c I N E M A G • T R A D E N E w 5 • IOstry attacks free enterprise's holy land I Cite's contract due August 15 NEW YORK - Chief U.S. free national security and, in institutions, Ostry turned his MONTREAL Cinema Several business interests trade negotiator Peter Murphy Canada, sees a priority placed oratorical aggreSSiveness on Canada has learned that a fed­ within the private sector have and his negotiating team mem­ on cultural sovereignty. American agencies' near eral-provincial government already stated their intentions bers were described as "shrill After echoing OntariO Pre­ monopoly of Canada's market. contract to build the $20 mil­ to build the Cite du Cinema and disingenious" by TVOn­ mier David Peterson's view "These big bad wolves huff lion Cite du Cinema mm studio and are waiting for the invita­ tario chairman/chief executive that cultural sovereignty in and puff and they want to blow complex here will be awarded tion [0 tender proposals to a officer Bernard Ostry in a June Canada could not be separated our house in," said Ostry. August 16. management committee set up 11 address to the annual meet­ from political sovereignty, '''Scorched earth' is the warlike Nicole Martin, assistant to under the terms of the agree­ ing of the American Associa­ Ostry stressed "let us be sure threat of the gulf and westerns the deputy minister in the ment. tion of Museums. that the matter under discus­ (lower-cased in the text of his Quebec Ministry of Cultural Most visible among these Ostry, in recent months a· sion is capable of being speech) ... These multinationals Affairs, says that, according to a parties is Harold Greenberg, very vocal proponent of the negotiated." He then pointed already have their 70 and 80 working schedule already in president of Astral Bellevue values of public broadcasting out Canadian legislation aimed and 90 per cent and unless place within the ministry, a Pathe which is proposing a systems - as well as a former at ensuring survival of Cana­ they can get 100 per cent they contract for Cite du Cinema complex of office towers, deputy minister of communi­ dian voices in the media and cry Foul! Restrictive practice' will be awarded August 16 fol­ studios, theatres and retail mm cations in Ottawa and of On: publishing are not so much re­ Unfair! Nationalistic!" lowing a call for public tenders eqUipment stores - reportedly tario's Ministry of Citizenship strictions on the freedom of in­ Ostry, claiming the only cor­ in the private sector. to cost close to £75 million. and Culture - appealed to his formation so much as "an rective action to an American Officials of both the federal According to a report in a To­ audience in his speech on amplification of freedom." insensitivity hased on DepartnJent of Communica­ ronto newspaper, the National "Cultural Sovereignty and Free After paying recognition to "xenophobic blindness", was to tions and the Quebec Ministry Film Board has "linked up" Trade Between Canada and the Canada-U.S. friendship and the make "ordinary decent Amer­ of Cultural Affairs told Cinema with the Astral project for a United States" to assist in fos­ two countries' almost similar icans" realize Canada's right to Canada that open invitation to Maison du Cinema within the tering among Americans a view of the world, the TVO conduct its own affairs as it bid on the filn'l -studio project complex. greater understanding and to­ chief spoke of the need to un­ sees fit - as Americans would will be extended to the private However, asked whether lerance for Canada's different derstand the kinds of trouble insist in their case. In one of his sector by the end of June this federal agency is involved cultural character and aspira­ similarities and differences be­ many direct volleys to Amer­ pending Quebec treasury ap­ in Astral's private-sector bid tions. tween the two nations can ican opinion, he declared "If proval of the Canada-Quebec for public funding, Stuart Cob­ Ostry, wondering about re­ pose. we choose to set up public Subsidiary Agreement on Cul­ bett, president of Astral Films cent U.S. actions that have pre­ "It is these resemblances, bodies to stimulate mm pro­ tural Infrastructure. Enterprises, told Cinema cipitated a seeming trade war which we would probably like duction, or programs to pro­ According to this agree­ Canada there is no NFB in­ with Canada coincidental to to think of as superficial, but tect the old, the sick, and the ment, which allocates close to volvement in the Astral prop­ free trade negotiations, asked are .in fact profound; it is this deprived, that is our business." $30 million for major renova­ osal. why America did not "get its family likeness that makes it so With an eye apparently set tions to the Montreal Musee "You can't believe every­ act together" before beginning hard for Americans to take on negotiating conditions in­ des Beaux-Arts and approxi­ thing you read," said Cobbett, talks "with a great neighbour seriously any claim to be dif­ sisted on by the U.S. Congress mately $10 million towards "the project is an Astral lead and trading partner, a great ferent. And we do make that and various American lobbying the construction of Cite du with a lot of private investors." friend and ally." claim. We not only claim to be groups, Ostry, with a whimsi­ Cinema, it is the Quebec gov­ Francis Fox, former Federal Referring to a lack of in­ different, we claim the right to cal touch, said Canadians ernment which is responsible Communications minister and formed public opinion on the be different, and the right to weren't for their part asking for implementing the jointly fi­ cont. on p . 35 undefended Canada-U.S. bor­ preserve that difference. .. And · America "to dismantle your de­ nanced projects. der and· its meaning, Ostry ob­ we claim to have these rights fence programs or privatize served "There seems to be respected at the negotiating the Marines." some notion on your side of table," said Ostry. Telling his audience that dif­ Exhibitors too close for comfort the border that it is simply a Citing the vital regard those ferent interests and values TORONTO - It's close en­ pulled iqto the Yonge Street line dividing your lawn from differences hold for Canadians and not hostility to the U.S. counters of the "hardball" cor­ entrance (adorned with the your backyard" and then told and statistics showing the governed Canada's pre-occu­ porate kind between Cineplex slogans "For Supreme his listeners concepts like free overwhelming degree of pations of its own, Ostry saved Odeon Corporation and Fa­ Emergency Service & Quality" trade were subjeCt to national foreign penetration of Canada's his speech's punch - and a mous Players Ltd. More specifi­ and the request "Drive Care­ values and aspirations - which publishing, film and video dis­ high card for American consid­ cally, the rival exhibitors have fully - We don't Have TIle in America, "this holy land of tribution, and sound recording eration - for the end. clashed head-to-head over the Keys to Heaven!"), those free enterprise" supplants markets that highlight the Not only is Canada about to landmark Imperial 6 Theatre notices advised Famous economics with concern for legitimacy of Canada's cultural cont. on p. 35 and in the process - temporar­ Players Ltd. of the expiry of its ily at least - shut the down­ four-year lease dated May 25, town Toronto movie-gOing 1982, that owner Edna Arleen public out of the prime film Werden Rakas and current ten­ Quebecl Alberta coproductions on hold venue. ant Cineplex Odeon Corpora­ The latest dispute between tion had taken possession of MONTREAL - Last minute alt­ Once in place, the SGCQ process in each province and Cineplex and Famous became the premises, and that Famous erations by Revenue Quebec (Quebec)1AMPDC Co-Produc­ subsequent consultation be­ noticeable May 29, when sec­ would have 30 days to remove to an co-production agree­ tion Agreement will allow tween representatives of the urity guards and chain-locked its records, inventory, and ment which will allow Alberta Quebec filmmakers working in SGCQ and the AMPDC. doors at the Imperial's Yonge trade fixtures. filmmakers to take advantage Alberta to take advantage of and Victoria Street entrances How did Famous come to of the 150 per cent capital cost AMPDC development loans "The projects will be signaled the theatre's closure lose a site it had held since the allowance in Quebec has de­ while Alberta filmmakers can negotiated on an individual to would-be patrons. Behind a 1930s? The effect of Famous' layed offical signing of the ag­ make use of Quebec's produc­ one on one basis," says Robert. stripped-down marquee an­ failure to renew the lease, and reement until later this sum­ tion equity funding and capital In other bUSiness, Robert nouncing Sylvester Stallone's Cineplex Odeon's acquisition mer. cost allowance. who became interim director Cobra had been moved to Fa­ of that lease from the owner ef­ Denise Robert, president The agreement will add cred­ after the unexpected depar­ mous' Plaza and Sheraton fectively divided the Imperial. Centre Cinemas, hand­ Famous was left with two and interim director-general of ibility to Quebec-Alberta co­ ture of Nicole M. Boisvert from the Societe du general du productions in seeking addi­ the Societe general du scrawled apologies for the in­ theatres entirely on its prop­ cinema says she expects the tio~funding . It will also stand cinema, says a successor will convenience, and legal notices erty; the largest theatre (the agreement, co-sponsored by as an added incentive to use lo­ be announced by the end of addressed to Famous Players 778-seat Theatre 2) fell onto the Alberta Motion Picture De­ cations in both provinces. June. Robert is not in the run­ stated that an important por­ the owner's property now velopment Corporation, will Whether a co-production ning for the position because tion of the Imperial now be­ leased by Cineplex; the re­ be signed in August at the will qualify under the terms of of the workload involved as longed to Cineplex Odeon. maining three theatres fell be­ World Film Festival in the agreement will be deter­ both president and interim di­ The next morning, as a Su­ tween both Famous' and Mrs. Montreal. mined by the current selection rector-general. preme Locksmiths Ltd. van cont. on p . 36

July I August 1986 - Cinema Canada/33 • c I N E M A G • fore the Canadian Radio-televi­ profit FUND, intended to foster sion and Telecommunications scripts for feature-length First Choice launches development FU N0 Commission (CRTC) at which dramas and made-for-pay-1V TORONTO - Seven projects First Choice Canadian Com­ led from over 400 cross­ Canadian general-interest pay- programs, consist of interest­ totalling $52,069 and a nine­ munications. Canada requests for applica­ 1V licensees, including First free loans, repayable to the member volunteer board of di­ Those initial projects, which tions and then selected from Choice, asked the Commission FUND once a project's princi­ rectors were announced in a received development funds 32 projects that received con­ to reduce their Canadian con­ pal photography commences. June 4 reception launching the ranging from $5,000 to sideration. tent levels from 50% as of Jan. Guidelines for the script de­ 51 million Foundation to Un- ' $10,000 for a variety of treat­ The Fund announcement 1, 1986 as a condition of velopment programme (di­ derwrite New Drama for Pay ments, first, and final drafts by coincided with the beginning license to 15 per cent. vided into treatments, first Television, formed in April by screewriting teams, were cui- of hearings one week later be- Financing from the non- draft, and second or final drarfts) were announced May 28 by FUND chairperson Phyl­ lis Yaffe, with summer dead­ lines of June 6 and August 5 also set for submissions. The FUND's first recipients of seed monies - who must be Canadian citizens or landed immigrants - were joined at the reception by the FUND board members, also first an­ nounced May 28 by Yaffe. Joining Yaffe on the board are: Spectrafilm Inc. president Unda Beath; First Choice prog­ ramme director for First Choice-Superchannel's eastern Canada pay-1V service, Paul Gratton - the sole First Choice representative on the board; CBC executive in charge of in­ dependent production - family 1V drama, Nada Harcourt; As­ sociation of Canadian Film & Television Producers execu­ tive vice-president Peter Mor­ timer; Atlantic Independent Film & Video Association member Gordon Parsons; At­ lantis Television International Inc. president Ted Riley; Cana­ dian co-producer of the hit stage musical Cats, Marlene Smith; and, from 1968-78 the Canadian Film Development Corporation's first executive director, Michael Spencer. Regardless of the rate of re­ turn from projects, First Choice will ensure the FUND remains at $1 million through an annual 'topping up.' FUND, however, isn't alone in providing financing for the projects of screenwriters. The Ontario Film Development . Corporation, which opened its doors to business last spring, includes in its $7 million an­ nual budget approximately S800,000 to $1 million for script development. Bill House, the OFDC's executive co-ordinator of pro~ duction and development, says the provincial film corporation has received more than two complete applications for pro­ jects in development since April 3, with some 30 projects in production and applications for a good number of special projects (such as the late-May Student Entry Project for Young Filmmakers).

HOUSTON, TEXAS - Mako Films and the NFB were award winners at the 1986 annual Houston International Film Festival's April 26 awards din­ ner.

