CIMEMA(; • TRADE NEWS • I~· ~~ng~~~e~~. ~~e~nt~s. a~g~~e~o~n~p..~~ . b~I~~.~I ~Hsonbig~inneratGenies MONTREAL - FederalJprovin- fensive, insisting on the impor- Canadian government has ' TORONTO - Vancouver direc- sign (Louise Jobin), best art di­ cial film policy was the focus of tance of the conference. At one been charged with trying to in- tor Sandy Wilson's original rection (Anne Pritchard), and the second day of discussions, pOint, he invited the press to troduce measures that would screenplay about "boys and best Cinematography (Fran~ois held March 3-4, between pro- "read between the lines" of the limit the choice of films avail- girls and the age of innocence Protat). vincial ministers of culture and final communique if it really able on screens in Canada. In in 1959", My American Of the other best picture federal minister of Communi- wanted to understand what fact the opposite is true." Cousin, walked away with top nominees, producer Peter cations Marcel Masse. In a clos- had transpired. Masse interpreted the approval honours Mar. 20 at the 1986 O'Brian's One Magic Christ­ ing press conference, given by Following the conference, his speech received as an en- Genie Awards. The film, WiI- mas won in two of its seven theco"chairs -of-the confer--- Masse told CinetnaCantufct"it . - dorsemeni of the policy sug: . son's 'first feature, wrapped up nominationS' for best - overalf . ence, Masse and Quebec accomplished several things gestions it contained, and the seventh annual awards pre- sound and best sound editing, minister of Cultural Affairs Lise that would have far-reaching hoped the provinces will move sentations of the Academy of while producer Justine Bacon, enthusiasm was general importance for the film indus- ahead in the areas that concern Canadian Cinema and Televis- Heroux'S Le Matou garnered among participants about the try. Although the provincial them, such as licensing dis- ion by stringing together wins its single win (from seven work accomplished. cultural ministers had met tributors, and box-office a best picture of the year (pro- nominations) for best music Put baldly, the ministers ag- eight times previously, this was mechanisms. ducer Peter O'Brian), best score. Only 90 Days, nomi- reed to agree on the definition the first time they were unani- Finally, Masse told Cinema leading actor Oohn Wildman), nated six times, failed to win in of the problem confronting the mous in their understanding of Canada he was sure the best leading actress (Margaret any category. film community - that Cana- the problems confronting the Majors would take note of both Langrick),' best direction Best original song went to dians exercise little control industry and in their will to ad- his speech and the final com- (Sandy Wilson), best film edit- the tandem of Lewis Furey and over their domestic market - dress these problems. munique, that these were ing (Haida Paul), and best Leonard Cohen (who at one and they agreed to set up a Secondly, according to among the most important screenplay (Sandy Wilson). point listened bemused to an steering committee, mandated Masse, his provincial counter- strategic documents produced That success, which saw My Andrea Martin rendition of his to do the follOWing: parts gave full support to the to date as they introduced a American Cousin score with "Suzanne" while on stage to • ensure that federal and pro- speech he had delivered ear- new element - a unified pro- six of its 11 nominations prior present an award) for the vincial initiatives will be com- lier in the day and which con- vinciallfederal front - into the to the evening's gathering at single "Angel Eyes", from the p!ementary and sensitive to re- tained a strong endorsement of debate on film distribution. the Metro Toronto Convention RSL feature Night Magic. gional concerns, the findings of the Task Force However, several provincial Centre, edged out producers In other categories, Sturla • examine mecanisms to help on Feature Films. Summing up ministers, in conversation after Robert Lantos and Stephen Gunnarsson and Robert Colli­ solve structural problems, in his speech the history of the the conference, seemed to dis- Roth's Joshua Then and son's expletive-laden cliff­ • and study ways to improve U.S. Majors involvement in tance themselves from Masse's Now, which made good on five hanger for the NFB , Final access to funding. Canadian film distribution, position. Alberta's Mary Le of its 12 nominations. Topped Offer: Bob White and the The discrepancy between Masse concluded: "The Majors Messurier, talking about a off by best supporting actor Canadian Auto Workers what the press had been led to are increasingly in a position to 'Canadian first' policy for text- and actress wins for American Fight for Independence, expect - bold moves on the determine if, when and where books made it clear that, "The Alan Arkin (receiving his sec- won for best featute-length distribution front, strong posi- Canadians will have a chance first thing we look at is the ond Genie in five years) and documentary. Producer Paul tions vis it vis free trade - and to view not only American, but quality of the text. The second, Unda Sorenson, Joshua also the final summation was such other foreign mms as welL I collected for best costume de­ that Masse was often on the de- stress this point because the cont. onp. 41 conI. on p. 38

CRTC hears Power Corp.'s TV bid Orabinsky outlines strategies MONTREAL - Item number 14 universities, unions, cultural, man Andre Bureau was until of a massive 30-page list of ap­ educational and popular as­ the early '70s a member of La plications released by the SOCiations across the province Presse's executive committee. for mid-continental stance Canadian Radio-television and have publicly made known Questions raised as to Bureau's LOS ANGELES Garth often the chief executive offic- Telecommunications Commis­ their opposition to the license impartiality as chairman of the Drabinsky, Cineplex Odeon ers of the eight American sion (CRTC) on Jan. 20 and transfer in interventions and a hearing resulted in an outburst Corporation's chief executive majors have spent any appreci­ heard at public hearings here petition to the CRTC. from Bureau against "unfair officer, presented himself as a able time in Canada "to gain March 17 has become a media In February, the Federation and unjustified" insinuations as "mid-continental man" during enlightenment about its cul­ cause celebre in Quebec. professionelle des journalistes to his past and current busi­ a Feb. 27 address to the Canada tural heritage, its physicality, Item 14 is an application by du Quebec (FPJQ), held an ex­ ness affIliations. The FPJQ, for California Chamber of Com­ its history, its SOCiety." Tele-Metropole, which holds traordinary congress to debate its part, argued that Bureau merce at the Beverly Wilshire As for the Canadian govern­ the license for CFTM-TV the Power Corp. purchase of should not chair the hearing Hotel. In the light of current ment, Drabinsky viewed as Montreal, flagship station of Tele-Metropole which many and instead have appointed a Canadian concerns about cul­ "unfortunate" its "nationalistic the TVA network, for approval working journalists fear would person who is not publicly as­ tural sovereignty and potential rhetoric" and criticized various to transfer just over three mil­ give Power effective control sociated with one of the con­ free-trade negotiatins, federal Cabinet members for lion shares principally from the over the editorial content of tending parties. Drabinsky used his speech on creating "a heavy smokescreen J.A. Deseve estate and J.A. De­ two of Quebec's principal in­ Bureau stressed repeatedly "The Canadian/American Cul­ of irrational legal and seve Foundation to Power Cor­ formation-media. TelC- Metro­ that the "sole determining tural Dilemma: Between nationalistic jargon dealing poration, which owns the pole wholly controls TV licen­ criterion" that would enter Friends" to interpret both with such items as foreign in­ Montreal daily newspaper La sees in Chicoutimi and Cham­ into the CRTC deciSion on countries to the other - and vestment and cultural Presse, among other media in­ bord and holds a third interest Power's takeover bid was that to take both the major Amer­ sovereignty, through which terests in Canada and in in Pathonic Communications, of the public interest. ican studios and the Canadian can be dimly made out the out­ Luxemburg. licensee of TV stations in In his appearance before the government to task lines of legislative threats to The application, on which Quebec City, Trois-Rivieres CommiSSion, Power Corp. He criticized the Majors for patriate Canadian cultural in­ the CRTC must render a deci­ and Sherbrooke_ Power, in ad­ president Paul Desmarais ar­ "a serious failure" to recognize dustries." sion prior to June 2 when the dition to La Presse, controls a gued that Power's ownership that a critical portion of While he noted that "some share-transfer expires, has chain of provincial newspapers of Tele-Metropole would re­ Canada's cultural dilemma in­ justification exists .. Jor gov­ prompted a province-wide de­ in Trois-Rivieres, Sherbrooke sult in improving TM's popu­ volves the state of its film in­ ernmental intervention" if no bate on questions of media and the Eastern Townships. larity and quality "by further­ dustry and its access to the "substantial improyement cross-ownership, control of in­ Another complicating factor, ing the spread of French-Cana­ Canadian market. Pointing out (short of. legislation)" can be formation, and what consti­ according to the testimony of dian culture." Specifically, De­ the vital role their positions created witqin the Canadian tutes the public interest. Some FPJQ president Jean Pelletier smarais committed to increas- provide them with in any po­ film industry, Drabinsky took 37 groups and 832 individuals at the hearings here March 17- tential solution of the problem, representing communities, 18, is that current CRTC chair- cont_on p. 40 Drabinsky wondered how cont. onp.39

36/Cinema Canada - April 1986 • c I N E M A G • Ontario opens film development office with investment emphasis

