c I N E M A G • , R A D E NEW 5 • I Ottawa to ~eal with broadcast report 1 Non-theatrica~ indu~try looks OTTAWA - The Caplan- the report through the various Communications and Culture. to Ottawa for financial help Sauvageau report on broad- stages of examination. She has The members of this com­ casting has set off a flurry of ac- promised a n~w broadcasting mittee for the current par­ OTTAWA - Situation desper­ The interests of Canadian tivity within the department of act as a result of the study by liamentary session were ate repofts a federal govern­ non-theatrical producers and Communications as bureau- the end of the Conservative named Oct. 15 and DOC insid­ ment task force commissioned distributors should be the sub> crats weigh the implications of term of office. ers expect Jim Edwards (PC­ in May 1986 to study the non­ ject of stronger federal the political decisions which A thorough and exhaustive MP Edmonton South) to be theatrical film and video indus­ copyright legislation and a must be made; it will soon re- study of·the state of broadcast- elected president. During the try. joint federaUprovincial train­ ceive close scrutiny by the ing in Canada, the repo'rt has 1985 session, he served as the The 38-page report entitled ing program should be estab­ Commons. meet with general approval parliamentary secretary to the The Other Film Industry, re­ lished to help improve the use The Report of the Task within the industry, indicating minister of Communications. leased Oct. 6, recommends a of audiovisual materials in edu- Force on Broadcasting Policy - that the high expectations Edwards age 50 has spent $15 million per year support cation. informally, the Caplan- created by the time and energy most of his professional life in package for the industry to en­ Non-theatrical programs in­ Sauvageau Report - was offic- put into the study were met the broadcasting industry. In sure a balance between public clude films and videos used in iaIly made public on Sept. 22, (see article pp. 9). 1967, he joined CFRN AMIFM and private sources of product. classrooms from kindergarten 15 months after work had MacDonald has said that she in Edmonton, resigning his The main problem as the through university, audio/visual begun on what was, at first, a will act promptly to bring the post as general manager in task force sees it is that the trammg materials, 16mm six-month project. It is now report before the Commons, 1984. That year he was elected small Canadian market makes prints or videos borrowed the responsibility of the minis- the first step being to submit it it difficult for Canadian pro­ from public libraries or gov­ ducers to recoup the cost of ernment departments, de­ ter, Flora MacDonald, to guide __to the Standing Committee on cont. on p. 48 producing Canadian material monstration films or videos indigenously. Only 30 to 40 used in hospitals, museums per cent (or approximately and industry. UK accepts Cancon case-by-case $11 million) of the total non­ Co-chairpersons appointed theatrical purchases made in to the task force by the former communications minister Mar­ MONTREAL - The British tele­ signed in 1975 and amended in allowing for 14 per cent of all Canada in 1985 were of Cana­ cel Masse were Fran~ois N. vision industry has agreed to 1985 to include television. programming to be foreign of dian material. Sixty per cent of Macerola, commissioner of the grant a 100 per cent British "I would say a great clarifica­ which a minimum of 1.5 per this Canadian material was National Film Board of Canada content ruling to Canada/U. K tion took place," says Ferns, cent is reserved for Common­ bought from a federal or pro­ and Merit Jensen of the Win­ co-productions on a case by who is also a past president of wealth programming. This rul­ vincial government institution nipeg Film Group. case basis following a meeting the Association of Canadian ing has relegated CanadalU.K with the remaining 40 per cent from private industry. Task force members were Sept. 17 and 18 of the Canada! Film and Television Producers co-productions to the prog­ The report also states that Aimee Danis, Les Productions U.K Film and Video Mixed and the Canadian Film and ramming margins already the non-theatrical sector is du Verseau Inc.; Cari Green, Commission in London, Eng­ Television Association. crowded with U.S. programs "generally neglected or com­ Canadian Filmmakers Distribu­ land. The focus of the meeting and a high percentage of Aus­ pletely ignored when govern­ tion West; Bernie Hart, Media Paterson Ferns, president of was centered on the reluc­ trailian programs, Vladimer ment policies are formulated Services, Nova Scotia Depart­ Primedia Productions Ltd., To­ tance of Britain's Independent Skok, policy advisor with the and programs established." ment of Education; Les Mod- ronto, who has worked exten­ Broadcasting Authority (IBA), Canadian federal department Thus in order to ensure a 010, Marlin Motion Pictures. sively with the British industry the regulatory agency for inde­ of Communications, says the balance between public and as an independent Canadian pendent British television, to "defensive position" taken at private sources of production, give 100 per cent British con­ the outset of the meeting by producer, characterizes as major recommendations with­ Astral and Telefilm tent approval to CanadalU.K the IBA might have been ':successful" this meeting be­ in the support package are as co-productions under the ex­ avoided by more in-depth con­ tween representatives of both follows: governments, industry and tended agreement. sultation prior to the signing of into romance series a rebate program to encour­ unions. With jurisdiction over the the 1985 amendment. MONTREAL - Eight TV movies age increased purchases of The meeting was held to 15 independent lTV channels However, Skok says the based on the romance novel Canadian non-theatrical finalize details of the Canada! in Britain, the IBA has held fast mi.-xed commission succeeded will be shot in Montreal for ap­ material. UK co-production treaty to the British Broadcasting Act in softening this position. proximately 51 million each This was accomplished, he creation of a production on two week schedules. Emi­ says, by a clarification of the fund. tied Shades of Love, the series treaty advantages in Canada for establishing of a marketing, is being financed by Astral Film Taxes pull Viacom out of Be a British producer which in­ promotion and advertising Enterprises in association with VANCOUVER - Viacom Pro­ per cent withholding tax is just cludes 100 Canadian content program. First Choice Canadian Com­ ductions Inc., the Los Angeles a down-payment on what status and subsequent access a 150 per cent Canadian munications Corporation and company that is producing the could be as high as a 65 per to Canada's feature film and content credit for eligible UA House Romances Inc. (Los Return of Perry Mason series cent income tax on high-in­ broadcast funding. films shown on television. Angeles) with the participation which shot in Toronto and come performers; as well, The need for an agreement an increase in the capital of Telefilm Canada. The series Vancouver last year, has can­ hotel costs, airfares, transpor­ amenable to both sides was un­ cost allowance to 1 50 per will be released on TV and to celled its fall shoot in Van­ tation, per diems are being re­ derscored by Telefilm Canada cent allowable in the first the horne video market simul­ couver because of "uncertain classified as taxable). statistics showing 550 million year for eligible films. taneously in Canada and the application of Canadian tax The tax that is causing so generated by British/Canadian a tax credit of 1 50 per cent U.S. during the spring of 1987 laws to foreign performers." It much consternation, particu­ co-ventures outside of the co­ for Canadian corporations Stewart Harding is producer, is the first loss of a confirmed larly for B.C., whose film indus­ production treaty, in the past which use private produc­ Ken Atchity is executive pro­ production to hit the West try is 90 per cent U.S. gener­ two years, and 540 million tion companies to produce ducer. Coast, but will not be the last if ated, is a result of the new generated by co-productions. eligible films. Lilac Dreams, the first in the new implementation of in­ CanadalU.S. tax treaty, which The British were also Also recommended is that the series is shooting during come tax on foreign film stars offiCially came into effect nudged towards re-thinking the NFB should share half of its the first two weeks in October. is not relaxed or at least Jan. 1, 1985, though a year of their position, says Skok, by the production volume with pri­ Director is Marc Voizard. Dack clarified to U.S. producers. grace was given in which the undeniable high quality of vate companies; that Canadian Rambo who currently stars in While production com­ most beneficial treaty (old or Denys Arcand's Le Declin de distributors be allowed to ten­ Dallas as Jack E"'ing " 'i11 play panies in the East are being new) could be applied. In l'empire americain and der for the distribution of NFB the leading man. asked to open their books to 1985, then, U.S. performers Kevin Sullivan'S Anne of films. The CBC should avoid Titles in the series include federal audits, the 11 produc­ chose the old treaty which Green Gables, two award repackaging programs that Rose Cafe, Champagne for ers currently shooting in Van­ stated that employees of a cor­ winning Canadian films draw­ compete with private sector Two. Sincerely Violet, Make couver are keeping a nervous poration (in the case of film ing large British audiences at programming and allow Cana­ Mine Chartreuse, Garnet Silence, but tacitly agree that performers, loan-out personal the time of the meeting. dian distributors to handle 50 Princess, Coincidence in the uncertainty of the applica­ per cent of videocassette and Crimson. Ballerina and the tion of the tax is unfair (the 1 5 cont. on p_ 51 cont on p_ 50 other non-theatrical materials. Blues.

November 1986 - Cinema Canada/ 45 • c I N E M A G • Public prospectus back again in Ontario S0 A makes public bid

MONTREAl- There is no time Moreau (a CanadalFrance co­ TORONTO - A final prospec­ The Canadian Broadcasting He 'said one of the main dif­ like the present to turn to the production) and four televis­ tus seeking S 1.6 million in Corporation has received first ferences between the market private sector for partial ion series which are the sub­ public investment for a chil­ exclusive telecast rights for the today and that of the earlier financing of television and stance of another public offer­ dren's television series was series that is due to air in 1987. period is that a lot of people theatrical film production, says ing made recently by SDA. filed w ith the OntariO Sec­ A preliminary prospectus out­ are not looking at film and tele­ Frans:ois Champagne, presi­ This S5.9 million television urities Commission in July and lines that several other net­ vision investments as a method dent of SDA Productions ltd. production package prospec­ fully subscribed by the end of works have expressed interest of tax deferral first. Now it is The 35-year-old Montreal­ tus comes with a maximum of­ the same month. in the series that is billed as a looked at as primarily an in­ based production house with fering of S2.8 million at S 100 After a lengthy hiatus tlle musical entertainment series vestment and then as a tax de­ over 3,000 commercials, lV per unit. It is a limited partner­ prospectus for Sharon, Lois for children. ferral, he said. series, documentaries and ship. and Beam's Elephant Show Cambium Film and Video Bell also said that Dean Wit­ theatrical films to its credit has The four television series in (Series III) marks a return to Productions ltd. is the produc­ ter Reynolds has filed a pre­ gone public. the package are: the public financing of film and er of the television series that liminary prospectus on a show The public offering made in A Plein temps III, the third televisio n in Ontario. will take the format of 13 x called Vidkids. He explained September 1986 consists of cycle (36 x 1/2 hrs.) of the "It is the ftrst one the Ont­ half- hour programs. Cambium. that the company will soon file 1,280,000 shares in the com­ popular weekly series in which ario Securities Commission has previously produced an initial a fmal prospectus with the se­ pany at S3.75 each for S4.8 puppets and human characters seen in about four year," said 26 episodes of the program curities commission, which million. intermingle in a Montreal Rob Bell, vice-president and starring the Toronto trio of regulates such public offerings, "This gives us the liquidity neighborhood. This series is director of corporate services Sharon Hampson, lois liliens­ seeking S 1.65 million in public we need to be productive," shooting from May 1986 for for Dean Witter ReynoldS tein and Bram Morrison. investment. A total of 333 units says Champagne. "We lose so close to one year. It will be (Canada) Ltd. the company The prospectus, which is a at $5,000 each are to be of­ much time with bridge fmanc­ shown on Radio-Canada, Radio­ that filed the prospectus. document that outlines the de­ fered. He said Telemm Canada ing." Quebec and lVOntario. The final prospectus outlin­ tails of the public offering, says will purchase 100 Class B units Champagne says there are Rock D. is a (5 x 1m.) series ing a search for about $1.6 mil­ the series is designed for all in the 13 x one-half hour tele­ several reasons why the SDA portraying the adventures of lion in investment for the forms of television sales in­ vision series. offering is attractive and an adolescent boy by the same series was filed on July 16, Bell cluding the educational televi­ Bell said Vidkids is to take timely, not the least of which is name. Principle shooting is in the format of a high energy said. A total of 322 units valued sion market and the home government encouragement of September and November music show for kids between 8 at 55,000 each were sold by video cassette market. private television and recom­ 1986. the end of July. Bell said after the tax shelter and 12 years-old. mendations in the recently re­ Les Bottes rouges is ,a one­ He said Dean Witter The units were divided into heydays of the late '70s and leased Caplan-Sauvageau Re­ hour drama inspired by the 226 Class A units that were early '80s for movie and televi­ Reynolds has been structuring port to financially strengthen novel Monsieur Thouin by purchased by public subscrib­ sion financing a thriving busi­ deals that have reduced risk the private sector in television Jean-Yves Soucy. Principal ers and 96 Class B units. The ness has now emerged. He said and are generally shorter than and mm. shooting was completed in Au­ Class B units were purchased Since that earlier period the feature length films. Champagne is also quick to gust 1986. by Telefilm Canada at a cost of movie makers have stayed and He said a strong market for point to a submission by le Claude, Albert et les au­ S480,000. the promoters have left. public offerings in the film and Groupe Videotron to the tres is a cultural magazine television fields exists. CRTC, dated August 1986, in shooting continually from Au­ "I think you will see in the which Canada's second largest gust 1986 to January 1987. next year or two a lot more cable company promises to Financial participation in the will come out." pour S20 million into private programs is from Telefilm A lawyer with the Ontario sector production over the Canada, La Societe generale du Securities Commission said a • • • • • • next five years should the cinema du Quebec, SDA Pro­ preliminary prospectus for a CRTC approve the Videotron ductions ltd. and the Quebec feature length film has also purchase of TeJe-Metropole in ministry of education. YOU SHOULD been f.tled , Montreal. Gross revenues for SDA in Bret Mecredy-Williams said Production plans at SDA in· the first six months of 1986 National Park is a feature film clude a major theatrical film al­ were S5. 1 million compared to PUT US IN YOUR scheduled for international ready in negotiation entitled S2.2 million for the first six theatrical and television re­ Le Testament du Docteur months of 1985. lease. National Park Film Pro­ NEXT PICTURE ductions Inc. (a.k.a. Cinepix) are the producers of the movie that will be distributed by ITC Alberta-Quebec strike co-prod deal You have highly specialized insurance Entertainment Inc. needs and we have the know-how to Cinemars II Film and Com­ MONTREAL - The Quebec/Al­ provinces. Quebec offers pro­ creatively adapt insurance for the media, pany ltd. Partnership is the berta co-production agree­ duction equity funding and a communications and entertainment public investment vehicle for ment is signed and in place and 150 per cent capital cost al­ industries ... the movie. administrators in both prov­ lowance while Alberta offers a The prospectus outlines that inces are waiting for filmmak­ develOPment loan. We will prepare realistic estimates for your ers to make use of it. MacPherson said that al­ budgets and work to get you the best rates 57 million in public invest­ ment is being sought with lorne MacPherson, director though some pressure has and coverage available. 4200 Class A and 2800 Class B of the Alberta Motion Picture been brought to bear on the Phone or write Arthur Winkler and ask units available at S 1 ,000 each. Development Corporati:on Albertan government by the him to produce an insurance package A minimum subscription of 10 (AMPDC) and CO-Signer of the film industry in that province, specially designed for your protection. units is required. document with Jean-Guy "there is no equity funding in Th~ film is to be a comedy Lavigne, director of the Societe Sight." about campers who discover generale du clOema du Film projects applying for Arthur Winkler, CLU their campground is about to Quebec, told Cinema Canada co-production status are Arthur Winkler Insurance Broker Ltd. become an ecological disaster. at presstime, that at least four evaluated by both government A Division of the Albertan producers are neg­ agenCies on a project by pro­ otiating co-productions with ject basis. The degree to which ERRA TUM - A review on page producers in Quebec. the agencies will participate is HULL Royal Bank Plaza, South Tower INSURANCE 28th Floor, P.O. Box 126 47 of the September 1986 edi­ "Weare waiting for the first also determined on an indi­ Toronto, Ontario M5J 2J3 tion of Cinema Canada incor­ GROUPOF (416) 865-0131 application to trigger the ag­ vidual basis. Basic criterion for .~ COMPANIES Telex-06-23901 rectly gave the name of the reement," said MacPherson. approval includes shooting lo­ filmmaker who made A Kid As well as adding financial cation - an incentive to use lo­ From the Suburbs. The re­ credibility to any film or televi­ cations in either province - view said the filmmaker's name sion production, the agree­ minimal investment, the resi­ is David Vallis when in fact it ment allows filmmakers access dence/(provincial) of person­ • • • • should have read Donald Vallis. to development loans in both nel, eqUipment and services. 46/Cinema• Canada• - November 1986 • c I N E M A G • Cinemas Plus strikes 3-year deal in QC Vivafilm expands west

