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The CBC is offering a 34 month contract with Subsequently, CRARR has asked the NFBt o and th ere were public disagreements between CBC and CUPE present job security in place and no move ment devo te an equivalent amoun t of production screenwriter Ted Alla n and star Donald in the area of jurisdiction. "It is the sa me offer," funding or resources to a progra m th at would Sutherland. reach tentative said Curzon, "that other unions have accepted, show posti ve aspec ts of immigra tion and Clermont is understand ably anxious to see th e such as NABET (who recently settled with the multiculturalismin Quebec. final fi lm on the scree n. "I hope and believe it agreement CBC after the federal government appointed a CRARR has also asked Comminication will surprise many people. Th ere have been so Commissioner to resolve the dispute). They Minister Marcel Masse to remind both many negative th ings said about it tha t, at times, TORONTO - Negotiators for the CBC and 2,600 have 10 recognize the kind of budgetary crisis the institutions of" their legal and social respon­ people have lost the scope of th e film itself. " striking workers reached a tentative settlement CBCi s in. " sibilities and to make certain that the boards of Betlili lle is the first ever Canadian-Chinese­ AprilS that is expected to bring an end to the Production came to a halt on Kids In the Hall, both institutions reflect the cultural and racial French co-production . Filmline is producing three week-old labour dispute. If the agreement Mosqll ito Lake, Codco, Crazy People, and Love all d diversity of Canada . with the China Film Coproduction Corpora tion, is ratified, the announcers, production staff, Hate, the Colin Thatcher story being shot in "Dispa raftle should not be the last word on Telefilm Ca nada, the August First Film Studios clerical workers, makeup artists and other Saskatchewan. This could mean a delay in the these issues," says Richard Daignault, member of Beijingand Eiflel Productions of Pa ri s, ~ra nce . members of the Canadian Union of Public implementation of the CBC's fall schedule. of the CRARR board. Employees will be back on the job by April 10th. "Those who do not share the views expressed No precise details are available yet, but should be able to share their views as well, " he sources close to the negotiations say that the says . CBC didn't give in to the union's demanads for Daignault says the program reflects Masse to move greater job security and jurisdiction over CRARRtakes inappropriate hiring practices at the CBCa nd coproductions with independent producers. NFB, where ethnic minorities are concerned, ahead with film The stalled negotiations picked up after a action on and that the employment equi ty act should be meeting between union officials and CBC rigorously applied. importation bill president Pierre juneau. The CBC is reported to Disparaitre "We want these matters to be discussed at the be happy with the terms of the settlement. legislative level, " says Fo Niemi, executive OTTAWA -Marcel Masse, the recently CUPE, the largest of the CBC's unions, voted MONTREAL - The Centre for Research Action director of CRARR, "but we ha ve to wait for the reappointed Minister of Communications, will to walk out on negotiations with the corporation on Race Relations (CRARR) continues to push House to resume. " be " movingfor ward " with the Film Importation 12 days before a March 29 strike deadline. Some for a redressing of multicultural issues in Quebec Neither does Niemi expect that the NFB will BiU , according to john Watt, film policy officer programs were cancelled completely, drama after the airing of the controversial Dis para ftreby respond until a full-time film commissioner is with the Department of Communications. The productions were halted and management Societe Radio-Canada on Feb. 12 hired. bill, which did not pass first reading in the personal substituted for news announcers on CRARR called a press conference in Montreal House of Commons prior to last year's election, radio and television. The strike did not affect on March 1st after an initial outburst of criticism will be reintroduced when Parliament is recalled Radio-Canada operations in Quebec and in the English-language press that this two-hour this month. Watt would not confirm if it will be Moncton. documentary was unbalanced and intentionally reintroduced in its present form or will be Both sides agreed at the time that the main propagandistic. Bethune to open modifed bv the new minister. issues at stake this time were job security and Produced by Raymond Gauthier, directed by The fed ~ra l fi lm legislation which died on the jurisdiction. Ken Hopper, chief negotiator for jean-Fran~ois Mercier and narrated by former 1989 Montreal order paper would have required that Canadian the union, told Cinema Canada that, "about 50 PQ Minister Lise Payette, Disparaftre conjectures rights to independent film s (films that are not per cent of our bargaining unit has no job that without strict language and immigration World Film wholly owned or fi nanced by the American security and no way of getting job security under policies Quebec will loose the French-language majors) be acquired separately from American the existing collective agreement. " by the turn of the century. Festival rights. Currentl y, the American majors buy An official CBC press release claimed that, "if The program is produced by the National Film blanke t North American rights to the films they CUPE jurisdiction were imposed on all Board in association with Societe Radio-Canada MONTREAL - Bethlille. TIle Makillg ala Hero, the di stribute, making it near impossible for co-productions, the CBC would be unable to and it is to both these public institutions that long-a waited movie about Cana dian surgeo n Ca nadia n distributors to compete for those attract co-producers and their money. " CBC CRARR has directed its criticism. Dr. Norman Bethune, will have its gala world fi lms. spokesperson Tom Curzon said that, "its been In a press release issued at the March 1st premiere August 24, opening at the 1989 The Departmell t of Communica tions is on the record for a long time that the CBC's goal conferences, CRARR lists its objections: Montreal World Film Fes tival. Co-producer presently stud ying the proposed mega- merge is to move towards 50 per cent production with " ... CRARR believes that it is totally Nicolas Clermont of Filmli ne to ld CillemaC mUlda between U. S. media giants Time Inc. and independent producers, either co-productions unacceptable that these institutions, both that, "it is very important for us that this film le Warner Communications Inc. to see what it or straight independents. If we concede to the financed by taxpayers money, should use their first presented in CanadJ because the roots of mIgh t mea n for their respective Canadian union on this point we would start to lose resources to convey highly questionable this film are so deeply in this country. " operations. Warner Brothers Ca nada and co-productions, and we just can't afford to do opinions on important national issues such as It had been previously been announced that Warn er Home Video Canada Ltd . employs that. "The CBC also claims that for an employer the declining birth rate and immigration. th e film would be read yfo r Cannes this year, but about 35 people and are headquartered in employing 500 employees or more, the CBC is - CRARR is particularly disturbed that no Clermont no wsa ys the fi nal print \,~ ll not be Toronto. The Department is also studving an the only broadcaster that offers any job security place was given to viewpoints differing from ready until mid-july. "What I would very much earlier ta keo\'€[ of Orio n Pictures Distribution at all. those expressed in the program and that certain like to happen," sa id Clermont, "is fo r this film (Canada) Inc. bv Metromedia Co. of New In some parts of the country, induding 5t. means were implicitly used to undermine and to be in both festivals, Montreal and Toronto. It jersey, which has acqui re d 70 percent co ntrol of john's, Windsor, Ottawa and Vancouver, cast aside such differing viewpoints. is as importa nt for us to be in Toronto as Orion's U. S. operations. technicians and journalists refused to cross CRARR does not question the right of the Montrea l. " "Investment Canada will be looking at it (the At times, it looked as if the movie would never picket lines and programming during the first filmmakers or the agencies to freely express Time-Warne r merger), " said Wa tt. "They will be completed. Production was halted for almost few days of the strike was chaotic. The Genies themsel ves on any subject matter However, it be reviewed under the existing poli CY which has a year as Clermont an d his producing partner, been in place since last May. " He said th at the went ahead, but the show was stripped down to does object to reinforcement techniques used in rie ter Kroonenburg, scrambled to ma intain pl.lic)' states that no new distribution business the bare essentials and picketed by CUPE and order to present, under the guise of consensus, conh'ol of th e picture and find additional will be allowed to be established in Canada, sympathetic filmmakers. The CBC went to the unbalanced and unobjective views on such financing. The four-month 1987 shoot in China exce pt where the company will be only Canadian Labour Relations Board to prevent important and emotionally-charged issues as proved more arduous and costly than planned c1istributing their own product. other unions from joining the strikers. falling birth rate and immigration ... "