TORONTO - If Ontario Film would-be applicants to dust off On a per project basis, tion and financing, that is On­ movie" in Ontario (with his vi­ Development Corporation their old screenplays, Clarkson maximum funding by the tario and Quebec. His expecta­ sion being a Diva-like es­ chairman Wayne Clarkson had points out that a list of outside OFDC will not exceed more tion is that, however the new · capade through TorontO's sub­ his way, there would have readers needs to be established than 8500,000 per theatrical $33 mi llion feature film fund way system), Clarkson is confi­ been Winnebagos lined up (a development officer is in feature; $250,000 for a televis­ considers regional interests, dent the OFDC will provide along Wellesley St. East outside place for the two to three­ ion feature; and a ma..ximum of the new funding will likely enough justification for an in­ his office on March 17, with week review and processing of S 125,000 for a one-hour spec­ fl ow to those same centres - crease in funds after its first hordes of would-be producers requests for development ial. Access to OFDC financing and thus serve as a welcome three years. "But," says waving their scripts at him and funding, w ith a maximum of w ill be contingent upon appli­ compliment to the OFDC's Clarkson, "we ain't done no­ riot police in attendance. That 550,000 funding established in cants having a Canadian-con­ role. thing yet. Let's see what we scenario, Clarkson's own, this regard) and that not all trolled (and preferably On­ Still perplexed as to why no­ can do with it - let's see." would also have seen him, OFDC programs are yet fully in tario-based) distributor. body's made "a good gangster whimsically speaking, disburse place. One of the last to To meet a general goal of in­ the corporation's 57 million coalesce, for example, w ill be a creasing the volume of pro­ for this year and left him with Guaranteed Line-of-Credit duction in the province, not the remaining 51 weeks for Program. only w ill the Film and Video CAMBIUM FILM & VIDEO holidays. A breakdown of the corpora­ Office be aiming to attract PRODUCTIONS As it was, March 17 marked ti on's 57 million budget for more foreign producers to On­ the opening of the OFDC, with this first of its three years tario but the OFDC will also MAKE its status legally approved by consists of, approximately, have support programs for dis­ the Ontario Cabinet and Man­ 5500,000 to the Film & Video tributors and exporters at­ THE CUT agement Board, as well as its Office (previously, a section in tempting to sell abroad, in­ .. .you want and need for your terms of operation, on March the Ministry of Industry, Trade, cluding support for Ontario productions with CAMBIUM 5. A fine-tuning of its and Technology); S 1 million filmmakers invited to out-of­ PRODUCTIONS. Our centrally guidelines, intended to take for administrative, salary, and country festivals and markets. located, fully equipped 3/4 " Offline into account the introduction travel expenses; 5800,000 to Another, and to Clarkson, in­ Editing Suite comes with a friendly by the federal government of $1 million for script develop­ teresting program is one de­ and professional staff to assist you . the 533 million feature film ment; and 4.5 million for pro­ vised in conjuncti on with the fund, was also to have been duction. Production funding Canada and Ontario Arts Coun­ CAMBIUM also features a variety of VHS and 3/4" completed by the opening will be directed primarily to­ cils transfer services, date. Discussions, over 100 of ward feature films - and then Pointing out the two Coun­ Special daily and weekly rates available, which Clarkson's had with of the low and medium-budget cils are not involved in film various industry members, w ill variety - and feature movies projects above S 100,000, 141 Gerrard Street East, continue says Clarkson "to en­ (though not TV series, funding Clarkson says the OFDC w ill M5A 2E3 sure we haven't created a of which has been the orienta­ come into play to assist in pro­ (416) 964-8750, 964-9507 square whee!." ti on of Telefilm Canada's 562 ductions by young filmmakers While he's encouraging million Broadcast Fund). exceeding that limit. Specifi­ cally, the corporation would e nter into such cases on an equity basis to allow such pro­ Car and Truck ducers to enter the commer­ cial world, where they would CINE- PAC ~ . c be expected to raise private Rental Company financing. OFFERT PAR L'INTERMEDIAIRE DE Mindful of the talent and ex­ perience incurred by produc­ with star quality MORRIS & MACKENZIE ers working in the low-budget spectmm, Clarkson says the in­ tent w ill be to provide young wants a part ~ filmmakers both with a learn­ ing opportunity and the Un contrat d'assurance global pour I'industrie chance to be assimilated into inyour~ du cinema et de la television, con<;:u par des the industry. To ensure the specialistes en fonction des besoins particuliers process comes full circle, the des producteurs canadiens. corporation w i! also provide fi ­ ErE}; lllOVIe Morris & Mackenzie Limitee, dont Ie service nancial assistance for the et I'expertise sont reconnus par tout Ie Canada, launching of films in urban On­ peut maintenant compter sur I'apport des plus tario. ~ grands specialistes de I'assurance-cinema au One aspect Clarkson takes monde pour ameliorer sensiblement la fa<;:on effort to stress is the OFDC's de repondre avos besoins en assurance. role as an investment fund and not as a grants organisation. "" Renseignez-vous sur nos services touchant les categories suivantes: His intent is to see an increase in private investment, a lever­ • ~ongs metrages • Courts metrages ing of funds that will see every • Emissions de • Animation $1 from the OFDC increased television • Films industriels by multiples of three to fo ur • Production de videos et de formation times. Established distributors, • Messages publicitaires • Films et videos another ally seen by Clarkson • Documentaires educatifs in the corporation's business, Communiquez avec Shirley Y_McGraw will find the Guaranteed Line­ Contact: Service it la clientele (514) ~37-5755 of-Credit Program available Steve Hacker depending upon their acquisi­ (416) 763-5591 __LA. tion or support of Canadian ti­ tles. One question for the OFDC, wI says Clarkson, remains that of MORRIS & MACKENZIE SOMERVILLE LIM:ITEE Telefilm's emphasis on reg­ VANCOUVER CALGARY TORONTO MONTREAL ional distribution of funding Car &Truck Rental Ltd. (604) 669-5848 (403) 265-4270 (416) 595-9899 (514) 937-5755 and how that jibes with the 1968 Bloor St. W., Toronto, Ont. M6P 3a9 "Inscription en instance country's centres of produc- April 1986 - Cinema Canada /37 C I N E M A G • president Andre Collette was Etrog statuette a good looking • future hopes that "lots of short Sights and sounds, Ontario Pre­ Genies presented with the Air Canada over, said "It is phallic, isn't it? women" will win Genies. mier David Peterson was seen Award by the airline's presi­ Where is this Etrog guy, this Wildman, meanwhile, after busily chain smoking away, cont.fromp.36 dent, Pierre Jeanniot. man is bent!" Her opinion was handing off his Etrog to tie his federal Liberal justice critic While the approximately that there is cause for op­ shoe, credited My American Robert Kaplan appeared with a Caulfield's The Edit captured 1,300-strong audience in the timism about Canadian films Cousin's success to its plaid bow-tie, and the band the best live action short Centre's theatre were witnes­ because "our dollar's so lousy." "straight-forward story" and led off its repertOire, fittingly drama category, while best ses to live song renditions, in­ Sandy Wilson and her My levelled the oplOIon that perhaps, with the Tears For short drama went to producer terspersed clips of the American Cousin crowd had "Canadians have the talent and Fears hit "Everybody Wants To Jacques Vallee's No More nominees, and three (count the most opportunity to hug, resources to make it happen." Rule The World." Then, for Hiroshima. To no one's sur­ 'em) complete costume and mug, and be vocal, beginning those able to handle it, NFB prise, producers Richard Con­ hair changes by mistress of with Wilson's big "mwah l " kiss Somewhat milder in com­ chairman Franc;:ois Macerola die and Michael Scott's The ceremonies Catherine Mary of her Etrog. Believing "a script parison to that jubilant knot extended select inVitations Big Snit, also nominated at Stewart, comments either flew only comes to life once you (in a press serum that featured back to the Sutton Place Hotel this year's Academy Awards, or were pulled from the win· have some actors with magic," CI1Y-TV reporter Jeanne Bek­ for a "Celebration Drink" at the was chosen best animated ners after they descended into an ever-beaming, wide-eyed ker's line, "I was brooding for appropriately innocuous time short. a crowded interview room to Wilson admitted the idea of a you," to Sandy Wilson) was the of "around 2 a.m. " Several special awards meet the media. sequel "looks like a good idea" simple message of appreciation beyond those given in the vari­ Alan Arkin, first to arrive, re­ even though she's got three extended by Final Offer's ous 'best' categories w ere also marked "I'm moving to projects in the works already. Gunnarsson and Collison to awarded during the two hour­ Canada, what can] say?" when Best actor John Wildman, in­ Bob White and the Canadian long ceremony, those consist­ asked for his reaction and ex­ terrupting his interviews to U.A.W. "for allowing us to take ing of special achievement pressed gratitude for being al· buss arriving best actress Mar­ some of their time." Melan~on shoots again awards to F.R. (Budge) and lowed to be part of "a great garet Langrick exclaimed, like The Genies award ceremony Judith Crawley of Crawley growth" he senses in Canada's his movie character Butch, "It's itself was preceded, and natur­ Films for their long contribu· film industry. While Big Snit terrific. It's crazy, man!" ally followed, by all manner of MONTREAL - The Dog Who tion to Canada's film industry, producer Michael Scott was Langrick, all a-giggle with luncheons, including one Stopped The War director as well as to Graeme Ferguson grateful his win gives him the eyelids fluttering and seem­ hosted by Ontario Minister of Andre Melanc;:on has begun of Imax Systems Corporation opportunity to do some "flag­ ingly on the verge of passing Citizenship and Culture Lily shooting the fourth feature in for his technological contribu­ waving," his ever-quiet cohort out, confirmed her career op­ Munro, another by the Variety Les Productions La Fete's tion to films (the most recent, Richard Condie offered a tion would be acting and, com­ Club, and, just prior to the Tales For All series of 12 fam­ notable effort being the Space characteristic thanks to his menting on her character, ob· awards, a T elefilm Canada af­ ily features. Shuttle experience The wife Linda and Scott "for mak­ served "1 was a real show-off ternoon celebration at Stop 33 Co-scripted by Melanc;:on Dream Is Alive, for which ing me do it." when I was little and I still am." of one (if not the) favourite and Bernadette Renaud, d.op'd presentation Canada's first as­ Linda Sorenson, who played The duo of her and Wildman venue for Academy functions, by Guy Dufaux, Bach and tronaut Marc Garneau was on Joshua's strip-teasing mom, were interrupted with a shout the Sutton Place Hotel. Boot again teams producer hand). And, for outstanding gave thanks to her mother of "Hi, sweetheartsl " from Wil­ Following the awards, a gala Rock Demers with Melanc;:on contribution to the business of "Spike," asked for a sequel to son, fresh from her best direc· took place in the Convention whose 1984 The Dog was filmmaking in Canada, Bel­ the $11 -million Lan tos-Roth tion victory. Attended by her Centre's Constitution Hall, a Canada's top grossing feature levue Pathe (Quebec) Inc. production and, giving her son Willy, Wilson expressed setting where, among other for that year.

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38/Cinema Canada - April 1986 c I N E M A G value of the Canadian market tions. • • lishing Canadian offices reo co mmending w ill, I assure you, (from theatrical, video, net· spo nsible for "cultivating" not be painful. Instead, in many After p ointing out the need Drabinsky wo rk, pay- TV, and syndication Canadian literary properties cases, there is a profit to be for Americans to consider cont.fromp.36 sources), Drabinsky, while un· and li aising with French and made. " Canada as a younger country derstanding of U.S. concern English authors and screen· The effect of his recommen· still o n its way to a historical further aim at the recommen­ about potential ripple effects writers. Each office, he said, dations, he felt, w ould be the and cultural peak, Drabinsh.-y dations of the recent Roth· elsewhere should they accede should be funded annually by reaching of solutio ns by the advised his audience "make no Raymond task force report on to Canadian government inter· $1 million Cdn. to develop private sector at no cost to the mistake, Canadians are deter· the film industry, finding its reo vention, said "they should be Canadian screen properties. industry's current structure - mined that their cultural in· commendations "ill-con· obliged to put back some en· Drabinsky's view was that 30· and "a much healthier pros· dustries must be preserved and ceived" and the task force itself richment into the soil in the 40 screenplays would be de· pect" than legislative sanc· encouraged to expand." "self-serving." Drabinsky reo way of economic support for veloped annually as a result. garded as "alarming" the sug· indigenous Canadian film pro· To enhance the talent and gestion the Canadian govern· duction." exposure of Canadian screen· ment use legislative means to In lieu of the film task force's writers, he recommended that ensure all domestic distribu· recommendations and the fed· a portion of the above funding tion of film and video be hand· eral government's approach to be used as 'student· aid' direct· led by Canadian-owned and Canadian cultural sovereignty, ing young Canadians to the U.S. controlled companies. Drabinsky preferred to make "a majors' literary departments Another key tenet of the film conscientious and enlightened and important American film task force's report met with approach", suggesting pallia· schools. As well, Drabinsky similar dismissal: the idea that tives for the cultural dilemma. proposed cO'productions be· Canadian film productions lack His own recommendations tween each U.S. major and a access to Canadian screens were prefaced by noting the Canadian producer based on was, he said, "totally un· vital, primary role the Amer· the above properties at the founded." No Canadian film in ican market provides for re· rate of one every 18· 24 recent years, he said, had been coupment by Canadian films. months, with each side con· denied adequate, effective Draconian measures from Ot· tributing equally to the reo screen access and added that tawa would result in a retalia· qUired budgets. the task force members would tion by the U.S. majors which, The outcome of such co· Ginette 0 Amico be unable to produce a list to he said, "would effectively productions, said Drabinsky, CASTING DIRECTOR prove otherwise. stifle all aspirations for Cana· would be the production of Drabinsky used his address dian films to reach an interna· four to five films annually at Make a Success Out of Your Next Production to treat his American audience tional audience." budgets varying from $6·8 mil· Get the Right Cast to a backgrounder on Canada's After reminding American lion which, when distributed culture, the history of the distributors that, for no reason in North America and abroad PARTIAL CREDITS INCLUDE: Canadian film industry, its lao other than sound business "will amply fulfil the country's Joshua Then & Now - Alan Arkin, Jwnes Woods, tent (particularly in English· practice, they are obliged to determination to have its cui· Gabrielle Lazure. Meatballs III - Loretta Swit. speaking Canada) develop' "give something back" to ture disseminated by means of Fun Park - Carl Marotte, Carolyn Dunn. ment, and previous Canadian Canada and that it was insuffi· the motion picture medium." Paroles et Musiques - Catherine Deneuve, government efforts to arrange cient for American film and TV The 'student· aid', meanwhile, Christophe Lambert. Of Unknown Origin - Peter voluntary cooperation in producers to invest in Canada would lead shortly to "a nuc· Weller, Shannon Tweed. Au Nom de Tous Les Miens which American mm com· solely on American properties, leus of fresh and vital Canadian _ Michael York, Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Penot. panies would assist in increas.' Drabinsky proposed a joint screenwriting talent." Cover Girl- Jeff Conaway, Irena Ferris. Gas - Donald Sutherland, Helen Shaver. Scanners­ ing the production of Canadian committee of each major On the key concern of au· Jennifer O'Neill. Patrick McGoohan. Visiting Hour­ studio's CEOs "and four or five thority over distribution, each films not only for domestic but Williwn Shatner, Lee Grant, Michael Ironside. also world· wide markets. principal players from the production (the Canadian pro· Canadian private sector." That ducer would be free to draw The American response to Plus many documentaries and commercials. those efforts, said Drabinsky, committee, to meet quarterly, on any source within Canada has amounted to "lip ser· would pre-empt any govern· to generate his finances) GINETTE D'AMICO vice ... but no Significant results" ment actions by seeking means would be distributed "in all C.P. 38, Nun's Island other than "increased frustra­ to "bring about a more hospita· media in Canada by a Cana· Verdun, QC tion and exasperation" from ble climate for the Canadian dian·owned distributor," with H3E 2J8 Canada's public and private members of the film industry." the American company retain· sectors. Pointing out the ap­ Such means, he said, could ing and exerCising world dis· proximately $1 billion r; venue include the U.S. majors estab· tribution rights. "What I am reo

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French-language TV 51.5 million two·hour TV pilot it's achieved, And, because it the action involved in the and a S 1 million investment in network Quatre Saisons going spy thriller, would be like most wasn't shot in a conventional shoots, art direction, set con­ the development of local pro­ on air this fall , Power could use productions were it not for manner, Pearson says it didn't struction, the extent of camera duction, a figure which the its television expertise to one important, innovative ad­ require what would have likely angles and movement re­ CRTC has already made a con· boost Tele-Metropole to a vantage - the use of Apple required 40 days of shooting. quired, the texture of lighting dition of TM's license, and leadership position, French Macintosh computers in the Instead. from Feb, 5-23, Spooks and, naturally, the amount of which, as TM president Roland cited both Bryce and Kent movie's storyboarding. What Films Inc. produced 95 mi­ time and effort involved, Guiguere admitted at the hear· royal commissions on Cana­ makes that approach by Spooks nutes of screentime, a By using the Apple com­ ing, the licensee had not lived dian newspaper ownership'S Films Incorporated unique is schedule he estimates would puters in the movie's up to. assessment that since its aquis­ not just in its departure from have been impossible without storyboarding Pearson, to­ Bureau, who insisted that, in ition of La Presse, Power had the norm of using paper panels the use of the Apple com­ gether with Damude, Tenen­ order to approve the license conducted itself as a "model in storyboarding, which is es­ puters, baum, and director Les Rose, transfer, the CRTC would have proprietor." sentially a visualization of the Those computers, used by were able to fine-tune the to be convinced the results Be'cause CRTC chairman script prior to production; it Pearson, producer Brian panels found in the production would be "tangible, evident, Bureau, in questioning inter­ also sets the film apart in terms Damude, associate producer guide books before shooting significant and unequivocal," venors against the Power bid, of the various economies it's Gary Tenenbaum, and graphic/ commenced, as well as being stated of Power's committ­ appeared very interested in achieved. storyboard artist Peter afforded the luxury of chang­ ments that he had "rarely what kinds of conditions On a quantifiable basis, for Hudecki among the crew prin­ ing the panels later on (or even heard committments as vague" should be imposed in approv­ example, executive producer cipals, enabled all of Covert adding panels within a panel to and that he had "the impres­ ing the transfer, CRTC obser­ Barry Pearson estimates Action's cast and crew to indicate the progression of sion that Power was only offer· vers estimate that the Commis­ Covert Action, which stars Art know precisely how the shooting to take). What so ena­ ing what Ttle-Metropole offers sion will render a decision in Hindle and involves the RCMP., movie's performances and bled them to obtain the pre­ us already." favour of Power Corp. KGB , and CIA, would likely technical aspects would look cise 'look' to the various im· Among interventions against have cost twice its budget for like well beforehand, The ef- the license transfer, which ranged from the Quebec - Teachers' Federation, the Na­ tional Federation of Consumer Associations, the Canadian In­ stitute for Adult Education, the National Communications Fed­ eration to the NDP, the princi­ pal position was that the level of media concentration in Quebec has already gone beyond its limits and, as a re­ sult, the CRTC should turn down Power's bid for TM's license, The Laval University Professors' Union asked the CRTC to respect its "ethical, cultural and social mission" by refusing to approve the trans­ fer. For the FPJQ, the only course open to the CRTC was to force Power to choose be­ tween owning newspapers or television stations, but not both. The Institute for Adult Edu­ cation argued that Power's takeover of TM would produce a "quasi-monopoly" of infor­ mation not only in Montreal but throughout the entire pro­ vince via TM affiliated stations and Power Corp.'s regional networks of dailies, An unofficial intervenor in the province-wide debate that has surrounded the Power Corp. bid was Quebec Com­ munications Minister Richard French, While the Quebec government has kept out ofthe debate, French told Le Devoir that. in his opinion, there were advantages to the CRTCs ap­ proval of the TM license trans­ fer to Power if the CRTC made it conditional i) that the inde­ pendence of the La Presse and Ttle-Metropole newsrooms be guaranteed; ii) that increased levels of Quebec television production be obtained through increased coproduc­ tion with Europe, as opposed to increased French dubbing of U.S. programming; and iii) that