MONTREAL - A three year, 14- in a project at the very begin­ Demers, whose award win­ MONTREAL - Victor Loewy, English Canada, says Loewy, is film distribution agreement ning," says Goudreau. ning feature film La Guerre who has a solid reputation in less of a going concern al­ between five of Quebec's bet­ To his critics who say that des tuques/TIle Dog Who Quebec as an independent dis­ though be will continue to ter known film producers and Cinema Plus has taken too Stopped the War (box office: tributor of European films, is serve the small market that Cinemas Plus Inc. is the envy large a piece of a limited mar­ 5 I million in Quebec and jumping into the distribution does exist. of a number of Quebec-based ket Goudreau argues that "bus­ 5250,000 in English Canada) of commercial American films "Foreign films don't seem to distributors. iness is business" and that the was the first of his films to be in a major way. mean anything in Toronto un­ Representing three produc­ agreement does not stand distributed exclusively by The Montreal based Vivafilm less they have critical success tion companies, the producers without certain expense and Cinemas Plus, says the trend in International, which has re­ in New York and even then it is are Rock Demers of Les Pro­ risk. producer/distributor relations cently become a wholly­ questionable. " ductions La Fete Inc.; Roger "We-are committed to an ex­ is away from "project by pro­ owned subSidiary of the Al­ On the European front, Vi va­ Frappier and Pierre Gendron penditure of, at the very least, ject" deals and towards longer liance Entertainment Corpora­ film International has recently of Productions Oz Ltd. ; Claude 5 1 million explains Goudreau term agreements with several tion, is opening offices in To­ opened an office in Paris staf­ Bonin and Suzanne Henau lt of who adds that the Telefilm producers. The most recent ronto and western Canada fed by Alexandre Heylen, for­ Les Film Vision -'i Inc. Canada Feature Film Fund will example, says Demers, occur­ from where Loewy will handle merly of Roissy Films. Loewy is The agreement, signed in sufficiently strengthen the red in September when Viva­ the Alliance product as well as currently working on the July and announced at the more aggressive small dis­ film International became a 10 to 12 commercial American financing for a world launch of Montreal World Film Festival tributors who will, in turn, be whOlly-owned subSidiary of films per year. Les Fous de bassan a in September gives Cinemas able to open up the market for the Alliance Entertainment Loewy told Cinema Canada Cinevideo/Les Films Ariane co­ Plus Inc. exclusive 35mm, Quebec-made films in French Corporation. at presstime that he would be production directed by Yves 16mm, video and pay-TV and English Canada and over­ signing a Canada-wide franch­ Simoneau. rights as well as certain TV seas. "A producer is much better ise agreement with a major U.S. rights to an estimated 14 fi lms Regardless of what the off if the distributor is stronger independent distributor by MONTREAL - Gilles Vigneault, to be produced over the next winds of fortune may be bring­ in terms of a greater volume of mid-October. films, screen access, more the popular Quebec poet, is three years. ing Quebec-based distributors, Vivafilm has recently ac- ' money with which to back on the screen in director Richard Goudreau, co- Andre Link, president of the quired a package of four fea­ negotiate rights and more cash Jean-Guy Noel's latest feature owner of Cinema Plus with Association quebecoise des ture films from Cinecom (U.S.) available for minimum guaran­ film entitled Tinamer. Yves Bohemier, says the deal distributeurs et exportateurs which includes Matewan, the tees," says Demers. Tinamer is a S 1.9 million will facilitate easier term plan­ de film de TV et de video, says most recent film by John Sales. ning for each film project. that distributors who criticise With the success of his re­ co-production between the "Natural expansion for me is Cinema Plus Inc. regularly the Cinema Plus agreement lationship with Cinema Plus, it I'Association cooperative de towards English Canada with production audio-visuelle books its films with the Cine­ must realize that alliances was Demers who enticed more heavily commercial sales (ACPAV) and Corporation plex-Odeon theatre chain. (producer/distributor) come Bonin and Frappier to enter than I have carried in the past," M&M Ltee in association with "What we have for,med here and go. the three-year agreement. says Loewy. the National Film Board of is a sort of informal family. We "I don't think the association The three producers have Foreign film distribution in Canada. meet on a regular basis and this will have anything to say about also formed an association allows us to become involved this deal," says Link. called Cinevov which, Demers says, .handles certain television rigllts and international sales. He says a percentage of the re­ Car and Truck turns from the product distri­ buted by Cinemas Plus under the agreement could be re-in­ Rental Company vested into Cinevov. The three producers have also formed an association with star qUality called Cinenov which, Demers says, handles certain television wants a part rights and international sales. He says a percentage of the re­ turns from the product distri­ inyourn~ buted by Cinemas Plus under the agreement could be re-in­ vested into Cinenov. mOVIe Demers says he plans to re­ lease six films under the agree­ ea ment including Bach et Bot­ tine scheduled for a ~ COMPLETE VIDEO November release in French POST PRODUCTION Canada and a February release in English Canada. The Young "" Magician will be released in both French and English in March and The Great Land of Small is currently shooting with a French/English release set for August 1987. 3/4" editing Claude Bonin's Henri will be released by Cinemas Plus in Betacam to 1" January and plans are in the Contact: works for a Cannes Film Festi­ Steve Hacker val debut of Un Zoo la nuit, currently in the shooting (416) 763-5591 stages, produced by Frappier and Gendron. (416) 367-9224 Goudreau, who plans to 113 BERKELEY ST. open a Toronto office no later SOMERVILLE TORONTO, ONTARIO than Christmas, says the pro­ ducers' agreement has resulted Car & Truck Rental Ltd. M5A 2W8 in a doubling of his staff to 10 1968 Bloor 5t. W., Toronto, Ont. M6P 3K9 fu ll-time employees.

November 1986 - Cinema Canada/47 • c I N E M A G • those who "worked the mar­ London Market in November. ket" this year were successfuL With sales at the market TV sellers complain of Montreal market "Our priority this year was amounting to 1 per cent of an­ Canadian product," says Dins nual sales and having counted MONTREAL - Increase the six-night hotel passes were most common complaint more. "We went out of our only 2S lV buyers, Rouillard number oflV buyers attending sent to buyers with an expres­ among the group. way to contact many buyers." suggests the market "forget the market place at the Mont­ sed interest in Canadian lV "Those with high expecta­ She explains that because of about television" and real World Film Festival or get product, but Dinsmore would tions expressed disappoint­ the first time emphasis on strengthen the feature film side out of television is the message not say exactly how many of ment at the number of buyers," Canadian product, many of the of the market. . Canadian sellers are sending these buyers responded to the says Villeneuve, who adds that buyers in attendance were par­ "The Montreal festival is for the festival organizers. invitation. there were also problems with ticipating for the first time. She movie buffs," says Rouillard. "It The message comes hot on Among the sellers who say in-house television monitors says publicity by word of is not the right time of year for the heels of the this year's mar­ they are disappointed with the used by regular customers of mouth will mean an increase in television and although Canada ket place (Aug. 24 to 31) in failure of the market to pro­ the Meridien Hotel. the number of buyers next is a good producing country Montreal's Meridien Hotel duce buyers are members of "Most say that if the buyer year. we do not have enough dis­ where, for the first time in the the Ontario Film Development problem can be solved all Uzanne Rouillard of Film­ tributors. " festivals' ten year history, a Corporation contingent of 13 other problems will pale in sig­ option Iriternationale Inc. in Dinsmore argues that the special Televidcan section, de­ companies which participated nificance. They feel there is no Montreal says one reason for market is held late enough in voted to Canadian television in the market for three days. point in being in Montreal if the weak turn-out of television August to avoid the vacations and video programming was Of these, seven companies they can't sell their product," buyers may be the late August period and that buyers would introduced. have indicated they will not re­ says Villeneuve. timing of the festival just prior welcome the opportunity to Of the 750 market partici­ turn next year; three will re­ Dinsmore acknowledges the to the London and European screen programs in Montreal pants from around the world, turn if changes are made and absence of enough buyers as markets. before the more demanding just over 300 were buyers in­ three companies have said something the festival is striv­ "August is the month ofholi­ fall markets. cluding distributors in both they will return. ing to eradicate, however, she days in Europe," says Rouillard, film and television. Brian Villeneuve, executive adds hastily, that the feasibility who adds that buyers may be Caplan- Sauvageau of dOing business at the Mont­ Television buyers, she says, coordinator of the OFDC, too busy to travel to Montreal cont. from p. 45 told Cinema Canada that an real market is determined by represented an "increasing with preparations for MIPCOM to parliament and became a absence of lV buyers was the the seller's own efforts and that minority." No fewer than 200 in MIFED in October and the member of three standing committees in the House of Commons - communications / culture, labour / immigration, external affairs / national de­ fence. Other members appointed to the Standing Committee on Communications and Culture are Jim Caldwell (PC), Sheila Finestone (Lib. communica­ tions critic), Lynn McDonald (NDP, communications critic), John Gormley (PC), CarolJac­ ques (PC), Bob Pennock (PC). At presstime the election of the chairman by committee members was scheduled for Oct. 21. Gabriel Fontaine (PC-MP for Levis), past president of the Standing Committee, told Cinema Canada he expects the minister to submit the re­ ONE port "within several weeks" and that the unimpeded pro­ cess of legislation from first to third reading will take at least six to eight months. He noted that the workload of the com­ STO~ mittee, as yet not determined, will affect the rapidity with which the committee can make recommendations on Caplan -Sauvageau. FO~ In addition, the minister has called for responses from the private sector and the general public to the recommenda­ tions of the report. A series of informal public discussions will be held, and the minister and DOC staff will meet with representatives of the industry, the provinces and various other interested parties. During the past year, the re­ port had become the brunt of many a joke, due to its con­ tinually receding due date. First anticipated in January 1986, then March, June and August, the past minister of Communications Marcel Masse was fond of saying that he was going to send it directly to the cant. on p. 49