34/Cinema Canada - July I August 1986 c I N E M A G • • been put off earlier this year by this year, stated that holding likely tobe a short-term one as cations Commission to plead Pay TV wants out their case that Canadian con­ the Commission, in expecta­ the hearing now would facili­ current general-interest pay­ tent levels, set as a condition of tion of the Caplan-Sauvageau tate the bi-annual tabulation of TV licenses expire in 1987. of CRTC CanCon their licenses at 50 per cent as Task Force Report on Broad­ Canadian content reporting by of Jan. 1, 1986, should be re­ casting Policy. However, de­ the CRTC. license commitment duced to 15 per cent. lays in completing the report The hearings were pre­ Ostry's attack The hearing, held June 10- caused the Commission, after ceeded by one week by First cont. from p. 33 OTTAWA - Canadian general­ 12, is expected to result in a consultation with Task Force Choice's million-dollar Foun­ interest pay-TV licensees First decision by the CRTC within chairmen Gerry Caplan and dation to Underwrite New lie down in free trade talks Choice, Allarcom and French­ "several weeks," according to Florian Sauvageau to proceed Drama for Pay Television with the U.S. but, vowed Ostry, language Premier-Choix lVEC Commission chairman Andre with a hearing on the pay-TV (FUND), announcement of "Above all, we are not going to appeared at a hearing June 10 Bureau. licensee application. seven projects worth $52,000. let anyone knock our brains before the Canadian Radio­ The issue of Canadian con­ Ironically, CRTC chairman The CRTC decision, ex­ out. And maybe, after all, that is television and Telecommuni- tent reduction on pay-TV had Bureau, writing to Caplan early pected by the end of July, is the best way to explain what we mean when we talk about our culture and national integ­ rity." Should the U.S. negotiat­ ing team attempts to bully Ot­ National Office tawa, he added "Washington may well find that we Cana­ Film Board national du film dians are ready to give as good as we get." American inability to strike a of Canada duCanada fair free-trade deal with Canada, he said, in an appeal to his audience's own self-in­ terest, would indicate America "cannot deal fairly with any­ one. The world will recognize --NI181------that, in all that it implies." WORKING GROUP TO STUDY NON-THEATRICAL Cite contract FILM INDUSTRY cont. from p. 33 Communications Minister Marcel reported to be legal counsel Masse has appointed Government for Astral in this project, was at Film Commissioner and NFB Chair­ press-time unavailable for man Franc;:ois N. Macerola and Win­ comment. Also in the nmning for the nipeg film producer Merit Jensen to contract is the Lavalin En­ co-chair a working group that will gineering firm of which cur­ study the non-theatrical film industry. rent CommOnications Minister The six-member group will examine Marcel Masse was vice-presi­ the major problems faCing the indus­ dent before returning to poli­ try, explore global market conditions tics. Legal counsel for Lavalin is for institutional, educational and in­ Clement Richard, the former dustrial films and recommend to the Quebec Cultural Affairs Minis­ Minister by August 31, measures de­ Government Film Commissioner Franyois N. Macerola and Winnipeg film producer Merit Jensen ter. signed to revitalize the non-theatrical will co-chair the working group established by Communications Minister Marcel Masse to The Cite du Cinema has film industry. examine the non-theatrical film industry. been the subject of on-again NFB office is now located in the city built around a Sun 120/2 computer off-again negotiations since NFB SIGNS SHARED library, in Chicoutimi, in the commu­ and equipped with five video laser June 1983 when a contract DISTRIBUTION / nity cultural center; and in Rimouski, disc players and a U-matic videocas­ was awarded in summer '84 by in city hall. sette recorder. Designed by NFB en­ the federal government - then ACCOMODATION gineers and film editors, this facility, represented by Francis Fox - AGREEMENT WITH CITY OF unique in Canada, also contains a vi­ to a private sector consortium. NEW RE-RECORDING AND In the fall of '84 the Liberal RIMOUSKI VIDEO-DISC EDITING deo projector, which makes it possi­ ble to view edited material on a large. government was defeated and Rimouski has become the third Que­ FACILITIES the contract withdrawn. The bec city to enter into an agreement screen. Theatre 3, the NFB's largest scree­ Conservative Minister of Com­ with the National Film Board which munications Marcel Masse and ning and re-recording theatre has provides for shared facilities and in­ FESTIVAL NEWS then-Quebec Cultural Affairs been equipped with a NEVE re-re­ creased public access to the NFB's Le Oeclin de I'empire americain, De­ Minister Clement Richard an­ cording console, a 36-channel board film and video collection. The agree­ nys Arcand's feature film about the nounced the commissioning of with six sub-groups, six main outputs ments are the first of several the NFB social mores of contemporary Que­ a second implementation and six-track monitoring facilities, as will sign with cultural institutions bec bourgeoisie, co-produced by the study (by consultants Secor well as NECAM 96 and VCA sub­ across the country over the next five NFB and and Corporation M&M Inc.) and hailed a new federal­ groupings. A full LucasfHm THX mo­ years. The objective, outlined in the Ltee, won the International Critics' provincial spirit of consulta­ nitoring system, and Magnatech Operational Plan currently being im­ a: Prize (FIRPRESCI) during the Direc­ tion and collaboration. high-speed projector have also been plemented by the Board, is to reduce tor's Fortnight held in conjunction With the Secor study com­ installed, allowing for screening of pleted in April and the Canada­ the NFB's administrative infrastruc­ with the Cannes Film Festival. 16, 35 and 70 mm film with Dolby Quebec agreement signed, the ture, activiate and develop a public Final Offer: Bob White and the Ca­ video market in Canada, and multiply SVA optical or magnetic, four or six physical and financial scope of nadian Auto Workers Fight for Inde­ the Cite du Cinema project has the number of access points for NFB track sound. pendence tied for Grand Prize (with been drastically reduced productions. Sharing facilities with Another new facility which will the French film Music Hall) and was from the original federal gov­ public cultural institutions has led to speed-up and facilitate editing is a also voted best political and social ernment/private-sector split of a substantial increase in rental of computer-assisted film editing room documentary at the 7th Annual Banff 522 million and S l-i million NFB videos. In Quebec City, the which features an EditDroid console, International Television Festival. respectively, to the current S20 million project in which, NFB Offices in Canada: Headquarters - Montreal (514) 283-9253 National Capital - Ottawa (613) 996-4259 according to the Secor report, Pacific region - Vancouver (604) 666-3411 Quebec region - Montreal (514) 283-4823 the governments, combined Prairie region - Winnipeg (204) 949-2812 Atlantic region - Halifax (902) 426-7350 federal and provincial share plus offices in most major cities Ontario region - Toronto (416) 973-0895 will be a recommended 57 million.

July! August 1986 - Cinema Canada!35 • c I N E M A G • monthly basis over a fo ur or tion that was entered into later of Cineplex keeping the exist­ zenegger pic Raw Deal. In a Exhibitors too close five- year term in place of the that day by Drabinsky and ing largest Imperial theatre in­ twist of poetic irony, Famous cont. from p . 33 $182,000 Cdn. Famous had Rakas. tact, constructing two smaller Players Limited was to have Rakas' property ( the former been paying annually (consi­ Cineplex, in a move re­ theatres of 250-300 seats, and begun its release June 6 at the with screens and half of the dered too high by John P. van sembling corporate blitzkrieg, building a fire wall on the Imperial and, as an exhibitor seats, the latter with the reo Haastrecht, a real estate ad­ announced plans the same day property line between the for Paramount-distributed ti­ maining seats and projection visor to Famous Players Ltd. it took p ossession of its leased Rakas and Famous Players por­ tles, was still advertising Raw booths), where the confectiow· owner Gulf & Western), that portion of the Imperial (May tions, plans which professional Deal for the Imperial (a tradi· lobby areas and Victoria Street failing a purchase van Haas­ 29) that it would create from engineer Peter Kofrnan, in­ tional Toronto site for action entrance are in the owner's trecht's client· required a long­ its 11 ,500 square feet of land a volved with several Cineplex pictures) the w eekend after it property. term lease at least of 20 years new multiplex theatre to com­ Odeon projects, said June 1 lost its lease there. Because of this latter hold­ w ith options to extend to 50 to plement the current 32 could be ready within four to According to Cineplex ing, despite Famous' holding 75 years (in discussions with screens at its downtown Eaton six weeks. Odeon, Pan-Canadian reached the Yonge Street entrance, the McWilliams, van Haastrecht Centre, Carlton Cinemas, and Drabinsky said the renova­ an agreement with De Lauren­ chain now found itself essen­ thOUght $90,000 a year in rent Market Square locations. tions would be "totally faithful" tiis for the ftlms at a meeting tially landlocked from its re­ was more appropriate), and At Famous, Destounis, al­ to the Imperial's historic and early last February in Los maining property, the south­ that if Rakas was to take over though initially labelling the architectural qualities. Al­ Angeles, attend by Larry ern half of the Imperial 6. the building and close the Cineplex action "unconsciona­ though he refused to be pin­ Gleason of De Laurentlis, As to Famous' failure to theatre down after the lease ble," remarked "All's fair in ned down on figures, Drabinsky, and Plitt Theatres renew the lease, a May 29 af­ exp ired, she could, van Haas­ love and war" a day later and Drabinsky said the lease ob­ Inc. executive vice-president fidavit filed by Mrs. Rakas' sol­ trecht told McWilliams, be vowed that while the loss of tained by Cineplex is for "a Sig­ Michael Bisio. Drabinsky stated icitor, David McWilliams, de­ prevented by Famous from de­ the Imperial was regrettable, nificant period of time" (with in an affidavit that he'd been tails protracted negotiations molishing the building to re­ Famous "does not intend to rights of first refusal to sale of assured twice by Gleason that begun last Jan. 23 Famous duce her taxes. give up downtown Toronto. the Imperial property) and Pan-Canadian would be the Players Ltd. president George Those points, among the Any notion Famous will not re­ that' Cinplex would be paying films' exclusive Canadian dis­ Destounis and vice-president! chronology of negotiati6ns establish itself is wishful think­ more rent than Famous had. tributor. general counsel Lawrence listed in McWilliams' affidavit, ing," Destounis said. He also stressed that at "no In response to Paramount's Pilon toward a lease extension. were the bases for Cineplex In an attempt to make good time prior to the termination securing of the De Laurentiis The affidavit notes Famous' president!CEO Garth.. on that promise, Famous of the lease" did Cineplex package, Cineplex on May 7 interest in an outright pur­ Drabinsky, in a June 2 press applied for - and on June 2 be­ make an approach to the launched an action in the Su­ chase of the owner's property conference, taking issue with fore Mr. Justice Alvin Rosen­ owner, that Cineplex first be­ preme Court of British Colum­ (Famous in recent months has the "hardball" tactics Famous berg of the Supreme Court of came aware of the opportunity bia for damages for the breach been engaged in negotiations was using on the owner. Ontario lost - an interlocutory when approached by McWil­ of the contract it said Pan­ for the purchase of several cur­ McWilliams, said after that injunction and mandatory liams, that Cineplex "con­ Canadian had, as well as for an rent sites of its theatres, a pro­ his affidavit described as "a order on its continued use of ducted itself totally in accord injunction against New York­ cess which Destounis told series of ultimatums," con­ the Imperial 6 (which, at some with its legal rights," and, in a based Paramount Pictures Cor­ Cinema Canada pre-occupied cluded his discussions with 3,000-plus seats, happened to reference to his view that "Fa­ poration and Los Angeles­ Famous to the detriment of its van Haastrecht and on May 27 be the single largest Toronto mous Players has certainly en­ based De Laurentiis Entertain­ Imperial 6 lease), that the inquired whether Cineplex theatre location held by Fa­ gaged in significant predatory ment Group Inc. A Cineplex owner was asking for annual would be interested in leasing mous prior to loss of the practices," that Cineplex release of the same date said payment of $156,000 U.S. on a his client's property, a transac- lease). Odeon has "never used our the company anticipated suf­ Interestingly, in a sworn af­ leverage in this country to hurt fering "Significant damages" if fidavit opposing the Famous the small person ...this com­ Paramount distributed and Fa­ motion dated June 1 to the Su­ pany has always been close to mous players exhibited those preme Court of Ontario, supporting the independent films and further, "will damage Cinep1ex president Garth exhibitor in this country." Cineplex's Odeon's'reputation Drabinsky mentions Famous Asked by Cinema Canada and status in the film industry TAILLEFER, DEVINE Players' operation of the Shera­ whether Cineplex's move on and with the movie-going pub- & ASSOCIATES ton Centre theatres (its closest the Imperial had been moti­ lie.'" 111) INSURANCE BROKERS LTO. vated by a desire to counter However, in another piece site to the Imperial) and addi- tional theatres in "the Yonge the loss by its distributing arm, of ironic timing, the B.C. Su­ and Bloor, Yonge and St. Clair, Pan-Canadian Films, of a two­ preme Court on May 29 - the and Yonge and EgIinton areas year distribution deal of De date Famous was locked out Offering a comprehensive insurance of downtown Toronto." Laurentiis Entertainment and Cineplex began its tenancy package on all your feature, television, While those theatres would Group films to Paramount Pic­ at the Imperial - rejected the commercial, theatrical or special event respectively consist of the Up­ tures (like Famous Players Ltd., Cineplex Odeon application. town 3, Backstage 1 & 2, Plaza also a Gulf & Western com­ Drabinsky, in a comment fol­ production. Cinemas, Towne Cinema, the pany) earlier in May, lowing his June 2 press confer­ Hollywood North & South, and Drabinsky replied tersely: ence, remarked then "We've Our specialists, with twenty years of the Eglinton, the last of which "It's not a question of re­ only lost the injunction" and experience, can design an insurance is conSiderably west of Yonge sponding tit for tat. It was an said he would be meeting with and Eglinton, considering opportunity that presentedi 'it­ his company's lawyers to program to suit your specific needs. those locations "downtown" is self after the fact," he said, ad­ explore further avenues of re­ We have world-wide facilities. open to question. The first of ding "This wasn't a case of mis­ course. those two intersections are ar- sing a renewal date." At Paramount Pictures in guably more in mid-town To­ POinting out that Famous New York, meanwhile, presi­ ronto, while Yonge and Eglin­ Players could have prevented , dent of marketing and distribu· ton is up-town Toronto. The giving Cineplex the opportu­ tion Barry London denied Pan­ afore-mentioned Cineplex lo­ nity "by not playing hardball" Canadian had a deal with De cations are much more south with the owner, Drabinsky said Laurentiis and said Paramount MICHAEL DEVINE, C.I.B. of those intersections, with the it was more expeditious for has had an established, on· Carlton Cinemas the most Cineplex to enter into a lease going relationship with the lat­ or northerly at Yonge and and that it hasn't made the ter. JACQUES TAILLEFER, C.I.B., F.I.I.C. Carlton. owner, Mrs. Rakas, an offer to "We were negotiating with Just a few hours after Justice buy. He did say Cineplex's them (De Laurentiis) in good Rosenberg's decision Cinep­ multiplex at the Imperial faith on the assumption there 240 St. Jacques Street, 10th Floor lex, lead by Drabkinsky and would be operating within a was no deal" London told Montreal, Quebec H2Y 1 L9 with Mrs. Rakas' solicitor year's time. Cinema Canac:ta, adding his David McWilliams present, Pan-Canadian's loss of the company has negotiated "on a Telephone: (514) 288-2544 De Laurentiis film deal, worth Telex: 055-61159 held a June 2 press conference continuing basis for their prod­ at the Westin HoteL apprOximately 13 mm titles uct" and that De Laurentiis had There, Drabinsky an- and consisting of exclusive dis­ approached other distributors nounced a $1. 5 million reno­ tribution rights in Canada in (Astral Bellevue was one men­ vation of its leased portion of 1986 and 1987, was to have tioned by London) to get the L ______.. the Imperial, plans that consist begun with the Arnold Schwar- best distribution deal in

