C IN E MAti ie TRADE NEWS e Little changed despite Majors INew structures to revitalize Quebec I. undertakings and bidding system work," explained Boisvert as MONTREAL - "The invasion of broadcasters' participation in OTTAWA - The Major American tern of first-run motion pic­ she and Dansereau met with the Hollywood system on tele­ Quebecois film production distributors have not respect­ tures. Between 72% and 100% of the press and members of the vision screens and in cinemas and increased airtime for Que­ ed the undertakings made be­ the first runs of the distributors film milieu in an information is getting stronger and stronger. bec films, and to encourage fore the Director of Investiga­ were awarded to the exhibitors session Apr. 10. Quebecois cinema's only research and development in tion and Research, responsible who would have a right of first On Feb. 20, under the author­ chance of survival is its vitality. cinema. for the application of the Com­ refusal under the alleged allign­ ity of the new Cinema Law, the We have to become promoters, For its part, the IQC is now bines Investigations Act, and a ment in the opportunities for Socie te generale du cinema we have to get competitive, we defined as "the privileged ad­ case still remains against them. exhibitors to obtain subsequent (SGC) took over the rights and have to compete for the atten­ visor to the minister of cultural This is the thrust of the interim or moveover runs more quick­ tion of the consumer if we obligations of the old Institut affairs in matters of cinema." report, prepared by the director, ly." Otherwise, it concludes, quebecois du cinema, thus be­ want to reconquer the Quebec The IQC has a 12-member Lawson Hunter, and made "there has been little improve­ public. The overall alignment coming the principal adminis­ board, eight of whom represent public in March. It is the first ment in the ability of the inde­ must be to bring the economic trator of the funds the govern­ specific sectors of the film report since proceedings were pendent exhibitors to obtain ment has allocated for private laws of artistic life back into industry (e.g., directors, screen­ initiated in May, 1983, to force first-run product." our institutions." sector film production, in con­ writers, actors, producers, dis­ the Majors to deal fairly with The 44-page goes on to state "Wouldn't you as Quebecois formity with the assistance tributors), and four from the Cineplex Corporation by that the undertakings do not like to become winners ?" plan and programs approved public at large. The eight board making first-run films avail­ appear " to have been effective These two statements - the by the (new) Institut quebecois members from the industry, as able to the exhibitor. in stimulating meaningful or first by the recently-appointed du cinema (lQCI. well as IQC chairman Danse­ The action concerning Cine­ significant competition be­ chairman of the new Institut With an '84-85 budget of $10 reau, are appointed by the plex was applied to all other tween Famous Players and quebecois du cinema (lCQ) Fel'­ million, the SGC, whose 5- government upon the recom­ exhibitors, and a bidding sys­ Odeon for first-run motion pic­ nand Dansereau, the second by member board is appointed by reau, are appointed by the tem was instigated in an effort tures." the CEO of the Societe generale the government, has been government upon the recom­ to interrupt the privileged The report includes a list of du cinema Nicole Boisvert - re­ charged with promoting and mendations of recognized pro­ relationships which were unanswered questions which flet something of the reorienta­ assisting cinematographic fessional associations. alleged to exist between the arise from the analysis and per­ tion currently underway in Que­ creation, the production ,of The Institut advises the min­ two exhibition chains, Famous tain to the motivation of award­ bec's publicly funded film Quebecois films, the distribu­ ister on the elaboration and Players and Canadian Odeon, ing certain licenses, the pos­ structures in the wake of last tion and exhibition of films in application of film policy, and and the six Major distributors : sibility of discrimination summer's passage of the new Quebec, and the developme nt determines the orientations of Columbia Pictures, Paramount, against certain exhibitors, the Cinema Law. of technical industries. In addi­ the SGC and its financial aid Universal, Warner Bros., United suspicion that the right of first­ tion, the SGC has a mandatteo plan. The IQC also detennines Artists and 20th Century-Fox. refusal persists, etc. "In less than three months, promote Quebecois films a d Astral Films was also named in As a result of the Report's we've accomplished a year's film culture, to encour ge (cant. on p. 