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In 1989. Banff. - Canada's All that. and much more. in­ WE MEAN BUSINESS International Television Festi­ cluding afternoon workshops for val- celebrates its tenth anni­ producers. writers and direc­ As a registered Banff delegate. versary. A time to look back? tors. speCialized workshops (the you'll enjoy a full. relaxing week Rogers completes No. a time to look forward. to the dlgital. computer. and educa­ of easy access to other profes­ 90's and beyond. In our anni­ tion N revolutions) and a show­ Sionals in our industry - oppor­ sale of U.S. versaryyear. we're planning our case of emerging talent. tunities to make friends. renew most ambitious festival ever: a contacts. and do business. (Banff systems week-long. in-depth look at what BWE-RIBBON PANELS has been called the co-produc­ can only be called the television tion marketplace.) revolution. As always. our panels will feature some of the best and the You'll get to all the seminars TORONTO - Rogers Communications Inc. (RCI) of Toronto has announced that it has THE TELEVlSION REVOLUTION brightest in the industry. People and workshops you care to at­ completed the sale of its U. S. cable television like Patrick Chalmers. BBC tend, and enjoy free access to interests to a subsidiary of Houston Industries of The week begins with the CBC Scotland; Jean Chalopin. C & our "on demand" screening Houston, Texas. The sale, which was Keynote Address. presented this D. France; Francesco de Cres­ rooms and hundreds of hours of announced last year, took months to complete as year by Andrew Neil. Executive cenzo. RAJ. Italy; Jacques Der­ superb international television. each of the fi ve ca ble television systems had to Chairman of Rupert Murdoch's court. Telecip. France; Patrick receive the necessary local transfer approvals. controverSial new British satel­ Dromgoole. HN. U .K.; Valerie Continent-al breakfasts every At a press conference held in Toronto at the lite service. Sky Television. and Hardy. NetworkTEN. Australia; morning. and social events ev­ end of March, Ted Rogers, president and Editor of The Sunday Times of Gerry Hogan. Turner Interna­ ery evening --- an Opening Night controlling shareholder of RCI , said the money London. tional. U.S.; Fernando Labrada. salute to La Communaute des ($1. 17 billion net) will be used to wipe out the Cannon Group. Spain; Michael televisions francophones; a CBC cable company's sizeable longtenn bank debt. That launches fifty hours of MacMillan. Atlantis Films. Can­ reception honoring our keynote But he has also arranged a $1 billion line of credit seminars and workshops about ada; Reiner Moritz. RM Arts. speaker; the phenomenally with Canadian banks to finance ambitious our industry and where it's going. Federal Republic of Germany; popular Western Canadian bar­ expansion plans. 'The Television Revolution: More Richard Price. RPTA/Primetime. becue; a reception in honor of "We are going to improve service in all aspects Choices. Fewer Voices?" - "Tele­ U.K.; Claude Torraclnta. TSR. the 50th Anniversary of the of our operations, "Rogers said. "It's great news vision and the Democratic Proc­ Switzerland; and Michael von National Film Board of Canada; that a Canadian company is taking $1 billion ess: An Electoral Revolution"­ Wolkensteln. SATEL. Austria. our Awards Night gala and Tenth from the C. S. and investing it in Canadian "The Sponsorship Revolution: to name just a few. Anniversary birthday party. business for Canadians. " He intends to spend Who Pays? Who Controls? Who $600 million on Canatel in the next two-and-a­ Cares?" - "The Banff Interna­ OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT Join the revolution. Come to half years to expand the operation from coast to tional Market Simulation" (a per­ Banff in '89. coast. He will spend $525 million on RCI to ennial favorite. revolutionary in Each year at Banff. we honor a install fibre optic cables, improve customer concept!) - "The Distribution network. production unit. or pro­ service, increase channel selection, and prepare Revolution." a presentation by duction company With our Out­ for the coming of high-definition TV. Fibre optic Norman Horowitz. President standing Achievement Award. BANFF cables will ensure that Rogers will be able to and CEO. MGM/UA Telecom­ (Past winners include Granada TELEVlSION FESTIVAL municationslnc .. and members Television of England; WDR. provide 150 channels by the turn of the century. of his specialist sales force - Cologne; MTM Enterprises. U.S.; Currently RCI serves approximately 25 per cent of the Canadian cable market. and a wind-up session titled and NHK. Japan.) This year the "Visions of the Future: looking award goes to Brazil's Globo 'IV Rogers' bid to purchase the Telelatino specialty television service and cut its Spanish at where the television revolu­ Network. whose President and programming came under strong critidsm from tion 1s going in America. the owner. Dr. Roberto MBrinho. Hispanic groups in Montreal. They told the likely impact of the 1992 inte­ will be in Banff to accept the Box 1020, BANFF, ALBERTA CRTC that Rogers' plan will dras tically reduce grated European market on the honor. On Tribute Night we cele­ CANADA TOL OCO the amount of programming available to them. television industry. and the brate Globo N's unprecedented TEL, (403) 762-3060 Rogers told the licencing body in Toronto that impact that television will have domestic and international Tx. 03-822804 TV FEST BNF the Spanish-speaking community in Canada is on cinema in the next decade. successes. 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Toronto's Film House to the Bri tish company. analysts suggest that Drabinsky was forced to sc heduled to open in 1990, if attendance exceeds Cineplex sells The proceeds from the sa le of the theme park sell Cine plex's interest in th e theme park to certain minimum limits. will be used to pay down Cineplex's long-term red uce its overall bank debt. They point to the Cineplex has also announced a new deal with debt, which stands at $663. 8 million according to Florida complex tlmmg of the sale, linked as it was to the American Express that will see the charge card the year-end fi nancial report re leased by the announcement of the year·end figures. accepted at all Cineplex-Odeon theatres from company at the same time. "This is a wonderful deal for us," Drabinsky May 1. Drabinsky noted that an evening out at TORONTO-Cineplex Odeon Corp has sold its 1988linancial results show a profit for the was quoted as saymg. "We have no lisk, the cmema IS no longer a small-ticket item, 50 percent interest in Unive rsalStudios Florida . Toronto-based compa ny of $40. 4 million, up substantial profit, the abili ty to pay down our particularly as moviegoers often attend in a largemovie theme park, toa U. S. subsidiary of from $34. 6 million a year ago. Re venue climbed bank debt again and ~,o improve our debt equity groups of four or more with consequent costs Rank Organization PLC of Britain for about $150 to $695. 8 million from $520.2 million a year ratio one more hOle. Cmeple" will realize a runnmg upwards of $25. As part of the deal, million (U. 5.). Cineplex chainnan Garth earlier. Cineplex's stock jumped slightly on the profit of $58 million on its investment of $92 Cmeplex willbe screening Amelican Express Drabinsky said the sale to Rank was part of an TorontoStock Exchange with th e release of these million in less than two years and will make a figures, but settled back down again. Industry commeroals m their theatres prior to the main earlier deal when Cineplex sold its interest in further profit from the theme park, which is feature.

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"There were few pictures of quality available District Council 01 the DGC, notes that the First three at the AFM and as always films are sold to the ACTRA's unions and guilds are protected as if they were Americans for the Canadian market. The in vestors and the rights of directors are clearly markets problem with the AFM is that it has always been performers speUed out. However, he says, "I am difficult to negotiate Canada out of the U. S. disappointed that it hasn't been taken up by favorable deal, " says Emilio. ratify Canadian producers more often. "To date the agreement Simcom International did a brisk business at has only been used by Atlantis for its first to Canadians the Monte Carlo television market entering into Production theatrical feature, Destiny To Order. Although negotiations \\~th Scandanavia, HoUand, South ACTRA's performers were not party to that MONTREAL - Despite an obvious drop in the Africa and Spain for special package deals. Agreement particular agreement, Stringer says that the quality of international films available, Telefilm "The television market is growing by leaps experience was" positive" and tha t the rank and has reported fa vorably on the American Film and bounds and we have an extensive library in file of his membership want to see something Market (AFM), held in Los Angeles, Feb. 23 to television," says Emilio. TORONTO - The Association of Cinema, done about ge tting truly Canadian films made. March3. Andre Matteau of Cinema Film Corp. , a Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) At the Berlin Film Festival (Feb. 10 to 21), two-year-old Montreal-based company, says Performers Guild has ratified the Canadian were more Canadians than ever, and the Monte that there is always a gem to be found among the Production Agreement (CPA). The agreement, Carlo TelevisonMarket, Feb. 13 to 18, continues rough fare at the AFM. which has been in place since July of last year, to be a technologically driven market. Matteau and his French partners bought has the stated objective of" supporting and Egoyan to go Telefilm reports that although sales figures Falling In Love Agaill starring Elliot Gould for all encouraging the production of fuUy Canadian look good, a final tally for all three markets will the French-language territories of the world. feature films in a climate where insufficient to Cannes not be available until Canadian exporters submit "It's true that 90 per cent of what is available private funding is available to make them a biannual report. at the AFM is commercial, but these films can properly. " Other signatures to the agreement TORONTO -It has been confirmed that Atom "In the past we found that most negotiations work very well. Contacts are what makes are ACTRA Writers Guild, DGC (Ontario Egoyan's latest film, Speaking Parts , will be going don't conclude until sometime later and that investments in these markets count, " says District Council), ACFC and CAMERA. to Cannes in the prestigious Directors Fortnight early figures can be misleading, " says Deborah Matteau. "It was a very contentious issue," said Ray category. Egoyan's previous film Family Viewing Drisdell, Telefilm manager of marketing and Lapointe Films International Inc. of Montreal Stringer, executive director of the Performers won the Best Canadian Film Awa rd at Toronto's distribution. was in Berlin and Los Angeles. Jacqueline Guild. "There have been deferrals in the past, 1987 Festival of Festivals and German filmmaker One keen observer and longtime veteran of Dinsmore says that Berlin remains a strong but this is a deferral to investment and we Wim Wenders gave his first prize at Montreal's the Berlin Film Festival is Jan Rofekamp, market for U. S. and European independent needed approval from the entire guild. The 1987 Festival of New Cinema and Video to president of Films Transit Inc. who characterizes films. The AFM, however, was a letdown. writers already had provisioris in place for this Egoyan in recognition of the young filmmaker's this year's festival as "workable and practical". "Last year I underlined dose to 30 interesting sort of thing and didn't need prior approval to talent and vision. Transit's Comic Book Confidential , directed by titles on the product list of the AFM. This year sign the agreement. " The official announcement for the Cannes Ron Mann, was a hit at Berlin and subsequently there were none, " says Dinsmore. Under the CPA, the members of the festival will not take place until April 20 and sold to England, Germany, Spain and Finland. Ontario Premier Da vid Peterson visited the participating guilds are allowed to defer a Robert Davidson at Telelilm's Festival Office "In fact the territories that we did not sell we AFM for two days to encourage co-venture portion of their fees until such time as the film wou ld not confi rm that Denys Arcand's latest, should conclude at Cannes," says Rofekamp. productions between Ontario and U. S. starts generating revenue. In return, these Jeslls of Montreal , has been selected as the official ACorps Perdu, also carried by Films Transit, producers. people are entitled to a share of the profits Canadian entry this year. However, the film is sold to Spain and Germany for all media rights. On March 1, the premier hosted a dinner in earned once (and if) the film recoups its costs. heavily favoured to represent Canada at the The Rust/ing of Leaves received numerous recognition of the Walt Disney Company. For example, performers engaged at above 42nd annual film festival and media circus. It invitations to other festivals after a screening in On March 2, a luncheon was held for the minimum fees shaU defer all fees in excess of was previously announced that Philip Borsos' the Forum Section of the festival and John premier by Lew Wasserman, chairman and minimums, plus 20 percent of all minimum fees Bet/Hille: The Making of aH ero would be launched Greyson's Urinal was shown several times after C. E. O. of MCAIUniversal; Sid Sheinberg, earned during the course of production. For this at Cannes, but the producers recently had a its initial screening in the Panorama Section. president and chief operating officer MCAlUni­ each performer will share in that portion of change of heart, and the film will now premiere Monte Carlo remains a dynamic market, says versal and Garth Drabinsky, chairman, revenues aUocated to deferrals. This allocation later in the year at the Montreal World Film Rofekamp, where a lot of attention was paid to president and C. E. 0 of the Cineplex Odeon will administered by an agency agreed to by the Festival. Onward Christian Soldiers, a television documen­ Corporation. producer and a committee of aU the signatories. tary about the American evangelical movement That evening, the premier hosted a reception Aproducer must adhere in writing to the in Central America by Gaston Angelovici and in celebration of Hollywood's support of the agreement and the committee has the right to Jaime Barrios. Ontario film industry. approve the terms of any distribution agreement Robert Blair of Sullivan Films says Monte At presstime, Peterson was scheduled for a between the producer and a distributor. Alliance establishes Carlo was especially lucrative. Anne of Green visit to Paris, April 4, to encourage co-produc­ Douglas Kiefer, president of CAMERA, told Gables, the miniseries, continued to se U. Two tions between Ontario and French film and Cinema Canada, that the agreement originated an international arm new features, Lookingfor Miracles and Lantern Hill television producers. with Atlantis Films, .. as a way to produce sold to Ireland, Malta, the United Kingdom, indigenous Canadian features at a reasonable TORONTO - Alliance Entertainment, Canada's Dubai, Iceland and Poland. Preliminary budget which are entirely financed in Canada. It largest production company, has recently co-production discussions were held with major is a combination of a lowbudget type contract established an international sales division. broadcasters in Australia, France, Germany and plus an approved deferred payment scheme. " Alliance International will handle both theatrical the U. K. for a new 26-part series, Avonlea, that WFF to honor NFB The agreement is quite restrictive and applies and television sales and wiU sell its own product will go into production in May. only to those films that achieve 10 out of 10 plus productions from other companies. The The AFM was not as productive as in previous The festival will celebrate the 50th anniversary of points in accordance the Certification Office and new operation is to be competely separate from years, says Blair. the Na tional Film Board of Canada with an NFB are budgeted at under $3 million. They must be Alliance Releasing, which distributes film and "There seems to be a proliferation of slasher Day during which 10 NFB filmmakers will be entirely Canadian controUed in all creative and video in Canada. and gasher films at the AFM, " says Blair. honored. financial respects and have no direct or indirect Andy Emilio of Simcon International agrees A new feature film produced by the NFB will foreign investment. with this assessment of the AFM. premiere on this occasion. Rob Iveson, outgoing chairman of the Ontario