36/Cinema Canada - July / August 1986 c I N E M A G -+• • Canada. against Canadian distributors. Canada Paramount is "on solid said London, observing "Mr. exhibitors on the continent). "Ultimately," said London, This company takes a great ground" in its contract with De Drabinsky is very proud of ad­ As to Famous Players' pre­ "that's why they came to deal of pride in the way it con­ Laurentiis Entertainment vertising the fact in his releases sence at the Imperial 6 being Paramount" (whose Canadian ducts itself in the marketplace Group Inc., ventured an opin­ that Cineplex is the largest reduced to a fraction of its track record he cited as includ­ and the way it represents its ion on Cineplex Odeon's B.C. theatre chain in North former self, London com­ ing years of handling - for­ product - and we're very Supreme Court action which America" (Famous Players Ltd., mented "I think it's a shame to merly, that is - Disney product pleased to be able to represent stated its reputation would suf­ with some 469 screens in see an outstanding theatre in Canada, its Toronto market­ those two (Atlantic and De fer With the loss of the De Canada to its rival's 1,176 that's been in business that ing presence, and its five Cana­ Laurentiis) companies. Laurentiis film package. across North America, is a dis­ many years desecrated." dian branches). London, who told Cinema "I don't believe that's true," tant fUth on the scale of London, responding to re­ marks earlier this summer from Toronto distributor Norstar Releasing (see Cinema Canada No. 131 ) that accused Paramount of throw­ ing money at New York-based Atlantic Releasing to obtain Canadian rights to its distribu­ tion of foreign and indepen­ dent American titles, said At­ lantic approached Paramount last November because of dis­ satisfaction with its product's distribution in Canada and be­ cause Atlantic vice-chairman Michael Rosenblatt "thought we could do a better job" "Everybody in this business is interested in the bottomline results of everybody who rep­ resents their product. It's the bottomline business decision - the best representation, distri­ bution, and marketing, and hopefully that's what they (De Laurentiis) based their deci­ sion on," London explained. Asked to comment on what appears (on the surface at least) a Paramount offensive against Canadian distributors in recent months, London re­ plied, "It's got nothing to do with mounting an offensive

Record first quarter for Cineplex Corp.

TORONTO - Record fmancial results were posted by Cinep­ lex Odeon Corporation in the first quarter of 1986. For the 13-week period concluded March 27, 1986, Cineplex re­ ported a net income after ex­ traordinary items of 53,283,000 on revenues of 549,396,000. One year earlier, for the 13-week period ended March 28, 1985, Cineplex's net income by comparison totalled 53,005,000 on revenues from exhibition and distribution of 834,227,000. The 1985 first quarter net income figure included an ex­ traordinary gain of 51,532,000 through the use of previous MOTION PICTURE GUARANTORS LTD. years' income tax losses. On a basic earning per share basis after extraordinary items, the CINEGARANTIE L TEE net income figures respec­ tively represent 50.20 per Robert Vince Jacquie Ross Beryl Fox Doug Leiterman share for the 1986 first quarter and 50. 18 for the 1985 first 14 Birch Avenue, Toronto, Canada M4v lC9 Telephone (416) 968·0577 Telex 065.24697 quarter. Expenses from exhibition and distribution for the respec­ Montreal Melbourne tive first quarters totalled Eva Bjurstrom 841,231 ,000 in 1986 and Christine Sull 828,600,000 in 1985. (514) 481-8233 (03) 51 -8963

July / August 1986 - Cinema Canada/ 37 • c I N E M A G • tion by Famous Players Ltd. of fective management of current all the property and buildings operations and improved long­ Famous expands, buys back property of 27 of the theatres it oper­ term planning." Langdon told from the unrelated American Cinema Canada that deal, TORONTO - Famous Players ous expansion entails as well and updating in all theatres of company, Famous Players Re­ which has been pre· occupying Limited, following a late-May increasing the number of interior design. alty Investment Limited. Famous in recent months as manoeuvre by rival Cineplex theatres featuring 70mm pro­ As well, and no less perti­ Destounis, commenting in part of its attempts to buy back Odeon Corporation that saw jection systems, installation of nent in light of Famous' recent the release on that acquisition, properties sold in 1982, was Famous land-locked in its wider, more comfortable seats, encounter with Cineplex over said "Owning the land at these "pinned down weeks ago." former flagship theatre, the aisles-lighting _improvements , the Imperial 6, is the acquisi- locations will allow more ef- cont. on p. 39 downtown Toronto Imperial 6 site, wasn't long off the mark with expansion plans of its own. While the lease Cineplex ob­ tained May 27 to half of the Im­ perial amounts to a considera­ ble inroad by Cineplex on the Famous location closest to its downtown multiplex theatres, that move was itself followed by Famous Players president I N George Destounis' June 4 an­ nouncement heralding "a major expansion program." Destounis who through Fa­ mous spokesman Scott Lang­ don rejected June 2 comments by Cineplex Odeon president! CEO Garth Drabinsky that Fa­ mous Players' real estate prac­ Complete the fOllowing by choosin tices were predatory and that _.••. . . g the most appropriate statement. it had played hardball with the .. .'. Ym shootIng my t '. nex productIon In Toronto be Imperial 6 owner in lease ... .«...... _...... >. '.'. cause ...... negotiations, said the theatre chain will build 11 new theatres with 60 screens by the end of 1987 in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Halifax, .'l~ third-largest film and 'd and London. - ...... ' VI eo production centre Langdon, explaining the tim­ ing of the Famous Players' an­ nouncement, said June 4 that it :dapt to time and place wasn't "a knee-jerk reaction" to Cineplex's Imperial 6 move, that planning for the expansion was "underway a while ago," and that actual expansion has already begun in parts of Canada. the correct answer and a lot m Further, in a release that ore, contact: pointedly notes the 66-year­ Naish McHugh old Famous Players circuit's Toronto Film liaison 189 theatres with 469 screens City of Toronto PIa . are located "in all 10 pro­ 18th Floor, East To;;;~gi:;~~,eve,opment D,.n..... _ ...... vinces," a reference to the Toronto, Ontario M5H 2N2 larger Cineplex Odeon chain's Telephone (416) 392-7570 presence in six Canadian pro­ vinces, by comparison, and 21 r';t;, U.S. states, Famous will follow u , n,. r,o •• , that initial construction with a ." . CO ••'H 'ur. ~ 1987 expansion that will, by 1990, create 50 to 60 addi­ tional screens Of that second expansion, Calgary, Edmonton, Van­ couver, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax will receive addi­ tional screens, while new screens will go to the smaller centres of Oshawa and Brad­ ford. Although Famous hasn't dis­ closed any costs of the expan­ sion, Langdon said "It's in the multi-millions, clearly." De­ stounis, in aJune 4 release, said the Famous' plans "reflects our confidence in the Canadian motion-picture exhbition busi­ ness and the tremendous growth opportunities availa­ ble." Intent on improving its theatrical locations, the Fam-

38/Cinema Canada - July I August 1986 • c I N E M A G • mited lifting" of the cease-trad­ cease-trading order. Groia was ing order to allow the com­ also instructed by Beck to keep Calgroup securities hearing adjourned pany to issue options. the commission aware of the Such an action, said Falby, settlement process. TORONTO Calgroup mined - with the Ontario Sec­ OSC, which applied the cease­ has been communicated to the Absent from the brief, eight­ Graphics Corporation, a To­ urities Commission. trading order over its concern Alberta Stock Exchange, which minute-long hearing on June 9 ronto-based mining, mm, and Calgroup, listed on the Al­ the company's financial state­ he said will accept that plan. was Price Waterhouse. The high technology company tag­ berta Stock Exchange (and re­ ments for the year ended That limited lifting was also ag­ OSC, however, has declared ged with a cease-trading order ported on in Cinema Canada, March 31 , 1985 - as well as reed with "in principle" by Calgroup's fmancial situation of its shares last September 23, March 1986), has appeared in subsequent revised statements Joseph Groia, OSC staff lawyer, to be its particular concern has another date - as yet numerous hearings before the - were not prepared in accor­ who stipulated that the confi­ and while it does have concern dance with generally accepted dentiality of the Calgroup's with the conduct of Price accountins principles. guarantors would have to be Waterhouse in the preparation Price Waterhouse, which au­ lifted in return, as well as if the of the rejected audits (with­ dited the Calgroup financial company wished to issue op­ drawn last Fall), Beck has told statements in question, res­ tions. staff to refer the auditor to the igned last February 25 be­ Beck, instructing Groia that Institute of Chartered cause, said the chartered ac­ the OSC staff should be "as Accountants of Ontario in­ counting firm's lawyer Brian cooperative as possible" with stead. Morgan, it could no longer be the company towards reaching considered independent and a settlement, added the com­ objective with regard to Cal­ mission would do its best to group Graphics Corporation. permit trading of Calgroup Timing right Since that time Calgroup, in shares to proceed "as soon as part because of the repeated possible." TORONTO - Director Eric extension of the cease-trading He also added, as he has in Weinthal's Timing, featured at order, has - at least until its past meetings, a message of Montreal and Toronto's re­ latest OSC hearing on June 9 - concern about the amount of spective rum festivals in 1985 had difficulty raising financing time and cost the commis­ and more recently aired in May Ginette D'Amico to pay an auditor to prepare sion's hearings with Calgroup on Toronto's CIlY-TV, was in­ CASTING DIRECTOR both an audit satisfactory to are taking. The hearing ad­ vited to the 26th Cartagena the OSC (necessary for the journed sine die - that is, with Film Festival in Cartagena, Col­ Make a Success Out of Your Next Production order's lifting) and a sharehol­ no time-table set for a return ombia. Assisting with Weint­ Get the Right Cast ders' meeting needed to ap­ date - but Calgroup will still hal's travel and Spanish sub­ prove an arrangement in need to prepare a new audit titling of the rum were the On­ PARTIAL CREDITS INCLUDE: which current Calgroup presi­ and hold a shareholders' meet­ tario Film Development Cor­ Joshua Then & Now - Alan Arkin, James Woods, dent Donald Reid and partners ing before the OSC will lift the poration and Telerum Canada. Gabrielle Lazure_ Meatballs III - Loretta Swit. exchanged rights to $15 mil­ Fun Park - Carl Marotte, Carolyn Dunn. lion in movie properties (later Paroles et Musiques - Catherine Deneuve, reduced to a nominal $1 Famous expansion cont. from p. 38 Christophe Lambert. Of Unknown Origin - Peter value) for a controlling block Weller, Shannon Tweed_ Au Nom de Tous Les Miens of shares in the company. Notably, only three of the 27 proximately 3,000-seat capac­ - Michael York, Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Penot. On June 9, however, Cal­ properties are buy-backs of ity represented just about 10 Cover Girl - Jeff Conaway, Irena Ferris. Gas - group lawyer Robert Falby told Toronto locations - the Hol­ per cent of Famous Players's Donald Sutherland, Helen Shaver. Scanners - the commission the company lywood, Uptown, and Imperial total 33,300 combined seating Jennifer O'Neill_ Patrick McGoohan_ Visiting Hour­ 6 theatres - and then, in the capacity throughout Toronto. William Shatner, Lee Grant, Michael Ironside. had obtained $150,000 in financing from unidentified last of the three, Famous has 50 The remaining 24 theatres, per cent of the property. And Plus nlany docwnentaries and cormnercials. guarantors - funds he said said Langdon, are under long­ would enable Calgroup, with in terms of its Imperial 6 'pre­ term leases which, he added some additional financing, to sence, Langdon said on June 4 "says something about Famous GINE'n'E D'AMICO Famous had not made any de­ C.P. 38, Nun's Island proceed toward settling its Players' real estate practices." Verdun, ac case with the OSc. cision on what plans it has for Famous, according to its June 4 H3E 2J8 Falby, addressing commis­ its portion of the theatre. He release, now owns 74 of its (514) 766-8754 sion chairman Stanley Beck, did say an announcement total 469 screens and "leases said the completion of that would be pending and ob­ most of the theatres it oper­ financing would require a "li- served that the Imperial 6 ap- ates."

