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Helping you put it all together is wliat TRADE NEWS we're ail about. THE Pay TV on stream, call for comment FILM HOUSE OTTAWA - September 24 is the Among the national appli Bassett and Eaton famiUes, as GROUP day. Public hearings will begin cants are Astra-Tel Communi majority shareholders in Baton FILM HOUSE OUINNLABS OUINN SOUND here, concerning the applica cations which propose two Broadcasting Inc., have an im 22 Front St. West 380 Adelaide St West 409 King St Wes tions received by the Cana channels, the first with broad portant interest in CTV. Toronto, Canada Toronto. Canada Toronto. Canada dian Radio-television anti Tele entertainment programming M5J 1C4 M5V1R7 l^5V1K1 Damlen Lee of CBR Sports (4161 364-4321 1416)869-1-81 (416) 869-1781 communications Commission and the second to serve special Communications is the only (CRTC) for pay television li interests. Harold Greenberg of applicant to propose wall-to censes. Astral-Bellevue-Pathe and Phi wall-sports. Beginning with four Already, study committees lippe tie Gaspe Beaubien of hours each on Saturtiay and within the guilds, and associa Telemetiia Communications Sunday, the plan moves to 24 Montreai fest bows witi) tions are preparing briefs, and developed the proposal which hours of continuous sports for individuals are getting ready to has backing from the Bronf a 168-hour week. Cinequity comment on the 54 applications man family and Laurent Beau- Corp. is backing this proposal. competition, maricet, confab before the CRTC, certain that tioin of Bombardier. Conrad Black, president of MONTREAL - It was an event This year, the Market has the choice of the pay-TV licen Canadian Premiere Televi Hollinger Argus, would hold ful debut. While the Fifth been seriously hindered by the see may make or break the sion Network also proposes 51% interest in the proposed World Film Festival of Mont postal strike, and by the lean Canadian film industry. two channels, this time one in Standard Broadcasting Corp. real opened with Fassbinder's times film merchants world - Applicants, for their part, are French and one in English. Ltd., according to press reports. Lili Marleen in the glittering wide are experiencing. While actively wooing the support of Moses Znaimer, president of Lively Arts Market Builders Place ties Arts, the streets played registration is running behind, producers as they endeavor to City-TV would be president of Inc. (LAMB) is proposed by host to a second manifestation. it would look as if this year's make the best case for their the company with Jeai^ortier, Edgar A. Cowan, and backed by Some of Quebec's technicians market will be considerably particular plan. past executive tiirector of the members of the Southam family, joined forces with more mili reduced. Its dates are August The CRTC has not yet deter Institut quebecois du cinema Maurice Strong of the Cana tant directors to protest the 24-28. mined how many licenses will serving as Vice President. Pierre dian Development Corp. and amount of money given the The Montreal public has be granted (it is also firee not to Lamy would head up French Michael Cowpland of Mitel festival. As always in Quebec, turned out en masse, and ad grant any), anti so all applica program production. Corp. It proposes to compli cinema and politics go hand in vance ticket sales are up con tions are considered competi Murray Chercover and ment other systems with em hand. siderably over last year. With tive, though they differ widely Claude Blain have made an ap phasis on cultural program Festival director Serge Losi- 28 Canadian films scheduled, in approach and coverage. plication on behalf of the CTV ming. The programming would que has followed the same for national product also occupies In general, the applications Television Network and TVA. It be in English with French spe mula as in preceeded years, a larger place than it had have been classified as "local too proposes an English chan cials. marrying an Official Competi previously. network," "regional network," nel and a French one. The (cont. on p. 17) tion of 23 films with side This year, the WFF budget is "National network" or "stand events : a selection of German pegged at about $800,000, with alone." films, another of Latin American $500,000 coming in grants, The national proposals are films, a selection called Cinema goods and services from the attracting the most attention, if of Today and Tomorrow which three levels of government. only because their financial DavidSilcoxtoprezofCFDC regroups more recent works of Although considerable contro base would be the most impor OTTAWA-David SUcox, F.R.SA., for Metro Toronto from 1974 to better known filmmakers, an versy surrounds the manage tant and because several of has been appointed chairman 1981. Hommage section to honor ment of the festival (anti, in these have program