29) the original case as it represents analysis, and the questions it I Coluq1bia and 20th Century­ raises, further action is indi­ Fox, but discussions are under­ cated, Hunter concludes. A way to terminate the case new assessment of the bidding Specialty pay licenses awarded by CRTC against Astral as it acts in situation will be made on June accordance with the under­ 30, 1984 and, if no significant OTTAWA - The Canadian Ra­ expect initial losses - CHUM's agement authority to resume takings of the Majors it repre­ improvement is made in the dio-television and Telecommu­ Muchmusic service predicts Star Channel's pay-TV opera­ sents. situation by then, the Majors nications Commission (C RTC ) losses of over $10 million for tions and at the time asked for In the original undertaking, will be brought back before a has approved applications by the first five years while Labatt's a report on Star Channel's plans. the Majors agreed to put aU hearing of the Restrictive Trade CHUM Ltd. of Toronto, John expects profitability within That report now proposes a first-run fi'lms into a bidding Practices Commission. Labatt Ltd. of London, Ont. and three years - the linkage with new 8-hour-per-day service for system, picture-by-picture and · 17 U.S. companies to offer spe­ U.S. imports should improve Quebec as well as the Maritimes theatre-by-theatre, stating the cialized pay-TV programming. marketing for both the special­ as part of a new service prOVid­ conditions they wished for the In a decisipn early in April ty services and general-interest ed by a new wholly owned sub­ distribution of a film (how Four in spotlight some of whose elements still pay-TV. sidiary of Star Channel. many screens, in which loca­ await further rulings or hear­ The commission has still to As changes in ownership, tions, etc.I. The film was then at Cannes festival ings, the Commission establish­ ru1e on which offive Canadian mode of operation, or territory to be awarded to the highest MONTREAL - Canadian films ed a framework for the new ethnic services will be granted requires the regulator's appro­ bidder who met the condi­ at Cannes this year (May 11-13 ) services which will include a specialty license. The com­ val, such proposals are expect­ tions. If no bidder me t the COIl­ comprise two · features - the two Canadian services- CHUM's mission plans to issue a call for ed to be h eard in greater detail ditions, the distributor could latest Lefebvre and the latest rock music videos and Labatt's proposals for a children's ser­ at the Halifax hearing. negotiate conditions with a n Labrecque- and two animated sports - as part of a package vice, and has delayed the intro­ exhibitor. As stated in Hunter's short films in competition. with U.S. entries in fields other duction of two U.S. specialty report, one of the objectives of Canada's most prolific and than sports or rock music (e.g., health services until Sept. 1 In preparation• for the broad- the bidding system was to afford best-known director, Jean­ news, arts, finance, country to give one Canadian applicant .casting license renewal hear­ the distributor "the best oppor­ Pierre Lefebvre will h ave his music, weather and education!. time to refonnulate its financial ings this fall of the major Cana­ tunity to realize the fullest eco­ 19th feature film, Le Jour S, Cable companies will be proposal. dian television network licen­ nomic benefit." By all reports, screened at Cannes as part of able to offer the new services ses, CRTC chairman Andre the Majors have increased the the Un Certain Regard cate­ in combination packages of up • Bureau has proposed informal amounts of their film rentals gory. This will be Lefebvre's to five channels of speciality The CRTC announced Apr. 24 consultations between broad­ since the system began in lOth time at Cannes. imports with one or other that a public hearing would casters and the commission " to Summer '83. "Lefebvre is the Canadian Canadian pay channels, Super­ begin May 28 in Halifax to con­ discuss the whole question of In the description of the filmmaker who's been to channel or First Choice, and sider two applications by Super­ . Canadian content in an atmos­ undertakings contained in the Cannes most often:· Le Jour S one or two channels of imports channel Ontario for authority phere free of procedure and on report, negotiations can be producer Yves Rivard told with the Labatt and Chum spe­ to amend its general interest an uncommitted basis." Bureau made with an exhibitor "pro­ Cinema Canada. "He's become cialty channels. No U.S. service pay-television network licence made the proposal in the con­ vided that in so doing [the dis­ known as one of the leading can be offered without a pack­ byextending its service area to text of a speech to broadcast tributor) shall