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------July I August 1986 - Cinema Canada/3t • c I N E M A G • Largestexhibitorin North America, Cineplex's fortune surges TORONTO - Now that MCA popcorns) for an unspecified tual obligations and pre-emp­ its primary business activities." -American equivalent to its Inc. of Universal City, Califor­ sum on the basis that the nine tive rights, MCA purchase each The May transactions be­ Canadian distribution arm, nia, is its largest shareholder, corporate outlet/12 franchise Cineplex Odeon SRV share at tween Cineplex Odeon and Pan-Canadian Film Dis­ Cineplex Odeon Corporation, location company did not approximately $18.85, with MCA themselves are the latest tributors, thereby permitting in a May 27 announcement, complement current Cineplex the total 22,055,084 such wrinkle in the relationship be­ Cineplex's acquisition of distri­ has obtained a lO-year, $175 Odeon plans. shares acquired by MCA repre­ tween the two corporations, bution rights to North Amer­ million U.S. credit facility with Earlier that month, and senting an approximate $219 which began in mid-January ican for films. Cineplex, whose San Francisco-based Bank of perhaps the most notable million Cdn. capital infusion with MCA's acquiring a one­ shares currently are listed on America. Intended to afford transaction, was the May 12 into Cineplex Odeon. third interest in Cineplex the Toronto Stock Exchange, is the exhibitor "flexibility .. .in purchase by MCA of All the shares purchased by Odeon in return for a $106.7 also seeking a listing on a U.S. fixing the interest rate," the 10,883,042 shares of a new MCA - now Cineplex Odeon's million Cdn. cash infusion. stock exchange in recognition credit facility will be used in class of Cineplex Odeon sub­ largest single shareholder - At its May 26 annual meet­ of the growing degree of re­ the repayment of $105 million ordinate restricted voting sec­ carry voting rights restricted ing, Cineplex Odeon an­ venue earned from that mar­ of its total Canadian and U.S. urities through the issuing to to one-third less one of the nounced itself ready for ket. bank debt within both Cinep­ Cineplex Odeon of 1,539,857 votes of all issued Cineplex further acquisitions in addition Some sense of Cineplex lex Odeon and its American af­ common shares of MCA. Those Odeon shares, in accordance to the recent spate of theatre Odeon's surging change of for­ filiate, Plitt Theatres, Inc. MCA shares were then, in an with Investment Canada re­ circuits it has been busy buy­ tunes within the past few years Access to the facility capped agreement .with an underwrit­ quirements. ing up in the U.S. market, as is reflected in its high-gloss a month of financial transac­ ing group, to be resold to that The sale of that first issue of well as its considerable con­ 1985 annual report (which in­ tions involving the Toronto­ group for $106,653,811.60 1,539,000 MCA common struction and renovation plans cludes a Yousuf Karsh portrait based North American Cdn. shares by Cineplex Odeon for both in Canada and the U.S. of Drabinsky). In earnings, the exhibitor. Simultaneously, MCA exer­ $106 million was also intended As North America's largest corporation rebounded from a On May 23, the corporation cised a purchase option for a by the corporation for use in exhibitor, Cineplex Odeon loss in 1983 of $3,725,000 to completed its $17 million U.S. further 10,883,042 · Cineplex the retirement of the Plitt (including Plitt screens) now gains of 54,587,000 in 1984 purchase of a 50 per cent Odeon subordinate restricted Theatre Circuit's high-yield boasts 1,176 screens in 395 lo­ and $12,504,000 in 1985. equity interest in the Plitt voting shares in return for debt, totalling some $72 mil­ cations. Additions to that will Those earnings were on re­ Theatre Circuit by buying 1,509,210 MCA common lion U.S. include 91 screens in the U.S. venues that were, respectively, shares owned by Odyssey Plitt shares. In what brought MCA Those early-May transac­ (recent acquisitions/expansion $29,500,000 in . 1983, Associates. That move raised to a 50 percent equity interest tions resulted in the corpora­ has been in the Chicago area $87,000,000 in 1984, and Cineplex's interest in Plitt to in Cineplex Odeon on a fully tion having, as of May 23, and Florida state) and a further $170,900,000 in 1985. 100 percent, which Cineplex diluted basis, MCA purchased 47 screens in Canada (predo­ shareholders' equity ap­ Over the same period, first acquired in late-1985. On an additional 289,000 Cinep­ minantly Ontario and Quebec) proximating $274 million Cdn. Cineplex Odeon's operating May 22, Cineplex announced lex Odeon SRV shares in return this year. and assets totalling $530 mil­ cash flow showed similar the sale ofits 1984 acquisition, for 76,126 more MCA com­ lion Cdn. And with the Plitt Also in the works, as an­ strides, growing from Kernels Popcorn Urnited (a mon shares. debt retirement, Cineplex's nounced by Cineplex presi­ $6,659,000 in 1983 to Toronto producer of gourmet In keeping with its contrac- debt to equity ratio will dent/chief executive officer SI6,005,000 in 1984 and then amount to 0.6:1.0. Garth Drabinsky include an to $28,627,000 in 1985. The second issue of 1,585,336 MCA common shares are regarded by Cinep­ lex Odeon as attractive, long­ CINE-PACTM• term investment and will be AVAilABLE THROUGH held by the corporation (with MCA holding a right of first re­ fusal to re-acquire them should MORRIS & MACKENZIE Cineplex decide to sell them). Cineplex Odeon, in a May 12 announcement of MCA's in­ ~ creased equity participation, said it will use "its significantly An Entertainment Insurance Package de­ strengthened balance sheet signed and rated by specialists with the specific and its leadership pOSition en­ needs of canadian Producers in mind. joyed in the motion picture Morris & Mackenzie Limited can now combine exhibition industry to pursue their nationwide service and expertise with further North American ac­ those of the world's leading specialists in film quisitions complementary to insurance to make a positive difference in the handling of your insurance needs. 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40/Cinema Canada - July / August 1986 • CINEMA G • Change hits Ontario's censor board Rough waters in TO for Quebec TORONTO - Whatever the By comparison, the Spec­ TORONTO - Ontario Film and Monte Kwinter had no precise As well, Cino notes the On­ reason, Quebec films seem de­ traftlm-distributed films Toby Video Review Board chairman figure for the number of appli­ tario premier has talked gener­ stined to encounter lukewarm McTeague and My American Mary Brown's second three­ cations for the chief censor's ally about methods of making receptions here. Cinema Cousin have enjoyed consid­ year term may come to a close job, both Kwinter and Premier the board's guidelines more Lumiere, a repertory theatre erably greater fortunes. Direc­ on July 8, but by press-time a David Peterson's office were accountable to a legislative which has put a priority on tor Jean Claude Lord's Toby, final decision on her contract said in late May to be review­ committee. showscasing first-run Canadian which covered four weekends or possible successor re­ ing the qualifications of ap­ The status of recommenda­ films, had even less success from the March break on mained to be made. Similarly proximately six applicants. tions for a new video classifica­ with directors Jean Beaudry March 7 through the Easter outstanding at that time was a Rumours also have tion system in the province, and Fran\=ois Bouvier s Jac­ weekend in Toronto (much of completed report on a new suggested lobbying among meanwhile, appears to have ques et Novembre in May whose screenings consisted of video classification system for current board members to suc­ consisted thus far of the Ernst than with producer Jean weekend matinees), grossed Ontario, commissioned in ceed Brown, who has declined & Whinney consultants mak­ Beaudin's Le Matou in March. $125,000. Though not cur­ early April by the provincial to comment extensively on ing a verbal presentation to Both films had runs of one rently showing, Spectrafilm Ministry of Consumer and her pending departure. Rose­ Kwinter around the end oflast week with twice-nightly sc­ plans to re-open it out west as Commercial Relations to the mary Cino, a communications April, with no date indicated of reenings. While Le Matou well as on the east coast later Toronto consulting firm of assitant to Kwinter, told the report's acceptance by the grossed $2,600 from March this fall . Ernst & Whinney. Cinema Canada that Brown's government. 14- 20, Jacques et Novembre Director Sandy Wilson's My The position of chairman for successor won't necessarily be As of mid-June, that presen­ failed to tally even half that in American Cousin, mean­ the film and video review chosen from among the tation was still under review its May 16-22 run. That show­ while, entered its eighth board is an order-in-council board's respective vice-chair­ by the business practices divi­ ing, despite good initial press month in Toronto (as of May appointment of three years, persons (namely Harry Matth­ sion of Kwinter's ministry. and advertisement's placed in 30) and Vancouver (the fol­ duration, renewable once. Re­ ews, Austin Clarke, and Bar­ Ministry offiCials have declined L'Express de Toronto to attract lowing week), with national cent expansion of the board to bara Kelman). comment on the individual the city's francophone com­ grosses to date of between some 40 members serving Expectations have been specifics of the presentation, munity, left a curious, disap­ $850,000 to $860,000. In both shorter terms has been de­ raised by Kwinter that -the with Cino noting "As far as I'm pointed Lumiere manager those markets the film has bas­ signed to prevent reviewers board would take on a more aware, there's nothing (in the Bianca Roberts wondering "I ically been exhibited through­ from becoming desensitized in progreSSive character under way of an announcement on don't know what it is_" out the entire downtown and their work to pornography - a the governing liberal Party, the consultant's recommenda­ At just 75 minutes long, suburban areas. condition which, in ternlS of though any review of the tions) going on down the line." Roberts considered Jacques et It should be noted, too, that Brown's responsiveness to board's guidelines or changes Ontario'S search for a system Novembre possibly "wasn't both Toby McTeague and My community views, has had to them - Premier Peterson to enable authorities to classify enough of a feature." As to American Cousin have been various government officials has voiced support for the video-cassettes rented or sold whether the Lumiere has other given wide exhibition in Tor­ saying her renewal is unlikely. need for the board - hinge in in Ontario resulted from indus­ Quebec films in mind for the onto by exhibitor Cineplex Although a communications part on the federal govern­ try-Wide complaints earlier near future, Roberts said one Odeon_ assistant to Consumer and ment's action on the 1985 this year, criticism by retailers consideration was director Commercial Relations Minister Fraser Report on pornography. and distributors which re­ Yves Simoneau's Pouvoir In­ sulted in March's suspension of time. the province'S new system of guidelines and which was highlighted by distributor MMI LIGHTS, CAMERAS, , ACTION! Paramount Pictures temporary PLACEMENT threat to halt video shipments to Canada. MMI loans products free of charge to all The complaints of Paramount and other industry film companies who allow brand visibility members centred on the lack in their productions. in Canada of any national class­ il s We furnish your set designs with bever­ ification system for videos ages, snacks, motorcycles, footwear; (though both Saskatchewan watches, computers, camera~ and Manitoba have agreed to adopt Ontario's guidelines), as well as on a February 1 dead­ line requiring a classification sticker be placed on all casset­ GROWING GROWING tes - stickers which enraged CREDIT LIST: CLIENT LIST: distributors, retailers; and 16/35 post-production video duplicators by failing to 1986 RELEASES Canon Cameras Television and feature The Return of Billy Jack Good Year Tires adhere to cassettes and their Spearfield's Daughter Kaufman Boots package cases. production Police Academy III Seiko Watches And even though that prog­ Separate Vacations McDonald's Hamburgers ram was suspended pending a Gowan Rock Video Pepsi Cola review, opposition has ex­ Act of Vengeance Tuffy's Dog Food tended beyond the up-to S 1.50 Bach et Bottine Quaker Oats Foods cost of applying the 25-cent 461 Church Street Toby McTeague Colgate Palmolive stickers; namely the thousands Keeping Track Wang Computers of tapes video companies were Toronto - Canada Covert Action Bauer Running Shoes faced with in attempting to Spirit Bay Proctor-Silex Appliances comply with the system, and a The Gate E.D. Smith Sauces classification listing catalogue M4Y 2C5 The Fly Duracell Flashlights containing several errorss and, F.B.M. Distillery in cases, classifications years out of date. MMI PRODUCT PLACEMENT DIVISION As with Premier Peterson's 3199 Bathurst Street, Suite 203, Toronto, Ont. M6A 2B2 commitment to the continued Telephone : 416-962-0181 For more information, call Tom Wong or Philip Hart need for the Ontario Film and Video Review Board, Kwinter (416) 781-9139 similarly has said the Liberals REMEMBER, IF YOU'RE NOT DEALING remain "absolutely commit­ WITH MMI, YOU'LL PAY FOR IT! ted" to classification of video We service all of Canada. cassettes.