40/Cinema Canada - April 1986 • c I N E M A G • -+ Damude accentuates his point offices for producers and back­ Canada in 1985, the bulk of it ages was the ability of the by confidently asserting Panavision studios up facilities. in Toronto and points west. "Our commercial producers Confident that within a year Apple computer, guided by "We're the most advanced MONTREAL Panavision can't function because of lack "[ can add to Montreal S 100 Hudecki's drawing hand, to technologiCally in Canada in Canada has purchased the of space; our feature film pro­ million worth of production," provide any conceivable func­ our use of the production Expo Theatre in Cite du Havre ducers can't function; and Hoppenheim said that the tion necessary. template." from the Quebec government, American business is passing money to be made was not in Besides being able to store As to the usc of the Apple and will convert the building us by," said Hoppenheim, not­ studios but in ancillary ser­ and call up images or pictures Macintosh computers in the into three sound stage,s that ing that $250 million in U.S. vices and ' in the 3.5 economic at will that he'd produced on first place, Pearson gives Rose Panavision president Mel Hop­ productions were shot in multiplier effect. the Apple's sketch pad, he the credit for "ranting and rav­ penheim says will be read for could 'clone' images, generate ing" to get them, who in turn business July 15. straight or curved lines, use returns a kudo to Hudecki for The Panavision studio is a various brush panels for shad­ helping to articulate and unify completely private sector inia­ ing subtleties, alter the tex­ his directorial vision of Covert tive ...: "It's all Mel Hop­ tures of images and lighting, Action. While he views the penheim," he told Cinema re-use backgrounds while ad­ computer storyboarding's be­ Canada, adding that after seven justing characters in the image, nefits as indeterminate, Rose years of fruitless talk about a alter the axis and angle on holds that its best applications new Montreal studio, the time which an image .(S presented, lie in action-adventure, mys­ had come for a private indi­ and even 'fly' the camera tery, TV action series, and film vidual to just go ahead with the around 180 degrees to show noir. venture. the reverse angle to the action Just how this latest hi-tech "Montreal needs this place. envisioned (to name a few). wrinkle is borne out will be It had to be done," said Hop­ If necessary, Hudecki ' even determined this fall, when penheim, though he would not 16mm and 35mm Steenbecks and 35mm Moviola had recourse to 'undo' and Covert Action is slated for say for how much he had 'fast-kill' buttons to save telecast on the CBC (which, purchased the theatre. KUPER PRODUCTIONS LIM ITED further time on corrections together with Telefilm, 179 CARLTON STREET Hoppenheim estimates the TORONTO. (416)961 -6609 during the storyboarding. His worked in association with theatre will require $5- $7 mil­ estimate was that on the Pearson and Rose on the film). lion to be converted into three storyboarding alone, what for­ Covert Action is also set for a sound stages, editing rooms, merly would have required six series in the U.S. weeks of work now took just half that time to perform. Producer Damude, com­ Governments menting on one particular as­ pect that was put to effective cant.fromp,36 use, said the opportunity to SYMPOSIUM 'fly' the Apple's camera view the price of the volume. Third, around permitted a mapping of we would hope that these two CANADIAN AND QUEBEC CINEMA: A CRITICAL DIALOGUE the various camera positions criteria would lead us to buy LE CINEMA AU QuEBEC ET AU CANADA: UN DIALOGUE CRITIQUE and the possible shots from Canadian texts." Moving to each one, an option that be­ film production, she men­ sides allowing sparse use of set tioned that Telefilm Canada materials eliminated as much expenditures were of great A first sympOSium organized jointly by unnecessary camera move­ concern to her and her consti· I'Association quebecoise des etudes cinematographiques (A.Q.E.C ) ment as possible. tuency. "About 90 % of Tele­ et Covert Action associate mm's backing goes to Ontario the Film Studies Association of Canada (F.S.A.C /A. CEC) producer Gary Tenenbaum, and Quebec. Of the 10 % meanwhile, put the Apple which is left for the 'regions', MAY 21 TO 24, 1986 Macintosh to work on a similar Alberta gets about 6 % so, economy-oriented template though we're doing rather bet­ UNIVERSITE LA VAi idea. As with the pre-planning ter than the other regions, I QUEBEC of the storyboarding and the feel obliged to fight for all of us ease of communication it gen­ to see that more money is erated among cast and crew spent across Canada." during the shooting, so too As for Bacon from Quebec, with his copy-righted F*A*S *T she emphasized that Quebec • CANADIAN CINEMA. THE CINEMA OF PIERRE PERRAULT or Film Accounting System already has its structures, laws • CANADIAN AVANT -GARDE. CONTEMPORARY QUEBEC CINEMA Template. Where the com­ and agencies in place. "We • WOMEN AND FILM .CURRENT RESEARCH IN QUEBEC puter storyboarding enhanced welcome the other provinces AND CANADA on-set morale, Tenenbaum'S and hope both they and the template lessened the likeli­ federal government will con­ hood of administrative mig­ ceive of legislation and struc­ raines, being capable of en­ tures which will be com­ compassing every concern plimentary with those already Mary Alemany-Galway, Kay Armatage, Fran<;ois Baby, Stephane-Albert ~ o ulais , from cost flows, crew lists and in place in Quebec." She made production schedules to call Evan W. Cameron, Louise Carriere, Michael Cartmell, Claude Chabot, Mano Falsetto, it clear that Quebec was not Seth Feldman, Andre Gaudreault, Richard Hancox, Peter Harcourt, Jean-Claude Jaubert, sheets (produced 15 days in entertaining many new initia­ Germain Lacasse, Jean-Daniel Lafond, Michel Larouche, Yves Lever: Brenda Longfellow, advance, with changes in cast tives to accomodate the fed­ Janine Marchessault, Michel Marie, Laurie McNiece, Peter Mo ~n s , Pierre Pageau, or scene times capable of eral government. Ban being instantly adjusted). In answer to a question from , Esther Pelletier, Denise Perusse, Yves Picard, Jun Shedden, Will Straw, Testa, Noted Tenenbaum, "The ripple the floor, Masse stated that the Denyse Therrien, Pierre Veronneau, Gene Waltz, Paul Warren, Joanne Yamaguchi , effect is everywhere. You're issue of free trade has not been Carol Zucker just taking up the slack all over raised once during the two-day + films premieres the place." conference, and refused to Damude, chiming in, is comment on the Prentice-Hall equally enthusiastic about a takeover by U.S. conglomerate system he bills as "really great" Gulf and Western, on which no and because of which he adds decision had yet been an­ For information on scheduling, programming, lodging facilities. etc., "the true, creative stuff is all nounced. Since the confer­ to we really need to be involved write the following address: ence, the Gulf and Western Colloque Cinema, Departement des litteratures, Universite Laval, in." While Tenenbaum views purchase of Prentice-Hall was even further room for im­ announced jointly by Masse Quebec. G 1K 7P4. provement in Spooks Films and Industry Minister Sinclair Inc.'s computer' application, Stevens on March 12.

April 1986 - Cinema Canada/41 c I N E M A G • • message" raison d'etre, he adds film fund. "Montebello was a shot in "If we can maintain the partici­ the arm, sort of like a freight pation of all these groups Canshow runs into LOsique's opposition train," says Ellis. With an eye we've got on board, it can on the Council's "one strong really do some good things." TORONTO - The newly­ 1987. necessary to foster the produc­ formed Film and Television Observing that much re­ tion and distribution of Cana­ Council of Canada, an umbrella mains to be seen, Ellis said dian films) and membership group incorporated in Canshow would be aiming for occurred at the Jan. 16-18 November, 1984, has tem­ almost 90 per cent of its fund­ Telefilm Canada conference on porarily put on hold its plans ing and promotional support the future of Canada's film in­ for a Canshow market of Cana­ from the film and television in­ dustry, held in Montebello, dian product that would have dustry, with the Council last Quebec. been held in Ottawa between year having created an indus­ A delegate to that confer­ this fall's Montreal World Film try standing committee to seek ence, Ellis introduced the idea Festival and Toronto's Festival a consensus on what precisely of a council to rope in every of Festivals. such a market would need. On private sector group that The TV-oriented market, Losique's determination to would examine and communi­ which would have seen have his own TV export mar­ cate on big issues (such as selected buyers flown in from ket, Ellis concludes "i think he free- trade negotiations) and abroad to view Canadian prod­ feels sufficiently threatened by then pointed out the already uct instead of the current prac­ Canshow and it's unfortunate." existing Film & Television tice whereby Canadians attend Where Ellis did express op­ Council. The response met the foreign markets to hype their timism, meanwhile, was in the Council's goal to generate a product, has temporarily con­ state ofthe Film and Television more diyerse membership and ceded to the plans of Montreal Council of Canada. From its to elect (this spring in Banff) Festival president Serge founding core of six groups in what Ellis calls "a more fully Losique for a Televidcom 1984 (the CFTA, the Directors' representative council." The Canada component of the In­ Guild, Canadian Film Editors' Council, encompassing six ternational Film Market (run Guild, Canadian Film Compos­ Quebec associations of film concurrently to the World ers, ACTRA, and the Associa­ and video producers, dis­ Film Festival). tion of Canadian Film tributors, and technicians, was Both markets are intended Craftspeople), the Council even able to overcome the old When you've got a film to promote, nothing helps to to serve as an export market now comprises some 20 'two solitudes' stumbling . spark interest more than genuine glossy photos from for Canadian TV products, al­ groups representing an aggre­ block. Galbraith. Although individual member though Stephen Ellis, Council gate membership of 500 Cana­ • Cinema Displays • Pre-Release Promotions dian companies and 35,000 in­ associations are not precluded president and chairman of • Press Releases Canshow as past-president of dividuals (figures gleaned from from making their own case on . the Canadian Film & Televis­ a Feb. 23 letter by the Council items of particular concern to Canada Wide Service ion Association (one of the to Communications Minister them, Ellis is impressed with Low in price and easy to order. Genuine glossy photos Council's founding bodies and Marcel Masse in support of the the Council's ability for unani­ can b~ produced in any quantity from your print, co-ordinator of the export in­ film task force report). mity on such issues as the film negative or transparency. itiative), says his-intention was Ellis, who described 1985 as task force. In a March 4 letter Ask for your FREE price list and Customized to define Canshow as a non­ a "dormant" year for the Coun­ to Masse, the Council has gone Promotion Kit today! cil, says the spark to its pur­ further to volunteer to liaise competitive, export-only mar­ GALBRAITH REPRODUCTIONS pose (basically, the enduring with Telefilm Canada on how ket. Both by its Ottawa loca­ 420 Bathurst St., Toronto, Ont. M5T 2S6 commitment/organization of to operate the recently-an­ tion and its timing between the (416) 923-1106 two festivals, Canshow was public and private resources nounced S33-million feature also meant to be a distinct en­ tity that would, says Ellis, "goose up the festivals along the way." "We're not in this to make enemies of anyone, so we de­ cided to cool it," says Ellis, w ho notes that Losique was not amenable to the idea of moving Canshow to the inter­ 258 WALLACE AVE. -INC. national Film Market in Montreal. Two possibilities IF YOUR STUDIO CAN ' T HANDLE IT••• OUR'S CAN seen by Ellis in this conflict of timing and intent would con­ WE OFFER YOU sist of the Council still en­ 5 6.000 sq ft IDEALLY SUITED FOR . deavouring to crank up prom­ INC LUDES 3 SOUND PROOF STUDI OS FOOD SHOTS otion for a Canshow should o LI GHTING & GRI P EOUIPMENT KITCHEN FACILITIES Losique's Televidcom Canada o o FIL M LOAD D FAS HION SHOTS attract insufficient response SET DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION SHOP MAKE UP & (which, with its efforts "stale­ D D SCENIC PAI NTING & DESIGN SHOP DRE SSING ROOMS mated," Ellis describes as a DCAR SHOTS "longshot") or simply recog­ o EXCELLENT RATES o GRIDS 15ft.-23 6 INDOOR TRUCK & nizing the success of Losique's GROUND LEVEL market, throw in the towel, o HARD WA LL CYCS WA LK IN VAU LT LOADING and carry its plans over into o Looking at sex roles OTTAWA - The Canadian Radio-television and Telecom­ munications Commission (CRTC) has called for public hearings in Vancouver, PHOTOGRAPHY,FILM AND VIDEO FACILITIES Montreal and Ottawa/Hull for April 6, 20, and 27 respectively 258 Wallace Ave. (416) 537- 3471 to examine sex-role stereotyp­ ing in the Canadian broadcast Toronto, Ont. 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42/Cinema Canada - April 1986 • CINEMAG • Private broadcasters won't fill shoes of CBe if public corp. axed Bruce Rogers, a free-lance TORONTO - It's not perfect know couldn't provide Cana­ ton-Fripp remarked "We al­ essential, and one useful im­ broadcaster with 30 years' ex­ and it could use some surgical dian content - they wouldn't ways hear about the CBC's ex­ provement lies in management fine-tuning, but the general have their hearts in it and also cesses, but there's no informa­ being more publicly accounta­ perience at the CBC and cur- consensus at the third session would not do as good a job on tion on such at CTV or Global." ble. in Vanier College's 1986 En­ it." Producing statistics that , - counter Canada symposium Carole Burton-Fripp, pro­ showed the CBC produces al­ -?o. a was that, yes, Canadians really jects officer with TVOntario, most 1.5 hours of program­ " ~~ ~ , ", ~~ ' ~/ need the CBC and no, private prefixed her answer on ming per employee and which " ..... ~-?~ enterprise cannot by itself pro­ whether private networks allege the CBC spends $200- vide television and a protec­ could provide television and a 600,000 per hour on produc­ ~~ , ... tion of our national identity. Canadian-content solution by tions compared to $ 1 million ... pointing out that the American tHE The gathering, held March 12 by the privates, she claimed at York University, posed the cultural invasion couldn't be "We can't rely on the privates question "Can Private Enter­ ignored. Citing a 24:1 ratio in to provide Canadian program­ prise Provide Television and Canada of American to Cana­ ming and in a cost-effective SUCCESSORS Protect Our National Identity? dian programming and, as well, way." ...tell us who they are Do We Really Need the CBC?" finding it curiously significant Her view, if Canadians be­ to a panel of officials from the that Canada has 'Canadian' as lieve they are what they watch, CBC, CTV, and TVOntario net­ opposed to 'foreign-content' is that the CBC is needed and quotas, she said her short an­ that there is much that's right CrJJU.Uiian Bunness IS looking fo r ('..anada '., They can work 10 giant corporations or tiny works and the academic scene. emerging business leaders, and we want you srorefrom offices. They can be entrepreneurs, Responding first to the swer is no. with it, principal reasons in­ lO help us find them. plon('er ~, mnovaWr5or reformers "The private networks are Not the big names everyone knows, Or {hey can be ordinary Canadians domg query was Jack Craine, CBC's cluding its programming con­ but the new generanon of men and women extraordmary things in a business environment. Director of TV Programming. not economically or politically tent not being totally subject who have earned enormous respect wn hout We' Us ubmit your nommation 10 a panel or independent because they are enormous fanfare. business leaders who Will help us make the While he said his final answer to commercial rules alone, In the August Iss ue of CanuJ,un Hunncss, fioaJ select ion. was yes, he said the topic dependent on commercial re­ After Citing figures that we'U publish proftles of the best of your best. So send us you r best. centred on the corporation's venue" said Burton-Fripp, who showed the CBC's per hour of English-TV Network. That en­ noted a lack of profit in the programming costs to com­ tity isn't hard to justify, said market necessary to produce pare favorably with other PI.. ,. HI in this form .nd ...~ it 10 us by A!lri 21 Canadian programming with­ Craine, convinced , that its na­ foreign public networks and Whit has this penon done tD urn J'OUf nominItion?, tional range of services are out some government involve­ recalling the Mackenzie Re­ , ( "(t~U /l r.IC"U ~ralt fNt' If~ttkdJ what makes it special in Cana­ ment. After taking the privates port's conclusion that private ,,"OMINU·S t.:AM£ ' GE dian broadcasting and that to task for "small bursts of networks neither could nor TITLE OR POSIT1 0t.: Canadian content" prior . to such a range wouldn't be pro­ would match the CBC on its 1.lIMI'AK\ vided by private, free-enter­ their CRTC licence renewals, services, Burton-Fripp's last ADDRESS prise networks. Craine, declar­ she went on to state the view salvo was directed at the pub­ C,TV rllOY IKCE t.om: ing the CBC's news and cur­ that Canadians prefer Amer­ lic's perception of the crown rent affairs as likely North ican programming has no fac­ corporation. TElEl'HO t.:E America's best, doubted pri­ tual basis and that, given a Observing "a serious per­ MY NAME vate networks would be able good domestic production, are ception of senior mismanage­ to match the CBC's two hours more than ready to tune in (as ment (a lack of response to ADDR.£SS daily of children's program­ evident in the five-million-plus which is seen as proof), she CITY rRuY I :-:t · ~ '\llll viewers of Anne of Green Ga­ added that the lush look of TEtE.PH ONE ming or that, being unsub­ ~- - aI sidized, they could afford such bles_) The Journal belies the hand­ luxuries as foreign bureaus and "Not so" was her response, icaps the CBC's working with Canadian specialist reporters. too, to private sector claims of and of which few are aware. being leaner, more efficient, Her conclusion was that 'The BU$iness Despite wishing that CTV Please mail [Q "The Successors;' Canadian BU Siness, 70 The Esplanade, Toronto, Ontario MSE I R2 could compete nationwide cheaper, Viewing that as an at­ eBC doesn't need to be de­ with the CBC on services, titudinal double-standard, Bur- stroyed to be saved," that it is Craine added that in limited audience cultural program­ 'T.oro ...... to EFP- "A renowned worl,~- ,~Iass approach to ming such as arts, it's unlikely .' I -I on-location Video , '. :f'i>,',

