); Andra Sheffer attributes to the on February 3, 1982. Raibourn); Heavy Metal (Ivan It's A Hobby for Harvey (Barry A War Story (Anne Wheeler); Reitman); Improper Channels Genies being "a year behind The list of eligible feature Link); Let Music Be the Mes Imagine The Sound (Ron Mann, (Jon Slan, Alfred Pariser, Mor- the industry." films (producers' credits in par sage (Bill Marsden); Luna, Luna, Bill Smithl "This is our best group and our best year ever," said Sheff er of the list of eligible films. ""It should be a good competition. Of course, the irony is that films aren't being made this year." Sheffer noted that Academy membership, currently at 500 members, should level out to ' A last year's highest-ever total of ^ ^ "^^' ^ \f ' 4 *^ ^ ,^5 600 by the end of the year. She Cinema Canada/December 81-January 82/21