July I August 1986 - Cinema Canada/41 • c I N E M A G • Frame 30 recently lensed com­ 26, honoring retiring branch he was partly responsible for S H 0: 0 :r', . A ' L J~ . E"R T A' mercials for West Edmonton representative Peggy Goth, the establishment of the Mall (35mm for the U.S. mar­ and ACTRA General Secretary branch by shooting West to ~- -by Linda KupeceJ( ." . ket) in addition to the sL'( 30- Emeritus Paul Siren, who has the Mountains in the area, second spots for Edmonton and accidentally falling under he March culture minis­ been touring the country visit­ On the other hand, the Tel. the umbrella of ACTRA. Greg ters' conference held in ing the branches for farewell board of the Alberta Motion fetes. National president Gino Rogers, CBC radio-drama pro­ TMontreal has provoked Picture Industries Association ducer, Glenn Ludlow, former mixed reaction from the film Marrocco and recently ap­ (AMPIA) could not come to film officer for Alberta, and and video community in Al­ • pointed general secretary agreement on the issues (nor Garry Neil joined Siren on the Gene Packwood of ACCESS berta, some of whom were did it send a formal submission also attended. The Branch paid taken aback by former Alberta trip from Toronto, moving on to the minister), as some mem­ Bob Willis of OnfFilm Produc­ tribute to the revered Paul Culture Minister Mary Lemes­ to the Banff Television Festival. bers, according to AMPIA pres­ tions in Calgary has fmished a Siren, thanking him for the vi­ surier's remarks as quoted in The Southern Alberta Branch, ident Michael Hamm, agreed series of nine 30-second cen­ headed by president Douglas sion and integrity with which the Globe and Mail. Although with the minister's reservation. sus spots for Stats Canada, Riske, thanked Goth for her he has united the branches of she spoke strongly for regional Hamm, whose company featuring personalities like Ian many years of service, noting ACTRA. representation in the new Frame 30 has just wrapped a Tyson and John Vernon (urg­ that the branch had grown Telefilm Feature fund, the re­ series of Edmonton Tel com­ ing you to "count yourself in"). from a small group of semi­ spected Lemessurier (who re­ mercials, says, "I personally am The former Canawest produc­ professionals to a community Toronto film women cently went down to defeat by in full favour of the feature film er lensed the spots (slated for of professional performers, the NDP candidate in the pro­ TORONTO - Toronto Women fund and believe there should national television) from Van­ writers and broadcast jour­ vincial election) questioned in Film and Video, a 100- be an allotment to the regions, couver to Newfoundland. nalists in her seventeen years two vital issues: Canadian own­ member professional group set up Similarly to AMPDC." He of service. Joining the fes­ ership of distribution com­ dedicated to promoting the supports the idea of a fund tivities were William Marsden panies, and Canadianization of role of women in the film in­ with a ceiling geared toward of the Film Industry Develop­ the publishing industry. At that • dustry, raised 513,000 at a May low budget and the regions: "It ment Office for Alberta time she was quoted as saying, 14 benefit screening of direc­ should be Canadian product The Southern Alberta Branch Economic Development, who "I need convincing that owner­ tor Joyce Chopra's Smooth and not downtown Macleod of ACTRA hosted a double-bar­ delighted the gathering with ship of distribution companies Talk at the Cinema Lumiere looking like someplace else." relled retirement party on May an account of how, . years ago, is the only way to get Canadian theatre. movies into the theatres." As Edmonton dramatist Pete White, chairman of the Na­ tional Council of the ACTRA Writers Guild, commented, "Obviously Mary Lemessurier pays more attention to the American film lobby than to Albertans in the ftlm and tele­ vision industry." White (who is currently working on scripts for Beachcombers, Danger Bay and The Campbells) added, "As to her fear in re­ spect to 'Buy Canadian' book procurement policies in our schools, what is she worried about? That our kids will find out they're not Americans?" White is national director for the Alberta branch of the ACTRA Writers Guild, which had submitted its views to the minister prior to the confer­ ence. •

On May 7, the Museum of Movie Art opened in a modest warehouse in northeast Cal­ gary. Inside the doors, the vis­ itor is greeted with an astound­ ing collection of over 4,000 original movie posters, 1,000 vintage movie cards, and over 30 giant billboard posters. Bil­ Ied as the world's largest col­ lection - worth $10- 15 million - the only museum of its kind is the latest project of Sol Can­ dell, general manager of Con­ solidated Theatre Services. Es­ tablished in 1950 as the Theatre Poster Exchange, Con­ solidated Theatre Services leases movie posters and ad­ vertising accessories to the motion-picture industry in western Canada, as well as operating a mail-order busi­ ness for posters and lobby cards.

42/Cinema Canada - July / August 1986 c I N E M A G • form of services. Perhaps most wacko gave, her lallure to con- hotel accomodauon and traIDC• FRONTS WEST significant was John Juliani's tact Bickel after his seminar as patterns in Vancouver, but expression of disappointment an example of a missed oppor- laughs it off as "friendly com­ by Kathryn Allison that the panel on provincial tunity on her part, whereupon petition", which she will repay government fil m policy was Bickel called out from the au- in kind when they have world's ancouver's International are looking forward to working not graced by anyone from the dience that he was still availa- fairs. More worrisome is the Film Festival has wrapped together next year - we have B.C government, a complaint ble, and they arranged to meet California Motion Picture Vafter a month of over 200 different areas of expertise to that met with applause from after her responsibilities as a Council which aims to keep film screenings, its first trade offer one another. Neither of the audience. Telefilm's Peter panellist were completed. The productions in California. Al­ forum, and numerous special us has had a minute to think Pearson gave an entertaining film that was most mentioned though the organization has events. Festival Director Han­ about it (Schein's previous speech at the opening day's as an artistic success story was existed for several years, it has nah Fisher accounted for the commitment to the Seattle Fes­ luncheon, which addressed Denys Arcand's The Decline had to take time to get politi­ decline in attendance from last tival), but if a financial thing is Toronto's stereotyping B.C.'s of the American Empire, cally organized and has been year to the presence this year needed to clear it up, then so film industry as "below the which recently won interna- no threat to the number of of EXPO 86. "It's a formidable be it. I feel fine about it." neck production." He hinted tional recognition at Cannes. productions that B.C attracts opponent, "she explained." The Trade Forum, however, that a provincial fIlm develop­ Despite hosting three televi- each year. We're working triple time to was a great success, with well­ ment agency would help the sion movies (Spot Marks the This year, however, they offset that, but it is difficult on attended seminars often veer­ local industry and cited the X, Catalina Productions for the have finally become effective. a limited budget." ing from prepared presenta­ NFB's indication that it will be­ Disney Channel; Strangers, At least one major television The sheer volume of films tions by panellists to im­ come a major partner in fea­ Edgar ]. Sherick and Assocs., series that was scheduled to be intimidated many theatre­ promptu exchanges with audi­ ture films made outside To­ and Bacldire, an ITC Produc- shot in B.C was drawn (after goers, and Fisher has stated ence members. In one seminar, ronto and Montreal, the new tion) and a feature, Roxanne, pre-production had begun) that she will use a more thema­ Vancouver producer Paul opportunities with the CBC for to star Steve Martin, B.C.'s role because the CMPC was suc­ tic approach next year and cut Saltzman and Cathy Johnson independent ftlmmakers, and, as the darling of locations for cessful at putting pressure on the number of films to be from the Disney Channel got in federal broadcasting agen­ U.S. productions has been re- various players. Reportedly, shown. The festival program­ into a discussion about acces­ cies' iriterest in financing B.C cently adversely affected by more money was released ming was set by former direc­ sing more Disney funding for films not regionally but nation­ two factors - EXPO 86 and the from the network to keep the tor Leonard Schein, whose Saltzman's series Danger Bay ally as reasons for cautious op­ California Motion Picture project at home. Neufeld calls dealmaking with the Seattle now that Teleftlm has d~ ­ timism. Best performance by a Council. Diane Neufeld of the the organization's efforts, "defi­ Film Festival for titles caused a creased its participation. In producer went to Wendy B.C Film Promotion Office nitely a consideration of seri­ stir in the press when it was another exchange, audience Wacko, who spoke entertain­ points out that the successful ous proportion." discovered last May. member Dieter Nachtigal ingly about her successes and marketing of the world's fair Many local producers are But as Fisher recently com­ (CBC Special Projects) cor­ failures as a producer, and ac­ has had its downside: fewer spending the summer market­ mented, "I don't know why nered panellist Telefilm's tually managed to make a con­ productions coming into the ing their projects and watching there's a big story about it. It's Andre Picard about that tact with an American buyer province. She points out that them make the festival circuit. a non-event as far as I'm con­ agency's lack of recognition of (Steve Bickel who had spoken Ontario and Alberta's film Recently, Steven De Nure's cerned. (Seattle fest co-direc­ CBC's regional arms' below­ on another panel) while giving promotion offices are making Ranch won a Red Ribbon at tor) Danny (Ireland) and I the-line contributions to inde­ her presentation which em­ sure that people in L.A. know the American Film Festival. have become good friends and pendent production in the phasized "contacts as assets." about EXPO and its impact on

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July I August 1986 - Cinema Canada /43 • c I N E M A G summer, fall and early wipter• Sq~ . Y Trinques's predictions of are an unprecedented flood of Montreal bustles with foreign shoots 45 productions prove accurate inquiries through Trinque's of­ by the end of the year, 1986 fIce about the accessibility of MONTREAL - American film­ "Not too long ago they are rare but this has been offset will have been a banner year Montreal to fllmmakers and makers are especially in­ might have shot the city scenes by a noticable increase in the for filmmaking activity in the off-chance that the terested in Montreal this year in New York but because of number of television pilots Montreal. crowded (inaccessible) streets says Guy Trinque, the city's the economy they can now shot in the City which have in­ Other indications that Mon­ of Vancouver during Expo 86 shoot the real thing." film and video commissioner, cluded in recent months, Ven ­ trealers will see their fill of lo­ may detour filmmakers to who predicts a twofold in­ Theatrical co-productions geance, Hennesy, Cat cation vehicles through the Montreal. crease over last year in the number of films shot in the city. For several reasons, not the least of which is the exchange· rate of the beleagured Cana· dian dollar against the US dol· lar, Trinque foresees a total of 45 projects in Montreal from January 1986 to January 1987 generating an estimated S 100 million for the local economy. To date, 20 projects have been completed or are in various stages of development. This represents the total number of films shot through 1986. "The economy is a big part of it but the City itself has be· come a salable item," says Trin· que, who took on the commis­ sioner's job with CIDEM (Commission d'initiative et de cteveloppement de Montreal) just over one year ago. "Because more American tourists have discovered this city, Montreal has become a seller - a glamorous city which identifies itself on the screen." Two theatrical feature shot in 1985, Agnes of God and Le Matou, used a Montreal setting in the storyline. The fIrst was produced for Columbia, the second a Canada-France co­ production.

Owl/TV wins ACTAward for kids programming During the past century, in the world 's first IMAX 3D film BOSTON - The local Action we've grown from puffs of presentation of the history and for Children's Television, a steam on the landscape to sat­ future of transportation and non-profit body which encour­ ages diversity in children's ellite signals in space; from a communications, 'brought to television and the elimination pioneer railroad and telegraph you by CN at Canada Place, of commercial abuses aimed at that youthful audience, pre­ line to one of the most advanced Expo 86, in Vancouver. And sented an award to OWUTV on freight distribution and com­ touch and feel the technology May 6 for "using creative video munications operations in the techniques to get young of past and future at the people involved in taking care world . And in so doing, we interactive presentation at our of their world." helped to change the concept Expo 86 Pavilion. Based on OWL Magazine, the nature and science 1V of distance and motion for all series was one of eight public time. See how ingenuity in motion or commercial broadcast prog­ grams ( among them Sesame During the century ahead will influence distance and Street) to receive an ACT we will again change these time ... in the next dimension. Award. CBC, which along with great mutable forces . See how, PBS premiered OWlJ1V's first At Expo 86. 10 episodes last fall, is cur­ rently re-running the series on most of its stations. Co-producers of the series are the Young Naturalist Fed­ eration (w hich publishes both CN OWL and CHICKADEE magazines) and the National Audobon Society, with Tele­ film participation.

44/Cinema Canada - July I August 1986 • c I N E M A G • might serve to deter producers Changes that Neufeld has end total and which is part of a from shooting in Vancouver noticed this year compared to growth curve consistent over Expo affects Vancouver scene and instead seek out other last include competition from the past three years. Canadian locations, said the the Southern California Motion Talking to Cinema Canada VANCOUVER - Expo 86, well. Although its attendance theory was reasonable but Picture Council - of which she in mid-May - when the office's British Columbia's five-month­ was roughly estimated as down noted "only one or two pro­ remarks "I've never felt them latest production update long transportation/communi­ 25 to 30 per cent from the pre­ jects made a judgement call as hot on my neck before .. .I showed eight TV series, three cations exposition, continues vious year by Fisher, she ob­ that I'm aware of in that re­ see the effects of their efforts" TV movies, and five theatrical to steal the show in this city. served that was still "a lot bet­ gard." Adding that her office is - and from Ontario and Alberta features - Plant said he hadn't And its presence, while not ter than others in this city." not recommending producers who, her Los Angeles contacts noticed any sudden arrivals perhaps as overwhelming as Diane Neufeld, director of do too much downtown core have told her, have apparently from the west coast. For Amer­ might be anticipated, con­ the province's Film Promotion shooting, Neufeld said the tried to steer American pro­ ican producers, observed tinues to make an an imprint Office, said that while some corollary could also hold true, ducers away from Vancouver Plant, the west coast 'look' on the local film scene. local production has been that some producers .could by using Expo as a reason to over Vancouver is as fixed an shifted to outlying urban areas By early June, two weeks possibly be drawn to the city look elsewhere. element as are heavily urban of Vancouver and to other into its five-week duration, because of marketing oppor­ As well, where television settings that tend to favor east­ urban centres such as Victoria ticket sales at the Vancouver tunities. movies dominated theatrical ern Canadian cities. Film Festival were "still not (not least of all because of the features and television series where we'd like to be" accord­ 15,000 surplus vehicles pro­ "The problem is all those last year, episodic television The increase in the Toronto - ing to new festival director jected to be in Vancouver's other things you're not aware and mini-series are on the production scene, then, rather Hannah Fisher. Noting that downtown core of Expo), the of, that mayor may not be surge and will likely, says New­ than owing anything to any po­ level of survey activity is "as every activity (from live going on in the boardrooms of feld, grow to compete with tential effects of Expo 86, was theatre to restaurants) con­ hot as it was last year." producers," said Neufeld. On features and supplant them in instead seen by Plant as due to tinues to be affected by Expo In both 1985 and 1986, the the possibility of producers terms of locations and money increasing incentives to pro­ 86, Fisher did point out that office was showing five com­ opting for other urban loca­ involved. And she expects the duce in Canada for both Amer­ those sales "have certainly pleted projects by early June tions (Toronto and Montreal province's financing level (or icans and Canadians alike - re­ gone up" compared to the (last year the bulk of produc­ being obvious choices Van­ the money left in the economy spectively, because of the de­ somewhat disappointing turn­ tion got underway at that couver is often competing from productions) will stay valued Canadian dollar and the . out in its opening week. point, says Neufeld), with the head-to-head with), Neufeld somewhere between $50 to impact of Telefilm's Broadcast The festival, lacking at the Danger Bay series currently admits those two larger $70 million this year. Fund. shooting and two feature time a running tally of atten­ centres often fare better on In Toronto, meanwhile, As with the character of pro­ movies then in preparation. dance due to the skeleton staff productions requiring period liaison assistant David Plant of duction in Vancouver, so too running it, was said by Fisher Neufeid, asked to comment buildings, as for the U.S. TV the city's Film Liaison Office has there been a change in To­ however to be faring relatively on whether or not Expo 86 mini-series Kane & Abel. said the volume of film, televis­ ronto. Specifically, said Plant, it ion, and video production was is the city being "heavily into" up 30 per cent over 1985, a fi­ television productions and gure he said the office expects various recent inquiries for TV to foresee in the 1986 year- series and pilot episodes.