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The Ontario Arts Council offers grants to professional artists who are residents of Ontario, working in the following disciplines: SCREENWRITING to assist with the development of feature-length he Dalhousie Arts Centre has been under siege lately. The precarious financial dramatic screenplays. situation of the university has led to the layoffs of five people and an announcement Deadline: February 1 that the Arts Centre (the only such facility in Canada to be funded entirely by a university) would no longer present performances but would simply become a rental FILM house. (And this after an extraordinary and precedent-setting grant of$330,000 from towards the production costs of documentary, Tthe new Minister of Culture, Roland Thornhill). To save money the university tried to close dramatic, animated or experimental films. down the Centre's art gallery acouple of years ago, but the hue and cry caused the university Deadlines: April 1, November 1 to quickly change its mind. And a good thing too, for in addition to innovative programming in the sphere of visual VIDEO arts, the gallery presents a fine program of film - frequently material which is hard to find to assist with the production of original video art. elsewhere. january saw a series of Surrealist films from the 1920s and '30s curated by Ron Deadlines: February 1, August 15 MacDonald. February and March were devoted to an overview of the last decade of independent films from the Atlantic region. They included City Survival, Enterprising Women Please note: all applications must be supported and Funny Things People Do To Thenlseives all by Lulu Keating, Mnrgaret Perry, Filmmaker by Les by examples of recent work. Kriszan, and lA Boitea Soleil by Jean Pierre Lefebvre and The Nova Scotia Song by Glen Walton. For further information and application forms, contact: Film, Photography and Video Office NEW SHORTS ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL I missed Alex Busby and David Coole's Jack-Ass Johnny when it showed at this past year's 151 Bloor Street West, Suite 500 Atlantic Festival Atlantique and won the prize for best short film. The loss was mine. This Toronto, Ontario M5S IT6 (416) 961-1660 25-minute 'experimental road film' is a mini-masterpiece. It is a panorama of Canada, richly textured with sound and with a complex and compelling montage. With its shifting focus, curious time-lapse and juxtaposition of colour and black & white imagery, it somehow captures it all- that multifaceted, ungraspable white elephant of a country that is Canada. It is both entertaining and thought-provoking. This film couldn't have been better. CONFERENCE AND COMPETITION Hey Elvis is Ed Riche's tongue-in-cheek mock Elvis documentary . Patently fraudulent, highly irreverent, sometime irrelevant and always colourful, it blends styles and approaches MANAGER to produce a kind of cinematic camelopard - a mythical beast composed of the fragments of others. More entertaining than the Natiollal Ellqllirerit pays, in its own peculiar way, homage The Banff Television Festival will of quality international program­ be hiring a full-time conference ming. Fluency in English and to "The King" - and makes absolutely no claims that he is still living! Chuck Clarke took some seven years to put together the 13 minutes of Eight Frames Per and competition manager to French will be a definite asset. Second,. a kind of experimental home movie. ' Hmm ... about two minutes a year by my assume primary responsibility but not an absolute require­ for the planning and implemen­ ment for the pOSition. reckorung. Clarke choreographs a metaphoric/filmic dance with his eccentric landlady and discovers that Ittakes two to tango. There's lots of chaff mixed in with the grain, but then tation of the festival's entire Clarke IS not trymg to bake bread here. There's enough narrative to keep us interested and seminar and workshop program. Compensation and a Banff re­ some strictly off-the-wall visual effects and transitions that give the production snap, crackle The successful candidate will location allowance are subject and pop. Fourteen nunutes nught have been too long but as it is ... Eight Frames Per Second to negotiation with potential work under the direction of was worth the wait. senior festival management and candidates. Appointment to the in close consultation with the pOsition will be effective not later Program Committee of the fes­ than August 31. 1989. Candi­ tival's Board of Directors. Addi­ dates who are short-listed will LINDA JOY tional duties will include as­ be encouraged to attend the It's been four and a half years now since Linda Joy Busby died from cancer but watching Linda sisting in the organization and 1989 festival. June 4-10. Ad­ Joy, the splendId film whICh she and Bill MacGillivray fashioned concerning her struggle for management of the Banff inter­ dress all correspondence to: life, Ihad to try and swallow the knots of gnef whIch welled up in my throat and choked me. national program competition. Lmda joy, the film and the woman, left us with an equivocal legacy. On the one hand the tnumph of her spmt and the beauty, honour, love and dignity which she brought to her life This position will be of particu- - and death .. On the other hand the naggmg doubt: Was she right in her choice? Would she 1ar interest to applicants with BANFF TELEVISION FESTNAL shll be alive If she'd follo wed a more 'aggressive' course of treatment? The questions are, of the follOWing skills: superior course, unanswerable. But Linda Joy triumphs, for in that uncertainty and ambiguity lie the knowledge of significant inter­ national television trends and heart an~ soul of human existence . There are always unresolved contradictions in our lives. AndreI Tarkovsky, the geruus of Russian cinema with whom I was privileged to s end a . players; excellent written and day, wrote (before dying of cancer himself): "The allotted function of art is not, as i;often oral communication skills; an assumed, to put across Ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art imaginative. production-ori­ Box 1020. BANFF. ALBERfA IS to prep~re a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning ented approach to seminar and CANADA 1'OL OCO to good. Certainly by thIS yardstick Linda joy was a great artist. Reqlliescat in pace. workshop presentation; hands­ TEL. 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attentive and supportive of the work we are committee of SADC, would have made" a lot of Demers: a pan do ing and also because less than 50 per cent of NFB apologises noise" in Cannes. the films shown in our theatres last year, for Carle andSADC are insisting that French-lan­ Canadian vision instance, were American . to Quebec guage dramatic writers be given the same rights Nobody should quote me wrong here. I like to renumera tion as European writers (as a TORONTO - La Crel10llille et la baleille (The American films, especially if made with the filmmaker percentage of revenues every time the film is Tadpole awl the Whale) is the top-grossing contribution of Norman Jewison or Donald aired). Canadian film of 1988 with box office receipts of Sutherland or Genevieve Bujold or so many MONTREAL - Abattle has been won but the The federal government and the government $1. 79 million - almost all of it in Quebec other Ca nadian talen ts. war is not over for Gilles Carle who is fighting for of Quebec are expected to announce, in May, When Rock Demers, producer of the film - the The only thing I want is for Canadian films to the rights of French-language dramatic authors. what measures they will take to support the sixth in his family-oriented Tales For All series­ obtain the success they are entitled to, all across The well-known Quebec filmmaker counts so-called Europea n principle. received his Golden Reel Award at the 10th Canada. For that, we in the profession have to among his victories an apology, in early April, Most commonly used in Canada is the ann ual Genie Awards, he had a speech prepared create works aimed at entertaining large sections from the National Film Board of Canada. American principle whereby the author is paid a for his audience. of the population, and the media has to devote Carle, who has directed numerous films for lump sum of money and the producer claims all Last year, as winner of the Air Canada ! much more tin1e and space towhat is happening the NFB, was refused NFB funding for his latest rights to the property. Achievement Award, Demers slammed the in this country. Our media-and then the public feature film project La Corril'eall on the grounds Carle has said that most of his pres~nt day federal government for proposing to spend will follow - have to be less addicted to American that funding priority would be given to younger earnings are from repeated European broadcasts more on submarines than on culture. products, show more support and confidence in upand-coming NFB filmmakers according to the of his films. The European prinicple also gives This year, he pointed out the perennial our own creative community and not wa it until NFB policy mandate . the author th e moral authority to block the use of Canadian problem of French and English-lan­ one of us has been recognized down south Studio C, the French-language drama studio, his film. guage films unable to cross the language barrier. before realizing he has talent and saying it also indicated that Carle's budget, estimated at This is the second Golden Reel Award for loudly. $5 million, was too high. Demers whose La Cllerre des tllqlles (The Dog Mw Do you know why all this has not been Also in question, according to Michel Slopped the War) won in 1984. achieved? Because it is not easy for all the Montagne, communications NFB, was the Montreal La CmiOllille et la baleine was nominated for reasons that we know. And it will not be easier nature and and quality of the script. three Genies, original screenplay, original song, with free trade . At the rate that large Canadian However, Carle, who admits that it is not supports festivals cinematography. corporations are selling their interests to larger unusual that a script is rejected, charged the NFB MONTREAL - The City of Montreal will spend The following is the English-language portion American corporations, I wonder what political with discrimination and threatened to use the close to $500,000 to promote festivals in the city of Rock Demers' acceptance speech, Genie and cultural control we will still have over our full weight of the Paris-based Societe des auteurs this summer and fa ll. night, March 22, 1989 country 30 years from now. et compositeurs dramatiques (SADC) to Film and video related festivals to receive "I am happy and I am sad. Will we see a time Happily, for the time being, we ha ve a strong prohibit the Cannes Film Festival screening of a funding are the Montreal World Film Festival, when the Golden Reel Awa rd will be given to a minister of communications, well aware of the retrospective homage to the NFB on its 50th Aug. 24 to Sept. 4, which will receive $80,000 for film released without hidingits identity, equally importance and the future of the cultural anniversary which he directed. promotion and the International Festival ofNew successful in both its English and French market industries for a modern nation. It would be It didn't take long for Interim Film Commissio­ Film and Video, Oct. 19 to 29, is slated ior and with at least $5 million at the box office? great, in a no t-too-distant future, to be able to ner Joan Pennefather to issue a written apology $30,000. Three of the five Golden Reel Awards over the say the same of our minister of finance. to Carle admitting that there had been evidence Future Images will receive $45,000 to promote last five years were given to French-Canadian The same way that French Canada wi ll of discrimination. its bicentennial exhibition on the French films . AU three of them had the potential of even meaningfully be part ofCanada forever, Canada Carle did not get the funding but is reportedly Revolution greater success in English Canada; and the same should meaningfully be part of North America satisfied with the apology. is true of the success unachieved in French forever. It was questionable, says Montagne, whether Canada by the two English Canadian films It is the second time I am honored with a Carle had the legal and moral authority to stop TORONTO - Martha , Rllth al1d Edie, a film by which got the Golden Reel Award. Golden Reel Award and as we say in French, the NFB retrospective at Cannes as he had Deepa Mehta Saltzman, won first prize - Best We have to solve that problem. Generally jamais deux sans trois. " already been paid for his work by the NFB. Feature Film - at the 11th annual International speaking, it is easier in French Canada because, Wha t is certain, says Montagne, is that Carle, Festival of Women's Cinema in Florence, Italy, among other reasons, our media is much more who is also the president of the Canadian March 8 to 12. airmo (604)984-4563 mera