networks operating on a profit · ~N· :". "," • • ".~' ,-' ' •.~' \ .;~~::;;.~:~::~ Y''V' motive could match the CBC's , . _ EqUipment Rentals - Production ,Crews . ~.' , .. coverage, a condition he said would apply to the coverage of ,ae~;::e~?y-~;;Cunent Toronto EfP i~ Canada's best eqUipped fiekj. "Tor 'onlo:~ correCl post production address " "" amateur sports (again done by production faCIlity We've custom deSigned ," /'., CBC). Drama, or what Craine our VIdeo p:a<;kages to yield maximum fle ><-abili ty' and {', described "the way a country . (onslsta(lt optimum performance. " "., Introducing a new approach to B'nacam lnterformat expresses its soul," was in­ editing !n tll.e heart o(T oronto, ENG/EFP camera systems Include ' " '.. ., ~':. <- creased five years ago by the . .-I. Plumbicon & Saticon Betac:ams with matte ' . . . One-twenty Pa rli a m~nt IS a lu-l~uno us post-production CBC in a bid to counter U.S. boxes. wide angle lenses, and CC:ll's. ,:. concept th,at encourage~ "C08versatlonal editing" - BVW· 20 and BVW-2S Betacam VTR's ,,: imports by both it and - Hitachi Computacams on I". 3 (4 '-; , ~ . 1:F .. " Designed qy editors who know what clients e)(pect. CTV (for reasons of produc­ Betacam formats 'iff'Y .' ". One,twenty Parliament features: tion costs), a field in which he '.' ..- Sony BVW- I 0, ..1: 5 '& 40 series Betacam. said the network now has Multi-camera Produ$:tion : BVU -820 3/4" and BVH-2000 I" VTR's _ .. PROMO ... ·Tpron\P EFP's unique land based 23 ' - NE=C System to DVE twice as much drama as com­ mobile v;elu"tie dt.at:s completely air-shippable - Convergence lOS edIt control pared to just three years ago. - Total g l o!j~~acc.ess with pre-wired flight case - Grass Valley model I 00 sWltche~ Still, despite Telefilm's role components ," " - Chyron graphiCS - Fu ll 'prop!i!c.~iO'n c6nir~I ' 6f up to 8' cameras -Sio-motion & fre&ie frame dIrectly from al l tape in boosting that supply of . :'" ', .... :;.:.: " ~ -0:' " t- formats drama, Craine said the CBC '. ' Whetl\ ~r itS equipmeht remals. . o r full production "- Nagra T interlocking A TR & dIgital audio "can't do it alone" and com­ . ,," crews, tr~si. t DrortiO''EF'P to ..de li ver. video excellence I AU this tecbnology is complimented by award WInning mended me CTV network for '1 i ••:,~ . ~1:~~L ~.~,~-~:~ / ~ditors 'Who always capture the program concept and let its production of such series as . creatiVIty thnve , The CampbeUs. Both the ' : Y ,t . . , OQe:tWenty Parliament reflects Toronto EFP 's \"\..\ ". CBC and private networks, ',' commlttment I.e> offer a premium faCility priced so you however, must search out Toronto.,:fFP, :· '" are' nOt faced WIth the task of creatrve budgeting. more co-productions, said 36 Lisburn Cr" Craine, His conclusion was Toronto. Ontario. ~Edi(i ng as it should be . Canada ." " "the CBe must provide the M2J 2ZS role of ensuring Canadian con­ tent," adding "My guess is that (416) 494·1 695 120 Parliament. :roron~ ~ : ' O ntario. Canada. MSA 2'1'8' (416) 863-1322 bottomline private enterprise I April 1986 - Cinema Canada/43 • c I N E M A G • wants it to do." ness in the private sector is not decisions he said are predi­ limited audience cultural prog­ Another panelist who also held up across the board" and cated on a mass-market basis. ramming in today's "tremend­ rent host of TVOntario's regarded the subject as "criti­ that there is a role in Canadian While his opinions were that ously fragmented broadcasting Money$worth, responded cally important" was David broadcasting for the CBC. the CBC is "probably critically environment." "partly" on the need for public Basskin of CTV's Legal Affairs & "It's accurate to say it does under-funded in certain re­ In a Canada overrun by network. His concern was that License Programming. Joking what others can't do and that it spects" and that he couldn't American programming, although the CBC has changed that he's one of the few Cana­ is an operation that's found its detect a lot of waste in the Basskin said questions of con­ along with broadcasting dians never to have worked at constituency," said Basskin. His crown corporation, private tent matter little. He did, technology, television has now the CBC and that "CTV does view was, however, of the CBC networks, despite being what though, take exception to the become a very international overbuy on paperclips," serving a complementary role he described as competitive idea that private networks pro- phenomenon, one in which Basskin conceded that "Lean- to the private networks, whose friends of the CBC, won't run "American cultural im­ perialism is a fact of life for - Canada" and from which the CBC "has defended us against." Despite being "Significantly compromised" by its regula­ tions and recent federal budget cuts, Rogers said the CBC has maintained its political audi­ ence, adding "It's unlikely the other networks wouldn't be setting their currcnt standards were it not for the CBC.·' Be­ fore dealing with the topic of privatizing the CBC or making it leaner, Rogers offered the view that as TV changed so did the corporation's management (and then for the larger). "My thesis is it became the essential bureaucracy" said Ro­ gers, who wondered whether criticism about the size of the - CBC wasn't "paranoia" about its technical staff and their loy­ alty. Having witnessed little waste in his time there, and its .J?rograms efficient and Jean, he made three recommendations: separating CBC management from its line staff; maintaining CBC-Radio, French-TV and Radio, and English-TV news and current affairs; and return to a "rump crown corporation" to direct funds toward private production. John Saywel\, a York Univer­ sity history professor who has been through the CBC, CTV, Global, and TVO networks, wasn't persuaded that the CBC wasn't expendable. Indeed, he doubted that CBC provided a Canadian view of the world "exceptionally well," as well as taking it to task for a lack of analysis of foreign news and for "attempting to be a private net­ work offering the same doses as the others." Saying Canadians would only get what they want from the CBC when they get "an in­ depth Canadian viewpoint," his suggestion was that the CBC (which, he observed, derives revenue as does CTV from American programming) "should focus its talent and re­ MOTION PICTU~,E GUARANTO'RS LTD. sources on that which no on~ else will provide, versus pro­ viding another Canada A.M.\' .. CINE:GARANTIE L TEE Those programs should the.q be re-run, he said, to reach the\ Bob Vince maximum audience - an ap- \ proach he considers would ! both save money and increase the CBC's efficiency. Coo­ VancOuver ; 'Montreal : '-~~ . , eluded Saywell, "I agree we ~~04} 224-0525 Eva Blurstfom need the CBC, but not its (03) 51008,. ' (514) 481-8233' > > " egomania. The CBC needs al­ most revolutionary changes to :;: GUARANTORS FOR INTEIt~ATI ONAL PRODrCTIO\S 1\: be a public network that pro­ Italy - France - Ireland - New Zealand - Spain - Fiji Islands - Australia - ,\rgentina - Africa vides the things the public