48/Cinema Canada - November 1986 • c I N E M A G • WWII. She's also working on a time, Damberger and his co m­ of Kicking Horse's involve­ SHOOT ALBERTA feature for Atl antis called Cow­ pany of Young Alberta Film ment w ith production isn't de­ boys Don't Cry. Makers are developing some fin ite, since Arvi Liimatainen, by Stacey Bertles On The Ed ge , a half- hour feature length scripts. production supervisor on oyalties. Anne Wheeler's Wheeler's ho me town. drama w ritten, directed, and Dave Winning, Damberger's Paper Marr iage, may have first feature, premiered Loyalties' success in Canada produced by Franc iS Dam­ Calgary counterpart, has "al­ o ther commitments. Among Llate September to positive w ill de termine distribution in berger, was screened Oct­ most" secured distribution for them is Pok er Night, a feature reviews and good audiences - the United States. It's also ober 6. It's a study of a suicidal his fi rst feature. Sto rm pre­ about a single career woman except in Toronto and Van­ slated for release in Britain and teenager and the cast includes miered at the Montreal fil m w ho becomes pregnant. It was couver. Universal acclaim Australi a. Thomas Peacocke (Genie w in­ festival last year to rave re­ writte n by Kath erine Neilsen hasn't seemed to help it in Wheeler is c urrently shop­ ner fo r The Hounds of Notre views. Winning has received of Vancouver and Liimatainen those centres, although ping fo r a producer fo r By e ' Da me). Damberger is making offers fro m companies in has been developing it as a pet Wheeler said the box office is Bye Blues, her fea ture script a name for himself. His fi rst Canada, the U. S. and even project. "holding steady" in Winnipeg about the romances between drama, Rat Tales, aired on Japan. Production of Flash The Haunting Of Hamil­ and Calgary. It's been ex­ rural Al bertans and the army CBC last season. Edge w ill be Frame , his next feature, has ton High, Si m com 's 53 1/ 2 tremely popular in Edmo nton, trainees posted here during shown this fall. In the mean- been postpo ned until spring nonsequel to Prom Night, There's no other word about w rapped late in September. upcoming produc ti ons in Cal­ The suspense/mystery, di­ gary. Ha m ilto n 's Quest, th e rected by Bruce Pittman, is HOw about Mobile Image $2 million series developed by part of a three picture deal a consortium of CTV affiliates, backed by Simcom and Allar­ w rapped August 15. Golden com. Higher Education, a for openers? Harvest, a CBS made-for-TV comedy, and Blind Side, a movie, finished September 18. psychological thriller, are Stingray, the NBC series slated for production in To­ Your TV Shows produced by Stephen ). Can­ ronto. nell's production company, Altho ugh L.A. special effects w ill shoot until mid-October. wiz Jim Doyle (A Nightmare That deadline may be pushed On Elm Street) w as recruited back if the seven episode for Haunting, producer Ray series, starring Nick Mancuso, Sager insists that "it's not a :f:~e!o !~~ e~~ed~a~~eat is extended to 10 or 13. slasher." Some of the trickier and on-line editing Aside from Stingray, there's effects included a scene where for your Television not much productio n in Cal­ a girl is swallowed by a Programming, gary. As o ne local put it, "the blackboard and the ghost of a Mobile Image ... whole ( Calgary) film commu­ mutilated prom queen who nity is in Vancouver, working rises from the body of another. the affordable video on Airwolf." Four Edmonton schools com­ production house. So far the biggest local pro­ prised Hamilton High, which Ask about our new demo tape. duction starting up will be "becomes a character of its Call 416/591 -1400 Stone Fox, an NBC TV movie own." for openers. produced by Edmonton-based Allarcom and Taft Entertain­ Caplan-Sauvageau ment. The five week shoot is cant. from p_48 scheduled to begin November 3, although locations haven't National Archives, unread. In been confirmed. the w eek that MacDonald suc­ Stone Fox is an adaptation ceeded Masse as minister of of a children's story by John Communications, one highly Reynolds Gardiner. NBC is air­ placed federal appointee ing it in the Sunday night time suggested that the entire re­ slot (March 1) as an experi­ port would be supressed, ment. Producers are hoping it never to be made public. will break through and create a Now , due to the autho rity demand for family entertain­ with which it is w ritten and ment. the care with which its recom­ Bo Ho films, a subsiduary of mendations are backed w ith the Golden Harvest Group, is statistics and carefull y reason­ bringing ano ther feature to Al­ ed argument, the Caplan­ berta. Unlike Paper Marriage, Sauvageau Report has imposed which sho t in Edmo nton last itself as one of the most impor­ summer, it is no t Canadian fi ­ tant documents dealing w ith nanced. Production is tenta­ broadcasting and culture to be tively scheduled to begin mid­ commissioned by any Cana­ November. Locations include a dian government. It has be­ prison in Lethbridge, a cadet come Vi rtually impossible fo r camp in Banff, and an army the curre nt government not to camp in Edmonton. The extent give it due considcratio n.

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November 1986 - Cinema Canada /49 • C I N E M A G • armed robbery. UK treaty cont. from p_ 45 Morning Man fights Menard who was in the audi­ The British delegation finally ence for a well-attended Filiatrault ad Gang make low budget agreed that although the spe­ back as critics Chicoutimi opening during the cifics of the co-production last week in September says film with alittle help from the Board treaty must comply with the the film is an accurate inter- Broadcast Act there is no clear lower box office draw pretation of the more crucial MONTREAL - It would appear Gang explains that he could cut schedule to define British events of that period of his life. that Denise Filiatrault, one of not afford to wait for a public content and that an advanced Cousineau takes exception Q uebec's leading film actress­ funding decision by La Soci<~te ruling on the quality of every MONTREAL - "We are fighting to the critics who say the fic­ es, is not beyond lending her generale du cinema before CanadaJU.K. co-production back," says Gaston Cousineau, tional element in the storyline considerable acting skills, not making his first film. would determine British con- executive producer of the re­ is too strong. to mention box office poten­ "There are other projects, tent status. cently released theatrical "A critic has the righ t not to tial, to a young filmmaker the subject is timely and the Ferns says an accurate as­ drama, The Morning Man, di ­ like a film," says the executive named Peter Gang. spirit to make this film is here sessment of the outcome of the rected by Daniele J. Suissa and producer, "but it is his duty to FiIiatrault will play the lead now," says Gang. mixed commission meeting is produced by SDA Productions see if the filmmaker has role of Margot in the 60-min., Thus, stretching every avail­ that the British have suddenly Ltd. reached his or her objective. 16mm Peter Gang Production able dollar with help from his become aware that Canadians Cousineau, who is not We set out to make an intelli­ entitled Portrait de femmes friends and assistance from the can produce high quality tele­ pleased with the critical re­ gent commercial film which is - a feature drama shot in and PAFPS program of the NFB, vision programming. sponse to The Morning Man, entertaining and we have suc­ around Montreal and currently Gang is currently using the Put another way, Skok says, which premiered Sept. 25 in ceeded." in post-production. facilities at Main Film in Mont­ "the British feel superior and English in Montreal and Although Cousineau is dis­ A story about the fear of real for post-production work. don't want to see anymore opened in a dubbed French appointed with the first weeks aging as portrayed by three Among Gang's friends are sub-standard American sch­ language version the following box office in Montreal women of different genera­ Markita Boies (Marie), a regu­ lock." day in four venues, says that (SI3,073 in four French-lan­ tions, Portrait de femmes is lar cast member of Theatre du The mixed commission was launching an "intelligent com­ guage theatres and $2,113 in Gang's first foray as writer, Nouveau Monde in Montreal, co-chaired by Jeremy Kins­ mercial film" in Quebec is one English-language theatre, producer and director. Philipe Dube (the curator) and man, assistant deputy minister risk")' business. He says he may Sept. 25 - Oct. 12), he says The 27-year-old Montrealer Irene Keesler who plays of cultural affairs and broad­ open his next film outside the word-of-mouth publicity and a has personally raised most of Martha. The cameraman is casting with the Canadian fed­ province. revamped advertising cam­ the $15,000 spent on the pro­ Steven Reizes. First assistant di­ eral department of Communi­ The Morning Man is based paign, will send more people duction to date against a defer­ rector is Sylvia Porter. Paul cations and Hugh Evans, de­ on the true story of Robert into the theatre where they red budget of S 1 50,000. He Herbison is the director of puty undersecretary of the de­ Lavallee - Menard who is cur­ can judge the film for them­ calls Filiatrault's participation photography. Peter Gang is a partment of Trade and Indus­ rently a morning talk-show selves. on a pay deferral basis, "no­ graduate of CEGEP Uonel in try (Britain). The Canadian de­ host for CJMT 420 radio in "The best way to fight the thing less than a stroke of great theatre_ He has a communica­ legation included Peter Pear­ Chicoutimi. The story focuses critics is to get people to see fortune," and adds that the tions degree from Concordia son, executive director of on his determination to prove the film for themselves," says time and energy spent by his University and has worked on Teleftlm Canada and represen­ his own rehabilitation after es­ Cousineau, who expects a Tor­ cast and crew is the greatest several theatrical and mm pro­ tatives of the ACFC, IA TSE and caping from a prison where he onto and Vancouver opening incentive to make a noticeably ductions in Quebec and over­ ACTRA. served time for 22 counts of before Christmas. good first film. seas.