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"Une civilisation au declin eblouissant. "Cannes ovationne Arcand ... Le declin de "A brilliant comedy of the sexes, Le declin Vevenement de la fin de semaine aura ete l'empire americain tient du tour de force." de ['empire americain" manages to be sans contredit la presentation du Declin Serge Dussault, La Presse intellectually and sexually provocative de ['empire americain de Denys Arcand. while barely turning down the bed Voriginalite modeste et rigoureuse de covers." Denys Arcand, Ie talent formidable de "There has never been a Canadian film The Gazette/Canadian Press ses neuf interpretes suffisent it nous quite like The Decline of the American Empire. .The soft satire, written and rendre espoir et it nous convaincre que "Un film a la fois etrange et stupe!iant I'apparent declin ne sera pas suivi de directed by Denys Arcand, is simplicity itself." qui porte la griffe d'un excellent la chute." real isateu r." Jay Scott, The Globe and Mail Michel Perez, Le Malin Franco Nuovo, Le Journal de Montreal "Quand huit personnages discutent " Intelligenct>" finesse d'observation qui va ensemble, cela peut etre bouleversant. jusqu'it la cruaute, art de camper des II suffit de savoir ecrire un film. La personnages et surtout celui de manier les preuve ... Denys Arcand a brillamment dialogues." ecrit son film." Fmncine Laurendeau, Le Devoir Gilles Lemorvan, L'Humanite c:a Telefilm Canada Proud to be associated with productions of quali(y- Head office : Tour de la Banque Nationale - 600. rue de la Gauchetiere Ouest. 259 etage Montreal. Quebec H3B 4L2 Tel. : (514) 283-6363 Telex: 055-60998 Telfilmcan Mil. • c I N E M A G • founder and president Ramona cards on how to survive the which the studio has become E A S T E R \ \\" AYE Macdonald, discovered and ac­ nuclear holocaust. Willa involved in. Resident animator quired a little used animation Egrmajer produced Why Pat Colp has been working on by Chris Majka stand and 16mm Oxberry Maples Tum Red (1982) a variety of smaller projects, Camera at Dalhousie Univer­ which illustrates a Huron In­ though. Sections of the NFB his month I thought I terns. She followed this with a sity. Although hardly at today's dian legend. Ramona Mac­ productions Adventures Of a would take a brief glance at film called Fly My Spirits technological cutting edge, it donald directed Sarah Ship's Carpenter and Built Ta feature of the film scene (1980) which is an animation was a substantial iinprovement Jackson (1980) which has in Canada have been shot at which most people may not as­ of richly patterned drawings of on the single frame Bolex within it animation of xerog­ Doomsday by her. She has also sociate with the Atlantic reg­ birds. stand at AFCOOP. Since then a raphs of artist Sarah Jackson, begun doing a series of short ion - animation. Although the Other AFCOOP members steady stream of animators and God's Island (1980) children's animations for local film community has al­ followed suite. In 1981 Lulu have spent untold hours in the which looks at the work of Pr­ Sesame Street, two of which ways been active in the area of Keating completed a short film dark room where the Oxberry ince Edward Island folk artist have thus far been aired. This is documentary and experimen­ called Jabberwock which is sits. A.L. Morrison. The Atlantic in addition to her own film tal film, and in the past couple an animated version of Lewis Elaine Pain completed a film Studio of the NFB produced an Nightvision which she has of years dramatic productions CarolJ's imaginative poem,Jab­ at Doomsday called Bound­ animation short at Doomsday been working on for the past are also starting to appear in berwocky. Then in 1982 Jim aries (1981) which looks at called Spectrum (1982) couple of years and which is numbers, animation has not MacSwain finished his whimsi­ how the edges of things move which was done by animator! still in production. Colp is a been completely ignored by cal, and off- beat look at the and change. Graphic designer graphic designer Rand Gaynor. 'renaissance woman' of anima­ filmmakers in this area. One of problems of nuclear waste dis­ Floyd Gillis released Perspec­ Montreal animator Christ­ tion doing all her own drawing the first people interested in posal called Atotnic Dragons_ tives (1981), a slick and fast opher Hinton came to live in for the cel animation which animation was Elaine Pain, a The powerhouse of anima­ paced meditation on geomet­ Nova Scotia for some time and she does, operating the cam­ former member of the Atlantic tion in this region, however, ric harmony in our cities. Tom worked with the NFB here on era, and even developing her Filmmakers Coop (AFCOOP) has always been Doomsday Lackey shot an ironic film a number of short projects. own test shots. A current pro­ who in 1979 shot a film called Studios, who have managed to called Nuclear War - Survive Since then animation at ject, in the early stages of pro­ Sandwitch. It is a delightful survive for the past six years, And Come Back Fighting! Doomsday has taken some­ duction, is an animation of the mandalalike animation created producing a remarkable vari­ (1980) which features illustra­ what of a back seat to the live stylized science-fiction draw­ with transforming sand pat- ety of films. In 1980 Doomsday tions from 1940's bubble gum action dramas and comedys ings of New Brusnwick painter Eli Bastarache. In addition to animation at Doomsday, Henry Orenstein, at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, teaches both a beginners and an advanced •• course in animation as part of the art program offered there. Students are able to use a sim­ • ple animation set-up there or, at times, to use the Doomsday facilities for more complicated projects. Doomsday itself has been active in workshops which it has organized, for both adults and children, who have the opportunity to do Simple animation and pixilla­ tion on Super 8 film. Outside of Nova Scotia there is an animation stand in New­ foundland at Memorial Univer­ sity and animator Anne Mac­ Leod has been working there for some time. In Prince Ed­ ward Island there are a group of people who are interested in animation and are hoping to form a separate Co-op on the island to purchase an anima­ tion stand and camera. So, although the facilities in THE COMPLETION GUARANTORS LES GARANTS D' ACHIEVEMENT this region are clearly limited, and the pool of animators is for features, pour series de television, not large, there is a continuing television series, longs metrages interest in this field. The re­ cent advances in the areas of and international co-productions et co-productions internationales computer and video anima­ tion, which greatly facilitate the animation process may provide a new impetus to the whole field of animation. Whether these advances will extend their reach into this re­ gion, we can only wait and see. Michael Spencer, President 1001, de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Suite 910 TORONTO - The Kids of De­ Montreal, Quebec H3A 3C8 grassi Street kids' series, pro­ duced by Playing With Time Telephone: (514) 288-6763 Inc., must have hit a few right Telex: 055-62276 notes with Toronto young­ sters, as some 500, 10 to 15- years-olds mailed or hand-de­ livered letters in bids to be­ come cast members of the sequel series, DegrassiJunior High.

SO/Cinema Canada - July / August 1986 c I N E M A G • • editor not to have to rely on eral cuts of the same sequence the services of a technical can be made and compared on NFB edits with hi-tech Droid operator. the monitors. Random acces­ Jewison honoured Le Lorrain explains that fIlm sing allows the editor to move MONTREAL - The National resolution display where most can be transferred to video, ahead or backwards with the TORONTO - Film director/ Film Board's Edward Le Lor­ of the interaction with the edited and transferred back to touch of a button and stop on producer Norman Jewison was rain has seen the future of computer occurs. The control­ film. The most advantageous . any desired frame, thereby, one of eight Canadians pre­ video editing and the Edit ler or touch pad on the con­ feature of the system, he says, eliminating the use of scissors sented with Ryerson Fellow­ Droid, an off-line computer-as­ sole is, in effect, a magic wand is how computer interacts or ever having to make a ships during June 11-12 con­ sisted video editing system, is in the hands of the editor. with computer, allowing the splice. vocation ceremonies at Ryer­ it. Thus, the system allows the use of unlimited material. Gen- son Polytechnical Institute. doing"It isthings a fairly but innew the way future of r-===~~;;;::======::;­ more and more documentaries will be done this way," says Le Lorrain, editor of the award­ winning If You Love This Planet. "You don't have to spend time looking for trim in the trim bin because it is all in the memory of the computer which is fast and accurate." Le Lorrain is one of four editors who have trained on the system since it was purch­ ased from the California-based Droid Works Ltd. in early 1985. The Edit Droid, with a basic price-tag of 575,000 (U.S.) has been on the market for just over a year. The one at the NFB is the only one of its kind in Canada. In the U.S. however, the system has been used to edit episodes of The Twilight Zone television series and 26 one-hour episodes of Knots' Landing. The Canadian production debut of Edit Droid is sched­ uled for late summer when the NFB will use it to edit a 15-mi­ nilte drama. Le Lorrain admits that after 30 years of editing it is difficult to forget the tactile experience of physically handling ftlm or counting frames one-by-one. "Tomorrow's fIlm school graduate will not know what it is to handle fIlm," says Le Lor­ rain. One ancilliary feature of the system is that it can be rede­ signed to combine operating comfort with technological VANCOUVER sophistication. The most obvi­ ous change made by NFB Re­

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July / August 1986 - Cinema Canada/51 • c I N E M A G • of producing a thorough re­ with each other. the Government to take ac­ Sauvageau federal task force Caplan/Sauvageau port. Following those get-to­ tion." reviewing broadcast policy, Caplan, speaking to Cinema gethers Caplan, responding to Optimistic that the public has been planning and de­ at month's end Canada May 27, said then that an inquiry about whether the and private sectors would velopment manager at Tele­ several more works of transla­ report would contain consen­ similarly be encouraged to media Inc. for the past two OTTAWA - More than a year tion and graph construction sus or a dissenting minority take action, Caplan added - years. Wood, meanwhile, most after the federal task force on remained to be done to a re­ viewpoint, antiCipated "There's with just a fatigued, resigned recently was assistant deputy broadcasting policy review port he now anticipates will a good chance we'll have a trace to his voice - "You break minister for finance and ad­ was announced, its co-chair­ run some 350 to 400 pages in single report." your ass and hope something ministration at the Ministry of man Gerry Caplan will finally length. Asking of the repeated Much more certain, inti­ happens." Citizenship and Culture. present its report June 30 to delays "What can you do?" and mated the co-chairman, are As part of TVO's renewed Communications Minister noting the task force's repeti­ specific sections to be con­ accent on programming, Gene Marcel Masse_ tive efforts at putting final tained in the report: separate Lawrence and Don Duprey That date, which Caplan touches to the report, Caplan sections on technology, have been upgraded to manag­ publicly promised in late May added the task force's seven minorities and racial issues in ing director status respectively in Banff, Alberta, follows ear­ members also had two days of broadcasting, and Quebec's TV 0 reorganizes for the English and French lier deadlines of January 15 meetings in Toronto at May's broadcasting system; a "quite programming services, respon­ and the end of March which end and then again in Ottawa significant one" on the princi: executive posts sible to the director general. where rejected by the task in mid-June to ensure they pies and legal framework of Senior executives re-shuf­ force as unrealistic in the name would be in final agreement broadcasting in Canada; and TORONTO - TVOntario, in an tled were Sandra Birkenroayer what Caplan described as "an executive re-organization ef­ (moved from managing direc­ objective analysis" of the pri­ fective June 1, has created two tor of corporate development vate radio and television sector new senior posts as well as re­ to senior managing director of as well as the CBC. shuffling and upgrading other external relations), Howard Asked about his concern executives. Krosnick (moved from manag­ that the broadcasting policy Formed from the abolition ing director of educational review task force's report not of the executive director's pos­ telecommunications to manag­ end up as just another govern­ ition are the offices of director ing director of policy, plan­ ment-commissioned review general and chief operating of­ ning, and allocations), and Bill F L M ·s left to rot, Caplan remarked, ficer, respectively filled by Milliken (since 1974 manager "Our assumption is that if all Mimi Fullerton and David Mel­ of personnel services, now ap­ Our new post-production services division is bigger. seven of us agree that's a pow­ ville Wood. Fullerton, cur­ pointed to director of human irs better & it's somewhere NEW' erful enough weapon to force rently serving on the Caplan- resource services). 1149 HORNBY STREET, VANCOUVER, B.C. (604) 669-1333 '~. -' . '. Vz Block from the Lab QVdlltVPicture and Sound Editing Custom Sound Effects Recording and Transferring ,;. Complete 16 and 35mm Post Production Facilfty ,.~ " . .. ' " • • • • • • YOU SHOULD PUT US IN YOUR NEXT PICTURE