44/Cinema Canada - April 1986 c I N E M A G .....• minute video-tapes on •24 we're the exact equivalent of well as the CBC, he said "The Hi- tech art from video monitors from six hours of duce "schlock", summoning up American private broadcast­ challenge for ~ private broad­ footage shot at the shops such series on ClV as Peter ers" said Basskin, who also casting is to continue to pro­ where locomotives are over­ Ustinov's Russia and The found little difference in vide different programming for artists at museum hauled. As well archival foot­ Last Frontier and remarking coverage style and content be­ Canadians." Proclaiming that age of the workshop built early "We are doing our bit and tween CBC and ClV because ClV lauds the extent to which OTTA W A Doing The in the century shows the build­ we're not doing it reluctantly." of the interchange of person­ CBC promotes its program­ Locomotion, a video installa­ ing of steam locomotives and Also refuted by Basskin were nel between them. Keen on ming and that ClV would be tion by Rick Raxlen and Patrick passenger cars. charges that private networks the idea of repeat channels as a happy to compete on that basis Vallely of PllR Richard Produc­ The installation, jointly have to deal with political in­ means of enhancing exposure were it not for "lacking the tions, offers an impressionistic, sponsored by the Museum and terference by virtue of their for Canadian programming and lUXUry of that amount of prom­ multi-monitored view of the Canada Council, was commercial dependence or on the idea of a CBC- 2, Basskin otional time," Basskin's conclu­ Montreal's c.P. Angus locomo­ funded as an artist-in-resi­ that, in the area of news cover­ touched on the increasing sion returned to the view of tive works, past and present. dence program to involve art­ age, Canada's private networks programming control indi­ the CBC and ClV as com­ Held at the National ists in cultural areas shared by are indistinguishable from vidual viewers were acquiring plementary networks - al­ Museum of Science and art, science and technology. their southern counterparts. as a result of the video-cassette though, because of its mass­ Technology until March 14, A 10-minute version of the "Just because we're private revolution. market emphasis, he main­ the Aniputer image-processed tapes will be available for broadcasters doesn't mean Given that competition as tained more Canadians are tapes were edited to four 20- wider distribution as of May. consistently drawn to ClV. FILM VIDEO FILM Profits up again THOMAS LEGRADY ' 7~ If _:~ for Cineplex Corp. Is Proud To Have Composed The Music TORONTO - A tripling of prof­ For it over 1984 is what year-end financial results for 1985 re­ vealed for the Cineplex Odeon Corporation. CHARLIE GRANT'S WAR (CBC) Financial results released FRONTRUNNERS: "OLIVER" (TVOntario) ....• •• _ '., _ .... tlLJIII Jlf$." i March 7 show that for the 52 And Is Ready For New Assignments theatre film opera dance weeks ended Dec. 26, 1985, Cineplex Odeon recorded a _·r: I )¥i1 rj\ >\ :;.:.) :tw net income before extraordi­ specialist booksellers since 1975 nary items of 512,504,000 58 Van Horne Avenue 25 bloor st. w. toronto , canada Cdn. on revenues of Willowdale, Onto m4w la3 (416) 922-7175 5170,852,000. One year ear­ M2) 2S9 PHONE/MAIL ORDERS/MASTERCARDNISA lier, for the 52 weeks ended (416) 494-9306 Dec. 27, ' 1984, the corpora­ VIDEO FILM VIDEO tion's net' income before ex­ traordinary items was, by com­ parison, 54,587,000 on re­ venues of 587,006,000 . Adding an extraordinary item, namely a gain derived from the utilisation of prior years' income tax losses, shows • • • • • • Cineplex Odeon recording a net income for 1985 of YOU SHOULD 514,260,000 and for 1984 of Film Arts $11,972,000 (a figure boosted by a relatively substantial ex­ PUT US IN YOUR traordinary item for 1984 of 57,385,000). While Cineplex Odeon wit­ NEXT PICTURE nessed both a doubling of re­ venue from exhibition and dis­ tribution in 1985 over 1984 You have highly specialized insurance (5161,851,000 versus 16/35 post-production needs and we have the know-how to 583,392,000) and of expenses creatively adapt insurance for the media, from theatre operations and Television and feature communications and entertainment other expenses (5138,465,000 production industries" . versus 569,802,000), it should be noted that 1985 was the We will prepare realistic estimates for your period in which Cineplex budgets and work to get you the best rates Odeon made its acquisition of and coverage available, the American Plitt Theatre Cir­ Phone or write Arthur Winkler and ask cuit, a move realized last Nov. 461 Church Street him to produce an insurance package 22 and which elevated Cinep­ specially designed for your protection. lex Odeon to the status of Toronto - Canada North America's largest theatre circuit operator in terms of Arthur Winkler, CLU number of locations. The re­ M4Y 2C5 Arthur Winkler Insurance Broker Ltd. sults of that acquisition, how­ A Division of the ever, won't be consolidated by Cineplex Odeon until later this spring. Royal Bank Plaza. South Tower Telephone : 416-962-0181 HULL 28th Floor. P.O. Box 126 Looked at on the basis of . INSURANCE Toronto. Ontario M5J 2J3 GROUP OF earnings per basic share, earn­ fRj (416) 865-0131 ings per share before extraor­ COMPANIES Telex-06-23901 dinary items in 1985 and 1984 were respectively $0.77 and $0.31 and after extraordinary items, SO.89 and SO.76 respec­ tively.

• • • • • • April 1986 - Cinema Canada/45 c I N E M A G • policies. For example Canadian culture identity, entertain­ exceed cultural fears, which• y control would take priority ment, social interaction, media will create an environment L E G A L E E over the privatization of or an institution? Surely the which encourages Canadian by Michael Bergman Crown Corporations, book American free trade nego­ access to American rom mer­ • • publishing ownership policy tiators will insist that Amer­ cial cultural vehicles and have 'would be retroactive and sup- icans are not interested in no detrimental effect on non­ ercede the desire for foreign compromising anybody's commercial culture. These are investment, cultural sovereignty, identity, sociol­ legitimate answers to concerns Free trade flip- flop sovereignty would have been ogy or whatever. The Amer­ for cultural sovereignty. How insisted on from the stan and icans understand the talks as much different might their an­ Events of recent months find the lack of even the ap­ not as a reaction to public pro­ economics and trade. Cultural swers be if Canadian nego­ should make members of the pearance of firm commitment test. issues are relevant only in an tiators could say that programs Canadian Cultural Community to cultural protection alarm­ The very phrase "cultural economic sense. One of the which support and assist com­ change their names to Thomas, ing. The writer, though, does sovereignty" is unusually pli­ roles of their negotiators will mercial cultural industries doubting the Government's not ascribe the administra­ able and flexible. It has no pre­ be to persuade us that free and through government interven­ will or ability to protect Cana­ tion's meanderings to confu­ cise meaning; it is subject to unimpeded cross border com­ tion control, funding and regu- dian cultural sovereignty in the sion. Rather a detlnite pattern different interpretations. Is petition has advantages which Canada- U.S. Free Trade talks. is emerging which suggests - Since the Fall of 1985 the that the fencing off of certain Canadian Government has said matters such as cultural that: cultural issues were top­ sovereignty from the Free ics of Free Trade negotiation, Trade talks is a form of Canadian cultural sovereignty negotiating tactic and not a TWO was not subject to negotiation, long term goal. IMPORTANT EVENTS Will HAPpeN foreign interests could not ac­ The distinction between quire Canadian book pub­ goals and the tactics to achieve IN CANADA.THIS YEAR ON lishers, a U.S. corporation them is essential, tactics are could acquire a Canadian pub­ subject to change and com­ MAY 2ND lishing house, key sectors of promise, goals are not. Negoti­ the economy should be in ations are a means to an end. Canadian hands, a Crown Cor­ When the end changes, the FIRST poration (de Havilland) is sold means lose direction. We can THE OFFIClAl OPENING OF to foreign interests. Several know that cultural sovereignty , EXPO '86 IN VANCOUVER. meanings may be placed on is only a Free Trade tactic by this series of events. The flip­ examining the participating . SECOND ' flop may be a sign of the ab­ governments reaction to it. THE MASTER'S WORKSHOP CORPORATION sence ()f policy, or a knee-jerk If the sanctity of Canadian . , ' . . Will OPEN 1TS DOORS ,~ response to pressure groups or control in areas like culture , to:.Ptesent Our New. 4& Traek Sony DIGITAl,. theotrical.Mixlng unresolved political conflict in was a priority then this policy , Facntty feot~ring The largest ConsOle in Canada the Government. Members of would surpress or take priority J, . c· Md . the cultural community should over other Government To celebrate the , ~sf year yet in o~r corporate hlstory.

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46/Cinema Canada - April 1986 c I N E M A G -+• • lation arc not subject to com- selves through our own film ing the same language. There is slashed. The Prime Minister less of Mr Masse's personal sin­ promise or negotiation. industry. He explains that a striking difference between has declared an era of Canada - cerity the Government's credi­ For all the Canadian Govern­ dominance of American films Mr. Valenti's and Mr. Masse's U.S. trade cooperation. Regard- -+ ment's talk of cultural in Canada has caused at least point of view. The former says sovereignty, the American em­ 90% of film revenue to flow the American film industry bassy still insists that cultural out of the country causing cannot compete unless trade matters arc subject to negotia­ domestic film financing prob­ barriers (external) are re­ tion. The tables were even lems. American dominance of duced, the latter says the Cana­ turned around when the Amer­ distribution reduces or forec­ dian film industry cannot com­ ican Secretary of State told our loses screen time. He ac­ pete unless trade barriers (in­ Minister of External Affairs knowledges that something ternal) are imposed. Free trade that Canadian book publishers must be done although he is about reducing trade bar­ arc taking over American firms. suggests no specific remedy. riers. In this context Mr Perhaps a typical and en­ Although Mr. Masse speaks Masse's position does not ap­ lightening American attitude of business opportunities, his pear to be in sync with the • First editions, out of print & rare books primary concern is the fulfil­ general direction of the trade to free trade is expressed by • Current releases Mr. Jack Valenti, President of ment of cultural objectives talks. the Motion Picture Association through the growth of a Cana­ Neither does Mr. Masse's • Specializing in the Golden Age of of America in his piece printed dian feature film industry. He views appear to concur with Broadway & Hollywood in the L.A Times and reprinted gives the clear impreSSion that those of other members of the • Mail orders - credit cards although it has economic ef­ recently in the MQntreal government of which he is a • Free 1/2 hr. parking at Municipal lot Gazette. Mr. Valenti contends fects the Canadian film indus­ part. The general thrust of the that the American film industry try operates for extra eco­ Government has been to dere­ • Open Monday-Saturday 11-6 is being unfairly restricted by nomic objectives. gulation, privatization and barriers erected against it in To the extent that Messrs. non-intervention. The Foreign 17 YORKVILLE AVENUE V~lenti and Masse are repre­ Investment Review Agency's other countries. He cannot sec 2ND FLOOR • BETWEEN YONGE & BAY. 926-8992 why the American film indus­ sentative of their countries' (now Investment Canada) try should be blamed because position on film and trade it is powers have been reduced. everyone prefers its product. evident that they arc not talk- Shoe import quotas have been Neither 'can he see how re­ stricting American films will cause other domestic film in­ dustries to exist. He notes with pride the American film indus­ try grew by self initiative in a •• free market. It seeks only fair and open competition in all markets as foreign films seek in • the American one. His analysis of American films' foreign problems ac­ knowledges only the American context. It presumes that fea­ ture film is purely a commer­ cial affair and serves no other purpose than profit through entertainment. It also ignores an important element of the reason for American films' in­ ternational success, direct or indirect control of distribution and film fi!1ancing. Of greater implication though is the no­ tion that if unimpeded the American film industry will re­ main dominant and grow worldwide. The American film industry is ready to face foreign competition because it does not believe that foreig­ ners can make any Significant • THE COMPLETION GUARANTORS LES GARANTS D'ACHEVEMENT inroads by pure competition either in the U.S. or their own for features, pour series de televiSion, domestic market. It is for this television series, longs metrages reason the trade restrictions on American feature films are and international co-productions et co-productions internationales conSidered so abhorrent; they are the only effective remedy against the dominance of American film. In Canada con­ tent guidelines, government funding and forced Canadiani­ zation form such trade restric­ tions. Michael Spencer, President An equally enlightening arti­ cle is Marcel Masse's response 1001, de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Suite 910 to Mr Valenti's views which Montreal, Quebec H3A 3C8 subsequently also appeared in the Montreal Gazette. Mr. Telephone: (514) 288-6763 Masse's piece shows the gap Telex: 055-62276 between the American and Canadian thinking on the film industry. Mr. Masse talks of cultural priorities, of the need for Canadians to see them-

April 1986 - Cinema Canada/47 • c I N E M A G resigned - if the Mother country had • A rather frank feature on Free Trade, the elimination Michael N. Bergman, Canada in the respected British of barriers to competition be­ to . join the European Economic barrister and SOlicitor, is a bility on protecting cultural Community, little Canada should publication, The Economist tween Canada and the U.S. will sovereignty must be rated as link up with the U.S. I may be tone member o/the Bars o/Quebec, not only concedes this point mean the end of an aggressive low. deaf but I don't care for any of their Ontario & Alberta with Offices but suggests that Canadians Canadian cultural policy espe­ Furthermore, it is difficult to music. in Montreal & Toronto. have no other reasonable cially in commercial culture. imagine a Government dedi­ choice but to see their Canada's future can be just as, cated to free trade foregoing sovereignty disminished in re­ if not more, assured without an agreement which it claims turn for the benefits of open Free Trade; we don't have to will open a multi-billion dollar competition with the U.S. In be timid. The destiny of Free market for Canada just to pro­ this feature with the disparag­ Trade need not be our fate. tect the Canadian film indus­ ing title, "Timid Canada", we The Canadian cultural commu­ try. Insisting on cultural URGENT are advised that Canadian ef­ nity must of necessity oppose sovereignty makes an excel­ forts to restrict foreign films Free Trade - O).lr existence is lent tactic. It pacifies public and 1V will fail in the face of at stake. opinion while being flexible public demand for U.S. mater­ enough to permit the giving of ial and limited government re­ ground on commercial cul­ sources." .. .the country's cul­ To All tural issues. Only the force of tural policy, like its trade, is public opinion could prevent a drifting... towards more im­ Footnote: Government otherwise hell­ It is interesting to note the tone of ports... " The Economist feature bent on free trade from com­ the various articles referred to in my suggests that we must not only essay. Mr. Valenti's is aggressive - the Members promising the interests of the accept a compromise on cul­ American way is the best. Mr Canadian film industry in the tural policy to gain the benefits Masse's is apologetic - Americans talks. of Free Trade but that Free should thank their lucky stars to Unfortunately the Industry Trade is the only hope for have neighbors like us. Macleans' is has been a poor advocate of its of PAND Canada to find its place in a grateful - Americans are making us Holly· own cause and suffers from a wood North. The Economist is competitive world. public relations problem. This At the general meeting Monday February 17, is typified by the recent feature 1986, members of Performing Artists for Nucle­ article in Macleans magazine. ar Disarmament (PAND) unanimously resolved The article tells us there is a SCREEN WRITER'S WORKSHOP boom of American production that the following statement be released: Conducted by Syd Field in Canada occupying all our The ABC-TV mini-series "Amerika" currently crews. At the same time the na­ Author of "ScreenPlay" & "The Screenwriter's being cast in Toronto and filming here starting tive film industry is in disarray, Workbook" decline and possible diSinteg­ May 20, deals with the after-math of a takeover "The most sought after screenwriting teacher in the of the United States by the Soviet Union. ration. Although the article is world" about the industry, at least PAND expresses its strong concern that the one-half is devoted to Margot - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Kidder as the girl who goes to production may be detrimental to the cause of • focuses & defines dramatic structure the big city (Hollywood), world peace and disarmament in this, the Inter­ • demonstrates how to create better characters national Year of Peace. makes good and comes home • Read & Discuss 1st 10 pages of an award-winning (sometimes). screenplay Many readers of the Mac­ • Discussion & written exercises to sharpen screenwriting leans article will draw the con­ skills clusion that Americans are Performing Artists For anxious to make films in April 19 & 20 - 9:30 to 4:30 Canada; we are part of the Ho­ Ramada Inn - Downtown Toronto Nuclear Disarmament llywood scene. On the other hand native film producers are Information: International Literary Services (416) 533-3859 a nuisance whose inconsistent 469-7444 record is more often than not poor and a burden to the tax­ payer. In this perspective why would anyone allow the in­ terests of the Canadian film in­ dustry to impede Free Trade? It is high time the industry took up its own cause, creating THE EDWARD G. AGENCY LTD. a positive impression of itself and garnering broad public support. This will be the cor­ nerstone of the industry's de­ fense to the encroachment on Is 11gyjng Up its protection and growth by Free Trade (not to mention the other benefits of public aware­ ness). This support will make it 1st April. 1986 hard for the Government to compromise the industry in the talks. The need for a lobby cam­ 730 Yonge Street, paign is immediate. It must be effective before the talks Suite 228. develop their own momentum and the disadvantages become submerged although just as real. Cultural sovereignty is Toronto, Ontario, only a tactic, it should be a I goal. It never will be a goal b.e­ M4Y 2B7. cause the idea of commerCial stability and growth for Cana­ (416) 960 -8683 dians through Government in­ tervention defeats the entire purpose of Free Trade.