not discriminate directors of world cinemato­ age that includes some Cana­ include the Atlantic Provinces executives in Toronto Mar. 8, in the licensing process against graphic production. At Cannes, dian channels. Generally, the without the involvement of noting that further consulta­ any other exhibitor," but "the they always look forward to his commission said cable . com­ Star Channel, and secondly to tjgns on Canadian content distibutor may not permit any films. Politically as well as cul­ panies must offer more Cana­ extend its serviCe area to in­ would also be undertaken with exhibitor to have the right of turally, Cannes represents one dian channels than U.S. chan­ clude Quebec. the program production indus­ first refusal." of the more important outlets nels, and the commission set As for the present and future try in July. After an analysis of the per­ for the filmmaker's work." minimum levels of spending status of Atlantic regional If broadcasters or producers formance of the Majors in the Le Jour S, originally titled La and time for Canadian content licensee Star Channel, the suggest changes to existing · period since the Christmas re­ vie se;l(Uelle de Jean-Baptiste on both new Canadian specialty commission approved Feb. 2 rules, Bureau said, a public leases, the report concludes as Beauregard, stars Pierre Curzi channels. the request by Coopers &, Ly­ hearing on Canadian content follows: "There has been little and Marie Tifo, and was shot in While both new services brand Ltd. for temporary man- could be held in the fall. change in the distribution p at- (cant. on p. 40)

May 1984· Cinema Canada/27 • CINE MAti • 'Go easy' on Cancon for Americans AC FlV Pfor producers lobby .

TORONTO - Eliminate the producers met the CRTC's defi­ foreign programs produced in TORONTO - Pat Ferns and Ste­ which currently has 20 mem­ requirement that one of two nition of a Canadian producer. a language other than English phen Roth, both leaders in bers paying a $600 annual leading performers in a drama­ The producers' association or French should receive a establishing the Association of membership fee and quarterly tic production must be Cana­ would also like to see spending higher credit (5 0 percent) than Canadian Film and Television dues of $600 , is scheduled for dian or else reduce it to a two­ and talent requirements ad­ English or French programming Producers (ACFTVPI earlier this June 6. The association fil ed an out-of-four quota, the Associa­ justed to Canadian involve­ (25 percent!. They also felt the year, were elected co-presi­ intervention Apr. 2 with the tion of Canadian Film and Tele­ ment. If Canadian participation limit on dubbed material ori­ dents of the new producers' CRTCconcerning its Canadian vision Producers IACFTVP) told is 30 percent, then 3 points and gina lly produced in English or organization Mar. 21 in Toronto. content guidelines, and will the Canadian Radio-television 30 percent spending should French should match the 50- Roth, partner of Robert Lan­ shortly release a response to and Telecommunications Com­ merit Canadian content ap­ hour limit set for programs tos in RSL Films, had been ACTRA's policy paper on por­ mission ICRTC) in an interven­ provaL although they acknow­ produced in all other languages. president of the Association of nography and censorship. tion filed Mar. 30. ledge a minimum should be set Canadian Movie Production The recommendation was so nominal Canadian participa­ Pointing out that a Canadian Companies (AC MPC ), which one of eight the newly-formed tion does not result in a full program is defined inter alia as unsuccessfully had sought a MONTREAL - The Quebec producers' group made con­ Can con credit. "live" throughout the guide­ merge!' with the Canadian Film government is backing up film cerning the CRTC's recent In calculating spending per­ lines, the producers asked the and Television Association distribution in France with a Canadian content gUideline centages, the producers feel CRTC to clarify whether the (CFTA)' Ferns led a group of TV $25,000 grant to launch Pour­ proposals. Most of the ACFTVP's production and post-produc­ proposed criteria apply to producers from the CFTA to quoi l'etrange monsieur Zolock attention focused on the re­ tion costs should be combined, animated programs or whether the new group. s'interessait-il tant a la bande quirements for co-ventures (co­ not split as presently proposed, separate guidelines would be Also elected were treasurer dessinee? Semaphore Fiiiiiii ' productions outside Canada's to reflect industry practices. set out for animated produc­ David Perlmutter, secretary will distribute the documen­ existing film and TV treaties). The producers feel " it may be tions. Ron Cohen, and members-at­ tary throughout