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52/Cinema• Canada• - July I •August 1986• • • • c I N E M A G • John F. Bassett dies at 47 Yorldon Short Festival undergoing changes TORONTO - John F. Bassett dation by Ontario to Ottawa of YORKTON, SASK. - The 22nd number, the association would province's culture and recre­ III, Toronto spurts entrep­ an increase in the withholding Yorkton Short Film and Video be unable to access the Sask ation department, which the reneur, athlete, and at one time tax on American films to 15 Festival, scheduled for Oct. 29 Lotteries surplus or the provin­ association was pursuing as of a top Canadian producer of En­ percent to match the American - Nov. 2, is "well on the way", cial support the Yorkton Festi· mid-June. glish-language films, died of withholding tax on Canadian according to acting festival val has been receiving so far. To back up his claim "this cancer at the age of 47 on May films, the extra five percent to general manager Mavis Mac· As Onda noted, only so many isn't a major take-over bid," 14 at Toronto General Hospi­ be distributed into the Cana· Donald. such numbers exist, and the Onda said the association pre­ tal. dian film industry. MacDonald, assistant man­ Yorkton Festival isn't likely to sented the festival with a dis­ Of notable significance to It was as president of the ager of the festival for the past turn their number over to his cussion paper in late- May, a the Canadian film industry, was Baton film subsidiary Agin­ four years, has temporarily association (whose govern­ proposal he stated has re­ Bassett's courageous six­ court Productions from 1969 succeeded Sheila Harris, who ment & industry relations ceived 'wide support" from a month stewardship of an exp­ to 1973, however, that Bassett resigned at the end of March. committee he chairs). Accord­ good portion of the Yorkton loration team that in January, first stepped into the film Harris, said MacDonald, ended ing to Onda, his association has festival membership and board 1973 presented Ontario'S world. While Agincourt was as· her eight years as Yorkton's the support of the PCO issuing (one member of which is the Ministry of Industry and sociated with such produc­ general manager because she agency. association's preSident, Don Tourism with the brief The tions as Flick, Inside Out, and needed a change (consisting in "We're not trying to take List). Onda does concede Film Industry in Ontario. Frankenstein on Campus, part of becoming a grand­ over Yorkton," said Onda, ad· there is opposition at Yorkton That team, charged with re­ Bassett followed up on his suc­ mother and working with her ding his association is aiming at to the proposal. commending how the pro­ cessful backing and co-produc­ husband on their farm) and a healthier industry (some· Still, with an eye to a future vince and the private film in­ tion of the Canadian stage pro­ "wanted to get away." thing he noted has recently in which provincial filmmakers dustry would jointly benefit duction of the musical Hair The 22nd festival, entering been fostered by the pro­ can export their works and talk through co-operative planning with production of three more its eighth year as an aJl-Cana· vince's recent inclination to "dollars and cents" with the and programs for the industry, well-known features, Face Off, dian event, has recently held a tender its film projects, among province (as well as return presented the ministry with 12 Paperback Hero, and The Saskatchewan Film and Video other developments) and in· funds to it) Onda said the as­ principle recommendations. Rowdyman (into which he in­ Showcase aune 7·8), dis· creased communication be­ 'sociation hopes to have its Among them were the fol­ vested respectively the sums of patched its rules and regula­ tween its members. plans completed by August. lowing points: the establish­ invested £400,000, $250,000, tions by mid·June and, as in Onda observed that while In that eventuality, Onda ment of an Ontario Film Office and $150,000). past years, politely turned most successful film industry anticipates little change to the for the industry's "encourage­ Though none of those films aside interested inquiries from associations appear to be those 22nd Yorkton Festival, with its ment, claSsifications, and di­ were impressive box office Americans wishing to partici· tied to economic development board left intact for this year. rections"; the implementation successes, Bassett continued to pate. and trade, that particular Sas­ But he does see changes to that of a quota system requiring make films through his com­ Mavis, undecided as to katchewan government de­ body, including a possible Ontario theatres to showcase pany Amulet Pictures Ltd. whether she'll consider taking partment hasn't been as sup­ merger with the association's eight weeks of Canadian films Sneakers, starring his tennis on responsibility for the festi­ portive of their concept as the board, within a year or two. over a two-year period; in­ pro daughter Carling and ac­ val beyond her agreement to crease the exposure of Cana­ tress Susan Anton reportedly serve as acting GM until 1987 dian features; offer of a 5 per­ grossed S 12 million. - before which time she says Sian to Fest of Fests tion with Thomlee Produc­ cent direct rebate to the Remembered on the To­ advertisements will be placed tions and this fall, Pocker theatres per adn,ission and for ronto sports scene as the for the post - says the. festival TORONTO - Paragon Motion Night. Ontario-made features; the di­ owner of the hockey teams To­ board of directors is consider­ Picture president John SIan rect rebate of 5 per cent of ronto ToroslBirmingham Bulls ing an international display this will serve as chairman of the each admission to the produc­ of the defunct World Hockey year. board of the Festival of Festi­ Summer Institute er (the rebate for other provin­ Association and football teams The Yorkton festival, besides vals for the next three years, an cial films going as operating the Toronto NorthmeniMem­ attracting the attention of appointment announced early OTTAWA - The sixth annual capital to the Ontario Film Of­ phis Southmen of the also-de­ Americans, has also lately be­ May by the Festival's Yorkville Summer Institute of Film and fice); the Office's assumption funct World Football League come a focus for the Saskatche­ office. Television, organized jointly of the Ontario Theatres during the 1970s, Bassett him­ wan Motion Picture Industries SIan, whose production cre­ by Algonquin College and the Branch's duties; the Office's self was a considerable athlete, Association. SMPIA, formed dits include the features Im­ Canadian Film Institute and development of an interna­ a Canadian Junior Tennis last November and composed proper Channels, An Amer­ running June 22-27 at Algon­ tional film festival incorporat­ (Doubles) champion in 1955, of some 45-50 member organi­ ican Christmas Carol, and quin's Colonel By Campus, is ing the Canadian Film Awards; a member of Canada's 1959 sations, is endeavouring to be­ Threshold, plus the recent being headlined this year by the support of a single Ontario Davis Cup Team, and from came an umbrella group for Home Box Office Philip Mar­ playwrights/screenwriters, the Film School with industry pro­ 1965-67 Ontario Squash the province's film industry lowe, Private Eye series, suc­ U.S.'s Charles Fuller, England's fessionals as lecturers; and the Champion. and Yorkton falls within their ceeds Rogers Cablesystems David Hare, and Canada's John establishment of a $250,000 The grandson of a publisher future intentions. Inc president Colin D. Watson Gray. script development/pre-pro­ of the Montreal Gazette whose While SMPIA board member in the post. He also joins the The Institute, which has to duction fund administered by first media experience was re­ Stephen Onda told Cinema new Festival director for this date assisted over 400 particip­ the Office. porting for the Victoria Daily Canada "We all feel Yorkton year, Leonard Schein, whose ants to upgrade their film and Remaining recommenda- Times in 1961-62, Bassett from could be a bit more than it is," succession of Wayne Clarkson television skills, is also featur­ tions of the brief included: sup­ 1962 to 1971 rose from repor­ the problem for his association was announced last winter. ing in its producing, directing, port by the Ontario Develop­ ter to promotion manager to lies in a lack of provincial pub­ and screenwriting workshops ment Corporation for director of the Toronto Tele­ lic sector financial support for Canadian screen professionals hardware essential to the film gram, a now-defunct daily in the industry, even though one­ Loyalties ready that include Kevin Sullivan, Bill industry; the commissioning which the Bassett family held third of the Yorkton festival's Gough, Anna Sandor, by provincial educational in­ controlling interest. He simi­ 1985 budget of $150,000 was TORONTO - The second of a Micheline Lanctot, and Jean stitutions (and distribution) of larly managed promotions for provided by the Saskatchewan two-picture package in a Cana­ Pierre Lefebvre. Canadian-produced films in the Baton Broadcasting Ltd. Trust for Sports, Culture, and dian·British co-venture be­ place of imported American television station (of which his Recreation while the Sask Lot­ tween England's Dumbarton Griff gets prize audio-visual productions; a father John W.H. Bassett was teries corporation reported a Films and Toronto's Lauron In- . film classification consisting of chairman) CFTO-TV, as well as $3 million surplus this year. ternational, director Anne TORONTO - Griff Ge~ a General, Parental Guidance producing/directing an After One solution for the associa­ Wheeler's Loyalties, is set for Hand, one of 26 films in the Advised, Restricted to persons Four Teen program for the sta­ tion, both in its quest for the a fall release around this year's series The Kids of Degrassi 18 years or over, and X (the tion. establishment of a film-funding 11 th Festival of Festivals. Street by Playing With Time latter allowing for Cr,iminal organisation for investment, Loyalties was preceded by Inc of Toronto, has been awar­ Code prosecution), as well as TORONTO - A five-cassette script development, produc­ the other Dumbarton-Lauron ded a Blue Ribbon at the 28th the Ontario Film Office's class­ set of Shoah, the nine-hour tion, etc. and in its Yorkton co-venture, No Surrender, Annual American Film Festival ification of both films and Holocaust documentary by plans, is for it to capture the winner of the 1985 Festival's in New York, May 30. The film video-tapes; the abolition of Claude Lanzmann is now avai­ Yorkton Festival's Provincial International Critics' Award about kids growing up in the film projectionists requiring lable for $399.95 through Bel­ Cultural Organisation number, and which opened May 2 in east end of Toronto won first licensing, then seen as un­ levue Home Entertainment, said Onda. Toronto. Lauron has two fea· place in the Elementary / Jr. necessary; and the recommen- the Canadian distributor. That option presents itself ture films in the works for this High School instructional cate­ because, without a PCO year; Shoot Me, a co-produc- gory.

July / August 1986 - Cinema Canada/53 • c I N E M A G • ing product and making The two sections of Revenue produced with Telefilrn and foreign sales of Canadian tele­ Development, exceeding both Ontario Film Development vision programming; the as­ past figures reached and target Wales and Canada Corporation support. CTPDA regroups sociation has also formed an expectations, respectively Described by Primedia as a export committee, which will contributed approximately site for Primedia "precedent- setting" package, TORONTO - The Canadian also encourage Canadian pro­ 51,565,000 and more than each of the Canadian-Welsh Television Program Dis­ ducers to use independent 53.5 million. The Membership TORONTO - A twin package themed movies will star Cana­ tributors Association, a 20- Canadian exporters as repre­ Revenue figure, due partially of two TV movies for the CBC dians in the lead role, with member body of Canadian­ sentatives for their product to TVO's most successful on­ and BBC began June 2 in Wales Nicholas Campbell in Going owned, Ontario-based distri­ abroad. air campaign one week last and June 18 in Canada, an ar­ Home (a look at a concealed bution companies formed in Various public functions, November, was 59 percent rangement involving Toronto­ incident in 1919 in a North 1978, will be after new mem­ such as screenings and guest - above the previous year's fi­ based Primedia Productions Wales repatriation camp after bers in western Canada in an hait d'union speaker forums - gure (89 percent ofTVO mem­ and Opix Films. The package, the first World War) and R.H. upcoming membership drive, to include "the whole range of bers renewed during the cam­ consisting of properties Going Thomson in Heaven on Earth as well as fostering an "active television program distributors paign, for a current total top­ Home and Heaven on Earth (a 1911 story of Welsh orphan liaison" with Quebec-based in Canada, whether Canadian­ ping 38,000). (shooting respectively) in children discovering a new life French-speaking distributors. owned or otherwise", says an Project Revenue, the elicit­ Wales and Canada), are being in Canada). The association, besides a association release - will con­ ing of project funding from constitutional revision to en­ tinue to be sponsored by the corporations, government, and hance promotion of Canadian association. foundations, attracted CP Rail, TV distributors interests with Canadian Tire, and the Minis­ governments and broadcasters, CITY try of Industry, Trade & appointed the following to its TV 0 pays its way Technology as major program 1986-87 executive and board underwriters. Commercial of directors: president - Ralph TORONTO - A combination of Funds raised by Revenue Realty Corp. Ellis; first vice-president - record figures derived from Development, a chief compo­ Charles Falzon; second vice­ Membership Revenues and nent of TVO's operating Broker president - Thomas Reynolds; Project Revenue has resulted budget, are used for future For Rent directors at large - Isme Ben­ in TVOntario achieving its program production and ac· Office, Studio, Production editing and storage space. nie, Derek McGillivray; and, as highest year-end total for Re­ quisition in addition to base past-president David venue Development, with 55 grants from government and Priced to Lease Jackson. million raised in 1985-86 for programming & support mat· Midtown: Film I Video Production Studio. All Amenities To aid members in publicis- programming. erials sales. Industrial-Commercial-Investmenrs 130 Bloor Street West Suite 701 Toronto, Ontario HOw about Mobile Image MSSINS 416-968-3434 for openers? f L------~ Your TV Shows .JAC·K THOMPSON ~:~~m~e~~ed~ a!reat Dadoun Thompson Associates and on-line editing for your Television Insurance Specialists Programming. for the . Mobile Image ... Entertainment Indu$t,,· the affordable video production house. Ask about our new demo tape. Call 416/591 -1400 for openers. • professional • personal • service