4$'/r.inema Canada - Aoril1986 • c I N E M A G • International jury awards$200,OOO to best Quebec directors MONTREAL - Andre Melan­ Generale du Cinema du place in Montreal's Four Sea· chairman Jean Chabot, as well and Jean Roy. ~on, Fran~ois Bouvier and Jean Quebec, worth $100,000 for sons Hotel, a gala evening at­ as Micheline Lanctot, Bernard Runners-up for the award in­ Beaudry were the big winners each mm. Jean Chabot, jury tended by a cross-section of Martinaud, Marcia Colielle, cluded Anne Trister directed March 12 when their films, La chairman, praised the overall Quebec film industry people, Jacques Matte, Helen Doyle cont.onp.51 Guerre des tuques and Jac­ quality of both films when he SGCQ officials and provincial ques & Novembre won the announced the winners. Liberals. Lise Bacon, Cultural new Prix de la Societe The award ceremony took Affairs minister and vice-pre­ mier of the Liberal govern­ ment, spoke eloquently of the vibrancy of Quebec cinema, adding "Quebec needs film­ CONCORDIA '"' ,..:' UNIVERSITY :-i.·',.:, ,'-·.-;J. makers such as you." ~ , -~ "This award is a sort of Faculty of Fine Arts 'Bonus for Quality"', com­ mented Marc Boudreau, com­ munications director for the The Film Production Programme of the SGCQ. "And we expect to have Department of Cinema is looking for the it as a recurring event every following equipment: year." The award of $100,000 does not take the form of a di­ • Bolex H16 cameras (spring wound. split-beam rect cash outlay, but is rather reflex viewing. turret. three prime lenses) applied to the director's next • tripods for above production and "seeks to put • Uher (ree l to reel. no sync sound) tape the emphasis on the work of recorders the director," said Boudreau. COMPLETE VIDEO • Shure unidirectional (cardiOid) microphones The awarded director has two • fUm rewinds (15" hinged shaft). some leader years in which to apply the POST PRODUCTION stanchions prize to the film of his or her • spacers choice. • spring clamps Exceptionally for this first • 16mm. Minette (P-16) horizontal viewers time bestowal, film criteria in­ • 16 mm. four gang synchronizers (some cluded the requirement that a magnetic attachments) · test print of the film was • amplifiers (squawk boxes) finished between June 1, 1984, • 16mm Italian tape splicers (picture and sound) 3/4" ed iti ng and December 31, 1985. All fu­ • 16mm. trim bins ture awards will be for films • 16mm. split reels Betacam to 1" We are interested in second-hand equipment. completed within the calendar but it must be in excellent condition. Please year. The second requirement contact: is that the film be a Quebec production as defined by the Assoc. Prof. Andre Herman SGCQ. (848-4658. 848-4666) Winners were selected by a Department of Cinema and Photography panel of seven jurors who (416) 367-9224 Concordia University viewed each film, some 16 en­ 113 BERKELEY ST. 1395 Dorchester Blvd. W. tries in all, over a six-day Room VA-Z59 TORONTO, ONTARIO Montreal. Quebec H3G ZMS period prior to the award cere­ M5A 2W8 mony. jury members included NUMBER ONE COMBO· TO-GOI

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A ...... :I '4noc. Cinema Con.,d., lAO • c I N E M A G bungles demonstrated a lack of • hour-long telecast (with craft homey, somet;imes hokey, and awards handed out pre-broad­ sophistication. On the other often heartwarming. SHOOT ALBERTA cast) was crisp technically, hand, that same absence of ex­ Genie Award-winning actor thanks to CBC producer John perience and veneer also Tom Peacocke (Hounds of by Linda Kupecek McQuaker and director Mau­ created some genUinely mov­ Notre Dame) in presenting rice Aubin, quick-quipping and ing moments, as Best Actress the awards for Best Actor and confident host Fred Keating winner, young Josephine Steb­ Actress, noted astutely that (star of Mail Bag) and the bings (for To Set Ou r Hou se 'without pros like Anne AMPlA Festival '86, the 12th Francis Damberger received a superb performance of cow­ in Order) stammered her Wheeler and newcomers like Annual Alberta Film and Tele­ special prize as a new produc­ punk chanteuse KD. Lang and thanks to her director ("I'd like David Winning, there would vision Awards held March 8 at er for On the Edge. her group, the Reclines. But la­ to thank Anne Wheeler ... She's be no best actor or best actress the Chateau Lacombe in Ed­ The awards evening itselt mentably tasteless humour great''') and as David Winning category", a sad reflection on monton, attracted 230 celeb­ was a teeter-totter of ups and harking back to the redneck sent his thanks to his mom and the opportunities for Alberta rants, an indication that the downs, from polished profes­ days of Alberta, amazing lapses dad, the heads of his "fan club", actors in local production. roughest part of the ride for sionalism to amateur antics. in judgment by some presen­ in Calgary. The result was an Winning and Wheeler again the industry here may be over, Aired live on Alberta CBC, the ters, and other bumbles and evening that was sometimes as associates and newcomers - Wined, dined and applauded the 1986 crop. Visiting juries frequently comment on the exceptional range of product churned out by Alberta ftImmakers, and the , 85 film and video entries this year illustrated that, with the two most frequent winners far apart both in experience and style. Anne Wheeler, with ex­ tensive credits and interna­ tional awards behind her, won for Best Dramatic Director, Best Dramatic Script, and Best Drama Under Thirty Minutes, all for To Set Our House in Order, an NFB Northwest Studio-Atlantis production (and delivered the most polished and professional speeches of 'the evening, Here are the products perhaps because she is a vete­ ran of such honours). David Winning, 24, saw his first shoestring feature, Storm, col­ that make it happen! lect favourable reviews earlier this season, and, on this even­ ing, the plum award of Best Production of the Festival, Best Drama over Thirty Minutes, Best Actor (David Palfy), Best • Lighting Filters • Painting Music Score (synthesizer whiz Amin Bhatia, now off to Los Angeles to do an album with Projections Dance Floors Toto) and Best Sound (Per • • Asplund, Bill CampbeJl and Amin Bhatia). A delightful quirk in the Screens Stage Platforms competition this year was the • • inclusion of the Best Amateur Film category, awarded to 19- year-old Tjardus Greidanus, Designer Materials Special Effects producer of The Fire Within, • • an outrageously ambitious 80 minute feature set in Renais­ sance Holland, and shot on 1/ 2 - • Fog and Smoke Computer Software inch video for five hundred • dollars on four months of weekends around Spirit River in northern Alberta. For further details contact Rosco or your local authorized Rosco dealer Jury members David Scorgie (chairman), Doug MacKay (cinematographer), Michael Dorland (Cinema Canada as­ sociate editor) and Robin Jackson (senior mm policy ad­ visor for the department of ~~l~ Communications - and inci­ dentally, one of the classier •••• folk to be found at film fests) •••• singled out several produc­ tions for Special Jury Awards. "" Nationally respected perfor­ mance artist Marcella Bien· venue received a special jury prize for innovation for her un­ usual production, The Heart Is a Lonely Monitor, and • c I N E M A G • Award was, ironically, spon­ ing in the footsteps of actress DGC, and ACTRA representa­ Sharon Pollock script. Douglas sored by the ACTRA branches Jan Miller, who spearheaded tives were much in evidence Riske played the title role, represented far ends of the of Alberta.) For reviews of the past symposiums and and voice, as well as the film flanked by Calgary actors Mar­ spectrum, the experienced and award-winning films see Best Dramalabs). Representing Sas­ associations. garet Bard, Brian Gromoff,jack respected Wheeler committed of the Fest, p.27. katchewan were Stephen Onda Ackroyd and Paul Jolicoeur. to the professional acting com­ Prior to the awards night, a of the Saskatchewan Motion • Gene Packwood produced and munity, and the praised begin­ series of meetings of western Picture Industry Association, directed Walsh, which was ner Winning working with film producers, associations and super-efficient Sheila Har­ ACCESS Alberta has wrapped a taped at CFCN's Studio III. non-union actors. (The Best and unions were informally ris from the Yorkton Short Film two week shoot of Walsh, an Peter Marshall was assistant di­ Drama Over Thirty Minutes chaired by Allan Stein (follow- and Video Festival. IATSE, hour-long adaptation of the rector and Kate Pierpoint headed costumes. Walsh examines the histori­ cal events which saw Sitting Bull lead his Sioux into Canada, and NWMP official Walsh struggle with his conscience while making a decision on ac­ tion. • Calgarian Tom Dent-Cox has returned from Montreal, where he produced Happy Birthday Hacker John, a half­ hour futuristic drama, origi­ nally under the Dramalab '85 umbrella, and now sold to At- • lantis for Bell Canada Playhouse. Rick Therrien wrote the script, directed by Michael Keusch, with Andy Thomson as executive produc­ er. ..Civii liberties groups are becoming involved in the legal battle over the injunction pre­ venting the CBC from showing Oakmount High in Alberta. One character, played by Tom Peacocke, is said to resemble former Eckville school teacher jim Keegstra, who was con­ victed last year for promoting hatred against an identifiable group, and is currently appeal­ ing that conviction. Civilliber­ ties groups argue that the in­ junction preventing broadcast is an attempt to muzzle the media .. .Mark your calendars for May 25 to 31, the dates for the wheeling and dealing, play­ ing and viewing, learning and gant e . .c settings to e \e listening, and fun and games of From futunstl ff the n to can 0 er - the Banff Television Festival. locales, Toro our scene. As wen right place for y have: as terrific locations, we . s e b production compaOl -super Quebec awards cash _ top-notch crews _ modern studiOs t_production prizes to best directors _ state-of-the-art pos cont.fromp. 49 facili ties orta tion services _ excellent transp mmodations · t-rate hotel accO I - fIrs d rova by Lea Pool, Bayo by Mort _ fast permit an app Ransen, Le crime d 'Ovide assistanCe . hoot in Plouffe by Denys Arcand, La , \annlng to s So, if yOU re P t 've us a cal\. dame en couleurs by Claude . hy nO gl . jutra, Elvis Gratton - Le our City, w 'll make a scene - \0 Together we King des kings by Pierre , o Falardeau et j uli en Poulin, La the right places. N o femme de l'ho tel also by Lea R Pool, Hey Babe by Rafal , o Zielinski, Le Matou by Jean Beaudin, Memo irs by Bachar TO flLM LIAISON Chbib, Ope ration beurre d e TORaN h City of Toronto pinottes by Michael Rubo, Naish. 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April 1986 - Cinema Canada/51 • c I N E M A G • Despite budget uncertainty, Juneau upbeat on CB C's prospects

TORONTO - CBC president Remarking "The CBC has lowing the November 1984 verely." Drawing the line on services to the public and, of Pierre Juneau, in a March 6 certainly done its share already cuts and commended CBC further belt-tightening, how­ course, further staff compres­ state of the corporation ad­ to reduce the government de­ management and staff for "re­ ever, Juneau pointed out "We sions." dress to Ryerson Poly technical ficit," Juneau pointed to the ducing expenditures to meet don't think we can handle Regarding some reductions Institute students on "The Fu­ elimination of 1,150 positions budgetary shortfalls without more reductions without a se­ as "inevitable," Juneau took ture of the CBC as a Creative in the 1985-86 fiscal year fol- affecting programming too se- vere effect on programs and Organization," described the CBC as "an adaptable organiza­ tion" and indicated that both it and its unions will have to exercise flexibility in the face of past federal budget cuts and current fiscal uncertainty. In the largely optimistic speech, Juneau said that de­ spite the proximity of the new fiscal year's arrival April 1, and in spite of attention being paid by Communications Minister Marcel Masse and the federal Treasury Board on the CBC's finances, "the situation is still not clear" and the public net­ work has no idea as to how its services will be affected in 1986-87 by financing prob­ lems. Those problems stem primarily from the $85 million budget cuts in operating and capital funds administered to the CBC by Ottawa in November, 1984. As well, de­ spite a recently-announced $22.7 million federal grant that will boost the CBC's 1986-87 budget to $869.5 million, Juneau is still anticipating a further shortfall of $60 million in the new fiscal year. The CBC president, speaking at a media conference afterward, won­ dered whether that grant (an­ nounced in Finance Minister Michael Wilson's Feb. 26 budget) was firm, thought it was, and then spoke of being "unsure whether to anticipate further cuts or further relief as a result of our negotiations with the government." Although he hadn't intended to discuss the corporation's fi­ nances in his address, that issue proved the central topic of his Ryerson appearance. In his speech, Juneau rejected as myth the idea of the CBC as unwieldly, top-heavy with management, staffed by inflexi­ ble unions, and being incapa­ ble of renewal. Highlighting the positive, he pointed to the public network's programming success over the past year in both French and English Canada; its increased sales re­ venues (from a gross revenue of $131 million in 1981-82 to a projected $217 million this year) and efforts at increasing marketing and sales promo­ tion; its growing relationship with the private production sector; and, of paramount note, its "drastic" reduction of cOStS with an eye to the least possi­ ble impairment to program­ mi!lg and services.