Europe. Noting that most co-ventures impossible and probably un­ large Sam Berliner, Les Harris, Zolock won a special jury take place with an American economic" to split the costs. The intervention praised the Michael Hirsh, and Bill Mar­ prize at Banff Fest last year, partner, the ACFTVP recom­ Requiring producers to be CRTC's efforts in attempting to shall. and took the Genie for Best mended that spending and "at financial risk" was deemed set out an objective system of The ACFTVP has appointed Theatrical Short this year. Pro­ talent requirements for aU co­ "unnecessarily onerous" by content guidelines and its plans la~yer Kathy Avrich as execu­ duced by SDA Productions and ventures match those set out the ACFTVP, unless the CRTC to implement them immediate­ tive secretary and interim exe­ directed by Yves Simoneau, the for projects with Common­ refers only to the initial risk of ly, reducing the industry's un­ cu'tive director. One of the film was produced by Nicole wealth, French-speaking, and mounting a production. They certainty over what will be organization's stated objectives Boisvert who now heads up the treaty countries 15 of 10 points, asked the commission to clarify accepted as Canadian content. is to hire a full-time executive Societe generale du cinema. 50 percent spending, rather this position. It also praised the CRTC's en­ director to lobby government Funds are coming from the than the 6 point, 75 percent In regard to the CRTC's dub­ deavours to solicit the private on behalf of its members' con­ Quebec ministeries of Culfural spending standard sel for U.S. bing provisions, the ACFTVP sectors point of view on the cerns. Affairs, and International Rela­ co-ventures) as long as the felt there was no reason why malter. Next meeting of the group, tions and Forei~ Commerce.

THANK YOU! to John Barnes and his staff at CBe Arts, Music and Science, Toronto, and everyone in the cast and production crew fortheir work on . .. THE UNDAUNTED (Sir Humphrey Gilbert) and thank you to ACTRA selection juries for naming our show THE BEST TELEVISION PRODUCTION OF 1983 from

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28/Clnema Canada· May 1984 • CINE MA~ • Societe's new become a kind of watch-dog of • having aid poliCies tan­ the public purse that limited gibly reward success and, con­ First Choice replaces old guard structures for access to public funds. We've versely, "whose failure be TORONTO - The revolving door CTV as general manager of the attempted to completely change clearly signified." As Danse­ at national pay-TV service First host broadcast unit for the 1988 Quebec renaissance that attitude : instead of acting reau explained, "success should Choice made a few more turns Winter Olympics in Calgary. A as a brake to development we be the primary objective. We're (cont. from p. 27) this month, as the last remain­ day later, First Choice an­ want to assist Cinematographic trying to put an end to a form the norms for the recognition ing executives who launched nounced Paul Gratton, former development. This has meant a of cultural welfare and aid of "Quebecois films" and col­ the channel Feb. 1, 1983, depart­ program manager at rival complete redesign of the should be distributed accord­ laborates with the Regie· du ed. Superchannel Ontario, would financial aid system." ing to the laws of the specta­ First, it was revealed Mar. .28 become. the national service's cinema in the setting of tech­ cle." nical standards. Following consultations with that programming vice presi­ program director May 1. • making new, experimental dent Joan Schafer and financ­ On Apr. 13, publicist Adrienne The Regie du cinema, the the industry Mar. 2, the IQe programs part of the aid plan. third body created by the ing v.p. Pete Legault had left Jones left to move to Washing­ throughout March worked out • involving creators in the the company. First Choice pro­ ton, D.C., with her · husband, cinema law, takes over from five organizing principles that risks and economic life of the moted production monitor United Press International the Bureau de surveillance du it recommended the SGC project. cinema (censor board), and John Ryan to the new poSition senior editor David Jones. should take into account in the Certain additional sectoral distributes permits, adminis- ·· actual preparation ofthe assis­ of co-ordinator of original Cana­ The executive changes fol­ orientations as well as the final dian production, responsible low the Astral Bellevue Pathe ters a "billeterie" which com­ tance plan, whose final version definition of "the Quebecois for licenSing and developing take-over of First Choice last piles statistics on film e);ltries, was expected to be submitted film" were still to be deter­ negdtiations for First Choice November, which saw