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SO/Cinema Canada - November 1986 • c I N E M A G here, and when are we going ter of Finance. It will be a com­ across Canada, they have the• must be resolved quickly be­ Viacom cont.from p. 45 fore more losses of produc­ to start lobbying. I've written a posite of interviews and state­ effect of discriminating against tions occur. He pointed out re­ letter to Michael Wilson as has ments by local service industry B.C with its high proportion of service corporations) that cently that there are several virtually everyone on our representatives, union mem­ foreign film production. "It didn't have a permanent resi· cases where production com­ crew, and I hope it'll have bers, producers and provincial seems like our film industry is dence in Canada were not tax· panies that are scouting B.C some impact, but we may even and City government offi cials being penali zed for being so able when they worked here. are making up two budgets - have to take it to the protest on the tax . During a recent successful ," added the minis­ The new treaty has defined one for Canada and one for al­ level to be recognized." Carr crew lunch break at Dominion te r. categories more carefully, dif· ternate U.S. locations. If the describes Article 16 as Bridge (Roxanne), Chapman While bevies of tax law yers ferentiated pe rsonal service Canadian tax situation remains symptomatic of a lack of un· and the volunteer cameraman look at possible areas of fl exi­ corporations from the others, unclear, or if higher Canadian derstanding of the differences coll ected video testame nts to bility in the interpre tation of and have stated that employees tax rates are applied to U.S. between performing artists the industry's concern over the treaty, industry insiders of personal service corpora· performers, the production such as rock stars, who take what is perceived here as the and U.s. producers maintain an tions are now subject to Cana· comp;tnies will simply shoot in their Canadian gate back home in evitable end of the industry if uneasy vigil. Meantime there dian income tax. To make mat· the U. S. He points out that al­ with them, and performe rs the tax prevails. The meeting have been speculations on the ters worse, not only are though many U.S. producers who lend their names to was attended by Deputy Pre­ lack of \'ision of Canadian salaries taxable but so are all are fans of B.C as a place to movies that bring money into mier Grace McCarthy. McCar­ negoti ators of the tax treaty. benefits. The 15 per cent with· spend their production dollars, this country. "My feeling is that thy has spoken out strongly The concenSU5 seems to be holding tax is just a down pay· their attitude is "basically no n­ the article is not detailed against the tax on several occa­ that they couldn't have fore­ ment on what could be much combative. They don't want to enough. They seem to have sions, and at the recent Moti on seen the devastating impact more - just how much more fight - they'll just go where it's fail ed to recognize the differ­ Picture Production Celebra­ that taxing U.s. film performers won't be known until the per· cheaper and easier." ence between importing and ti on Day, declared that "We would haye on the film pro­ formers file their Canadian tax Diane Neufeld, B.C's Film exporting money. I haven't will aggreSS ively address the duc tion support industry in returns in April - but with Commissioner, is very con­ earned a dollar from a Cana· problem. We beli eve that if this country. Canadian tax rates being sub· cerned about the tax. "From dian production company in hockey players can be exempt, But the U.S. will gain if its stantially higher than in the my point of view, what's the five years -I've worked for then the people who leave producers decide not to take U.S. (the corporate rate for taxa· point of marketing a product 20th Century Fox, Lorimar and 575- 580 million behind them their productions and their ble income next spring.) Re· that nobody wants? The prod­ Columbia Screen Gems - and aft er filming in B.C each money out of the U.S. A. - most venue Canada is currently uct is essentially being sabot­ I'm worried that I won't bc year.. .could have the same of the produc tions that decide compiling an information aged." She says that her office working next year." exemption. We will work to­ against Canada go back to the bookl et which will outline art· receives a steady stream of George Chapman is organi z· wards that. " In a recent state­ States. whi ch must be cause for ists' status, and possible tax in· calls from U.S. producers about ing the making of a videotape ment to the press, McCarthy cel ebrati on among the m a n~ ' centives or credits, bur the the tax. "The political system that w ill be shown to Revenue sai d that even though the regu­ lobby groups in the C.S. whic h situation remains unclear. in the States is different than Canada and possibly the Minis- lations are being imposed all oppose "runaway" produc ti on. Hockey players and baseball here, and the relationship be­ players have been exempted tween the film commissions from paying income tax in a and the government is differ­ special provision in the treaty, ent. I don't have a hot line to and artists w orking on films the governor, but producers and television productions call me and say, 'Fix it' What would like to have the same are you doing' This tax is FlASHBACK exemption applied to them. ridiculous - we're bringing People and Institutions But Revenue Canada represen· money into your country and tatives claim that they are only providing jobs, so just fix it" carrying out the articles of the All I can do is tell them that we treaty, and that no changes can have a lobby group and that be made unless the treaty is reo we're doing all we can, but negotiated. there are no guarantees." George Chapman, business Apparently Kent Mclean, di­ representative of IA TSE 891 , rector of Source Deduction believes that the tax question Branch at Revenue Canada, and Revenue Canada employee New Cinema Fest Jim Ivey, have already met with Ontario industry repre­ sentatives, with a shouting highlights Japan match being the result. They MONTREAL - Although the are coming to Vancouver in Japanese are the focus of atten· October and will be met by tion this year, the 15th annual smaller industry groups who International Film Festival of plan to make use of their New Cinema and Video in world-famous cooperative :,1 Montreal (Oct. 16-26) pro­ style in the discussions. Ac­ r: Canadian "Film Studies / Etudes canadiennes du Cinema 2 I , -oJ mises a wide range of produc­ cording to Neufeld, "We want tions from around the world. to talk to them with a con­ Featured screenings in five structive attitude. I don't think venues in downtown Montreal that the powers that be had an The Film Studies Association include Down By Law di­ inkling of the ramifications to rected by Jim Jarmusch; God's this industry when they made Country, Louis Malle; De­ the Act, the Treaty and the presents sordre, Olivier Assayas; Maine Regulations to the Act, but Ocean, Jacques Rozier; once they realize that they'll Published with the assistance of the National Film Board Caravaggio, Derek Jarman; cripple a S 100 million industry of Canada, The National Film, Television and Sound Danse if conue-jour; Danc­ if they impose the tax, they'll ing in the Dark, Leon Marr. look at it another way. As far as ~rchives, the Canadian Film Institute, and the Social Special attention will be I'm concerned, it's a problem SCiences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. given to Japanese film and and we'll solve it together." video represented by such Warren Carr, one of Van · selections as Afternoon couver's busiest and well-re­ Order your copy now Breezes, Hitoshi Yazaki; Blind spected production managers, ($12 ea. plus $1.50 postage / handling) Alley, Go Riji ; Paradise View, says that his daily phone calls Tsuyoshi Takamine; Half Man, to Columbia Pictures Business Mediatexte Publications Inc. Sogo Ishii; Pour Kayako, Affairs people (he is currently P.O. Box 398, Kohei Oguri; Promesse, p.rn. on Columbia'S feature Outre mont Station, Yoshishige Yoshida; Attack on Roxane) involve questions Montreal, QC a Bakery, Naoto Yamakawa about the tax. "Every day they H2V 4N3 and others. ask me what's going on up

November 1986 - Cinema Canada / 51 • c I N E M A G • the screen is to make good taxes on foreign films would Canadian films. not be supported. Free trnde gets thumbs down at fest Roth countered that all art "The film and television in­ must start somewhere and ai dustry in Canada is dependent least during its inception it is for support upon Canadians." TORONTO - They came, they writer, and Stephen Roth, a foreign films in Canada. parochial. Roth, president of He said English-speaking listened and then they over­ Canadian producer and co­ "It will, I promise you, cause Alliance Entertainment Corpo­ Canada, with only 17 million whelmingly voted down a re­ chairman of a 1985 federal task the near total disappearance of ration, said he is concerned people, is too small an solution in support of free force report on the feature film United States films from this free trade will have a negative economic market to allow the trade following a debate on the industry in Canada. country," he warned. impact on the Canadian film film industry to stand on its issue at Toronto's Festival of Part of the debate focused "Good-bye Barbra Streisand, and television industries. own. Festivals. on one of the task force's main good-bye Clint Eastwood, The domination of the Cana­ "Culture to me is the expres­ After listening to two-man recommendations which is good-bye Robert Redford," he dian distribution system by sion of an identifiable group of for and against panels the audi­ that Canadian-owned com­ said and was met with applause Americans was partly because people under threat - under ence voted 83.4 per cent panies must take control of from those opposed to free great Canadian films meriting economic threat... Those things against free trade and 15.8 per film and video distribution in trade. access to a large number of that we consider culture - to cent in favor with .8 per cent Canada. "Canada is a very important screens, by and large, have not Americans are not culture at undecided. A total of 117 votes Murphy said the film and export market, it often is the been made in the past. He said all. They are industrial." were cast in the debate which television broadcast industries number one or number two, that is all changing because He said for a film to succeed was part of the festival's trade are basically capitalist and but ... it is not even as big as the great Canadian films are being it must open in its domestic forum .. opened his remarks by an­ third largest film sales area in made in larger numbers now market and do well there and The debate focused on the nouncing, "I'm an unrepentant, the United States." and there is also a gradual then it will begin to be noticed resolution that a free trade ag­ unabashed free trader." "The American film com­ change occurring in the at­ elsewhere. reement between Canada and Murphy said free trade panies feel they are in a posi­ titude of American dis­ "Therefore the argument the United States will be of sig­ brings with it strong implica­ tion where they cannot lose tributors. that I am making is essentially nificant benefit to Canadians in tions of competition in what­ this one, because if the number Roth explained that gr~at that there is no conceivable the Canadian film and televis­ ever field. He added that every one sr two export market has Canadian films have not been benefit that these free trade ion industries. artist is in competition with to yield to certain conditions made in significant numbers in talks can have for the Canadian Art Murphy, a University of others and in competition you then everyone else will fall in the past because the control of film and television industry." Southern California film school have winners and losers. line. Lots of luck and I'll take the distribution system has Roth said the only result free professor, and Steven Glober­ He said the arts transcend side bets on whether this one been in the hands of people trade can have is to erode the man, a professor of business national borders and will al­ will come to pass." who have been taking the precarious protection now administration and economics ways continue to do so. Mur­ The ayatollahs of these cul­ money out of the country. existing for the industry and at British Columbia's Simon phy explained that he is tural policies would not dare He argued that Canadians that Canadians and all North Fraser University, teamed up in strongly opposed to any at­ tax customers specifically to must protect their industry, Americans would, in the end, favour of the resolution. tempt to develop legislation help support Canadian produc­ but not to the exclusion of any suffer. Opposing free trade were that would only allow Cana­ tions, he said. Murphy said the other country. He said any­ "A very dynamic industry David Crane, a Toronto Star dian companies to distribute way to get Canadian films on thing that smacks of quotas or ......

52/Cinema Canada - November 1986 • c I N E M A G • .... Globerman said subsidies Globerman said he is an ad­ dian culture survives. and history to one another. right at this point would be in skew production away from vocate of free trade because "We probably have 'the most "And out of that we affirm great peril of disappearing." areas where Canada has a com­ overall it will lead to an im­ open border to U.S. culture of our shared experience as a Globerman listed trade re­ parative advantage. Free trade proved Canadian cultural anyone in the world," he ar­ country, we develop our sense strictions in the film and could mean a shift from big product. gued. He said, for example, 97 of values, we preserve the broadcast sectors as including budget feature films and televi­ Crane said he is concerned per cent of the movies and vid­ things that we think are impor­ Canadian content rules, Tele­ sion movies here to more that Canada's cultural poliCies eos seen in Canada are im­ tant to us, that represent our film Canada funding and tax documentaries and shorter will be bargained away at the ports, while the remaining differences from the United shelters provided by the fed­ films, he said. table during talks between three per cent are Canadian. States, which are important to eral government. Free trade arrangements Canada and the United States. Crane said he can't understand us." He said trade restrictions may mean fewer feature and The Toronto Star writer said w hy the Americans are so anx­ Crane said a large part of the push up costs in the industry television movies are made in Canadian cultural policies ious to grab hold of the re­ nation's wealth in the United and that free trade would ob­ Canada, but audiences would aren't intended to close doors maining Canadian market. States is spent on defence ina lige domestic producers to be find what is made is of better to U.S. culture, but instead are "The challenge for Canada is country that is consumed by more efficient. quality, he added. designed to make sure Cana- to make sure our cultural concern over national security products reach Canadian audi­ issues. ences." He said cultural By way of contrast, in poliCies are the means which Canada, cultural policy and our allow Canadians to express national identity have the same their ideas, works, aspirations importance, he said. Lighting by ARRI­ Schein dims as he bows out TORONTO - After less than a find a successor to Schein. ... More than a one-year stint as head of the In an interview with Cinema Festival of Festivals Leonard Canada Schein said he left the Fair Weather Friend Schein has resigned as director festival for "personal reasons" of the annual event Citing pe r­ and added that he has not yet sonal reasons for his departure. decided what he wants to do A news release from Jon next. '" think it was a very suc­ SIan, chairman of the board of cessful film festival," he said the festival, announced that adding that he is very happy to Schein resigned his post to have had the chance to work pursue other interests. on the fe stival. The festival 's deputy direc­ The Toronto daily press re­ tor, Helga Stephenson, has ported that Schein had been taken over the director's re­ criticized by festival staff and sponsi bilities until a new dir­ others and that he had been in­ ector is found. A nominating volved in conflicts with staff at \ \ \ committee has been formed to the festival office. \ \ \ ~i::l \ cnL~)IL

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November 1986 - Cinema Canada/53 • c I N E M A G I've been reaamg notices an­ well, or does it also refer to the goal of Modernity with •the ON (EXPERIMENTAL) FILM nouncing the death of the movements such as Concep­ re-integration of these modes Avant-Garde - and that Moder­ tual art and StructuralistlMater­ into our daily living, can we by B. Sternberg nism, in its acceptance by the ialist film? Do these movements think that a solution to this institutions it challenged, is associate avant-garde with the problem lies in the linking of he Ontario Film and Video criminal and therefore come complete or has run into a Modernist aspiration, as Jurgen art to popular culture? There Appreciation Society under federal jurisdiction, The dead end, and we now discuss Habermas proposes in Moder­ seem to be two problems with T(OFAVAS) was in Divi­ board ofOFAVAS, David Poole, the attributes of Postmoder­ nity - an Incomplete Project, of this; one, that the content, and sional Court in Toronto last Michelle MacLean, Anna nism (which is sometimes bringing art into a more direct spirit of work gets watered week (September 15-19), rep­ Gronau and Carol McBride, written as anti-modernism), relation with daily life? Is iden­ down, lost, or de-fused when it resented by lawyers Charlie have been joined by the Mo­ Since the' term experimental tification with popular culture is co-opted or incorporated Campbell and Ellen Murray, in tion Picture Theatres Associa­ film is commonly interchange­ and the political Left concom­ into the mass media; and two, round number two of their tion as co-applicants and have able with the term avant-garde mitant to or an essential feature that the 'cultural industries' or struggle against censorship received support as well from film, what does talk of the 'end of the Avant-Garde? And do popular art actually reinforce which began in 1982, Using the Canadian Civil Liberties As­ of the avant-garde' mean for us these attributes associate it with the dominant ideology of mod­ the film Amerika by AI Razutis sociation which received 'in­ filmmakers' the Modernist project as just ernized, capitalist, Western so­ as their test case, OFAVAS is tervenor status' during the I read and try to keep the stated or with Postmodernism ciety, waging the battle on three trial, If you wish to help with terms c1ear: _ Is Avant-Garde and its response to the 'new Mainstream narrative fIlms, fronts: firstly, appealing the the court costs, please send synonomous with Modernism conservatism', Are rock videos not only in their content, but Film Review Boards decision your much needed donations in the motivating principle of really enough' Or is there still in their very structure, (no­ that Amerika can not be to OFAVAS, 30 Wellington St 'new,' 'challenging" Does the necessity for, the impera­ tions of linearity, a progressive screened without cuts; sec­ # 1805, Toronto, Ontario M5E Avant-Garde refer only to the tive of a Vangaard' line of events that lead to a ondly, argUing that this power IS3, The case has , been tried historical or, as Peter Burger If, as Habermas argues, mod­ conclusion), and, in the il­ of prior censorship infringes before a tribunal of judges, refers to it, the 'original' avant­ ern SOCiety is suffering from lusionism they project, sup­ upon "freedom of expression" Now we await the verdict garde of Dadaism and Sur­ the separation of cognitive, port the lifeview of the culture and is thus unconstitutional; realism, and films like Un moral and aesthetic ways of to which they are economi­ and thirdly, that under the • Chien Andalou, which chal­ experiencing the world due to cally tied. This view of life has constitutional division of pow­ lenged Modernism's aestheti­ the specialization of SCience, turned out to be unsatisfying in ers, charges of obscenity are cism and shocked the public as religion and art, and identifies human terms if not down-right anti-human. 'Art Films,' in as much as they are a part of the same commercial market as 'Hollywood' films, might com­ ment upon narrative cinema, but cannot radically challenge •• it nor present alternatives to it It remains to experimental film to offer us different experi­ • ences in perceiving, • :-'estival InternazionaIe Cinema Giovanni has selected the fol­ lowing Canadian films for com­ petition: Linda Joy by Bill MacGillivray, Ten Cents a Dance / Parallax by Midi Onodera, Dark Lullabies by Irene Angelico and Jack Neidik, Knock! Knock! by Br..lce McDonald, Framing Factory by Cindy Gawel, Upstair/ln­ side and Art Academy by Kathleen Maitland Carter, and in video: Commercial Culture by Popular Projects, Fiction by Bernard Hebert. The festival will be held in Torino, Italy from October 11-19, 1986. Luca Gasparini coordinated THE COMPLETION GUARANTORS LES GARANTS D'ACHEVEMENT the Canadian selection in To­ ronto. He wishes to especially for features, pour series de television, thank the Canadian Film· television series, longs metrages makers' Distribution Centre, The Funnel, VlTape, and Piers and international co-productions et co-productions internationales Handling of the Festival of Fes· tivals.