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workshop _ Ions Tuning In : Ci nematog raphy Naw CHRIS PORTE R lighting: The Esse ntia ls ALGARY- "What we need is a major drama tic television series to keep people The Image : Raw Material MARK CHAMPION working," says Calgary-based producer Doug McLeod . At press time McLe ~ d and ~ : The Canodian Sens ibili ty ALAR KIYI LO fe llow Ki tch In Synch producers Pe ter Campbell, Tom Dent-Cox, Grace Gilroy, 'Wars 01 Seeing : Director versus OOP Allen Stein and Arvi Liimatainen were meeting hopefully tocl ose the financial deal on their proposed 13 half-hour series called Sylvan Lake. These ries will fea turea cast Process : Your Woo.. You r lob PETER METTLER oCf charac lers who provide a humorous look at the clash of communities that happens every summer at Alberta's only beach resort, Sylvan Lake. Don Truckey, a former Calgarian lured s,'. ; I_ ~. IlISars TeleIi lm / Ontario Film ~ C<>

COUNTRY, KIDS AND HORSES There is television work coming up for Canadian country bands. CFAC Television in Calgary, a Global affiliate which was recently taken over by BCrv, starts shooting seven of 14 half-hours in the new series called Capital COlill try. Calgary fiddler Roy Warhurst is the show's ',. /~~~\f~.: . musical direclor. He's lining up such cross-country talent as the Great Western Orches tra, ...... ,.... UfT . ~o no n - pfof,l of90n,zotionw~~l:)y~ /; ...... ~ ~ Ronnie Prophet, Keli ta Haverland and Vald y. ~ . ,~ i"~', .,;.'" ' Ontorio Art$ Council, theConodaCound, NFB , ri)e '. ..,," . .• ~" .;t -, ,,,. . Ontario Mi n l~try of Culture and Communica tiOn s, Metro Dan Parrish will produce and direct the syndicated country musicseries which began taping . .. '. "~. l 'C~':' .,l" , r ',,' Toronto Cultura1 Atfoin., the TOI'OOlo Art$ Council , in CFAC studios at the end of March. Besides country music shows, Parrish has a good track : ~ -~... '. ·,.,:·r [\FT Telehlm. a nd the Ontaria f;l m [)e.elapmen' • ....."""".,::. " J Corporation. For more infonnotion on lFf, coli 1-' 16) record in producing child ren's programs. Twenty-six newMr Wizn rd's World episodes have . . , 596-8233 been commissioned by the Nickelodeon Cable Network in the U. S. In post-production is a new series called Bal/ooller Landillg, produced and directed by Cinematogr aphy Sym posiu m Parrish, targeled atthe 3-11 -year-old marke t. Leeand Sandy Paley, a Calgary duo in their40s,

01. " have been entertaining children wi th th eir songs and stage antics for years. The Paleys share hosting duties with three characters created by Calgary master puppeteer, Ronnie Burkett. Filling in for the dry spots in local produc tion is some exlended work on John Frankenheimer's feature drama, The Fourth War. About eight to 10 ACfRA members have roles until theen d of April, and about the same number ofDGC members are working in the production office and on set as 1st and 2nd ADs. The Fourth War is shooting just west of ,TAILLEFER. DEVINE Calgary in the Bragg Creek area and outside of Banif at Canmore. Bel' Bliss, head of DGC's & ASSOCIATES Calgary chapter, notes, "It's a very challenging shoot because of the worst winter ever. " 1I1) INSURANCEBROKERSLT~ Primo BaUy is at the fine cut stage with the complete mix to be finished at the end of April. Primo's distributor, Thomas Howe Associa tes of Vancouver, will be taking it 10 Cannes in May but it has no offi cial screening. Offering a comprehensive insurance package on all your feature, television, commercial, theatrical or special event LIFE AFTER HOCKEY? production. D'v10 NTON- Cool Film - spotted at Edmonton's Riverdale hockey rink recently in minus-30-degree temperatures were hockey legend Rocket Richard and director Our specialists, with twenty years of Tom Radford . The chill wea ther brought added realism1 0 Great North Production's experience, can design an insurance shooting of Ken Brown's and Mike Puttonen's script Life Afrer Hockey. Life After Hockey firs t made its debut as a play at Edmonton's theatre fes tival, the program to suit your specific needs. FringeE. The film , after eight days of shooting in Edmonton and two in Montreal, wrapped on We have world-wide facilities. February 25 th. AndyThom son produced ona budget of$413,OOO. As well as Ken Brown and Rocket Richard, Life After Hockey stars Edmonton Oilers coach Glen" Slats" Sather, Canadian, and now World, figure skating champion Kurt Browning, and actress Patricia Phillips and Elizabeth Brown (no relation to Ken) . Edit and post-production is scheduled for the end of June, and it is expected that the one­ MICHAEL DEVINE, C.I.B. hour leleplay will be aired na tionally by Winnipeg's CanWes t Broadcasting in the late fall or or early winter. JACQUES TAILLEFER, CI.B., F.LLC. THIRD WORLD FEST 240 St. Jacques Street, 10th Floor The ninthThird World FilmFe stival kicked off in Edmonton March 3rd, Over 60 films, several Montreal, Quebec H2Y 1 L9 premieres, an International Expo of Organizations, the GeoMunch Food Fair and the Telephone: (514) 288-2544 WorldBeat Boogie Dance should exhaust even the most committed of fes tival party animals. Telex: 055-61159 QuestIO ns- ARIA, the Alberta RecordingI ndustry Association - whic;h includes manys ound technicians fr omAl berta's film industry - is housed under CISNFM 'srool. Will the takeover by Shaw Cable of C1SN FM endanger ARIA ?T he National Screen Institute-Canada continues to have problems gaining a charity number fortax purposes, Why? For answers, check this column next month.