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54/Cinema Canada - July I August 1986 • c I N E M A G • Bissonnette says that the becoming more insistent on "This makes it very difficult costs of distribution would be measuring grant criteria by to be culturally viable~ says Cinema Ubre celebrates ten prohibitive given curent pro­ economic performance. This Bissonnette who adds that this MONTREAL - Ten years in the niversary, she spoke with Cine­ blems with government subsi­ creates a problem because Ci­ drift in cultural policy lessens business of distributing Que­ ma Canada, noting that re­ dies from Canada Council and nema Ubre has always treated the chances for the first-time bec-made films is an honorable gardless of the seemingly m e­ the Societe generale du cinema its films ' as "cultural invest­ filmmaker to benefit by public distinction, but distributing tractable problems that plague which amount to close to 75 ments" in Quebec which often exposure which is something films with an accent on artistic the distribution sector in Cana­ per cent of income. These preclude economic returns in that Cinema Libre has stood for and cultural significance is an da, Cinema Ubre can look back granting agencies, she says, are terms of dollars and cents. these last 10 years. even greater mark of achieve­ on the last 10 years with grati­ ment, say the organizers at Ci­ fication. The difficulty of distri­ nema Ubre. buting indigenous product in What in 1976 was a small the commercial theatres be­ The Student Entry Project circle of independent film­ cause of the control by the ma­ Congratulates the Winners of makers with one film - L'eau jor studios has been circum­ chaude, L'eau frette - in vented (but not overcome) by search of a audience has beco­ Cinema Ubre's strong hold on me, over the last 10 years, a a secondary market. It is here Tt1e (LA)) @f 86 non-profit distribution organi­ in the parallel theatres, schools zation currently handling over and community groups that Ci­ STUDENT FILM SHOWCASE 125 titles. Ninety per cent of nema Libre has developed a these are Quebec titles of loyal audience, and where the Held in Toronto, May, 1986: which 60 per cent are social greater part of self-generated documentaries. revenues are to be found. ANIMATION CATEGORY Best Film: Binary Bucks - Neil Hollands, Sheridan College The audience is loyal, says Cinema Ubre's mandate to Second Place: Tako (Kite) Michael Fukushima, Sheridan College raise the image of Quebec Bissonnette, inasmuch as it has films hasn't changed but that grown up with the Quebec DRAMA CATEGORY small circle of filmmakers has film industry and has created a Best Film: In Case We Survive - Glenn Warner, University of Windsor expanded to include over 100 demand for the type of films Second Place: Passion and Gasoline - Mark Forler, York University filmmaker-members whose na­ that Cinema Ubre chooses to Third Place: Frames of Reference David Axelrad, Sheridan College mes, in many cases, are easily promote and distribute. Third Place: The Salesman David Adkin, York University associated in Quebec today "The number of people rea­ DOCUMENTARY CATEGORY with celebrated Quebec films ched by Quebec ft1ms was very Best Film: A Kid From the Suburbs Alan Doucette, Donald Vallis, and Scott McNeil, such as Jacques and Novem­ small until the late '70s," says Humber College bre by Jean Beaudry and Fran­ Bissonnette, "They had a hard Second Place: The Man Who Fell From An Apple Tree - Lenka Holubec, York University ~ois Bouvier, Au Clair de la time finding these ft1ms ." To­ Third Place: Roll Out the Barrel Carlo Cardarello, Gordana Todorovic, and lune by Andre ForCier, cafi'e day, she says, the challenge to Thom Hounsell, Niagara College ' Italia, Montreal by Paul Tana Cinema Ubre is not so much Fourth Place: Tattoo Christopher McNamara, University of Windsor Special Mention, Cinematography: Avolare Andrew Robertson, Humber College and () Picasso by Gilles Carle. developing an audience as it is Sophie Bissonnette, direc­ Iceeping it. The executive EXPERIMENTAL CATEGORY tor-producer of The Electro­ council is currently discussing Best Film: She Left For Work - Jim Maunder, Ontario College of Art nic Sweatshop: Quel Nume­ a proposal to undertake a feasi­ Second Place: Barndance Tom Third, Ontario College of Art ro; What Number is president bility study on specific areas of Third Place: Snakes - Martina Masek, Ontario College of Art of Cinema Ubre's seven mem­ promotion; it will also look at ber executive council which is the distribution of its titles in A special thanks to our judges: elected annually by the general the home video cassette membership. On this tenth an- David Barlow Judy Gouin Midi Onodera market. Robert Benson Stu ria Gunnarsson Don Owen Ellen Besen Don Haig Kaj Pindal Rudy Buttignol Rena Krawagna Michael Scott Jan is Cole Terence Macartney-Filgate Andra Sheffer Cannes helps launch two features Holly Dale Michaelle McLean Jonny Silver TORONTO - Quebec director springboard to sales in the U.S. Eugene Federenko Leslie Modolo Clive Smith Betty Ferguson Jim Murray Robin Wood Denys Arcand's Le Declin de and abroad_ Norstar Releasing Sig Gerber I'empire americain may well Inc., a distributor related to have mad~ such a favorable im­ Simcom, has secured Canadian and our Awards Gala guests: pression at the recent Cannes distribution rights. International Film Festival's Di­ Executive producer Don Host: John Burgess, CITY-TV rectors' Fortnight - where it Haig, who said the film is also walked away with the interna­ supposed to be at this Sep­ Guest Speakers: Elwy Yost, Executive Producer, TV ONTARIO tional critics' prize - that it was tember'S New York Film Festi­ "Saturday Night at the Movies" SOon sold to 14 countries. By val, noted screenings were David Silcox, Ontario Deputy Minister comparison, the other Cana­ held in early June for American of Citizenship and Culture majors Warner Brothers, Col­ dian feature in the Fortnight, Marcel Carriere, Director, Services Branch, director Leon Marr's Dancing umbia Pictures, and PSO (PSO­ National Film Board of Canada In The Dark, is taking a more Delphi Corporation). methodical approach to sales. Marr, remarking that he'd Presenters of Awards: Ellen Besen, Toronto Animation Society Handling Dancing In The welcome a pick-up from one of Clive Smith, Nelvana Limited Dark sales is, Simcom Limited, the majors, is laid-back about John Spotton, NFB Ontario Production Studio which didn't attempt sales in the film 's marketing (which is, j oyce Wieland, Independent Filmmaker Cannes and instead is planning he gratefully notes, out of his Janet Laine-Green on a good response at this Sep­ hands) and points out the Sea­ Saul Rubinek tember's Festival of Festivals to ttle Film Festival was turned provide a promotional . down in its approach to in­ Prizes and sponsorship for THE CLASS OF '86 STUDENT FILM SHOWCASE have been clude the film in favor oflarger provided by: MONTREAL - Women in Film festivals. has announced that it will be A very glowing Variety re­ The Ontario Film Development Corporation, an agency of the Ontario Ministry of holding the Second Annual view has stimulated interest in Citizenship and Culture; Telefilm Canada; The National Film Board of Canada and its Film Festival on November 14, Dancing In The Dark notes Ontario Production Studio; Atkinson Film-Arts Ltd.; Kodak Canada; The Film House Group; PFA Motion Picture and Video laboratories; Medallion Film laboratories Co_ Ltd_ ; 15, 16 at the Directors Guild in Marr, to the point where he's Jordan & Ste-Michelle Cellars Ltd_ Los Angeles, California. This received four calls himself year the festival is accepting about the film. With an eye to The Student Entry Project is an association of Ontario college and university film movies and television comple­ the Toronto festival, Marc re­ programmes and the Ontario Production Studio of the National Film Board of Canada. ted in 1985 or 1986 and, of marks "I can'~ imagine getting For information, contact: The Student Entry Project, 65 Adelaide St. E., Toronto, Ontario, Course, directed, written or any better press than we got in M5C 1K6, (416) 973-3012. produced by a woman. Cannes."

July / August 1986 - Cinema Canada /55 • c I N E M A G • sovereignty, says ACTRA com· necessary and quite possibly as AeTRA speaksu p munications director Jane long as the negotiations, pro· Craig. jected to run 18 months. 1M : Still for sale Bureau participants are con· Most interest in the bureau's TORONTO - ACTRA's Free veying the message that free· speaking members - located in MONTREAL - "In this busi· Metropole and file for a second Trade Speakers Bureau, a 31· trade is a threat to Canadian nine Canadian cities from Van· ness, everything and nothing is hearing. member body of association culture and campaigning to couver to St. John's - has thus for sale," said a local media At press time, Andre Des· writers, performers, and keep the nation's cultural in· far come from the media, but analyst. On that note the future marais, vice· preSident of the broadcast journalists launched dustries off the bilateral bar· Craig note requests have co"me of Tele· Metropole, the Mont· Power Corp. told Cinema mid· May to coincide with the gaining table. from other ACTRA members, real· based broadcasting com· Canada he prefered not to opening of Canada·U.S . free The first step in what ACTRA giving the association cause to pany ancl the owner of comment on whether a new trade negotiations, is making president Gino Marrocco consider drawing up lists of acl· Quebec's largest private televi· round of negotiations with "quite a lot" of appearances called an "aggressive" cam· ditional speakers agains free· sion station is still anyone's Tele· Metropole is underway or ancl interviews in all media in paign, Craig says the bureau tracle. guess. planned in the near future. defence of Canadian cultural will be kept going as long as is Also declining to make a As of June 12, Canadian comment was Pierre Peladeau, Radio·television and Telecom· president of Quebecor Inc. munications Commission which has been referred to as (CRTC) offi cials said they have one of the more likely ac· not received any application quisitors of the Tele·Met· Extra, extra for a renewed hearing, from ropole. any prospective buyer of Tele· The owners of Tele·Me· Metropole, following last tropole, the ]:A. Deseve estate read all about it month's CRTC decision to and foundation, announced block the sale of Tete·Me· last year that the company tropole to the Montreal·based should be sold because of tax Power Corporation of Canada. problems. A preference was John Grierson This CRTC decision (April specified for a French·Cana· 18) was made on the grounds dian buyer. that Power Corp. had failed to The $97.8 million deal demonstrate that "the prop· which was originally made was a liar! osed transfer would yield sig· with Power Corp. (subject to nificant and unequivocal be· regulatory approval) saw the nefits to the communities sales of shares at $30.75 On served or the broadcasting sys· June 12 Tete·Metropole shares tem as a whole." It did raise, were trading at $41. however, a round of specula· Roger Giguere, chairman of tion as to whether Power Tele·Metropo1e, was unavaila· Corp. would reapproach Tete· ble for comment. Student Showcase winners TORONTO - Sheridan Col· joins CBC's annual student· lege's Neil Hollands, Windsor oriented Telefest showcase, UniverSity'S Glenn Warner, hopes to become a national Humber College's David Vallis, undertaking in 1987, said the and the Ontario College of NFB 's Gerry Flahive. Art's Jim Maunder were the Warner, Vallis, and Maunder winners in the animation, shared in $7,500 worth of drama, documentary, and ex· technical services provides by perimental categories May 31 the NFB, P.F.A. Motion Picture at the first· ever Class of '86 & Video Laboratories, Medal· Student Film showcase awards. lation Film Laboratories,-and Held at the Ontario Science Film House Group. Hollands Centre, the event is the work received a three· month paid ' of the Student Entry Project apprenticeship at Ottawa's At· created this May by Ontario kinson Film Arts. Among those film instructors and NFB On· presenting .the awards were tario Studio representatives to filmmakers Joyce Wieland and profile new filmmakers to the actors Saul Rubinek and Janet 1'lIe I~ilill Sfll.lics industry. The event, which Laine· Green. panies and government agen· Ass.t£i;.ti.t.1 .tf t~;•• I;•• I;1 It.-CSe.lt cies have already confirmed WWF market bullish their participation. 1'devidCan, a new section of Published with the assistance of the National Film Board MONTREAL - Organizers of the market, will provide sellers the World Film Festival in of Canada, The National Film, Television and Sound of Canadian programming with Montreal, Aug. 21 to Sept. 1, Archives, the Canadian Film Institute , .~ and the Social .., . . offices in the Meridien Hotel. say reservations for office spa· Sciences and Humanities Research Cou ncil of Canada; P '. '. ce at the Montreal Internatio· MONTREAL Compagnie nal Film, TV and Video Market France Film, Montreal, has ac· Order your copy now have almost doubled the 1985 quired all rights for the French total. versions of five upcoming Em· ($12 ea. plus $1.50 postage / handling) The market which is expec· pire International films. This is ted to attract film , television the third group:af Empire films and video professionals from that Compagnie France Film more than 60 countries will be will distribute. Expected to be Mediatexte Publications Inc. held Aug. 24 to 31. ready for release before the P.O. Box 398, An additional floor of office end of 1986 the five films are: Outremont Station, space has been added at the Bloodless, House of the Montreal, QC Meridien Hotel bringing the Stars, I Eat Cannibals, Plea­ H2V 4N3 number of available offices to sure Planet and Test Tube 100. No fewer than 175 com· Teens.

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