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54/Cinema Canada - November 1986 C I N E M A G • large audiences attended the • Festival picks Arcand Perspective Canada screenings at the festival and that the as Best of Fest Canadian program has been building every year. Chbib's one- man protest just skin deep with record numbers She said audiences trust the quality available in the Per­ spective Canada section, TORONTO - No commotion, the mediocre," he told the au ­ due to 'a lack of timers,''' he TORONTO - Denys Arcand's which highlighted Canadian no hubbub, the lights dimmed dience in what was surely the said. The Decline of the Amer­ films for the third year, and and Bachar Chbib was left Festival of Festivals' most Telefilm Canada and SGC ican Empire grabbed the show up to fill the festival's standing with just a tie on as unique and startling introduc­ agreed to help out and thanks awards spotlight at the Festival theatres now. his film Evixion opened at the tion tq a film. to PFA Motion Pictures and of Festivals, garnering two of In addition to the three Festival of Festivals. Proposals for Evixion were Video a print was made in time three honors given out. awards given out, two honora­ Chbib, a Montreal film­ initially rejected by the Canada for the festivals, he said. The The Decline of the Amer­ ble mentions were awarded. maker, had slowly stripped off Council, Societe generale du new budget was 519,000. ican Empire won the John Sitting in Limbo, produced his suit jacket, pants, shirt and cinema (SGC) and Telefilm "In the age of ephemeral Labatt Classic Film Award for by the National Film Board, underwear during his intro­ Canada, he said. The National morality and aesthetics, the the most popular film based on was given an honorable men­ ductory remarks before the Film Board (NFB) of Canada screen has diminished to ballots turned in by the festi­ tion for its freshness and vital­ showing of Evixion at the To­ offered post-production ser­ gratuitous entertainment," he val-going public. ity. Actress Martha Henry was ronto festival. vices that would have made a said in the release. In response Quebec director Arcand also also given an honorable men­ It was a protest aimed at total budget of 59,000, the to the decay of this communi­ won the S 15,000 Toronto-City tion for the strength of her per­ government agencies which, filmmaker said in a written re­ cation form, eulogies seem ap­ Award for Excellence in Cana­ formance in Leon Marr's the filmmaker said, are not giv­ lease available outside the propriate, he said. dian production. The money Dancing in the Dark. ing enough to independent Cumberland 3 theatre. Chbib told the audience that was donated by The City of To­ In the most popular film cate­ Canadian filmmaking. "However, due to an in­ Evixion was made to com­ ronto and CITY-TV. gory the Canadian film Loyal­ For the most part, the audi­ crease in bureaucratic tape, memorate the death ofthe nar­ Acting festival director ties by Anne Wheeler placed ence watched Chbib quietly, the non-productivity of a rative film. Memoirs was Helga Stephenson said it is the second runner-up. Bernard while occasional guffaws, paranoid organization, and the made to the rotting of the soap first time that any film has Tavernier's Round Midnight snickers and applause in­ slow but consistent abolition opera and Seduction, a new taken two of three awards was the first runner-up. terspersed .the protest in the of the program of assistance film, will be a eulogy to the given out at the festival and it The 11 th annual Toronto half- filled theatre. to independent filmmakers loss of seduction in cinema. is also the first time a Canadian film festival attracted a total "Yes, cinema is now in the (PAPFST), the National Film "All we can do is prostitute production won the most audience of 263,000 people hands of the producer, the Board decided not to make a ourselves," he told the Toronto popular movie award. this year compared to 231,000 businessman, the profit maker, print available for the festivals audience. The third major prize given in 1985. The total 1986 box of­ out at the Festival of Festivals is fice was $430,000 compared the Four Seasons International to 5362,000 last year. A total of Critics Award, which is chosen 3D6 mms were shown includ­ by the media from Canada and ing 226 features. PSYCHOMEDIA INC. around the world who attend The 1986 trade forum at­ the festival. Hombre mirando tracted 720 delegates to three TEN INTERNATIONAL AWARDS FOR FILMS ON JAPAN al sudeste by Eliseo Subiela of days of discussions, workshops Argentina won the critics and presentations. In 1985, award. 502 mm festival trade forum Stephenson said consistently delegates attended.

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November 1986 - Cinema Canada/55 • c I N E M A G • similar programs but the great­ cellence, which encourages therefrom. While no harm LEGAL EYE er advantage of access to taxa­ this excellence and which has would result from the estab­ tion schemes and deductions. made of itself a centre for artis­ lishment of such a committee, by Michael Bergman The nature of virtually all artis­ tic activity. Reading the report the very need for one suggests tic disciplines defies these def­ he report of the Task force with: a minimum tax free in­ one gets a sense of - perhaps that in lieu of the Task Force a initions. The Task Force Act on the status of the artist come on a par with members unintended - artistic medioc­ Royal Commission would have has properly called for the red­ Twill be unique on the of Parliament (18,700.00); rity; our artistic boys and girls been preferable studying and ress of this problem by the cre­ rapidly becoming over­ special unemployment insur­ are floundering about, Jet's recommending specific provi­ ation of a new definition crowded bookshelves of the ance access; special workmen's throw them a life preserver be­ sions and mechanics for the applicable to artists - although Federal Department of Com­ compensation access; special fore they drown. It is not a implementation of poliCies and more properly the new defini­ munications. The report is one access to private pension plans question of how we as a socie­ programs which encourage the tion should be applicable to all of the few comprehensive for self-employed artists, etc. ty can lift our artists our of status of the artist and through activities which do not fit the writings in Canada on the These and related recommen­ their hardship but rather how the artist of the cultural indus­ neat confines of the distinction place of the artist within the dations are proposals which we can prevent their hardship tries in general. between an employee and a economic and social security many groups in our society from getting worse. Surely the A national advisory commit­ self-employed person. In this system. The thirty-seven would insist apply with equal only way to improve the finan­ tee would be another member regard the Task Force is not recommendations of the re­ force of argument to them­ cial condition of artists in gen­ of the hodgepodge of bodies the first body to make this sug­ port by two distinguished au­ selves. Indeed, a tax free in­ eral is to improve the success and government agencies gestion. Indeed, the Task Force thors covers the gammit of tax­ come has been as frequently of art in this Country. which input on poliCies affect­ both endorses and ac­ ation, collective bargaining, considered by all political par­ The recent Task Forces es­ ing the Canadian cultural com­ knowledges the work of the health and welfare, social be­ ties as it has been as frequently tablished by the Department of munity. While the specific Disney Report submitted in nefits and education. Artists - in the case of the liberals and Communications have been needs of say feature film versus 1979. It is in the present writ­ from every discipline will find conservatives - dismissed. required to report within an dance are different, there is er's view an indication that much that is agreeable to them incredibly short period of certainly an important need for government has not yet recog­ in the report. Unhappily this is The strength and deficien­ time. Of necessity this makes the coordination of overall nized the many arts disciplines not a conclusion which many cies of the report follow from for reports which are a cursory policy as it affects the entire as an industry notwithstanding Canadians in the larger com­ two themes which are com­ if not superficial survey of the gammit of artistic and cultural the pseudonym "cultural in­ munity will adopt. In their zeal mon to most of the recommen­ problems and the solutions. It activities. It is an open ques­ dustries" that the problem of to recognize the artist's dis­ dations: the legal definition of forces the authors to write tion whether an advisory com­ the artist's place within the tinct economic needs and the the artist's place in society and from previous experiences and mittee dedicated solely to the employee-self-employed con­ unique criteria which apply to poverty. It is common in our preconceived notions rather status of the artist can be truly cept has not yet been addres­ them, the report's recommen­ free enterprise society tQ than original study and investi­ effective without delving into sed by concrete action. In fact dations create a special class of categorize people as being an gation. This problem is typified areas mandated to other most countries which recog­ Canadians who will certainly employee or self-employed. by the very first recommenda­ bodies as for example Telefilm nize their arts as industry have be the envy of the rest of the This division is reflected in ta­ tion of the Task Force on the Canada. If another advisory adjusted their taxation, health nation or at least that part that xation, labour, health and so­ status of the artist. It calls for committee is necessary then it and social security systems to is unemployed, on social assist­ cial assistance legislation. Al­ the creation of a national advis­ should be one mandated to ad­ facilitate the artist's unique ance or underprivileged. though over simplified it can ory committee to monitor the vocate and devise strategies for work. 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S6/Cinema Canada - November 1986 • c I N E M A G • Be celebrates motion picture day Academy cautious in Quebec foray

VANCOlNER - September 27 ment totalling over $35,000. MONTREAL - The Quebec onto and director of communi­ in 1988. was Motion Picture Produc­ The first event of the day was a wing of the Academy of Cana­ cations for the Societe Boudreau says 1988 already tion Celebration Day in B.C. mini-trade forum at Van­ dian Cinema and Television is generale du cinema. looks good for ftlm production The event was sponsored by couver's Cineplex theatre, proceeding cautiously with its Since the May 1986 opening in Quebec and this he says, the B.C. Pavilion Corporation where local production com­ mandate to promote Quebec­ of the Montreal office a mem­ combined with the momen­ at Expo 86, Teleftlm Canada, panies, equipment companies, made film and television in and bership drive has increased the tum created this year by 14 and the Ministries of Tourism, studios and various organiza­ outside of the province. total number of members in Quebec nominations in feature the Provincial Secretary and tions and indiViduals set up Marc Boudreau, director of the ftlm division (Quebec) to films including Arcand's Le International Trade, Science tables and promotional videos the Montreal office, says the 122 members. There are 534 Declin de l'empire ameri­ and Investment. and literature. The several Genie Awards ceremony for film members outside of cain and Yves Simoneau's After a buffet dinner at the hundred who attended in­ Canadian film, broadcast na­ Quebec. Pouvoir intime could be the B.C. Pavilion, Bill Reid, minis­ cluded representatives from tionally in March, is not neces· In the years gone by, an En ­ spark Boudreau is looking for. ter of Tourism, gave a short virtually all levels of govern­ sarily the most effective way of glish language majority has On the other hand Boudreau speech commending the in­ ment, techniCians and local promoting Quebec-made film caused an imbalance in the in­ says he does not reject the pos­ dustry for its success. The mes­ writers, directors and produc­ of which 14 have been nomi­ house voting procedure for the sibility of replacing the Genies sage many were hoping to hear ers. Notable out-of-towners in­ nated to date. Genie Awa rds. Boudreau as­ with a more exclusive Quebec concerning a film policy w~ duded Lorin Salob and Mike He says Quebec film and sures potential Quebec memo film award. not forthcoming, but Deputy Rachmil - L.A. based produc­ television artists are seeking bers that given time, the "There is nothing carved in Premier Grace McCarthy won ers who have long been fans of assurances before joining the Quebec membership could stone that says the Genies and applause when she criticized Vancouver - and Bill Mason academy that the best interests easily constitute 40 per cent of the academy must co-exist," the Tory withholding ta.."\': on who was in town to promote of the Quebec-based minority the combined film and televis­ says Boudreau. foreign performers which is his latest ftlm Waterwalker. will be upheld by the histori­ ion membership which cur­ Quebec will have its exclu­ currently threatening the B.C. After checking out the trade cally Toronto-ceinered aca­ rently stands at 1,257 academy sive television gala this year in film industry. She pledged to fair, guests attended screenings demy with four offices across members (film and television) February. With close to 100 work aggressively towards of The Grey Fox, My Amer­ Canada. in four offices (Halifax, new members and 46 televis­ gaining an exemption for film ican Cou sin, Never Cry Wolf "The fact that the Genies Montreal, Toronto, Van­ ion entries Boudreau is cur­ performers. Later, Ray Hall and a sneak preview of lTC's have been held in Toronto for couver) across Canada. rently negotiating with Radio­ (representing the industry as a thriller The Stepfather which the last seven years speaks for One option with which to Canada to televise the gala whole) presented her with a shot here last year. itself, says Boudreau, former generate enthusiasm among awards night throughout mini-Oscar for "Best Perfor­ At noon, guests were shut­ cultural advisor with the the Quebec membership is to Quebec. mance in Support of a Local In­ tled to the Expo site, where Quebec government in Tor- bring the Genies to Montreal dustry." they were taken on VIP tours Organizer Julia Frittaion of several pavilions to see the pointed out that the private in­ variety of films that were shot dustry supported the event in B.C. for the World's Fair. with donated skills and equip- A CASE OF MUSIC MAKES IT! EXCELLENC SELECT FROM THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF LIBRARY MUSIC A VAILABL E - WITH A COMPUTERIZED SELECTION SYSTEM.