Astral · as well as an investment policy to the minister in April so as to mined, or still being debated original programming. boss Harold Greenberg become for investing distribution in­ go in effect by May-June. within the SGC and IQC. Then on Apr. 4, it was aQ­ chairman of First Choice's come into Quebec film produc­ The reorientations involve: "Above ail," said Boisveret, nounced Hubert Harel, current executive committee, which tion. • accepting applications for "we're working hard - and for vice-president, marketing, for now has assumed the duties of As IQC chairman Dansereau projects on a year-round bas,is, the benefit of Quebec cinema." the National Bank of Canada, the former vice-preSidents. explained the distinction be-. thus scrapping the old Institut's Because this was an infor­ had been named president and Also on the executive com­ tween the two main bodies, May 1 submission date for pto­ mation session on the main chief operating officer of Pre­ mittee are Fred Klinkhammer, "The Institut proposes, the So­ jects. Instead of jury comp~ti­ thrust of an on-going reorien­ mier Choix: TVEC, to take up who succeeded Don MacPher­ ciete disposes." So taking top tions, projects would, on:ce tation, reaction was difficult to his new duties May 1. ~on as president Mar. 1 , board priority among the new IQe's accepted, be taken on by pro­ gauge. But producer Lucille proposals, and the fIrst task it ject managers who would st~er And on Apr. 12, senior vice chairman Victor Mashaal, Stan Veilleux (La Turlute des annees president programming Phyllis Waters, Pierre Moreau, and Bill set itself since it began func­ intervenors through the ad­ dures) probably spoke for Switzer left First Choice to join L'Heureux. tioning as of early February '84, ministrative labyrinth, and d~OI­ many. was developing, in consultation laborate closely in a proje t's "There's a clear change of with the SGC, the orientations development, financing a: d principles," Veilleux told for a new aid plan for '84-'85 promotion. Cinema Canada, "but the key that would determine how the • aiming aid poliCies ,to­ element remains the details of money destined by the govern­ wards maximum economic' or the aid plan, and that's what ment for film production should cultural returns. Danser~au we don't know yet. As for the be spent. stressed it was high time ~he difference in attitudes, either it "The old Institut," Danse­ "pious" notion of cultural r· e­ will make something take off THI WORD in locations .. _Millions of in tn8 I reau explained, "was forced to turn be specifically defined or it will change noting. tAn ~8ars maKin~! "The notion of having project managers is either very good or very worrying. The model of the NFB is clear here. But if they can invest so.me confidence into the process instead of all the suspicion associated with the old IQC, it'll be an excel­ lent step forward." Among names of possible project managers are directors JEFFREY J. EICHLER Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, Miche­ RENFREW INSURANCE BROKERS LTD. line Lanctot and documentarian Arthur Lamothe. Members of the SGC board are CEO Nicole M. Boisvert ; Robert Daudelin, director­ general of the Cinematheque quebecoise; realtor Jean-Guy Decarie ; Pierre A. Deschenes, SPECIALIZING IN INSURANCE PROGRAMS president of the Societe de ~~The one location FOR THE CANADIAN FILM AND developpement des industries bargain you can't ~~An'fS..for ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRIES de la culture et des communi­ afford to miss!~~ cations ; and communications B . C . !~~ consultant Honey A. Dresher. Members of the JQC board are director Fernand Danse­ reau, chairman ; screenwriter ~ ~~~f ~~~I ~f ~~fW ~ . ~~~~m~ m Marc Gelinas, vice-chairman; Christiane Belanger-Hall (tech­ nical industries) ; Andree L~~ILt l~L~n~~~ .~lll~t Wt~l~t~ ~~~mlm~~ Champagne (actors) ; Monique ...... 500 - 628 12th AVE. S. W. Champagne (crafts) ; Jean Col­ CALGARY, ALBERTA bert (exhibitors) ; Claude ~~~ ~~~W W~~1 1t'1 ~Li.B~~~ 1 ~ Fournier (producers) ; Rene AND ST A RRIN G ""r~~ ~U I "' . T2R OH6 :...... " .. _"""""."" ....: Malo (distributors) ; and repre­ MAJOR FILM STUDIO CREDITS senting the public, cultural animator Bernard Boucher, including Paramount, Universal. Disney and more. professor Pierre Demers, pro­ ,------, fessor Yvan Lamonde, and m TOURISM BRITI SH COlUMBI A FULLY ARRANGED BY music festival organizer Alain \S2J HON. CLAUDE RICHMOND, MINISTER. THE BRITISH COLUMBIA FILM Simard. The board's secretary­ Robson Square, 800 Hornby Street PROMOTION OFFICE TEL: (403) 261-4700 general is Doris Girard. Vancouver, Britis h Colu mbia, Canada V6Z 2C5 TELEX: 03-826553 The Regie du cinema's three full-time commissioners are Andre Guerin, chairman, Claire Bonenfant and Pierre Lamy.