proposals of the Canadian Film Develop Silcox has been a member of certain directors (Pasolini, fact, provoketi a study commit in both English and French ment Corporation, filUng the the board of the CFDC since Wise, Carle and Kazan this tee last year made up of film (see page ). vacancy created by the resig 1971, and served as the Board's year), and a final selection of bureaucrats from the federal, In aU, 15 of the 54 applications nation of Michel Vennat. Vice-chairman from 1975 Recent Films for Television. provincial and municipal propose national systems. Many Silcox, a native of Ontario, through 1978. For the first time this year, an governments), funding was of these applicants insist that has held numerous positions Silcox has also held positions Economic Conference has renewed again this year. the CRTC issue only one na in the cultural bureaucracy on numerous boards and com been organized to deal with Neither the direction of the tional license, so as not to erode over the past tiecade and a half. missions involved in the visual questions surrounding films Private funding was in the financial potential of the He was an Arts Officer for the arts, and has published two for television and the televi creases this year, thanks to ef- chosen'system. The Canadian Canada Council from 1965- books [Tom Thomson; The sion market, both in North (cont. on p. 21) market is too small and too 1970, a member of the Faculty Silence and the Storm, anti America and abroad. Beginning fragile to support competing of Fine Arts at York University Christopher Pratt) and numer on August 25 and running for national services, they main from 1970 to 1977, and acted as ous catalogues and articles. three days, the Conference For contents, see p. 6 tain. the Director of Cultural Affairs overlaps with the Film Market. ADVERTISING « • • • •aj MOTION PICTURES IS OUR ONLY BUSINESS ~i« • • • • • 1407 YONGE ST. • Product Reels • Theatrical Trailers TORONTO, ONTARIO M4T1Y7 • Teaser Trailers • Audio-Visuals •Television Commercials Michael Goldberg/Joel Reltman JO • Radio Commercials • Print Advertising (416) 964-7539 NFB out of sponsored films by 1986 Altman: have film will travel MONTREAL - The Robert Alt- M * MONTREAL - The Robert Alt- Chartrand of CanamericaCanamerica. ThTh,e man film, Easter Egg Hunt, is company has decided to move now scheduled to be shot nextl MONTREAL*- After years of cies and departments instead sioner's office. Part of the new the shoot, and wiU now use discussion and negotiation, the agreement involves a collabo year in England. Originally set British financial backing instead of going through the NFB as it to go in Montreal this summer, National Film Board of Canada should by law. 'We are doing rative effort to repatriate all of Canadian money. will move out of the domain of production into the Sponsored sources at the production com In principle, the film wiU about $5-6 million dollars pany, Canamerica, report that the government sponsored worth of sponsored work now, Program, to be monitored by star David Boviie and Geraldine film, retaining only "special the NFB. set difficulties are responsible Chaplin and be made for $7 but we figure there is about $12 for the change in location. areas" for protiuction. While million of production being A public announcement of milUon U.S. It is based on a maintaining "executive pro done by the government," say this agreement is expected "It simply became too costly book by Jiilian Freeman, "Easter ducer" status on all projects, a source in the Film Commis later this month. to try to construct the English Egg Hunt," due to be published the NFB hopes to contract out locations which are required this faU. all other work vvithin five by the film," reported Gilles years. These are the broad lines of CAMPP continues negotiations witli DGC/ an agreement concluded be ACTRA as producers representative Canadians honored at N.Y. fest tween the NFB, the Associa NEW YORK-At the recently categoiy. In the field of Ikjental tion ties Producteurs de Films completed American Film Fes Health/Guidance, a Red ribbon du Quebec and the Canadian TORONTO - John Eckert, the against that, perhaps I'll be tival, Canatiians walked off with was awarded to A Fine Line, Film anti Television Associa recently, elected president of protesting too much. But we a number of prizes. directed by Allen Rogers. tion. Haven't changed. We're cur the Canadian Association of Clorinda Wamy' s Beginnings^ William Fruet's One of Our rently negotiating feature and Sources at the NFB indicate Motion Pictures Producers, fixjm the National Film Board, Own was avyarded the Blue television contracts with ACTRA that the agreement calls for a thinks that the recent defection picked up a Blue Ribbon in the Ribbon in the Narrative Films consultative committee made and the Directors' Guild." from CAMPP by the members Visual Essays Categoiy.