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November 1986 - Cinema Canada/57 • c I N E M A G • adaptation of Erika Ritter's about video techniques if they place for televiSion (and have FRONTS WEST "Au tomatic Pilot" for Norman are writing for television and, if been vigourously opposed by Jewison, spoke for an hour or working with a particular di, many as symptomatic of "for­ ,by Kathryn Allison so about the techniques of sc­ rector, to study that person's tress mentality") the airwaves he fall is shaping up to be a and will be a workc'ihop for the reen adaptation. He opened his work to see what kind of style are filled with U.S. reruns. Off­ busy one for screenwriters 8 participants to work on informal monologue to the au­ they have. "You may as well shore productions are on the who take advantage of all scripts that are in the second dienc(> of 2,,\ u.r;th " ~ ~"'i~-n-­ work with a director's style, rise, and the actors union is T note that he had no magIC for- the workshops and courses draft stage. Scriptwriters Kit because he or she is going to strong enough to have en­ mulas to share, just his own ex- that are available. In addition Carson (Paris, Texas) and . _ ~_ ... _U' "" ...... HIU'-'-- , JU;'lll1~ uwn ex- impose it on your script forced a clause in their collec­ to the New Play Centre's lec­ Hanis Kureishi (My Beautiful periences, and promptly gave whether you like it or not." tive agreement which states ture series, workshop with Launderette) will be leading some sage advice. "Start every In response to a stream of that Australian performers who Jean Pierre Lefebvre, and in­ the fall workshop. Pra.,,,is will project as if you know dick all. questions about "the right work on foreign productions tensive screenwriting course be advertising for entries from You'll learn more that way." way" to find an agent, a pro­ must be paid at the union rates with Phil Savath, there is a across Canada for the spring His presentation covered both ducer, a contract, Gray ob­ of the visiting producer. newly-created national prog­ workshops in February and the nuts and bolts of making a served, "one of the biggest mis­ ram starting up at Simon Fraser May which will focus not only living as a writer - "Expand takes you can make is to as­ • University called Pra.,,, is. The on polishing scripts but also in and diversify. I tried writing sume that there's a system - program is described by in­ various phases of pre-produc­ novels, but it didn't work so there isn't. There's only people Wayne 5terloff, our man at terim director Patricia Gruben tion including budgeting and now I'm trying screenplays" - and personalities and anarchy TelefIlm, was at a meeting in as a professional development funding. Applications for the and negotiating contracts; "Ask out there. You have to find Saskatchewan which was the workshop designed for people spring sessions will be ac­ for whatever you like - they'll your own way." first in a series that will work who are already doing work in cepted until December 15,- probably buy you out after the to increase film production in the film industry. The program 1986 at Praxis, Centre for the first draft anyway." He spoke of • that province. The well-at­ is being sponsored by the SFU Arts, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. V5A the technical problems in tended gathering came up with Centre for the Arts and is 156. adapting a script from stage to Had a very interesting six fundamental areas of ac­ funded by a 5240,000 grant Hours before deadline, I at­ . screen, "You don't need to weekend at the International tion: 1) create awareness of from the B.c. government for tended the first lecrure in the know what Hamlet had for Conference on Women's Is­ the film industry in the private Excellence in Education. New Play Centre's four-part breakfast in the theatre - he sues in the Performing Arts in sector, 2) establish a more Al! writers and directors in lecrure series for screenwrit­ lives on a stage called Denmark September. Spoke with Austra­ equitable procurement policy Canada are eligible to apply for ers. John Gray, who has writ­ and you accept it. But in film, lians Ann Britton and for government contracts, 3) the free program which is di' ten teleplays of his theatrical he has to have a believable life Genevieve Picot who had establish training and educa­ vided into three sessions. The hits "Billy Bishop Goes to War" outside the main action." some qualifying remarks to tional programs (particularly fall session will run from and "The King of Friday Night," Gray encouraged writers to make about the so-called suc­ for writers making the transi­ November I to December 7 and is currently working on an learn as much as possible cessful Australian fIlm industry. tion to writing for film, as Sas­ They pointed out that Austra­ katchewan is rich in drama­ lian theatres, like ours, are tists, novelists and short story dominated by U.s. and British writers already), 4) compile an product, with only 5 per cent inventory of human resources of screens showing Australian films. 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58/Cinema Canada - November 1986 c I N E M A G • - • -... kuma has the lead role and Ray Conti teamed with John Creary arm of CKVU is editing Black Hall is executive producer. (an entertainment lawyer who Tie and Blues, a variety show Videotron moves in the film or related indus­ was active in film projects dur­ based on the party CKVU tries, 5) set up a script devel­ The Meta Group is in de­ velopment on Jingles a half­ ing the late '70s) who is execu­ threw to celebrate its 10 year. into Alberta operation opment fund like Film Man­ tive producer. Conti's last pro­ Work has also started on a half­ itoba's or AMPDC's, and 6) hour comedy pilot which they hope to produce next spring. ject was a short that had the hour documentary on Armis­ MONTREAL - Le Groupe Vid­ establish a motion picture pro­ backing of Peter Brown of tice Day. CKVU has given a eotron, the giant Montreal­ duction fund. Looks like they'll They're also adapting a one­ Canarim. broadcast letter to Cal based cable company, has ex­ be calling for Paul Audley hour special, Life After Hock­ Ed Richardson of Zorah Pro­ Shumiatcher and Charles Wil­ tended its operations from soon. The next meeting is ey, based on the one-man stage show which has played ductions is in development on kinson's feature Visa with Quebec to include Alberta scheduled for mid-October. to good response across the Survival Guides, five half­ which Wilkinson is currently with -the recent acquisition of country. Meta's Stephen Foster hour comedies by Earl Pomer­ in Berlin rustling up some co­ OCTV Ltd. Edmonton • is also developing a movie ance, Bernie Slade, Wendy production interest. Serving part of Edmonton Film Manitoba seems to be script called The Outside Wasserstein and Dave Thomas. Linda Stunnel, a local writer and 2-t other communities, Al­ having its hoped for effect - Chance of Maximilian Glick The scripts are reported to be who got development money berta's second largest cable there are more dollars for pro­ from a novel. BCTV is commit­ hilarious. David Hauka is on his from Telefilm to write the fea­ company was sold to Video­ ductions in that province than ted to development on that third rewrite of Easy Street, a ture script Alias has found a tron for 528 million. This ever before. Several projects one. BCTV is in co-production half-hour pilot. Merv Campone co-producer in Torontonian CRTC-approved acquISItIon are gearing up including Dale with the Disney Channel on a is in the marketing stage on his George Menduluk. They are in gives Videotron, already the Unruh's half-hour drama pilot, partially improvised soap for 65 half-hours called Take Part. the middle of negotiating dis­ second largest cable company All Sales Final. Unruh is also teenagers called Fifteen, The children'S series shot a lot tribution agreements for the in Canada, a 52 per cent con­ in negotiations on a one-hour Michael Watt is directing the of footage at Expo. The hosts feature which will shoot in trolling interest in OCTV Ltd. drama Ace You Happy? Gab­ 13 half-hours, and John and writers are from Nelson, Vancouver in 1987. Included in the ambitious riella and Jean-Carlo Markiw Binkley is executive producer B.C. Peter Bryant's Fat Patty is proposal submitted to CRTC by are in development for a movie with Richard Baker producing. Mal Colett's Mouse Hockey written and ready to shoot, but Videotron is a promise to buy of the week called Mob Story, The series will be in produc­ League, a half-hour animation stalled over some nagging diffi­ the remaining shares in OCTV and the Winnipeg Film Group tion until early November. Hy will be in the can by the end of CUlty, as is Heartbreak Motel Ltd. and spend S I 0,800,000 is gearing up for production on Perspectives Media Group's A October, and' will air on the which has been in limbo for during the next four years in their half-hour comedy, The Life of Independence is network at Christmas time. months now. Chris Bruyere is support of a new children's Washing Machine. . ready for distribution, with Ivan Horsky's Which Way to looking at his first answer print channel in Edmonton, a read­ George Matta (Mundovision) Carnegie Hall?, a documen­ for his feature Turned Out ing service for the blind, arranging the distribution. tary about child prodigies, has which will go to market this closed -caption programming • Thomas Howe will distribute been picked up by TVO. winter. for the hearing-impaired and In B.C. television pilots seem Chris Wooten's half-hour Re­ Carnaval, the production specialry services in 12 rural to be all the rage. Wade birth of Haida Canoe which communities. Fearnley will direct Blu's has just finished posting. It'll Folly a half-hour drama pilot be part of Howe and CFDW's which is loosely based on local native Indian series which is actor and volunteer social going to market in London in worker Blu Mankuma's work November. with homeless teenagers. Man- Ricochet, a script by John Conti is in development with

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November 1986 - Cinema Canada/59 • CINEMA G • "We are not simply number tinue in the immediate future. crunching. here," Villeneuve The big question, he said, is Ontario registers biggest year ever said. He added that the OFDC's "What do we do for an encore efforts are critical to the deci­ in 1987." TORONTO - This year is prov­ dollars. We are pleased to be events like the Festival of Festi­ sion-making of production ing to be the most prolific the catalyst in developing a val Trade Forum and the Grier­ companies who are consider­ MONTREAL - France-Films period ever for film and televi­ creative and economically via­ ion Documentary Seminar. ing filming in Ontario. the only Quebec-owned sion production in Ontario, an ble Ontario-based film and According to OFDC records, Villeneuve said there is a theatre chain in operation in official with the Ontario Film television industry," he states by the end of the first seven range of factors contributing to Quebec may soon be absorbed Development Corporation says. in a written release. months of 1986, $7 million the improved film and televis­ by the large Toronto-based Brian Villeneuve, executive Film corporation official Bi)l more was spent on film and ion industry in Ontario. Cineplex-Odeon with theatres co-ordinator of the OFDC's House said the corporation has television production in On­ "There is no doubt that the throughout North America. marketing program, said the been aggressively pursuing fea­ tario than in all of 1985, which dollar exchange value is a big The Montreal newspaper Ie first eight months of 1986 have ture films, but is also con­ was the previous best period. factor for American produc­ Devoir reported Oct. 9 that brought a 130 per cent in­ :ributing to the television pro­ Villeneuve said it is impossi­ ers ... ," he said. But so are sup­ Pierre Rene, chief executive crease in the total money spent juction industry. ble to measure the exact im­ port crews, location scouting officer of France-Films is close on productions in Ontario House said that, through a pact the OFDC has had on the and a variety of other factors, to signing an agreement with compared to the same period ;pecial projects program, sup­ industry, but added that the he added. Cineplex-Odeon_ The Quebec one year before. Jort has been given to low corporation is involved, at Villeneuve said it appears based theatre chain has 24 By August 15, 1986 the pro­ Judget feature films as well various stages, in all produc­ that the trend towards in­ theaters across Quebec. Both vince's film development cor­ 1S professional development tions. creased production will con- parties refused to comment. poration, founded in January of this year, had provided more than S 1A million in funds to help with 15 productions. It has received more than :'WO funding requests. By the end of August, in On­ tario, 34 productions have pumped S 115.2 million into the economy of the province, Villeneuve said. The produc­ tions, which include feature films, television mini-series and made-for-television spec­ ials, are split evenly between 17 foreign and 17 Canadian shows made in the province. Villeneuve said the film and television production industry is booming right across Canada and North America as a whole. With the help of its newly formed film development cor­ poration, Ontario has experi­ enced a banner year, he said. The OFDC has approved funds to help support projects ranging from The Comic Book Film by Sphinx Produc­ tions to John and the Missus by Big Island Motion Pictures Inc. to Gordon Pinsent Sings Fred Astaire by Loral Produc­ tions. The film development cor­ poration has two main jobs. The OFDC is to stimulate em­ ployment and investment in the film and television industry through its production and de­ velopment program and is also to attract production com­ panies to use Ontario as a loca­ tion through its marketing program. The film development cor­ poration, between April and August 15, 1986, also invested a total of 5430,000 in develop­ ment money for script and project ideas, a news release says. Wayne Clarkson, chairman of the film development cor­ poration, said the provincial corporation's financial plan is on target with a total budget of 57.4 million. He said the OFDC's investments have stimulated the province's film and television production in­ dustry. "These OFDC investments have generated in excess of S 1 7 million in total production

