CINEMAti • TRADE NEWS • Full Implementation of law due in 0C Private labs suffer from MONTREAL - By the end of gross; and the factors which Once the regulations are ap­ NF B IT Fproductions October, the Quebec Cabinet should determine the 'house proved, the Cabinet will then 15 projects since the begin­ is expected to have approved nut' or the cost of operating a promulgate the articles of the MONTREAL - Figures recently the final version of the regula­ theatre. law which are pertinent. released by the National Film ning of the Broadcast Fund for tions of the Cinema Law. Ap­ Guerin does not foresee any Board to Sonolab's president budgets totalling 532,528,000. proval of the 140 articles of the parts of the law being set aside, Andre Fleury reveal for the Of this amount, the NFB spent regulations will permit prom­ For articles concerning film and commented that the first time the ventilation of in­ $4,399,000 internally on tech­ ulgation of the remaining arti­ distribution as defined in the cinema dossier is one of the vestments made by the NFB on nical services while it spent cles of the law which was pass­ regulations see page 44, minister's priorities. Richard productions involving Telefilm only 565,000 on the same ser­ ed by the National Assembly has already announced that he Canada and are sure to fuel the vices in the private sector. on June 22, 1983. will not stand for re-election, long-standing battle involving Emo explains in her letter to The final, public consulta­ Other briefs presented at the but has promised to see the the Board and the private-sec­ Fleury that the Board's policy tion on the regulations took hearings dealt with video-cas­ Cinema Law completed before tor service houses. is clear: it intends to maintain place in Montreal on Sept. 10- sette distribution and the pre­ he retires from governement. The conflicts between the a chain of services for 'prOduc­ 13 as the Regie du cinema held vention of piracy, the relations The associations and com­ private sector and the NFB are tion which will allow to NFB to hearings at the Cinematheque between distributor and panies which presented briefs legend, and in the areas of process film from principal Quebecoise. In all, 22 briefs exhibitor, and the physical at the public hearings are the sponsored-fUm production and photography through answer were heard, Astral Bellevue specifications of theatres, following: the use of free-lancers, the pri­ print. Pathe being the only registered The hearings were held to Association des pr0prietaires vate sector has made impor­ Fleury and Collette draw the participant to withdraw from allow the Regie to fine-tune de cinemas du Quebec; Reseau tant gains, Now the Montreal conclusion that the Board is the proceedings. Andre the regulations which were independant des diffuseurs laboratories, in the guise of their direct competitor for lab­ Guerin, president of the Regie then sent to minister of Cul­ d'evenements artistiques unis; letters from both Fleury and oratory work and that since an du Cinema which has quasi­ tural Affairs Clement Richard Les Grands Explorateurs; As­ Andre Collette, president of increasing proportion of judicial jurisdiction, presided on Oct. 1, "There was clearly a sociation des cinemas paral­ Bellevue Pathe Quebec, to the Montreal-based production, the hearings in the company of wish on the part of the par­ l<~les du Quebec; Cine-Campus minister of Communications especially francophone pro­ commissioners Pierre Lamy ticipants to have a less regu­ (Trois-Rivieres) Inc.; Associa­ and the heads of all concerned duction, is funneling through and Claire Bonenfant of the lated climate," Guerin told tion video et cinema du federal and provincial agen­ the Board, the volume of pri­ Regie, and Isabelle Juneau, the Cinema Canada, "and so we Quebec; Cine-Canada, Video­ cies, have signaled the final of­ vate available mm processing Regie's legal counsel. have modified many of the reg­ K-Sept.; National Film Board; fensive against what they con­ has fallen off importantly, It is The hearings dealt with ulations to make them more L'Association des producteurs sider increased encroachment of little consolation that the technical questions related to supple, The atmosphere has de films et de video du by the Board into the area of NFB has its release printing the way in which the Regie changed greatly in the three Quebec; Societe d'information laboratory services. done by the private sector. As proposes to apply and monitor years since the law was writ­ des normes de la video; Associ­ Figures sent to Fleury by Fleury comments, "How many the sections of the Cinema Law ten, Then, people were asking ation des clubs video; Cineplex Barbara Emo, director of Fi­ prints of Plouffe II do they which are its responsibility. for tighter regulation, Now, it's Odeon; Canadian Motion Pic­ nances, Administration and need?" These are: the granting of dis­ the oppOSite," ture Distributors Association; Personnel at the NFB on Aug, In a letter written