52/Cinema Canada - April 1986 • c I N E M A G • .-. but did mention the CBC is On that alternative Juneau, and progressing (the NABET to reach agreement with the aim at the CBC's unions and considering fine-tuning its re­ considering it "a national deci­ case is currently before a fed­ corporation. Describing them their resistance to the corpora­ lationships with its various de­ sion," said it would be unwise eral conciliator, with whom as yardsticks by which the tion's growing cooperation partments. Regional program­ in this period of uncertainty Juneau is optimistic a strike other units will take their with private sector producers ming falling within that exami­ "to make changes that could can be avoided)." Chambers, negotiating cues, Chamb'ers (a contracting-out of services nation, Juneau did not rule out not be repaired." noting that negotiations with said "Overall, it's fair to say that objected to by the bulk of the the possibility of dropping in­ On the state of CBC-union most units didn't really get un­ what happens with them is unions involved in the 29 sepa­ dividual programs as a prefer­ negotiations over those collec­ derway until last fall . critical in the process... We rate contract agreements the red cut to a drop in overall ser­ tive agreements, Richard Among the CBC unions, have to have agreements there CBC has). In one instance, vice. Besides an overall reduc­ Chambers, an assistant director Chambers said such larger in order to provide services without naming the particular tion in service, the only other in CBC's Corporate Communi­ units as NABET, CUPE Produc­ (since those four comprise ap­ union, Juneau used as an illust­ paring he enVisaged would be cations, told Cinema Canada tion, CUPE Office & Profes­ proximately half of the 10,000 ration the 'magic number' of a reduction of the CBC's 18 in February that meetings were sional, and Radio-Canada Syn­ employees up for contract re­ 2,103 positions held by the Na­ owned-and-operated stations. "continuing with most units dicated Technicians have still newal)." tional Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians in a job security contract negotiated in 1981 with the CBC. National Office In that contract, the CBC would be obliged to cease con­ Film Board national du film tracting-out to independents should the number of positions of Canada du Canada fall below that figure. Because such a contract would be in force without regard for gov­ ernment economic or fiscal policy and the CBC's budget, Juneau described this as "irres­ ponsible." And, since the invul­ --NIWS~- nerability of one bargaining GENIE WINNERS unit would entail dispropor­ tionate cuts on other units in NFB documentary and animation the face of budget cuts, Juneau films won top awards at the pronounced that approach as Academy of Canadian Cinema and "unfair, unrealistic, and unac­ Television 1986 GENIES ceremony ceptable." held at Toronto's Metro Convention While he would similarly de­ Center March 20. In the short scribe- a total contracting-out documentary category, the winner of the CBC's work, and despite was the 26-minute No More commending the corporation's Hiroshima, a moving film about two technical and managerial staff survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb for being as cost-effective as attack on Hiroshima who travelled to Genie Winners Michael Scott and Richard Condie, co-producers of The Big Snit any other private or public New York in 1982 to address the body, Juneau called for "a floor United Nations Special Session on for all unions. to be fair. " from the international union, was co­ competing against each other for Viewing a need for the Disarmament and attend a mass directed by Sturla Gunnarsson and best children's television program. CBC's 29 collective agree­ peace demonstration in Central Robert Collison. Gunnarsson is ments (six to date have been Park. The film was produced by Jac­ known best as director of the NFBrrvo signed, the contracts largely ques Vallee and directed by Martin Academy Award-nominated After the TO PRODUCE 12 FILMS coming up for re-negotiation Duckworth, a highly experienced Axe (1981); Collison wrote and co-di­ concurrently) to reflect the cameraman/director with more than rected Prisoners of Debt: Inside the The NFB, French Program Branch, CBC's more open approach to 50 films to his credit. Global Banking Crisis (1983). Ontario Studio, and TV Ontario are programming and production, Animator, writer and composer co-producing a series of 12 half-hour Juneau described the corpora­ Richard Condie and veteran director/ documentary films examining how tion as being "firmly commit­ producer Michael Scott, co-produc­ ACTRA AWARDS young adults integrate into society. ted" to both in-house and pri­ ers of the Academy Award-nomi­ Two of the three films nominated for The films will be telecast on TVO vate sector production. He did nated The Big Snit, received a Genie best television program of the year next fall . warn though "that budget cuts for Best Animated Short of the year. are NFB productions. Nominated are of the scale we have experi­ The Big Snit continues to win awards FinClI Offer, an NFB Ontario Studio NFB CANADA MAP enced recently require an ad· at festivals around the world. Last film produced in association with the justment on everybody's part." During his recent trip to Washington, month, this off-beat comic film won a CBC; and Canada's Sweetheart: Prime Minister Brian Mulroney pre­ In particular, Juneau stres­ prize for Best Animation Film at the The Saga of Hal C. Banks, an NFB­ sed the corporation 'will strive sented President Reagan with an XVI International Short Film Festival CBC co-production, directed by NFB Canada Map. The map, which for the highest possible degree in Tampere, Finland, and also re­ of individual job security, con­ world-renowned filmmaker Donald measures 4.8 metres by 80 cm (16' ceived an Honourable Mention at the sistent with the need to adjust Brittain. by 31 1/2"), portrays Canada's land­ the composition and size of the 29th San Francisco International Canada's Sweetheart has re­ forms, vegetation, lakes and rivers workforce to meet changing Film Festival. ceived a total of four nominations - as they might appear seen from a requirements." He added that Another big winner at the 1986 for best television program ; best di­ satellite in outer space. Since 1984, true long-term job security Genies was Final Offer: Bob White rector (Donald Brittain) ; best writer, more than 2000 NFB Canada Maps would only be obtained in the and the Canadian Auto Workers' original T.V. drama (Don Brittain , have been purchased by schools, CBC "though the development Fight for Independence, voted best Richard Nielsen) and best leading business and government. The map of an organization that pro­ Canadian feature-length documen­ actor (Maury Chaykin). Other NFB can be found in 127 Canadian con­ vides high quality services at a tary. This production, which docu­ productions nominated for ACTRA su lates and high commissions reasonable cost to the taxpay­ ments the 1984 UAW/General awards are Blackberry Sudway Jam around the world . In early March, ing public." Motors contract negotiations and the (Alex Pauk for best television score) NFB Chairman Franyois N. Macerola Somewhat more candid dur­ historic move by the Canadian and the NFB-Atlantis half-hour presented an NFB Canada Map to ing the media conference, he United Auto Workers to break away dramas A Good Tree and The Cap, Prime Minister Mulroney. reiterated "I haven't aban­ doned all hopes of more relief' N FB Offices in Canada: Headquarters - Montreal (514) 283-9253 National Capital - Ottawa (613) 996-4259 Pacific region - Vancouver (604) 666-3411 Quebec region - Montreal (514) 283-4823 Prairie region - Winnipeg (204) 949-2812 Atlantic region - Halifax (902) 426-7350 Ontario region - Toronto (416) 973-0895 plus offices in most major cities

April 1986 - Cinema Canada/53 • c I N E M A G stirred up the interest of jour­ Canadian film community was • their culture. I'm not sure what nalists, if you get an echo, you invited to West Germany by percentage of their budget is o N (E X PER I MEN TAL) F I LM will be able to explain your the German federal govern­ spent on culture, but I bet it's • by B. Sternberg • ideas to the policy-makers and ment. Toronto filmmaker comparable to France which you won't go unheard. Bruce Elder was among the spends 1%. How much does group. I asked him about the Canada spend? .03%, I think. lorian Hopf, film journalist should declare their point of trip . And the German government and critic from Germany, • view to critics and then try to wants to make their art known had been invited to attend "Well, the German govern­ F get together with them and eanwhile, to coincide abroad, so they have been in­ the Toronto Festival of Festi­ ment has a real concern with find out a way to make .. .it must with the Berlin Film Festi­ viting people from overseas - vals '85. Not wanting to come be tactics. As soon as you have Mval , a group from the culture; Germans care about just as a tourist, he decided to make a videotape related to - the Festival. The result was three one-hour programmes on Canadian culture/identity/ vision/filmmaking as expressed by the many "serious" filmmak­ ers (as Florian put it, another alternative to "alternative" or "experimental") he inter­ viewed, among them Joyce Wieland, Michael Snow, Bruce Elder, Peter Mettler,Jean-Marc Lariviere, Amnon Buchbinder and Barbara Sternberg. Of Canada's cultural situa­ tion, Florian had this to say: "I was very astonished. I met a lot of people here who are in arts, film, painting, theatre, who create an incredibly intelligent and lively climate, who do in­ credibly good things which are not acknowledged by the offi­ cial policy. It seems to me that there is a gap between the cul­ tural policy of this country and art where you really fmd it here. The art is not there where the government gives money. "The multicultural system as a democratic idea, an abstract idea is good, but the result is that the government is financ­ ing a kind of museum of ethnic traditions which will never come to form art. Already, art tries beyond this level to form something which is really Canadian and could be a basis for developing more. "Every artist in Canada doesn't represent only a Cana­ dian but also another nation, a VANCOUVER family tradition. So if you help a real artist who does not claim to be only German or to be Canada ALLEN AERJAl PHOTOS LTD. only Ukranian or Russian or Turkish or something like that, you help these people to create contemporary art. We'll give you a.ciW location and throw in "I believe that young artists in this country have to become more aggressive, more united ilie ocean and mountains for free! and more aggressive against the government. In the con­ Ideal Location pleasantly surprised by the co-operation and frontation with the govern­ Look around. __ you're in a beautiful quality of talent they've had access to. And ment they must learn that they the favourable exchange rate for the Canadian are not beggars, they are not in city, at the same time historic, modem and ' a situation to beg for some­ cosmopolitan; a seaport city with miles of dollar is just one more reason to come to thing. The government, the sandy beaches, and only minutes from Vancouver! state owes them something, forested mountain wilderness. An added owes them help in their efforts. Call us~ or write~ we're ready to help! This means they must give up bonus is the gentlest climate in Canada. competition between them­ Film Co-ordination, Engineering Department selves. On a certain political Abundant Resources City of Vancouver, 453 West 12th Avenue level they should unite and be Vancouver, B.C., Canada V5Y IV4 • organized and demand, really Vancouver boasts top-quality facilities (604) 873-7337 • • demand. for casting, crews, production, and post­ "Artists need help; the only or the Mayor's Office (604) 873-7410. . people who can help them are production. Producers of films like Quest for the people who address their Fire, Never Cry Wolf, and Runaway, have been Member ofthe Assoaation ofFilm Commissioners. work to the public: journalists and critics. Artists at frrst