6O/Cinema Canada - November 1986 c I N E M A G • • million has been put into the first seven months of 1986 from Canadian and foreign economy by the creation of 13 Small Business Development for Ontario industry productions shot in Ontario Canadian films and 5-i8.7 mil­ compared to a previous all­ lion from the production of 1-1 TORONTO - Pledging con­ and some commercial theatre program. time high of 595 million for all foreign films. tinued support for the film in­ productions. "This is a "ictory for film in of 1985 The premier also said the dustry, Ontario premier David An SBDC program works by Ontario," he told the audience Last year, Peterson said, film industry in Canada would Peterson has extended the giving incentives to indiyiduals The premie r said a strong in­ foreign productions brought benefit from a cultural ex­ province's small business de­ or corporations to im'est in digenous industry must be de­ S-I9 million into OntariO, while change berween the provinces. velopment program to include small business. Private inves­ "e1oped in Ontario. Citing a feature films, television feature He added he approves of the movie production and distri­ tors receiye a grant back from common pattern a few years films and TV mini-series at· idea of a co-production agree­ bution companies. the province equal to 15 per ago Peterson said Toronto tracted 5-16 million. ment between Ontario and Peterson, speaking at a jam­ cent of their total investment should not be filmed to look Pe terson said statistics for Quebec. TIle benefits of a cul­ packed Festival of Festivals in an SBDC If the investment like an American city for U.S. this year up until the end of tural agreement with Quebec trade forum lunch, unveiled a comes from a corporation, the productions, but should be July show a boom in both would have more than just broadening of the program return is giyen in the form of a shot to look like Toronto in all domestic and foreign produc­ benefits for the movie indus­ that is intended to encourage tax credit, while individual in­ its multi-cultural diyersity. tions shot in the province. In try. he added. investment in Canadian-owned vestors receive a cheque back Canadians were stereotyped the first seven months 553.9 and Ontario-based film pro­ from the province, a Queen's in early films as living in the duction and distribution com­ Park economist explained land of the Rockies, Niagar2, panies. later. Falls and the northwoods, he ) The purpose of the extended Previously, book publishing said. In the past ,ve didn't rlln \ / Small Business ' Develop­ was the only part of the pro­ our own show. " ment · Corporation (SBDC) yince's cultural industry eligi­ "What Ius changed is our program is to ensure long-term ble under the small business sense of identity," Peterson growth by offering support for development program. said. each sector of the film indus­ Peterson said specific crite­ Ontario, the premier added, try, Peterson told an audience ria and regulations w ill be dev­ wants to continue to attract g!,~~ who enthusiastically applaud­ eloped over the next few filmmakers from around the ed the announcement. months with the project world, but a much higher scheduled to get off the proportion of domestic films The program was also ex­ 11 tended to sound recording ground for the film industry in must also be developed. companies, medium-sized peri­ 1987. He urged printe inves­ The prm'ince's economy has Y3:euk~~with odical publiching companies tors to take advantage of the received 5102.6 million in the Joe Grimaldi, Austin Grimaldi, • Dino Pigat, & Don White . '-... ..) THE ARTISTS' NETWORK OF AMNESTY 121 SI 1'"1,,,1 Sl..li"of110. Onlano WiT 1\ ) I~\lli 'i4K ·2'i21 INTERNATIONAL 1 & Criterion Pictures Ltd.

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November 1986 - Cinema Canada/61 • c I N E M A G • 'mms will be aired in the series, City TV will be aired in con­ as a filmmaker in Canada. In EUROPEAN NOTES of these 23 are feature-length junction with the series. 1981 she produced nine and three are made-for-chil­ episodes of the TV series Plan­ . I dren films. Also to be aired are • ete for Radio-Quebec and has report released recently A season of Canadian mms was two made-for- TV mms, TV Swiss-born Canadian film­ since made two feature mms, by a committee set up to launched July 1, 1986 by Pre­ series, Danger Bay and The maker Lea Pool has been La Femme de l'hotel (1984) Ainvestigate the financing miere TV, one of Britain's pay Edison Twins, and a host of selected as a juror for the 40th and Anne Trister (1985). The of the BBC has caused a storm TV networks. The series runs short mms and documentaries. annual Locarno Film Festival in latter competed at the Berlin of controversy in the U.K for three months and presents A program of interviews Tecino, Switzerland. Pool, who Film Festival this year. broadcasting community. The a cross-section of recent Cana­ with Canadian mm per­ emigrated to Quebec in 1975, Peacock Committee, led by dian mm production. Over 40 sonalities done by Toronto studied and began her career • free-market liberal economist Alan Peacock, has recom­ mended comprehensive dere­ gulation of U.K broadcasting which, if implemented, will change the structure of the en­ tire British entertainment in­ RYDER. THE RIGHT CALL. dustry. Peacock recommends a step-by-step transformation of U.K broadcasting into "a sophisticated market system based on consumer sover­ eignty." He proposes a system . MOVE whereby England would have a ~_9#41 . host of independent TV chan­ nels, each delivered to con­ sumers on a pay-per-channel or pay-per-program basis. He has conceded that it may take until the end of the century to implement this system. There is said to be a rift in the Thatcher government over whether or not Peacock's re­ commendations for long-term change should become Con­ servative Party policy. Other of his recommendations, those put forth as the interim steps to achieving a free market in broadcasting, were well-re­ ceived and the Home Office has been instructed to give them serious scrutiny. They would include the establish­ ment of a national fibre optics grid to carry TV signals, the {(s­ tablishment ora quota of up to 40 per cent for independent .g./. ... ".--j. ... productions on both the BBC . '~ ~" ; and lTV, and the restructing of ., ------:i the 1V licence fee arrange­ ; . . ------ments. ------• ------The recently elected govern- ment in France may have to pay heftily for its decision to cancel the concessions granted to the operators of La Cinq and 1V6, the two channels created by President Fran\,ois Mit­ terand in late 1985 Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, one of the owners of La Cinq, has indicated that he will seek compensation for the cancella­ tion, pOSSibly as high as five million francs . • A new law to promote film production has been an­ nounced by the Ministry of ARRANGEMENTS FOR TRUCK RENTALS Culture in Greece. The law in­ troduces a tlnance scheme MAY BE MADE BY CALLING: with favourable interest rates for foreign producers shooting in Greece and orders all state TORONTO OTTAWA MONTREAL LONDON VANCOUVER agencies to assist producers by providing location facilities 746·2244 741-1000 332·1000 681·3300 291·9661 where possible. More detailed information ~© on the new law will appear in NOW OVER 21}5 DEALERS ACROSS CANADA © RYDER TRUCK RENTAL CANADA LTD. next month's column.

62 /C inema Canada - November 1986 • c I N E M A G • of Mclaren's film s headed the the National Film Board and promising new male star of • group of special programs at J~pe Films Services Inc. The 1986 in a readers survey done Judy Crawley was A Life Achievement Award was the fe stival. film is being offered to public by Films and Filming one of given to Norman Mclaren at and private TV channels in the Britain's largest circulation pioneer in film the seventh World Festival of • U.K and on the continent for film celebrity magazines. Fox Animated Films in Zagreb. use this fall . came to fame in the U.K with Yugoslavia. The award was D.L. Taffner Ltd. , agent for his starring roles in Back to OTTAWA - Judy Crawley, age given for "his creative work Thames Television Interna­ the Future, Teen Wolf and 72, died in her Ottawa home which distinctly influenced the • tional of the U.K, has acquired the TV series Family Ties. on Sept. 15 of a respiratory ill­ development of animated art worldwide distribution rights Fox ness. She has left behind a le­ in the world." A retrospective for Bayo, a co- of gacy of Canadian films. Co-founder of Crawley Films with her husband Budge, Mrs. Crawley's contribution to Canadian films spans a period of 48 years. It started with the first Crawley film - the winner of an amateur's contest - about the IIe d'Orleans in the St. Lawrence River and ended I N with the feature film she was working on at the time of her death. By Special Appointment, with producer Paterson Ferns, director Eric Till and a script written by W.O. Mitchell and Peter Blow, is currently in pre­ production. December 1987 is Complete the fOllowing b h . the tentative release date. Y C Oosmg the most appropriate statement. Over the years, Crawley I'm shooting my n t .. Films have been seen around •..•• < .... ex productIon In Toronto because the world in 22 languages and have won 150 awards. Among the finest of the Crawley Films, was the Academy Award win­ mift:itlli.,.",,,,.FleO,mtto ~iaiSton provides a comprehensive service ning (1975) The Man Who IClen and free Skied Down Everest. Many of the Crawley documentaries made during the 1940s and 1950s were contracted by the National Film Board. Mrs. Crawley will be well re­ membered for her series on child care entitled Ages and Stages. The short films on Canadian history shown in the Canadian Pavilion at Expo 67 was another popular Crawley the correct answer and a lot more, contact: project. Producer, director, script Naish McHugh supervisor, lab technician, Toronto Film liaison camera person, Mrs. Crawley City ot Toronto Planning d D 18th FI E _an evelopment Department was the consummate film· oor, ast Tower, City Hall maker. She was president of Toronto, Ontario M5H 2N2 the Canadian Film Institute Telephone (416) 392-7570 from 1979 to 1982. She is survived by her hus­ band, from whom she was separated, three daughters, Michal, Jennifer and Mariah; three sons Patrick, Alexander and Roderick and five grand­ children. New CFT Aawards TORONTO - The Canadian Film and Television Associa­ tion is holding its annual awards dinner Oct. 23, but the group has added a twist to its celebrations this year. Instead of awards for the best production, the CFTA will change the format it uses and now hand out awards for indi­ vidual achievement. Two win­ ners will be announced in each of five categories. The awards dinner w ill start at 6 p.m. on Oct. 23 at the Four Seasons Hotel on Ave nue Road in Toronto.

November 1986 - Cinema Canada /63 • c I N E M A G • ing a film on its own set of standards. He cited a 1978 Su­ Pan-Can fadeout to preme Court of Canada deci­ Divisional court hears censorship case sion that said a province co"uld Cineplex-Odeon say no to a film based on local TORONTO - Cineplex Odeon TORONTO - The Ontario Film The legislation allowing the you're out." standards of morality. Corporation has changed the and Video Appreciation Soci­ board to ban films is too vague Murray said the film society An OFAVAS news release name of its film distribu­ ety, a group dedicated to fight­ saying that the group may cen­ is hoping the sections of legis­ says the guidelines allow the tion wing from Pan-Canadian ing film censorship, has chal­ sor under certain conditions, lation that allow prior restraint film review board, without Film Distributors to Cineplex lenged the powers of the pro­ she said in an interview after (the banning or cutting of films consideration of context, to Odeon Films. vince's censor board in the the court case. before distribution or exhibi­ ban any film that contains "the Garth Drabinsky, chairman Supreme Court of Ontario. "What we are basically say­ tion) will be struck down by explicit depiction of sexual ac­ of Cineplex, announced that During four and a half days ing is that it doesn't tell you the court. But she added the tivity." the change took effect in Au­ of proceedings before the Divi­ anything," Murray said. She film appreciation group is not Murray said the film appreci­ gust. sional Court of Ontario in Sept­ added that under the Canadian opposed to the film classifica­ ation society argued the depic­ Pan-Canadian was founded tion work of the board. ember, the society outlined ar­ Charter of Rights fundamental tion of explicit sexual activity in I 978 and has grown to be­ "We don't want them telling guments opposing the con­ rights are guaranteed including is an irrational basis on which come Canada's largest inde­ adults what movies they can stitutionality of the revised the right to freedom of expres­ to censor films when no pendent movie distributor. see .. " Ontario Theatres Act. The sion. studies link behaviour changes Pan-Canadian is the exclusive Murray also said the society powers of the provincial cen­ Campbell also said that a sys­ to those viewing such depic­ Canadian representative for is challenging the Ontario sor board are outlined under tem which allows films to be tions. Cannon Films and Samuel Theatres Act based on the the act, which was revised banned or cut before they are But Polika said a 1986 U.S. Goldwyn Films, a Cineplex argument that the provincial after a successful 1984 chal­ distributed or exhibited is too commission on pornography news release says. government doesn't have the lenge of the legislation. intrusive. indicated that repeated expo­ Another recently announced power to censor films for The divisional court judges, Julian Polika, a lawyer who sure to erotic behaviour could film industry name change is moral purposes. Instead the at the time of publication, had appeared on behalf of the film have the effect of legitimizing that of public relations firm power is a federal responsibil­ yet to release their decision. review board and the Attorney promiscuity. He said no social Promotionally Yours ... Donald ity, she said. Ellen Murray, a lawyer for General of Ontario, said in an scientist reported on the direct Martin. Promotionally Yours Murray explained that the the Ontario Film and Video Ap­ interview after the court case effects of viewing explicit mat­ president Donald Martin said federal government has the preciation Society (OFAVAS), that the standards outlined in erial, but there are likely ef­ the name of the company has power to prosecute for said the group she represents the legislation do draw a bot­ fects. been changed to Promotion­ obscenity under the provisions challenged the legal authority tom line. "Once' really doesn't matter, ally Yours... MartinlKierans. of the criminal code. of the censor board partly be­ "The standard that is set out but repeated exposure will Genevieve Kierans, formerly Polika said the federal cause its powers as outlined in the regulations is a precise create some sort of change." the firm's company manager, obscenity statutes don't pre­ under the revised act are too standard. You know what the Polika said only a small per­ has been made vice-president clude the province from judg- vague. line is. You're either in or centage of the movies the cen­ and a partner, Martin said. sor board views are made in Promotionally Yours is chang­ this province and that most are ing its name slightly to reflect made in other communities the addition of Kierans as a where other standards exist partner, he added in a news re­ FILM EDITORS from those of Ontario. lease. SOUND EDITORS JACK THOMPSON ASSISTANT EDITORS Oadoun Thompson Associates Ltd.