on July 4 tribution certificates for both Guerin also stated that a Home Video Board Canada; 19 show that the NFB and to Ed Prevost, chairman of films and videos; the definition strong consensus was formed Motion Picture Association of Telefllm have participated in cant. anp, 34 of "producer" and ''world around the definitions of "pro­ America Inc.; Societe generale rights" for the purposes of ob­ ducer" and ''world rights", and du cinema; Institut quebecois taining a special distribution that this consensus was taken du cinema; Association certificate; the regulations into account in the final draft, quebecoise des distributeurs French production cheap which apply to exhibition of The regulations now are et exportateurs de films, de films and the categorization of with the minister who can television et de video; Syndicat MONTREAL - An analysis of sorts of theatres; the formula modify them if he so wishes, 16 projects for an average des techniciennes et techni­ Telefllm Canada's document which should apply between budget of $557,556, while 25 They then go to the Cabinet ciens du cinema du Quebec; After Two Years shows that in exhibitors and distributors for for diSCUSSion, modification if English projects have a budget Union des artistes and Audio an effort to bolster French-lan­ the allocation of the box-office desired, and approbation, Cine Film. average of $747,070, guage production, TF is It is in the production of spreading its monies thin, fos­ children's programs, however, tering many projects in French that the greatest discrepancies National Halifax confab protests cultural cuts with slight budgets. On the En­ are seen,_ While the average glish-language production French-language budget is a HALIFAX - A meeting of many mailing list, with invitations and a call for the reformation scene, budgets are substan­ meager $637,237 (I3 projects minds concentrating on Cana­ sent out to participants of the and revitalization of all official tially greater on a per-project totalling 58,284,085) the aver­ dian culture spanned four days coalition's previous panel dis­ federal and provincial cultural basis, age English-language budget is in this city with the holding of cussions). agenCies to better fulfil their In French-language dramatic 51,206,4 15 (25 projects total­ the National Forum on Cana­ Not intended as an annual mandates, production, 34 projects are lying 530,160,377), event and timed to precede Attention received by the dian Cultural Policy Sept. 21- cited for total budgets of One of the greatest difficul­ the ministerial gathering, one Forum from the ministers (on 22 and the federal-provincial 561,415,799 or an average ties facing production in key objective achieved by the whose conference plate was culture ministers' conference project cost of 51,806,347, Canada currently is finding the Forum was the forwarding of a believed to be discussion of on Sept, 23-24. This compares on the English­ formula whereby French-lan­ conference declaration to the Canada's cultural sovereignty Hosting the Forum was the language side to 61 projects guage dramatic production can ministers, Included in the de­ in the context of current free Nova Scotia Coalition on Arts for a total of 5147,751,931 or be assured, TF figures reveal and Culture, formed in protest claration were such points as trade discussions with the U,S, a per-project average of that private investment still over last fall's federal budget the following: a reCOgnition of as well as federal objectives in 52,422,163, Because of the flows more easily to English­ cuts to public cultural agen­ the cornerstone role played by the arts funding, film industry veiled way in which Telefilm language programs, While cies, and whose steering com­ public support of the arts com­ and broadcasting task forces releases its figures, no adjust­ 523,882,673 was available mittee, when unable to obtain munity in Canadian culture; a amounted to attendance by ment can be made for the size from private sources for the participation in the ministers' call to the ministers to observe some deputy-ministers of cul­ of the projects, Le" series, latter, only 55,127,080 was conference, were sparked into the arm's-length principle to ture and principally an appear­ mini-series, features, etc, raised for French prodUction, a organizing the counter-event. guarantee artistic indepen­ ance and presentation by The production of variety break-down of 82,3% vs. The coalition, which continues dence; a re-affirmation of the former Communications programming shows more 17.7%, Nevertheless, a break­ on a local basis, attracted 336 cultural community's guiding minister Marcel Masse, who equitable budgets with En­ down of the total budgets for participants to its two days of role of Canadian culture, with also introduced new Canada glish-language costs still dramatic prodUction shows presentations and workshop government's duty being to superior to French-language debates (from a 1,00-strong implement the direction taken; cant.