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The Genies Best original song competition are: Allbe el crepllscille by Gilles Among other notable film subjects were LOUIS NATALE and ANNE WHEELER Legare of Coll ege Ahuntsic; UII besoill d'espace by Bernardo Bertolucci, Henry Moore, Victor for" COWBOYS DON'T CRY" Johanne Cote of College de St-Jerome with Hugo, Edgar Degas, Martin Scorsese, Betty TORONTO - Dead Ringers swept this year's 10th Cowboys Don't Cry anniversary Genie Awards, winning in 10 special mention for Chit Chal by Eileen Travers of Goodwin, Man Ray, Lillian Gish, Botticelli and College Dawson. categories including best picture of the year, at a Best achievement in overall sound many more. ceremony beset by location and production BRYAN DAY, ANDY NELSON, DONWHITE Nivis, a film by Simon Goulet, won the prize Of the total number of films, 44 were in difficulties. Dead Ringers for best technicians and director. This prize was competition. Due to the rescheduling of the Juno Awards, awarded by Ie Syndicat des techniciennes et The Pratt and Whitney Canada Grand Prize the much larger Metro Convention Centre was Best achievement in sound editing techniciens de cinema du Quebec. went to The Frieze of Naples (Switzerland) by not available this year, so the ceremony was held WAYNE GRIFFIN, DAVID EVANS, Gaudenz Meili for the quality of the relation in the cramped confines of the Harbour Castle DAVID GLAMMARCO, RICHARD CADGER, between the work of the artist Markus Raetz and Hilton. The situation was not made any better TERRY BURKE AMPIAand that of the filmmaker without the latter in any Dead Ringers when CUPE went on strike against the CBC just way upstaging the fo rmer. seven days before the show. At the last minute, Local Heroes L' Arche qlli COllie (Switzerland ) by Bernhard Best original screenplay Lehnerand Konrad Wittmer : special jury prize. the members of the Academy found themselves GLEN SALZMAN, TREVOR RHONE Vila Flltllrista (Great Britain) by Lutz Becker: constructing the set and doing the hair and Milk and Honey declare winners makeup. best film for television. The Academy's executive director, Andra Best adapted screenplay EDMONTON - The winner is ... Breaking Ihe Le Repas chez livi (France) by Alain Jaubert : Sheffer, who essentially produced the show this DAVID CRONENBERG, NORiMAN SNIDER Ull seen Barriers: We're Nol SllIpid. Not only was best educational film. year with a handful of volunteers, said that she Dead Ringers the documentary, one of a seven-part series Impressions (Hungary ) by Andras Bojti: best found the experience "a challenge ", but was produced by ACCESS Calgary, named best of film on artistic technique. "very proud that the show went on " despite the Best feature length documentary the Festival, it also won in the Motivational Film Scarfe by Scarfe (Great Britain) by GeraJd COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL many obstacles. category at the 15th Alberta Motion Picture Scarfe: best portrait of an artist. RonMaM For Sheffer and colleague Maria Topalovich , Industry Association (AMPIA) awards. Jail Cox: A Pailller's Odyssey (Belgium) by Bert the Academy's director of communications, this The film, produced by Carolyn Johnson, Beyens and Pierre De C1ercq: best monograph. Besl sltorl documentary showed enough intelligence and style to defeat Sllrface Sellsible (West Germany) by year was also a celebration of 10 years with the THE WORLD IS WATCIDNG 129 other entries this year. The awards Jean-Francois Guiton, Ursula Wevers, Karin Academy. In a surprise ceremony at an Air Harold Crooks, Jim Monro, Peter Raymont Canada reception prior to the Genies Academy ceremony was held on February 25. Stempel: the John Schweitzer Gallery Prize for president AI Waxman presented Sheffer and Best live aclion sltorl drama Briefly, a few of the other big winners: blto The best essay. Topalovich with awards recognizing their THE MYSTERIOUS MOON MEN OF CANADA Fields, a CFRN and Kicking Horse Lnme/110 pOllr Illl hall/me de lettres (Canada) by dedicated service to the furtherance of the Colin Brunton, Bruce MacDonald . co-production, picked up awards for best short Pierre Jutra : National Film Board Grant for Aid drama, as well as best dramatic direction and to Crea ti vi~'. Academy's aims. Best an imaled sharI script. The winners are : THE CAT CAME BACK Geoff LeBoutillier's Borderlowll Cafe, Cordell Barker, Richard Condie produced for CBC's Family Pictures and under Best motion picture the auspices of the National Screen Institutei DEAD RINGERS, DramaLab, gained awards for best actor, art Barde, Krawagna, David Cronenberg, Marc Bayman Young cinema: direction and cinematography. In the non-drama tic category Julian Smither's Best peiformance by all actor ill aleadillg role Shaver: winners JEREMY IRONS, Dead Ringers strong representation IIlIage Works walked off wi th awards fo r best direction, script and musical score for the TORONTO - Women in ftlm and video, a Best peiformance by an actress in aleadillg role at Montreal fest documentary Riper of Joy. three-year old non-profit organiza tion , has JACKIE BURROUGHS, AW inter Ta n Local Hero - that's Jan Miller after recognized the outstanding contributions of MONTREAL - Rose Meringlle by Pierre Fedele co-ordinating the third successful Local Heroes Barbara Barde, Rena Krawagna and Helen Bl§t peifonnance by an actor ill asupporting role won the Prix de la releve for most promising Film Festival in Edmonton. Miller says, "We Shaver to film and tele\~sion. REMY GIRARD, Les Portes toumantes directorat the 10th annual Festi va l International packed the audience in in the mornings, and had Actress Sheila McCarthv, hosted the awards du Jeune Cinema. larger attendance than ever before in the of merit ceremony in Tor ~nto in March. Best performanceby all actress in asupporting role Ano th er Quebec production, GerClire by evenings. "This year marks the start of the event Barde is a documentary producer-director, COLLEEN DEWHURST, Obsessed Jeanne Crepeau, won the Alcan Pri ze for best as an annual fe stival. Krawagna is the program advisor for CBC video with Virlllni Fictiolls (U. S. A. ) by Matthew independent productions and Shaver is an Best achievement in direct ion actress (Deserl Hearls, Belhllllc: Tile Makillg of a DAVID CRONENBERG, Dead Ringers Koniceks haring the honor. No lIIeo/ pides (Ch ile) by Tatiana Gaviola lVas award ed a special Frieze of Naples Hero). Best achievement ill cinematography mention. PETER SUSCHITZKY, Dead Ringers Close to 1,600 peo ple attended th e fes ti val of takes grand prize 58 films and vi deos over the six-day period. Best achievement in art directioniproduction design Other prizewinners are: Schgagll/er (Ger­ at art film festival Rose gets CAROL SPIER, Dead Ringers many) by Martin Kirchberger, Alcan Grand Prize for best 16mm. second prize went to MONTREAL- The 7th International Festival of Jutra award Best achievement in film editillg NOllslop (Finland) by Kari Paljakka. Films on Art, March 7 to 12, has ended for RONALD SANDERS, De ad Ringers The Alcan Grand Prize for best 8 mm was another year, having sho wn no feKer than 94 MONTREAL - Hubert-Yves Rose, director of La shared by Krallse 0111111 ii/III neerit (esl COIllIllt' 1111 film s and videos on Art in aUit s form s. ligllc de chairllr, is the winner of the Claude Jutra Best achievement in costumed esigll repns meoille (Germany) by Chri stoph Doering; Th is vear's fi lms included the controversial Award presented by the Directors Guild of FRAN~OIS BARB EAU, Les Portes Toumantes Lnlipnppa (japan) by Kazuya Taka hashi and 35 Helllllll 'NtWlo//: Frallles Froll/lize Edge and Diell ,I Canada Initiated in 1988, the $5,000 prize is c/1Di,i Poris made in 1969 starring Jean-Paul presented annually to a first -time feature Best music score Slimmers (Australian) by Mark Ti tmarsh. Belmondo. director. HOWARD SHORE, Dead Ringers Winners of the Grand Prize in the coll egial

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considering challenging the tax in court. for its de velopment of the emulsion process, has partly because the producers are too busy. The Panavision President George Ma h says it may be poss ible to announced tha t it will present an award to la idea was first announced at the B. C. Motion argue that theatres don't lease movies but pay Cinemath eque Quebecoise (CQ) on its 25th Picture Associa tion AGM and, since then, there production centre fo r the right of performance. anniversa ry. have been several exploratory meetings. Independent thea tres ore also concerned. Ray Kodak will present the Prix Li vern ois (named Producer Stephen Foster sa ys his general gets funding Mainland ofThe Ri dge said prices were bound to aft er th e photographer) to th e CQ for its archiva l concern is that " we don't have an organization go up since many sma ll er opera ti ons operate on work. The presentation will take place April 17 in the West that speaks for producers. Alot of MONTREAL- Marcel Masse, the minister of less than a six per ce nt pro fi t margin . Douglas at th e CQ in Montrea l. policycome s from agencies but there's no strong Communicatiort5 and Lise Bacon, Quebec Isman of Westcoast Theatre Service Lin1ited voice saying here's where we want to be three or minister of Cultural Affairs, have contributed warned that the tax could be critical in small fi ve years fr om now. " $3,1 48,000 to Panavision Canada Ltd ., towns where neig hborhood houses are faci ng He says some producers are not particularly developer of the ExpoTMa trelStudios stiff competition from \~deo stores. interested in forming another association but do Panavision project. (Exhibitors aren't the only ones impatient Credo Group want to see a working group emerge from the Both governments contribute equal sums with the British Columbia government. The exercise. Whatever fo rmthe newgroup take s, it under the Canada-Quebec Subsidiary B. C. Motion Picture Association is askin g for a expands will operate under the umbrella of the BCMP A. Agreement on Cultural Infras tructures signed in new financial incenti ve program to counter March 1985. ini ti atives in Ontario and Quebec. ) WINNIPEG - The Credo Group, a Manitoba The fw1 ding will be used to construc t three The BCMPA's newly elected president, Chris production company which has been serving the large studios equipped wi th the la tes t Bruyere, says the association is not "intere sted province for 15 years, is expanding its Winnipeg technology for high-budget television and film in getting into a competition with Ontario and operation with a new subsidiary in Vancouver. Mickey Mouse projects by national and international Quebec, but the original decision by Quebec to President of the firm, Derek Mazur, announced producers. add a provincial income tax write-off was not an that he and partners Joan Scott and Wayne meeting Panavision was selected from fo ur companies option availa ble to the other provinces, whose Finucan have fOrn1ed Credo Productions that responded to an invi tation in May 1988 to taxes are collected by Ottawa. " Limited . VANCOUVER - Premier Bill Vander Zalm came submit a plan for a production centre. Bruyere says the B. C. film industry is young Mazur intends to keep the Winnipeg office back from a trip to Disneyland with a warning to and" consequently we need a program with open, but admits that this recent move to B. C. filmmakers . After meeting with Marty greater incentives to attract investment. " Vancouver reflects' the need for Manitoba Katz of the Disney studios, the premier said As of our deadline there had been no producers to .. enl1ance (their) profitability. " some local companies are getting too greedy. He indication of what kind of action the Social The new division of Credo will continue to said Katz thinks Vancouver is the best B.C. taxes Credit government might take in its upcoming produce commercials, sponsored films and alternative to Hollywood but : "They are budget. drama. Mazur agrees that this move will also somewhat concerned because the advantage theatre film enhance Credo's profile in Western Canada. they used to have with a lower Canadian dollar "Vancouver is much tighter and more is rapidlyeroding. They're also concerned some rentals competitive," said Mazur, "but there's a lot of the people are becoming a little bit greedy. more work. " That could be a problem. " VANCOUVER - Beginning March L the British Kodak gets It was a Mickey Mouse meeting : the Vander Columbia government began collecting a six per Zalms were given stuffed Mickeys and, in cent tax on all rentals of films that arrive from what it gives return, gave Mr. Katz a jade paperweight outside the province. Finance Minister Mel complete lvith a laser engraving of the famous Couvalier said the decision to collect the new tax TORONTO- The old maxim that one good turn Producers too busy mouse in a Mountie unifOrn1. follo wed complaints from video rental stores deserves another, applies to the presentation of which were already paying 6 per cent. the Air Canada Pri ze to Kodak Canada for its to organize The following day, Famous Players increased co ntribution to the Canadian film industry . ticket prices by 25 cents although the Mohon Having been honored by Air Ca na da at the VANCOUVER - Plans to form a B. C. Producers Picture Theatre Association of B. 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Canadian programming, trying to find a way to First Choice reach their objective while bei ngse nsitive too ur concerns. We for mulated our policy with th ose considers conce rns in mind . " Percifield would not elabora teo n tb e nature of pay-perview tha t policy, saying that it was, by nature, an in ternal issue. He fe lt the letter-writing TORO NTO- Pay-per-view, a for m of selec tive campaign to alert the Board of Governors to the subscrip tion television, may be a reali ty in seriousness of their concerns was effecti ve in Canada in one to two years, says Fred bringing the two sides together ove r what was Klinkhammer, president and CEO of First becoming a very public dispu te. Choice pay TV. In a hearing held in Toronto las t year, the CRTC expressed interest in the idea and said it wo uld consider proposals provided they don't harm the existing pay TV networks. "Presently, in Cana da, thereare no more than 200,000home s with the technical abili ty to access Best of British TV pa y-per-view," Klinkhammer told CiilellIa Callada. "There is still a major ca pi tal expendi­ sold here ture to be evaluated in order to bu ild the necessary infrastructure. One has to exa mine MONTRE AL- The British are preparing to how to use pay-per-view to benefit the launch another North American invasion with consumer as well as to be nefit Can ada's own th e best of th e BBC every two weeks on film production industry. videocassette. "We need to evaluate the effect on all BBC Video World, a three-hour video package participants and that ma y well mean a joint of the bes t television news, sports, drama and co-venture between pay and cable, each side light entertainment, will make its North bringing its own strengths to the operation. " American debut on April 8. In the U. S. the number of homes equipped to It is a joint venture by BBC Enterprises and receive pay-per-view programming is still low, Lloyd's of London Press tailored to the special but since 1986 it has been reported that the interests of the extensive British expatriate number has increased from 2.1 million to 6. 8 (estimated at 500,000 in North America) and million. The service would provide "big ticket " anglophile market. items like rock concerts or sports events such as The annual subscription rate is $639 which prizefighting on an per-show basis instead of the includes 26 three-hour videocassettes and six FilmArts monthly fee for a pay TV service. full-color magazines. Two-year and six-month subscriptions are also available. Film rts The DGC settles New Montreal with CBC 16/35 post-production TORONTO - The Directors' Guild of Canada is chapter of CIFC Television and feature claiming victory in its dispute with the CBC In their March Newsletter, Alan Erlich, president MONTREAL - The Montreal Independent production of the National Executive Board, proclaims that, Filmmakers association has declared itself the "the battle which began last October when the Montreal chapter of the Canadian Independent eBe agreed to terms and conditions with the Film Caucus (CIFC). DGA in order to employ the American director Members of the new chapter say the decision Jack Shea, is officiaUy over as of March 1. " to merge the former NFB freeiancers'lobby However, Don Percifield, Senior Staff group with CIFC-Toronto aUows the filmmakers representativeibusiness agent for the Ontario to deal effectively with broader issues. 424 Adelaide St. East District Council who bargained with the CBC, is CIFC-Montreal says it recognizes that the 2nd Floor more philosophical in tone. He told Cinema primary organization representing directors in Toronto M5A 1N4 Canada, "For legal reasons, the CBC is not Quebec is the Association des Realisateurs et aUowed to enter into an agreement with us. This Realisatrices de Films du Quebec (ARRFQ) with involves the in-house union with the CBC (the whom it plans to work in solidarity. Association of Television Producers and The C!FC-Montreal executive members are Directors) which has jurisdiction over directors Irene Angelico and Magnus Isacsson, co-chairs ; Telephone (416) 368-9925 We accept those legal realities. Mark Achbar, treasurer ; Martin Duckworth and "The discussions with the CBC were much Anne Henderson, members-at-Iarge; Don broader then the narrow focus of our dispute. McWilliams and Sarah Butterfield, newsletter They centred around their need to promote editors.