May 1984 - Cinema CanadaJ29 • C IN E MAt; • is the first in a series of eight c;:on's films (feature Comme les La vraie histoire de la grande Harbury/Shapiro Melan~on wraps family-oriented feature films six dOigts de fa main, and docu­ peur de MicheVMichael's Fright, produced by Montreal house mentaries La parole est aux is a fantasy comedy scheduled shoot Hockey Night feature for Demers in Les Productions La Fete. enfants, Les vrais perdants) for a late summer-early autumn have had children as their sub­ shoot. TORONTO - Shooting began first of feature series Scheduled for simultaneous ject. La guerre des tuques was La Fete president Rock De­ Apr. 16 in Parry Sound, Ont., on release in French and English written by Danyele Patenaude mers, who was executive pro­ the TV feature Hockey Nigi'lt, in October, La guerre des tu­ and Roger Cantin, with colla­ ducer on La guerre des tuques, produced by Martin Harbury, MONTREAL - Shooting wrap­ ques tells the story of the battle boration from MeJanc;:on. Tele­ masterminded the $10.4 mil­ directed by Paul Shapiro, fi­ ped Apr. 7 on Andre Melanc;:on's between two groups of children film Canada, the Societe gene­ lion series, which will highlight nanced with participation by fourth feature film, La guerre out to conquer a snow castle. rale du cinema and Radio­ the talents of experienced the Broadcast Fund, and li­ des tuques/The Dog Who Stop­ The film's 18 leading protago­ Canada are financial partici­ Canadian directors and writers. censed to CBC-TV for a Fall ped The War. nists are, needless to say, chil­ pants in the $1.3 million pro­ Melanc;:on has been tapped to 1984 primetime broadcast. The film, photographed in dren. duction. direct at least one other film in Written by Shapiro and Jack Baie St-Paul and Boucherville, Many of 41-year-old Melan- The second film in the series, the series, possibly two. Blum, the $800,000 youth­ oriented hockey drama set· in small town Ontario will star Rick Moranis, Megan Follows, Henry Ramer, and Sean Mc­ Cann. The union p roduction (ACTRA, ACFC, DGC, CAMERA) will shoot two weeks in Parry THEFIRSTN Sound and 2 1/2 weeks in To­ ronto. Harbury and Shapiro, who collaborated on the children's drama Clown White, have been developing Hockey Night for over a year, ever since CBC INFI children's programming head Nada Harcourt commissioned the script. "The film is aimed at a general aUdience, though." said Harbury. "Not way is it strictly a children's film." Hockey Night has been much talked about. Both the CFDC (now Telefilm Canada) and the CBC were referring to it public­ ly as a Broadcast Fund project as early as last fall, but the financing, which only came together in April, was hard to raise, according to Harbury. "January was a lousy time to be selling a private issue. The stock market fluctuations didn't help, either," he said. Harbury praised Telefilm Canada's participation in the project. " It took me a while to convince them to go with me, but once I did I got tremendous support." Director of photography Rene Ohashi will shoot spring for fall, and Harbury says a hockey story without snow isn't a pro­ blem. "Snow is really irrelevant to the story. The script was alwavs set in the fa 11. " Cinema Libre libre MONTREAL - Financially trou­ bled non-profit distributors Cinema Libre, whose funding difficulties with the Institut quebecois du cinema were re­ ported in Cinema Canada No. Introducing video tape with all the you've been using. Next, try our tape formity. We're determined to apply our 105, has received a basic $12,500 quality, consistency, dependability, and experience its quality. 