54/Cinema Canada - April 1986 • c I N E M A G • exorable historical movement "German artists are taken of the New German Cinema. port alternative cinema. About -last year it was curators; this through technology in which seriously as intellectuals. "There is a hard-core 1969, Ulrich Gregor estab­ year, film people. The Goethe our sense of good and evil is When Alexander Kluge says materialist cinema that is out­ lished an alternative cinema in Institute invited me and asked eroding and an attempt to take something on film poli cy, he is side of the New German Berlin called Kino Arsenal, col­ me what I wished to do while over through technology. listened to. Kluge is p rominent Cinema, but even some of lected some wonderful people there. I said: Meet Hans-Jiirgen Syberberg said to me: Why is it amongst the intell ectuals - he these filmmakers have found around him including Alf Bold, Syberberg, Alexander Kluge, that only you Canadians can was trained in the Frankfurt support within the feature film and began to screen historical and see experimental films. understand this? The last per­ School. But it still comes as a industry; for example, Bastian films (Soviet classics, German "I asked Syberberg about his son I met w ho understood this shock to a Canadian artist that Cleve. So experimental film­ classics) and experimental, al­ views on technology. I began was also from Toronto' I quip­ a man in a shirt and tie who is makers can access funds that ternative films - all together. by saying that I fo und in his ped back that I understood this an adjunc t professor of law and were set up for feature film­ Kino Arsenal became the films a view of history as con­ from reading a German - who speaks like a philosopher, making. Moreover, there is a model for a number of Kom­ troll ed by technology, an in- Heidegger. actually is one of the creators network of cinemas that sup- munalis Kinos. There's one community cinema in every large town and most show ex­ perimental films amongst their programming. I asked a chap in AFTER 19 YEARS IN NEW YORK CITY .. Berlin how many screenings a hard-core, demanding experi­ mental filmmaker like Klaus Wyborny or Christoph Jan­ The script development etzko might get - 25-50 was the answer. I was astonished. I spoke with Ernie Gehr re­ workshop comes to Toronto cently (and he is one of the greatest experimental film­ makers ever) and he had three A professional workshop for professional producers, screenings of his newest film lined up! In Germany they directors, actors, and actresses, designed to aid in the have a system of exhibition that regularly programmes ex­ development of screenplays, teleplays, plays, and musicals. perimental film. Every town of any size has such a cinema. The workshop was founded in 1967 by Trent Gough, lowed by a- constructive, moderated critique by the "And the Berlin Film Festival Canadian actor/director/producer, initially as an activity workshop membership. (After rewrite, the script may devotes a large section of its of the Television Academy (presenter of the EMMY be resubmitted.) We require a wide-ranging group of programming - perhaps one­ Awards). Now, on the verge of the twentieth anniver­ actors and actresses to give life to these new charac­ half the films shown - to inde­ sary, Mr. Gough, as Artistic Director, is starting a To­ ters, responding to different styles of writing and direct­ pendent and alternative ronto group in late April/early May_Ten three-hour ses­ ing , and working with the writer. The director has the cinema. This is the Film Forum and is run by Ulrich Gregor. A sions on ten Sunday afternoons, for a modest member­ responsibility and pleasure of giving shape to new lot of people suggest that this ship fee. characters and relationships, being a trailblazer. is the really important part of In New York, one-act and fu ll length plays, and musi­ the festival. In past years The workshop is designed to encourage quality writing cals have been developed this way fo r Broadway, Off­ they've shown Snow, Gehr, for all media, whether the script comes from a writer, Broadway, and regional theatres; movies for feature Frampton. This year they had producer, director, or actor. You may join to develop release; teleplays for network and Public television. _. it Werner Schroeter's Der your feature film, play, television series, or musical. is to be expected that the Toronto group will follow the Rosenkoenig, Wyborny's Am Weekly, one or more scripts are assigned to a director same path of success. Ronde des Finsternis, Peter and cast, for rehearsals leading to a staged reading fol- Greenaway's Zed and Two NOUghts, a selection of films INTERVIEWS IN TORONTO BY APPOINTMENT ONLY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, APRIL 5th AND 6th by Barbara Hammer, a selec­ tion of work, by the great Contact: TORONTO - 964-1126 American structuralist Morgan NEW YORK­ (c/o Actors Unlimited Fisher, the French experim en­ (212) 489-9520/1 Casting Service) tal filmmaker Phillipe Garel's Script Development Davenport Office Elle a passe tant d 'heures Workshop 261 Davenport Road, sous les sunlights. Also Ul­ G.P.O. Box 1846, Toronto, M5R 1K3 rike Ottinger'S new four-hour NYC, 10116, USA fiim, China - Die Kuenste­ Alltag. IF YOU MISS THESE DATES, "The Germans, of course, PLEASE CALL AND WE WILL SET UP AN we re interested in Canadian film policy and I had to admit ALTERNATIVE INTERVIEW TIME that I couldn't tell them much because things are changing ALSO: CAREER DEVELOPMENT FOR ACTORS now, so we have to wait for the - TEN SUNDAY AFTERNOONS government to decide. They made it quite clear that the Mr. Gough is an independent casting director in New he will conduct a ten-week workshop for professional German government would York, now expanded into Toronto Gust cast "Double actors on taking charge of their own career, via re­ never consider changes in fil m Exposure", retitled "Turnabout", in N.Y., Toronto, and doing resumes, setting up a Master Career File Sys­ funding without consulting all Las Vegas). tem, getting advance info on film and tv production, the major film groups in the For twelve years he has run CONFRONTATIONS ON how to write letters that get auditions, on-camera com­ country." CASTING, the first and best audition workshop of its mercial copy and 'office interviews', and much more! kind in New York City. In this initial venture in Toronto, TORONTO - Alison Emilio, di­ rector of advertising and pub­ liCity for Norstar Releasing Inc. since the distributor'S opening in September, 1984, will de­ ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED, BY INTERVIEW ONLY part the company this spring to take up a post with Atlantic Re­ ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: TRENT GOUGH leasing in New York. Emilio will become Atlantic's director ASSISTANTS: YVONNE SMITH-SILVER, KATHLEEN WIGGINS of national advertising and ex­ pects to start May 1.

Ap ril 1986 - Ci nema Canada/55 • c I N E M A G • Lamplighter) Canadian scien­ rated on the film Rita McNeil Also nearing completion is E tists and inventors. Rough in in Japan) are planning a re­ the prodigal Newfoundland A S T ERN w A V E places (particularly in the search trip to Mrica in the chronicle Faustus Bidegood rather flat and nondimensional spring to continue work on a (sneak previewed at the Atlan­ • by Chris Majka • sound and rapid-fire pace of feature project entitled Afri­ tic Film Festival). Director the editing), the film neverthe­ can Chronicles. Michaeljones told me that the less looks very good (it was In January Carota Films in mix is set for the middle of n keeping with our wintry Feb. 27 in Halifax and is sched­ shot on location at historic Shediac, New Brunswick pre­ June and final prints should be . surroundings, the pas"t uled for broadcast on CBC Sherbrooke village) and shows miered two new dramatic pro­ ready for release early in July. I. couple of months have seen March 30. It is a pilot for a promise for a production team ductions. The first, screened After shooting in 16mm, he is a flurry of new productions series called Curious Minds which could go on and do on Radio-Canada in March, is a nevertheless shooting fo r a settling onto the Atlantic land­ fo r which co-producers Ralph good things. It certainly fi lls a half- hour drama called Cap blow-up to 35mm and hoping scape. Far from presaging a Holt and Les Gallagher at needed gap. Lumiere. It is a tender love for a theatrical release. Hold freeze of activity, however, Media Co-op Services hope to Packed to the gills with an story of two women who have onto your hats, Canadians! they seem the first spring flow­ produce another five episodes. audience of school-children, lived together for almost 40 In Prince Edward Island or­ ers of the coming bloom. The The series concerns the en­ the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium years in a secret world which ganizational work on the Atlan­ Lanplighter, the half-hour deavours of famous (or some­ at Dalhousie University on Feb. belongs to them alone. It was tic Film and Video Producers made-for-TV production men­ ti mes not-so-famous, in the 13 saw the premier of Red shot on location at Cap Pele on Conference continues and in­ tioned previously in this col­ case of Abraham Gesner, the Snapper Films' newest produc­ the east coast of New terest is growing for an anima­ um~ in February, received its inventor of kerosene and the tion Starting Right Now. Brunswick Produced by Lawr­ tion co-op on the island in ad­ sneak preview screening on chief character of The Sponsored by the Nova Scotia ence Carota and directed by dition to the Island Media Arts Heart Foundation and shot on Hermengilde Chiasson it stars Co-op presently there. Mem­ 16mm, this half- hour film is an Viola Leger and Kim Yaro­ bers of the latter are'trying to anti-smoking polemic w ith a shevskaya. The second is a increase their production distinctly non-dogmatic and pilot for a sitcom series which capability in preparation for non-evangelic flavour de­ Carota Films hopes· to produce the coming shooting season. JACK THOMPSON signed to appeal to today's and is called Getting to Work Last month I wrote about generation of distinctly mature This first episode, produced by the filmography project of the Oadoun Thompson Associates Ltd. and savvy kids. Gone are the Karen Carota and directed by Nova Scotia provincial ar­ simplistic warnings and the jack Nixon-Browne, has been chives. At the beginning of dire threats of the 1950s gen­ sold to CBC and negotiations March a workshop was held Insurance Specialists eration of films which I was are underway with CBC, Tele­ with Sandy Wilson followed privileged to view once a year film, and American syndicators by a special screening of My for the in my high-school auditorium. to try and secure financing for American Cousin as a benefit Entertainment Industry Instead we see hip kids in a a complete seasons series. fo r the Motion Picture Herit­ production which, in some Another film to have re­ age Fund. This is the fund sections, looks like a rock cently premiered in Halifax w hich has been created to help video. Personal choice and in­ was Martin Duckworth's Re­ acquire, preserve, and protect dependence is stressed in this tum to Dresden produced by Nova Scotia's cinematic herit­ drama about a girl (played art­ the National Film Board in age. The session with Sandy • professional fully by actress Mary-Colin Montreal. Screened one year to Wilson, the film's director, Chisholm) who chooses not to the day after the shooting of drew a cross-section of the • personal smoke in a gang of girls (called the central scene, it is an ethi­ film community and, in addi­ • service "The Freedom Four") all of cal, and at times poetiC, exami­ tion to regaling the audience whom do. Although not always nation of the peace movement with stories of the painful and successful (some of the -rock­ through the experience of Gif! hilarious process of creating video style lip-synch doesn't Gifford, a participant in the this feature, she brought a real work and seems contrived) the fire-bombing of Dresden dur­ sense of political dialogue be­ Your Complete-Insurance film has the strong character ing the Second World War. tween east and west-coast Broker and individualistic flavour Meanwhile, in Newfound­ communities of filmmakers. which director, Lulu Keating, land, director Sharon Smith is The breadth of Canada sepa­ has become known for. In par­ continuing postproduction rates us and as a consequence ticular a scene in a cigar store work on her half-hour drama we too seldom realize that we with a seedy and lascivious to­ called Season on the Water. share not only many interests bacco-shop vendor (played by Shot in 12 days last September and values but are also the vic­ jim MacSwain) and a group of in the small outport town of tims of similar difficulties. The Call : dancing girls in a picture­ Petty Harbour, the film fea­ Toronto-Montreal axis of fund­ frame, is exquisite and teems tures Rick Boland, Cathy ing and control has the same Jack Thompson with zany humour and antics jones, and Adam McGraw, tel­ • effects on the indigenous film 100 Drumlin Circle, Suite 204 certain to appeal to all audi­ ling· a story which revolves communities of Vancouver as (Stee1es & Keele) ences. Its premier co-coin­ around the relations between a in Halifax. Both communities Concord, Ont L4K 2T9 cided with the start of the brother and sister and explores of filmmakers are determined (416) 669-6400 1986 Heart Fund Campaign the life of the people in out­ to clamour even louder in '<:- and it is slated for CBC broad­ port towns. It is a co-produc­ their attempts to let the reg­ cast as well. Director Keating tion with the NFB's Atlantic ional voices of the country be along with producer Chris Studio and is slated for com­ heard across the country. pletion later in the spring.

56/Cinema Canada - April 1986 • c I N E M A G • style for the popular TVO per­ Mangaard, Atom Egoyan, Cindy sonality. Gawel, Patricia Gruben, Aaron TVO runs show on new film directions The result of Johnson's con­ Shuster, Patricia Rozema, Janis cise approach will be a much Lundman, Rick Hancox, AI TORONTO Independent Aiming for a cross-section of example to provide a highly more disciplined Yost, with Razutis, William MacGillivray, filmmakers and experimental new work in Canadian film , visual look. less of what Johnson called and Daniel LanglOiS. film in Canada will be the suh­ Johnson says New Directions "My hope is that New Di­ "the normal Elwyisms" seen in If there is something ject of TVOntario's latest - Film will define who the rections - Film will provide Magic Shadows and Saturday Johnson hopes New Direc­ movie-oriented program when· nation's independent filmmak­ the lasting impression," says Night At The Movies. Viewers tions - Film will achieve, it New Directions - Film airs ers are, the kind of films Johnson, "that Canada's film ­ will not, however, be left with will be, during its proximity to this fa l!. The two-part program, they're producing (experi­ makers are creating interna­ an overly intellectual, analytic Toronto's Festival of Festivals, scheduled for a prime-time 9 mental, mainstream, whatever) tional-quality work." His hope look at each film genre. an emphasizing of "the fact that p.m. on September 3 and 10, and why, how they are making for the show is also that it will Because both Johnson and Canadian distributors and will be the newest look into them, and what their works are not only reveal what's "enter­ Yost will be off to Hollywood exhibitors don't give credence film by long-time TVO staff attempting to say to the vie­ taining, interesting, and hap­ May 6 to record interviews to experimental and short film producer/director Richard wer. Besides their particular pening" but provide a forum similar to those in the series - films that could easily be Johnson who, in the past eight aspect of film, the two-part "for a lot of ground that's never Moviemakers, New Direc­ programmed." seasons at the public educa­ program will also attempt to been done before." tions - Film was completed tional network has amassed examine the financing and In terms Df the length of Good Friday (and, at approxi­ TORONTO - Director Leon credits as producer/director of exhibition of independent New Directions Film, mately $20-25,000 per show, Marr's 98-minute dramatic fea­ Saturday Night At The films (each subject's most cur­ Johnson will, from his collec­ in the can before arrival of the ture Dancing in the Dark has Movies, Rough Cuts, and The rent work will be excerpted tion of approximately 20-mi­ new fiscal year on April 1). been selected from a field of Movie Show. during the interviews and nute-long interviews, wind up Johnson, confessing to having 18 feature mms as Canada's Following suggestions from commented on by the film­ with two 90-minute segments, been "knocked out" by the en­ entry in the Cannes Film Festi­ TVO programming director maker), and such larger issues a length he views as both thusiasm and excitement he val's 18th Directors' Fortnight, Stan Fox that Johnson try some as the state and future of the "more marketable and manage­ encountered in the filmmakers to be held May 8-19. The film, films specials, discussions w ith Canadian film industry. able" for the viewer. Although interviewed, credits experi­ which is Marr's first feature Fox as well as Saturday Night To motivate viewers to his intent won't be to slight the mental film director Barbara and which is based on the Joan and Magic Shadows host Elwy screen works by the featured co ntext of the program, Sternberg of the Canadian Barfoot novel of the same Yos( (executive-producer and filmmakers (some of whom are Johnson's concentration will Filmmakers Distribution name, was selected by also host of New Directions Brigitte Berman, Sturla Gun­ be on tight editing to get Centre in Toronto for her role Fortnight director Pierre­ - Film), and screenings of narson, Giles Walker, Laurie people's comments and ensure as research consultant to the Henri Dcleau following scree­ 40-50 films, Johnson elected to Lynd, Jack Darcus, and Christ­ a show that "really moves program. ning of the entrants March 10- go with two specials. Then, opher Lowry - Sandy Wilson wei!." In fact, although Elwy Besides Sternberg, other 12. after compiling a list of almost of My American Cousin fame Yost's interviewing technique filmmakers making up the en­ A former Ryerson student 70 filmmakers, Johnson ended was unfortunately unavaila­ during taping was his usual tire 27 interviewed include and writer/director of several up selecting 27 independent ble), and to tie into the prog­ mix of the probing, personal, Jeremy Podeswa, Michael dramatic shorts for CBC-TV, producers from across Canada, ram's experimental mm focus, and convivial, Johnson says Jones, Bruce Elder, Rick Rax­ Marr describes the news as who were then interviewed Johnson will use an unusual New Directions - Film will len, Peter Mettler, Philip "Terrific.. .1 always felt it was a over February 28 and March approach in the interview pre­ provide a bit of a departure Hoffman, Mike Cartmell, Joyce very strong film and a special 6/7. sentations, 'intercutting' for (besides the art deco set) in Wieland, Peter Dudar, Annette film."

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