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Women's fest. honors Poirier Chinese fest. : sixty films MONTREAL - The fifth Festival international de MONTREAL - The Montreal International films et videos de femmes de Montreal will be Chinese Festival will be held in Montreal, May held june 7to 15. The festival features a diversity 26 to june 2. Sixty films lvill be screened in three of films by women filmmakers from around the venues -la cinematheque quebecoise, the world . Aretrospective of films by Anne-Claire National Film Board and the Goethe-Institut. lora MacDonald seems to have started a trend. Her successor, Marcel Masse, was in Poirier of Quebec will be held . Vancouver in February for a series of meetings with cultural movers and shakers. York ton fest.: streamlined Perhaps inspired by her appearance in The Campbells, the recycled minister spent a African fest. will show the best categories chilly hour or two as an extra on the set of Terminal City Ricochet. MONTREAL -Les Sones JOllrm!es de Cinema YORKTON - The 25th edition of the Yorkton The Honorable Minister entered the costume trailer in elegant pinstripes. Moments Africain will be held in Montreal, April24t030at Short Film and Video Festival will be held May lilterF he was transformed into a grubby rubby complete with brown-bagged bottle (contents the Cinematheque quebecoise and the NFB 31 to June 4. The award categories have been unknown). It was a damp, windy afternoon but Mr. Masse patiently sat through seven takes. (Guy Favreau Complex). Features sections of streamlined this year. Special events this year Mind you, he didn't have to do much, just stare vacantly into space as a ragamuffin-on­ the festival, pre'sented by Vues d'Afrique are: include an opening night reception, a slowpitch skateboard skidded in and out of the shot. Maybe the multiple takes were a form of revenge; " Afrique : Images de femmes ", "Panorama du ball game and barbecue, a multicultural street British Columbia waited a long time for federal film dollars, it seemed only fair to make the cinema africain ", "La soiree creole ". dance and a Golden Sheaf Awards presentation. Minister cool his heels for a short time. Term inal City Ricochet is a $2. 8million B. C. production directed by lale Dalen and produced by john Conti.

, H E NOR , HER N 5 , A R BORDER SKIRMISHES Bordertown , the TV series being shot in Maple Ridge, is a hit on the U. S. Christian Broadcasting Network cable channel. It leads its time slot among U. S. cable networks and is the most popular original show on CBN Family Channel. Unfortunately the producers have been unable to sign-up a Canadian broadcaster despite the fact the series takes place along the 49th parrallel. Viewers in France will be able to follow the adventures of the American marshal and his Mountie counterpart as early as this fall .

ANIMATORS SELL SHORTS Lupo the Butcher, a cartoon from Vancouver's animation house International Rocketship and directed by Danny Antonucci, will soon be seen on Italian TV. As well, Rocketship has sold two Marv Newland productions, Sing Beast Sing and Bambi Meets Godzilla to First Choice Pay-TV. And, South Vancouver composer John McCulloch is anxiously awaiting both Genie and Oscar award nights. The Cat Came Back, animated by Winnipeggers Cordell Barker and Richard Condie (The Big Snit) has already won prizes at the World Festival of Animated films in Yugoslavia and at this year's Los Angeles Animation Celebration. It's nominated for the Best Animated Short Academy Award.

GREY POWER CAN'T SAVE THE BEST YEARS It may be the worst of times for The Best Years , CBC Television's program for people who weren't born yesterday. The weekly magazine show for senior citizens, which has been NABH 700/800 AfC. The brightest produced out of Vancouver for the past four-and-a-half years, has been shelved. star in the north . NABET 700/BOO The show was suffering from low ratings and, since NHL playoffs were about the play havoc covers Canado from British Columbia to Ontario. We offer producers the with the schedule anyway, CBC decided to shut things down at the end of March. best crews in film and video­ Producer Rene Genereux doesn't think the decision was entirely fair. He points out that anywhere. CBC moved the show to Wednesday nights, meaning many male viewers tuned into hockey FEATURES· DOCUMENTARIES· SERIES· COMMERCIALS· FILM mstead. He says when The Best Years was seen in B. C. on Fridays, it attracted up to 100,000 AND VIDEO viewers; Wednesdays resulted in less than half of that. NABET lacol 700 Association of Film Craftsmen. 1179A King Street West, CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Studio 102, Toronto, Ontario, Canada The B, C. Festival of Arts is looking for films or videos made by elementary, secondary or M6K 3C5 . post-secondary students. Best entries will be screened at the Festival in Chilliwack May 24-28. NABEl local BOO Assoc iation of Film Craftsmen, Vancouver, British Colum­ Phone (604) 669-1333 for information. bia, Canada, 923 West 8th Avenue. University of British Columbia film students will be showing their stuff at the Robson Square Vancouver, B.C. , Canada V5Z ·1E4 . Media Centre on April29. 'Persistence of Vision' is the name of the show which begins at 7 p. m. Comparues wanting to support filmmaking at UBC are invited to become POV Patrons' a $150 minimumdonation (m?ney, goods or services) will be awarded to a deservingstuden;. NABH 800 NABH 700 Further mfo available by wnting to 'Persistence of Vision', 207 Frederic Wood Building, 6354 Wes'ern Canada Eas'ern Canada Crescent Road, UBC, Vancouver, V6T 1W5. Bus;ness Agenfs Business Agent Dave Kelly/Kevin Brawn Contact-Linda Gordon VIFF POSTER COMPETITION Phone , 1604) 736-0300 Phone, 14 16) 536-4 827 Fa x, 1604) 736-9023 Fax, 1416) 536-0859 Calling all artists! The Vancouver Interna~onal Film Festival is inviting designs for the 1989 Festival posters t-shirts and advertismg. Wmner will receive a $1200 contract for camera-ready The Film/Vuleo Union artwork.

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Nature of things broadcast withdrawn

TORONTO - For the first time in the program's 29-year history, a broadcast of a controversial episode of CBC-TV's Nature of Thillgs was Here are the products cancelled. Nuclear Power: The Hot Debate, a repeat broadcast, was scheduled to be aired February 15, but was replaced at the last minute with that make it happen! another show. Viewers were told that the show would be rescheduled for April 12th. CBC spokesperson Tom Curzon said there was some confusion about the air date but no Lighting Filters Painting attempt was made to censor the show, as some • • critics of the nuclear issued claimed. "The CBC wanted to run the show without commercials Projections Dance Floors and include a seven-minute debate at the end on • • the question of nuclear engery. This debate was not ready for the February air date so the show was moved. It was a mix-up in the programming • Screens • Stage Platforms department and not a deliberate attempt to not show the program. " Several months after the show's first airing, • Designer Materials • Special Effects CBC president Pierre Juneau meet with lobbyists for the nuclear industry, but this did not lead to the show's cancellation, Curzon said . The • Fog and Smoke • Computer Software show's executive proudcer James Murray told Cinema Canada that the negotiated compromise was acceptable but the issue was a" very contentious one. "

For furlher details contact Rosco or your local authorized Rosco dealer Katts and Dog TORONTO - Performers in the CTV series Kntl s and Dog have yet to be paid for the season's final episodes and ACTRA has declared producers Pearson-Lamb Productions Inc. unfair. The union has commenced legal action claiming the company owes the performers$380,000 for work done between October and December 1988. The show's producer, Barry Pearson, told Cinema Callada that one quarter of the series budget was being raised through a tax shelter group and the group, Skyld Holdings Ltd . of Toronto, defaulted on the payment date, which was due December 31, 1988. "There are no rea l bad guys," Pearson said, "and we don't want American executive producer Burt Leonard was launched across the U. S. in th e fall. Comedia allowed to be a competitor. " this blown up into a big thing. We feel very bad responsible fo r the ori ginal Rill Till Till se ries, but Productions is a joint venture of Primedia According to Ferns, the CBC was looking for about the situation and I' ve helped some of th e the CTV brass did not wan t something Productions ofT oronto and Los Angeles game show formats. "I think Ivan wa nted to performers out personally. The executive identifiably American. producer Don Taffner. shake up the whole schedule and lookat all areas producers ha ven't been paid yet either. " Pa t Ferns, president of Primedia, told Cillema of programming. He felt the CBC should be in Pearson says that the si tu ation will be cleared Cmlflda that, "audiences are tuning in and liking every area. " Over the past year Talkabollt has up shortly. He is now confident of a March 31 it because of the fun of the ga me. It's got a reached an aud ience level o-f 300,000 and Talkabout sells to Fox play-along aspect to it that really appeals to closing. The show is expected to go into Comedia has produced a prime time spin-o ff, production for its second season late spring or TORONTO - Talkallolll, produced by Vancouver­ people. Another key to its success is the Celrbl'ill{ Tlllkll/JOllt. "I t' s obviously worked for selection of the contestants. We run a TalkLlbolit early summer. Kalis mid Dog is earned in the based Comedia Productions in association with them in a rating sense," sa id Ferns. "It has good school and the contestants have to go through U. S. by the Family Entertainment Channel CBC-TV, has been bought by the independent audiences with an all-Canadian production various stages of this school before they're where it is known as Rill Till Till K-9 Cop. Fox Broadcastin g Company and will be instead of buying an American soap opera. "