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30/Cinema Canada - May 1984 MAt; • C I" E • • will air on Superchannel Al­ Metis boy who's taken in by a release before delivery to the of Territorial, to Pan Canadian. Alberta shoot berta after its CBC showing. Jewish shopkeeper on the Prai­ CBC. He called the project an experi­ Edmonton private broadcaster ries during the 1960's, Little-' There has been strong inte­ ment. "Rock video's an emerging for Uttlefeathers lTV is also participating. feathers has terrific potential rest from U.S. and British TV thing ... I don't think anyone's Executive producers are Ron down the road as a TV series, and home video, reports Pear­ got the handle on how to do it TORONTO - Shooting is sched­ Lillie and Gerald Soloway, with says Pearson. "It has a wonder­ son. "But we don't need more yet," he said. "Unless the group uled to begin June 11 in Alberta Barry Pearson and Bill Jo\1ns­ ful cast of characters and smash­ partners to make the picture," itself puts out serious dollars, on the feature-length family ton producers. Director is Les ing settings in Alberta," he said. he said, "So we' ll wait and let how do you get the money ?" dram.a Isaac Littlefeathers and Rose, who wrote the script with "Series are where it's at now in them bid on the rough cut." Another Poundmaker pro­ the Great Arabini, a Lauron/ Pearson. The two previously the industry ... you need to get it Pearson's company, Pound­ ject, Take My Husband... Please, Poundmaker co-production have collaborated on the screen­ to stay on top." maker Productions, recently stand-up comedy by female licensed to CBC-TV. plays for Paperback Hero and The producers will shoot the completed a rock video, Terri­ comics produced and directed The $2.1 million production, The Life and Times of Edwin film in 3Smm, and have a 12- torial, for Toronto group Rough by Corrine Farago, is nearly being financed with the parti­ Alonzo Boyd. month window after its com­ Trade, and sold a half-hour completed. City-TV, which pro­ cipation ofthe Broadcast Fund, The story of a 14-year old pletion to secure a theatrical video, Rock Alert, on the making vided a broadcast letter, owns Canadian distribution rights. The Boyd film, aired on CTV last April starring Gordon Pin­ sent, won a special jury prize in the San Francisco International Film Festival's Television Spe­ cial Programs Competition in April.

Raccoons go for $4 million TV series

OTTAWA Production is underway on Schaeffer and the Raccoons, a $4 million weekly animated TV series being produced by Ottawa ani­ mators Kevin Gillis and Shel­ don Wiseman. The producers announced the 13-part series at a press conference attended by Com­ munications Minister Francis Fox Apr. 11 in Ottawa. The series is based on a pre­ vious animated special The Christmas Raccoons, which has sold well in syndication. Of the 13 half-hours, 11 will be new and two will include pre­ viously produced material. The CBC has licensed the series and expects to air it in Spring 1986; The Broadcast Fund is involved with the fi­ nancing, as are U.S. cable ser­ vice Disney Channel and Em­ bassy Home Entertainment. A sale has also been made to the BBC.