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64/Cinema Canada - November 1986 • C I N E M A G • principal, the Bovey Report tries where the series is being Cultural ministers with certain reservations about Ustinov'sRussia shown include Finland, Au· Cohen makes it legal the ease of implementing a stralia, Iceland and West Ger· gather in Calgary number of its recommenda· gets picked up by the many. MONTREAL - Ron Cohen has tions. MCGreevy said he is pleased been out of practice, but that to find accord "We recognise that in differ· 8 8C among others the British have considered the situation is correcting itself ent parts of the country, cir· project because of their tradi· with the opening of a new law CALGARY - The Arts and the cumstances vary both in terms tion for high quality documen· firm, Campeau and Cohen in Artist in Canada were at the of immediate priorities and avo TORONTO - The British Broad· taries. ''The British have excep· Montreal. top of the agenda when Fed· ailable resources," MacDonald casting Corporation is the tionally high standards for Cohen, the president of the eral Communications Minister told a press conference. latest in a string of foreign documentaries of this sort, and Academy of Canadian Cinema Flora MacDonald met with her Also held up for discussion broadcasters to have purch· naturally consider themselves and Television and producer of provincial counterparts in Cal· was a federal task force report ased the rights to show the six· the masters of the form that many films, the most recent gary Sept. 11-12. on the Status of the Artist pre· hour television series Peter has brought Civilization, The being The Race to the Bomb, The federal, Provincial, Ter· pared by Paul Siren and Gra· Ustinov's Russia. Ascent of Man and dozens of is closing that chapter of his ritorial Conference of Minis· tien Gelinas. On this topiC, the The BBC bought the entire others to our screens," he said career which deals with active ters Responsible for Culture ministers also heard recom· six· hour documentary series in a written release. film production and is return· and Historical Resources con· mendations from a Quebec that was produced and di· Puncher said the BBC has ing to his first love. "Stated sisted mainly of a review of the parliamentary committee and rected by Toronto filmmaker also taken an option on most positively, I've missed the economic goals of the Bovey subsequently urged strong John McGreevy. It was broad· McGreevy's next project, a law," he told Cinema Canada. Report on the Funding of the government action in the areas cast on the ClV Television two· hour television show on With a background in legal Arts in Canada and on the of copyright, fiscal measures, network in April 1986. Al· Ustinov's first trip to China. questions dealing with con· progress, to date, of the inter· working conditions and social though exact dollar figures for Peter Ustinov'sJourney to sumer protection and or· national steering committee benefits for artists. the deal were not released, China is being produced by ganized crime, Cohen had a on films and books. The ministers agreed fo es· Jennifer Puncher, a producer John McGreevy Productions in well· established legal practice Following the conference, tablish by Oct. 31, a committee with John McGreevy Produc· association with the Global before being drawn to film MacDonald told the press that to study the recommendations tions, said the sales figures Television Network and the during the '70s tax shelter she and her provincial govern· that surfaced during the two were more than average. participation of Telefilm period. CO'producer of mms ment colleagues support, in day conference. Puncher said other coun· Canada. like Middle-Aged Crazy, Running, Ticket to Heaven and Harry Tracy, Cohen has twice served as president of of the Academy and has been active in policy, having headed up a study group on distribu· tion for the department of Communications in the early '80s. While the Ronald Cohen Film Companies Inc. and his holding and employment com· pany Laradon will continue to exist, Cohen is anxious to get back to litigation and a prac· tice which will go beyond film to entertainment law and reo lated areas. Having been caught in the tax shelter bust and worked his way back to a healthy produc· ing career, Cohen feels his ex· periences with banks, comple· tion guarantors and the realities of production will stand his new clients in good stead. POST­ Clarkson gets award PRODUCTION TORONTO - Wayne Clarkson, PROBLEMS bead of the Ontario Film De· veLopment Corporation, was PRECLUDED by one of eight winners selected at the inaugural Toronto Arts Awards. 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November 1986 - Cinema Canada /65 • C I N E M A G • amount to an eXChange of cul ­ English language. two offi cial languages, he says. ture and values, he says. "Basically the French (speak­ TVOntario recently signed a FrenchTVO to air in'87 Whil e speaking ab out the ing nations) are in a situation co-production agreement with idea of a global village pre­ where they feel the pinch," TFI, one of three public televi­ TORONTO - With the kick-off question, he says, of looking to dicted by communications says Bensimon, who has sio n services in France, to date for its new French lan­ Paris or Brussels rather than guru Marshall McLuhan, Bensi­ worked as a film editor, make a series of 50 five-minute guage channel fast approach­ L.A. mon cites the co-operative SCriptwriter, director and pro­ features on the French lan­ ing, Ontario's public television The co-production deals are work being done as an exam­ ducer. guage. The_ seri es, which also network is filling some of its not just financial arrange­ ple of an effort to create a European producers want to involves the French ministry of upcoming program schedule ments, Bensimon says, they are stronger French-speaking tele­ work with Canadian producers education, is called La Boite by forging new links with pro­ much more deeply rooted. The vision community in the face because this is a country buil t aux mots and is slated to start ducers in Europe. deals that are being made in of an international communi­ on sophisticated communica­ on TVOntario's French chan­ Co-production agreements the offices of French-speaking cations network increasingly tions networks and is a mul­ nel in January. The provincial with television producers in television producers also dominated by the use of the ticultural nation that maintains France, Belgium and Switzer­ - land are being hammered out with officials of the new French channel who are ea­ National Office gerly preparing to get the ser­ vice on air in January 1987. Jacques Bensimon, director Film Board national du film, of adult programming for the French channel, says the work of Canada du Canada being done now is breaking new ground for French-speak- , ing Ontario. "It's brand new. There is no precedent to a certain extent," he says d uring an interview at the Yonge Street offices of TVOntario. "What we have to do is put in place a whole in­ frastructure." The new channel is to serve francophone audience needs an develop television produc­ tion talent within French­ speaking OntariO, he says. The I~ new channel is to be targetted at Ontarians who want to learn in French, a TVOntario appli­ cation to "the Canadian Radio­ Nov. 21 - Dec. 7, 1986 television and Telecommun­ ications Commission (CRTC) Screenings and Symposia states. The CRTC reviewed the Film & Video by Women application in September. TVOntario estimates a po­ Themes, dates: tential audience of one million people exists for the service, Love and Language: Nov_21 , 22,23 about half of whom use French Investigating as their mother tongue. The province's public broad­ Documentary: Nov. 28, 29 , 30 caster wants to expand the 17 Screenwriters and per cent level of its total prog­ _Storytellers: Dec_ 5, 6, 7 ramming now done in French into a fu lliledged French net­ 3 panels, 2 workshops work. featuring international Bensimon says the produc ­ speakers: tions used to fill the new chan­ nel's programming will fa ll Juta Bruckner, Germany within three categories: 100 per cent TVO ntario- produced Jeannette IIjon, Lis Rhodes, England shows; acquisitions and pre­ Gabriella Rosaleva, Italy buying: and co-productions. Bodil Trier, Denmark "We are going to co-pro­ duce more and more," Bensi­ Premiere: mon says. As full programming is phased in, he says, co-pro­ FIREWORDS [Les Terribles duction deals will have been Vivantesl made with private industry, Dorothy Hemaut, Studio D, NFB, other government agencies in 1986 Canada and foreign groups. t o_ • Ontario'S francophone com­ Cinema ONF / NFB Cinema munity is being put on the Complexe Guy-Favreau world .map as links with Montreal, Quebec French- speaking European part­ (514) 283-8229 ners are arranged, he says. Ben­ simon adds that developing European. co-productions is a Cinemama, P.O. Box 1429 Stn. Desjardins, Montreal, Quebec, H5B 1H3 (514) 526-6060 more natural link for the French-language channel than Headquarters - Montreal (514) 283-9253 National Capital- Ottawa (613) 996-4259 looking to the United States or NFB Offices in Canada: Pacific region - Vancouver (604) 666-3411 Quebec region-Montreal (514) 283-4823 England as is the case with Prairie region - Winnipeg (204) 949-2812 Atlantic region - Halifax (902) 426-7350 much of the English-Canadian Ontario region - Toronto (416) 973-0895 plus offices in most major cities television community. It is a

66 /C ine ma Canada - November 1986 • c I N E M A G • .... the Swiss network will share rately shot 20 per cent to be the strength of the co-produc­ cultural link, Savard says, an at­ network is budgeting about materials and footage for the added to the rest of the mater­ tions will be the cultural ex­ traction exists because they S100,000 for the series. 60-minute shows, while the ial. Change that takes place. are in tougher financial situa­ Jean Savard, director of studio footage will come com­ A show called Telescope, "Of course we have cultural tions and can reduce costs young people's programming pletely from Geneva. But as a an hour-long science-related problems and language prob­ through co-productions. for the new channel, outlines new series of MagaZine Sci­ program that deals with just lems, but we want to find solu­ One major purpose of the other shows and types of co­ entifique programs are shot one subject per show, will take tions." Savard says co-produc­ new channel, Bensimon says, is production arrangements in in November 1986, Savard says yet another format, Savard tions will be a small part of the to develop and use the talents the works with European a new format will be used with says. Telescope is to be made new channel when it goes to of French-speaking scriptwrit­ partners. BO per cent of the content with separate BBC, TVOntario air in January, but as the full ers, actors, technicians and Magazine Scientifique is a shared between the two French channel and Swiss tele­ programming schedule is musicians in Ontario. project being developed with groups. The remaining 20 per vision hosts who use the same phased in, more co-produc­ "We are creating basically an Television Suisse Romande, cent will then be prepared in cameras and sets, but com· tions will be used. industry in this province for Switzerland's French-language Ontario and shown only here. ment for their own audiences. Not only are the European the French," he says. Bensimon public network, Savard says. The Swiss audience, on the Despite any practical dif­ French networks looking to adds that there is an amazing To start with, TVOntario and other hand, will get a sepa- ficulties that arise, Savard says the TVOntario service as a new pool of French-speaking talent to be tapped in Ontario. , ; The CRTC application states

". " that at maturity the new ser­ ~,,,,_, ' I vice will transmit about BOO hours of original programming every 12 months. About one­ third will be produced by TVOntario and the other two­ thirds will be acquired. Savard, whose credits in­ clude the children's shows Oc­ topus and Passe-Partout, says Ontario'S francophones must place themselves in an interna­ tional context. Savard, in a written statement on the new channel, says people must be able to express themselves in French at home, work or school. Through local produc­ tions and the purchase of series from Quebec and fran­ Here are the products cophone countries, television . will mirror the French lan­ guage at regional, provincial, national and international that make it happen! levels, he says. Computer problems • Lighting Filters • Painting lead to financial woes for CB C audit Projections • • Dance Floors TORONTO - Problems with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's financial man­ Screens Stage Platforms agement system will be • • examined by a task force that is expected to report sometime later this month. Designer Materials Special Effects Accountant Marcel Caron, a • • past-president of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accoun­ tants, will chair the task force • Fog and Smoke Computer Software that is to examine the system • and recommend solutions, CBC president Pierre Juneau announced. For furlher detail$ contact Rosco or your local authorized Rosco dealer The CBC had trouble with the introduction of its new computerized national finan­ cial system during 19B5 and 1986, a CBC release says. The system was designed to stan­ ~~.~ dardize CBC accounting prac­ tices and provide managers with the financial information •••• they need. •••• Caron will be helped by four other accountants. The task "" force is to work with the CBC's vice-president of finance and other corporation executives.

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