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• Feature Films • Television Productions • Theatrical Productions • Broadcasters MARRIED·TO·THE·MOB DEPT • Book, Magazine, Newspaper Publishers e've heard of being married to the job, but this is ridiculous. Mob Story's • Writers ever-on-top-of-things uni t publicist, Sharon Singer, reports that co-producer • Record, Tape, Music Publishers Tony Kramrei ther was helping the crew move some eqUipment. It seems that • Concerts Tony the Tiger hurt his loot, but rather tha n dampen the morale of the crew, • Festivals ole-Tone shoved his bruised tootsie into ab ucket of ice and stayed on-set for the • Special Events eWntire shoot. Anumb er of crew members attempted to fuss over him and drive him to the hospital, but Krammie'd have none ofi t. As it turned out, Tonyju st sprained himself; nothing broken, but lots of respect gained as he presided over the proceedings with monarch-like grandeur. Besides, whoever heard of a producer helping the crew, much less get his hands dirty by moving equipment ? No word, however, whether Margot Kidder offered to kiss Contact Arthur Winkler Tony's tootsie better. 20 Bay Street Toronto, Ontario MSJ 2N8 MARGOT'S·NOT ·KIDDING·THIS· TIME DEPT. Tel.: (416) 868-2442 More Mob-gossip fromSharon Singer. When Margot Kidder breezed into Winnipeg tod o her Facsimile : (416) 868-2443 Mob Story stint, she was loudly proclaiming that this was it -no more acting for this gal . Appare~t l y , Lois Lane decided she was going to be a big-time movie director. However, according to Singer, Lois Lane was" having such a wonderful time " on Mob Story that she's changed her tune. Margot's still gonna direct moving pictures, but she confided to Singer that she would also continue acting. Aren't we all just thrilled ? As well, Margot also told Singer that the Mob Sfory production team was " the best crew she'd ever worked with. " This must certain ly please ACFC (Association of Canadian Film Craftspeople) local since Mob was the first feature to sign with them in Manitoba. At press-time it was announced that ACFC-Manitoba had signed another collective agreement ; this time on the three-million-dollar Last Willter.

YANKS·LOVE·CANADA DEPT. We've all heard about the Yanks nipping up here to bum out our craftspeople, use for our wonderful excha nge ra te and pillage our locations, but we never hear about Red-White-and-Bluers coming to Canuckville because they actually wallt to make a Cmzadiall story. Well, it's finall y happened' Spectrum Films, a California-based production company, has secured the movie rights to Howard Norman's acclaimed novel, The Northerll Lights. The book was a bestseller in Canada and was nominated for The National Book Award in the United States. Set in Northern Manitoba, the pic is scheduled to begin shooting on location this fall . Hoora\', as they say, for the Red White and Blue"!

SASKY·CRAFTYS·GET·WORK DEPT. Once upo n a time there was this batch 0' film trainees who worked on a lil' flick called TIle Grellt Electrical Reuoili fioll . Wa y back then, they was doin' sum on-the-job book larnin', as it were. Now, they' re actually workin'. The Saskatchewan Film Development Project's Lee-Anne Pattison reports that several recent trainees are workin' on the Manitoba production of Th eLast Winter. Louise Middleton trained under AMPIA-Award-winning art director John Blackie on the former and is now actuallyset decoratingfor real on the latter pic. Other former trainees, now working on Last Willter, are Louise Tetrault (wardrobe assistant) and Jennifer Young (publicity ). Young is assisting unit publicist Sharon (boy-that-gal-gets-around ) Singer. Pattison suggested that there may well be a few more similar placements.

MANITOBA'S.A·NICE.PLACE.TO·VISIT DEPT. Canada-Manitoba Cultural lndushies Development Olfice (CIDO) Locations Offi cer Alana (try saying her full name 10 times in a row) Langelotz reports that a May-June Ma nitoba shoot is in order for Lauron Productions' new made-for-TV flick , Tile Challellgers. This eBC fe.ature-Iength " family drama "(what else would the CBC produce?) is being helmed byEric TIll. Ralph Endersby IS producmg. Another Manitoba shoot will be the 10-miIlion-dollar Mig-Pilof, looking togo by th een d of this year. Langelotz also reported success at this year's Location Expo m La-La- Land. ClDO met with 150 producers and have since received about 10 "serious" enquiries regarding Manitoba locations.

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Maximilian Glick - the series ALZHEIMER'S FILM its ensuing legal battle. This on, TORONTO - The Oil/side Challce of Maximilian MONTREAL HOSTS TOURS CANADA SALUTE TO THE hour docudrama, written and di­ Glick, Morley Torgov's story of a small-town rected by Paul Cowan, recreates Until early June the National Film DOCUMENTARY prairie boy and his Orthodox rabbi who would Board will be presenting a power­ the dramatic events surrounding ra ther be a standu p comic, is on its way to Salute to the Documentary, a first a 1979 industrial accident in ful drama on Alzheimer's disease in North America, will bring to­ becoming a weekly TV series. The film, a Genie across Canada at local chapters Hamilton, Ontario in which 22- gether documentary filmmakers year-old Terry Ryan was blinded nominee for Best Picture, was th e surprise of the Alzheimer's Society. from around the world to Mont­ winner of the Best Canadian Film Award at last Sonia, written, directed by and by the explosion of a barrel of real from June 16 to 25. Or­ flammable cleaning solvent. year's Festival of Festivals. starring well-known Quebec film­ ganized by the NFB in coopera­ Glick's producer, Vancouver-based Stephen maker and actress Paule Baillar­ When the company was _ab­ tion with other partners In the film solved of responsibility, Stan Foster, has entered into a co-production deal geon , is the story of a 60-year-old industry, the events will focus on artist, played by Kim Gray, a union health and safety with Toronto's Sunrise Films (Danger Bay) and the role played by the Film Board representative, conducted his seven scripts are in development for the CBC. Yarouhevskaya whose memory in the evolution of the documen­ lapses become of concern to her own inquiry. Gray, who gained Phil Sava th, a Genie nominee for his screenplay tary film. The Salute will take national notoriety as a leader of daughter (Baillargeon). The film three forms: the International of the movie, will be overseeing writers from traces Sonia's deterioratiol1' and the Quebec nationalist move­ across the coun try and Torgov has been hired as Film Week in which several Mont­ ment in 1969 and in his arrest in her daughter's difficulty in coming real theatres will hold public aconsul tant. The series will be shot in Manitoba to terms with the illness. 1970 under the War Measures screenings of the most significant Act, is presently director of the inid-to-late summer. In its original French version, international documentaries of Sonia had a successful theatrical Ontario Worke rs' Health Center the past and the present, the In­ fighting for safety legislation in release in Quebec and garnered ternational Symposium where a number of festival awards. The the workplace. Stan Gray, Terry filmmakers will meet to discuss: Ryan and other members of the film is available from NFB offices audiences, form and content as it across Canada. Ryan family play themselves in Del Grande's is affected by television, the dramatized recreations while women 's perspective, the Third Sean McCann, who last year por­ Crazy People World and the marketplace and trayed Mackenzie King in the thirdly, throughout the summer NFB/CBC docudrama series The and fall of 1989 and the into 1990, TORONTO - The CUPE strike at CBC has King Chronicle, plays the role of the National Dimension will take the Ministry of Labour inspector_ delayed production in Toronto on Crazy People, a the form of a Canadian tour made- fo r-TV movie which reunites the creators The film is narrated by Donald where NFB audio-visual centres Brittain. and stars of CBC's hit series Seeillg Things . The across the country will sponsor movie is directed by George McCowan, who cooperative events with local CUl­ REPORT FROM directed every episode of Seeillg Thillgs , and stars tural organizations on the docu­ Louis Del Grande, Martha Gibson, international mentary. YUGOSLAVIA Canada's embassy in Belgrade opera star Teresa Stra tas and Jacques Godin. reports that a package of 26 NFB Crazy People is about a collection of mentally ill INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT Oscar nominees and winners people who have been living in a group home. FILM TOURS CANADA were recently shown in nine The yuppie couple who run the home are See No Evil, now being launched Yugoslavian cities. Eight films in expecting their firs t baby and feel they can no across Canada, explores a con­ the package have been bought longer deal with the pa tients. Faced with troversial industrial accident and by television. homelessness, the characters take to the streets. Del Grandeand Neil Ross wrote the screenpla y, NFB Offices Headquarters - Montreal (514) 283-9253 National Capital- Ottawa (613) 996-4259 which was produced for the CBC byDel Grande in Canada: Pacific region - Vancouver (604) 666-3411 Quebec region - Montreal (514) 283-4823 and longtime producing partner Dav id Barlow . Prairie region - Winnipeg (204) 949-2812 Atlantic region - Halifax (902) 426-7350 Northwest region - Edmonton (403) 495-3013 plus offices in most major cities Ontario region - Toronto (416) 973-0895 Bordertown is picked Border/owll, shot in Bri tish Columbia, is a receive its first run on YTV. up byCTV stud y of the conflicts that arise when 1880 YTV contributes to Since its start-up in the fa ll of 1988, YTV has surveyors place the 49th paraJIel directly down reached a penetration level of 4. 76 million TORONTO - Border/own, a $13 million series the main street of a tow n on the Montana-Alberta the Owl Centre viewers-according to Mediastats publ ished ea rl)' co-produced by Toronto's Alliance Entertain­ border. It is already showing on the Chri stian this year. Its rea ch is second only to Weathernow ment and Tele-Images of France, is now Broadcasting Network in the U. S. where, TORONTO - The specialty service YTV has of all the specialty and pal' services available. scheduled to go on air in the fall on CTV instead according to Alliance's president Susan Ca va n, annou nced th at it will con tribute $100,000 to the of the Global network as previously announced . it is doing very well . Owl Centre for Children's Film and Television. Global's president David Mintz had " no The Centre was established last yea r through a OTTAWA - The fourth international colloquium comment" on the tum of events and would only CHARLOTTETOWN - The Atlantic Film and $1. 5 million matchinggrant from the federal and on enhanced and high definition televisions say that Alliance asked Global if they could buy Video Producers Conference will be held, June Ontario governments. YTV's contribution is for systems I,ill be held in Ottawa, June 25 to 29 in the rights back and Global "immediat ely 22-25, at Stanhope-By-The-Sea on Prince the development of a te levision series aimed at 1990. The colloquium will be chaired by Eldon the 6 to 18-year-old market. The series will Thompson, president of Telesat Canada. agreed. " Edward Island.

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Revolution in Banff

BANFF - The television revolution wiD be the focus of the 10th annual BanffTelevision Fes ti val, June 4-10. Andrew Neil, executive chairman of Rupert Murdoch's British satellite service - Sky Television - and editor of The SlIl1day Til1les, will give the keynote add ress. Other key events will include a simulated commission of inquiry into the theme of The Television Revolu lion: More Choices, Fewer Voices. Among the investigators will be Pa trick Chalmers (BBC ), Gerry Hogan (Turner, u. S. A ), Michael von Wolkenstein (Satel, -Austria) and Moses Znairner (CITY, Canada). Joseph Napolitan of Public Affairs Analysts Inc., New York, will chair a panel called The Electoral Revolution. Norman Horowitz, president and CEO of MGMJUA Telecommunications, Los Angeles, will chair the session entitled The Distribution Revolution. The Visions of the Future session will use a talk-show format to introduce three sets of international experts on the television revolution. Special events and awards include the Outstanding Achievement Award which will be presented to Globo TV Network - Brazil. A reception will be held in honor of the National Film Board on its 50th anniversary. At press time, the recipient of the Award of Excellence had not been named . 25TH YORKIDN SHORT FILM &VIDEO FESTIVAL CBC has announced a three-year sponsorship MAY 31- JUNE 4,1989 of the keynote address. Entry Deadline April 3, 1989 Free trade and .,~~ ~jl~ ~Telefi l m Canada film symposium For entry forms and more information: 49 Smith Street East, Yorkton, Saskatchewan , Canada S3N OH4 (306) 782-7077 in Montreal

MONTREAL - Three days of discussion on the effects of free trade with the U. S. and the new European trade community in 1992 will open the Submission deadline is May 30,1989. Montreal World Film Festival, Aug. 24 to Cablexpo will be held at Metro Toronto Inquiries should be directed to Lorraine Chan or Sept. 4. Third world women's Convention Centre from May 7 to 10th. Federal Zainub Verjee through the National Film Board Serge Losique, president of the festival, Communications Minister Marcel Masse will be festival in Vancouver office in Va ncouver. announced recen tly that the North American the keynote speaker at a luncheon to be held Film and Television Symposium 1989 subtitled VANCOUVER - In Visible Colours, a major May 8th. Other speakers include Robert Ellropenlld Cmwdn: Fillll nnd Tell'l1isioll in the New Canadian tribute to fUrns and videos by women Korthals, president of the Toronto Dominion Tmde EIIVirOlliliellt, will be held August25t027. of colour and Third World women will be held, Cable convention to Bank and Bud Sherman, interim head of the The symposium, which will bring together November 15 to 19, 1989 in Vancouver. CRIC The Na tional Cable TV Awa rds will be leading experts from Europe, Canada and the This festival, currently looking for submis­ be held in Toronto presented on the 10th in a ceremony to be hosted U. S. will be organized by the Canadian Film sions, will showcase the work of women of by Terry David Mulligan of MuchMusic. The Institute and will be held in conjunction with the TORONTO - The Ca nadian Cable Television diverse cultures and perspectives. Forums and convention will be carried by satellite to all Mon treal International Film, Television and Association's 32nd Annual Convention and workshops \·vill be featured. Canadian cable compan ies. Video Market, August 24 to Sept. 4.

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Congratulations Images 89

TORONTO - Nor the rn Visions Independent Video and Film Association is holding its second to the annual Independent Film and Video Festival, Images 89, in Toronto from May 3 through to the 7th. This yea r the festiva l will ta ke place in two venues, Harbourfront's Studio Theatre and DEC's (Development Education Centre) newly built Euclid Theatre at 394 Euclid Avenue. National Film Board This year's Executive Director, Toronto filmmaker Annette Mangaard, says the festival has grown from last year's trial effort into a ma jor film and video showcase. Last I'ear the of Canada total budget was $20,000. This year it has grown to $145,000. Mangaard says raising the money was like " pulling teeth ". "The Canada Council doesn't fund festivals, neither does the Ontario Arts Council. Telefilm would n't support us because theysaid our festival was too close to the one held in Yorkton," said Mangaard. However, Telefilm did come through with some money, as did th e co uncil s and " about 40 different sources of funding. " Programs are being compiled by Tom Waugh, a professor of film studies at Concordia, video artist Sara Diamond fro m Vancouver and Ottawa filmmaker Frances Leeming. Two 50 great years retrospectives are being organized, one by Ihor HoIubizky to honour filmmaker Arthur Lipsett who died three years ago and another by Peggy Gale in celebration of Toronto video artists General Idea. ATechnical and Trade Forum will take place this year with a wide range of workshops emphasizing a hands-on approach. There will be two programs a night at each venue starting at 7:00 pm. Tickets are $5 per program and $8 for two. Aseries pass is $35. KINGSWAY FILM EQUIPMENT LTD. MOTION PICTURE DIVISION

Ten Swiss films tour 1665 ENTERPRISE ROAD, MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO lAW 4IA MONTREAL - Savage Law by Francis Reusser will open a rune day Swiss Film Tour, April 10 to TEL. : (416) 670-2880 FAX: (416) 670-2917 19, at the Conservatory of Cinematographic Art (800) 387-3990 in Montreal. The tour is organized by Pro Helvetia -Arts Council of Switzerland, in collaboration with the Canadian Film Institute and the Embassy of Switzerland. The tour will Roya l Bank of Canada ; Ra ymond Cyr, president International Festival of New Cinema and Video travel to Quebec, Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo, FoundationforVVFF and C. E. O. of Bell Canada Enterprises; Senator in an effort to raise funds. Vancouver, Edmonton and Winnipeg, E. Leo Kolber, chairman of Claridge In c. ; The committee members are: Rock Demers, Several prominent business leaders have been Bernard Lamarre, president and C. E. O. of film producer; Denys Arcand, film director; named as members of the honorary council of Lavalin Inc. ; Pierre Lortie, chairman and Jean-Jacques Streliski, vice-president of Cossette the Foundation for the World Film Festival. The C. E. O. of Provigo Inc. Communication; Gille Legare, director of Sony 3D conference foundation will raise funds to support the Canada; Andre Menard, vice-president of the festival and to establish cash awards for Montreal Jazz Festival and president of ADISQ ; MONTREAL - The International Conference on Canadian filmmakers. New cinema: Anne-Claire Poirier, film director; Wim Three-Dimensional Media Technology will be These council members are: Council Wenders, film director and president of the jury held May 30 to June 1 at ,the Grand Hotel in Chairman Jean-Claude Delorme, president of strong committee of the Festival of Cannes 1989. Montreal. The conference is divided into six Teleglobe Canada ; Michel Belanger, chairman of thematic categories expanding on the future of the board and C. E. O. of the Banque Nationale MONTREAL - Several leading filmmakers have agreed to form an honorary committee of the 3D film, television, holography and sound. du Canada ; John E. Cleghorn, president of The

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Distribution notes "Malarek" closes

MONTREAL - Malarek opened and closed in March bringingin between$50,000 and $60,000. As of April 3, the $5 million film was showing exclusively in Winnipeg following a three-week run in Toronto and Vancouver. The French-lan­ guage version closed during the last week in March at Cineplex Odeon in Montreal. It opened March 17 at the Berri cinema. Directed by Roger Cardinal, Malarek, was nominated for best cinematography, best acting and best directing. It is a story based on the autobiography of Victor Malarek a senior reporter for the Globe and Mail and his struggles as a juvenile delinquent turned reporter who exposed a corrupt juvenile detention system in Montreal during the early 19705. The film starring Elias Koteas, Kerrie Keane, AI Waxman, Kahill Karn is produced by Jamie Brown and Robin Spry of Telescene. It is distributed across Canada by Malofilm Group.

Comment faire I'amour ... ": holding steady

MONTREAL- After one week on 17 screens in Quebec, COllllllellt faire I'amollr avec 1IIIIIegre 5IIilS se fatigller (How to ;lIake love to aNegro witliollt gettillg tired) drew $135,000 in box office receipts. After 3 weeks, as of March 30, the film has made $300,000 . This comedy about hvo African immigrants living in Montreal's bohemian district is adapted from the novel by Dany Laferriere who wrote the screenplay with co-producer Richard Sadler. The film is directed by Jacques W. Benoit starring Isaach de Bankole, Maka Kotto and Roberta Bizeau. It is a CanadalFrance coproduction between Richard Sadler and Ann Burke of Stock International of Montreal and Henry Lange of la Societe Dedalus de Paris. Canadian distribu tors are Aska Film Distribu­ tion.

Pope's film opens

MONTREAL - The Jeweller's Shop, based on a theatre piece written by Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul il), directed by Michael Anderson, Dorfmann film opens "Dragan": soaring MONTREAL - COMBEC 89 the fourth annual starring Burt Lancaster and Olivia Hussey exposition and conference May 24 to 26, will opened in French in Montreal on April 7 in the MONTREAL- Le Palallquin des larmes, a Canada! MONTREAL - It took Yves Simoneau's latest feature the Quebec film industry as well as the Cineplex Odeon circuit. The English-language France! China coproduction opened in Montreal film Dans Ie ventre du dragon (In the Belly of the most important developments in the communi­ version was scheduled to open in Montreal on in the Cineplex Odeon chain on March 31 in five Dragon J no longer than six weeks to surpass the cations field in Quebec. Richard Ciupka, April 14. . . French venues and one English-language $700,000 mark in Quebec box office receipts. director; Christian Delmas, script writer; Andre Shot partly in Montreal, the fil~ IS a venue. The film is directed by Jacques Dorlmann AllianceNivafilm, the distributor, reports that Guy Trinque, Montreal film commissioner and co-production of P. A. C. ProduzlOru Atlas . and co-produced by Filmline International, this comedy!sci-fi film has pulled in $728,788 Michael Prupas an entertainment lawyer will be Concorziate and Alliance EntertaInment. It IS Eilfel Productions and Shanghai Film Studios. It between its opening on Feb. 17 and March 26. guests of COMBEC at the Montreal Convention distributed by Alliance Vivafilm . is distributed by Key Largo Film. Centre.

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