Embassy TV shoots for ABC in Toronto

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Brannan has had roles in Fran­ beginning May 8 in Baltimore Atlantis Films has hired cis Coppola's Cotton Club, against the World Series cham­ TORONTO - Canadian Odeon aSSisting organizers of a Cana­ TVOntario publicist Ted Riley European feature Claire with pion Orioles ... Superchannel's has leased the old New Yorker/ dian film festival planned for as marketing director. Riley Sybil Danning, and U.S. soap preview weekend Apr. . 6-8, Festival theatre in downtown China, and previewing films assumes the new post May 2, opera General Hospital. which featured 53 continuous Toronto, renovated it, and for two events at Harbourfront and will be responsible for the NFB War series writer-narra­ hours of unscrambled fare, has opened The Showcase Cinema, later . this year. She will also marketing and distribution of tor Gwynne Dyer will receive netted them 20,000 new sub­ a 537-seat single screen faci­ travel to Japan, Korea, Singa­ Atlantis product... Producer the World Federalists of Cana­ scribers across Canada, includ­ lity. Cost of the face lift, which pore and Hong Kong before Paul Saltzman has hired Cana­ da's International Peace Award ing 2,000 on Toronto's Rogers includes new doors, an enlarged attending the Cannes Film Fes­ dians Gil Shilton and Allan East" in May ... Interviews for appli­ Cablesystems... Astral Video foyer, a bigger screen, and the tival May 10. man to direct his 13-episode cants to Simon FraSer Universi~ has obtained exclusive Cana­ now standard 70mm/Dolby Veteran producer and distri­ Danger Bay series, scheduled ty's Centre for the Arts film prcr dian home video cass.ette rights sound capacity, was pegged at butor Ralph Ellis was present­ to begin shooting in May in gram will be held in Toronto to Trans World Entertainment "under $400,000" by an Odeon ed the Jack Chisholm Award Vancouver on a $4 million bud­ May 8 at the Canadian Film­ product... Among Astral Video's spokesman. The Showcase will for ·his outstanding contribu­ get... Norman Jewison has com­ makers Distribution Centre, April titles are Nobody Makes program first-run releases and tion to the Canadian indepen­ missioned Toronto playwright 299 Queen Street West... The Me Cry, the 'Robert Cooper opened Apr. 6 with Columbia's dent film and television indus­ Erika Ritter to write a screen­ CFMDC has named its special Productions made-for-pay tear­ Moscow On The Hudson star­ try at the CFTA annual luncheon play based on her hit comedy projects ccrordinator Lori Keat­ jerker, and 1979 Cinepix feature ring Robin Williams. Apr. 16 in Toronto ... Ellis Enter­ Automatic Pilot ... The Primedia/ ing as experimental film officer, This Time Forever ... Vestron China's Ministry of Culture prises recently picked up BBC coproduction Bold Steps, replacing D(l.vid Poole, who Video has expanded its Cana­ has invited HarboUrfront film domestic and international a 90-minute entertainment leaves Apr. 27. The Centre dian distribution front to in­ programmer Hannah Fisher sales rights to two Canadian special on the National Ballet recently released a new cata­ clude homevideo' titles ITom for a visit, following the suc­ specials originally aired on of Canada financed with Broad­ logue, its first in three years, VidAmerica, Harmonyvision, cess of Fisher's China On Film CTV, The Taming of the Cana­ cast Fund participation, has compiled and edited by Keat­ and Vestron's new Music Video festival in Toronto last Novem­ dian West by Rai Purdy Prod., begun shooting... Canadian ing. line. ber. Fisher, who spent six years and Halbgelbauer Productions' actor Gavin Brannan (Drifty in For the second consecutive Toronto independent film­ putting that event together, The Red Baron ... 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The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS ), which bought the Juno Awards rights from for­ mer owners Walt Grealis and Stan Klees in April, have sche­ duled the Canadian music in­ dustry awards show for Dec. 5. The live-TV broadcast on CBC will be produced for the first time by an independent com­ pany, Concert Productions International's video division ... CBC network series the Fifth Estate (information), Back­ stretch (entertainment), and regional series Contrechamp (info), Steppin' Out (entertain­ ment) and L'Etau-bus (drama) were winners at the CBC-TV's in-house Anik'A:wa.rds Mar. 28. Special mentions were given to Le Temps d'une paix, Empire Inc., and Ready For Slaughter. Airspeed's expertise in defining your customs needs and eliminating clearance dilemmas saves time, money and headaches. 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32/Cinema Canada - May 1984 • CINE MAt; • Provinces to Cannes in promotional effort MO NTREAL - With the various Gail Thomson a nd Lynn Jemi­ those w ho need them . provinces m aking important son. Adrie nne Clarkson from Accord ing to Meunier, a ll efforts to shore up re gional the Ontario Hou se in Paris the francophone distributors filmmaking, the profile of the sh ould also be on hand. a nd sales agents are exp ected Canadian presen ce at the Can­ But Cannes, fin ally, belongs to attend, a nd this year, the nes festival is changing. to the Quebecois, and their proximity of the MIP-TV This year, Alberta, Onta rio presence has become more market a nd the Cannes festival and Quebec will all have separ­ dominant since the Am el'ican w ill account for many agents ate staffs m anning offices there. Film Market has reoriented staying over to atte nd both While the first two will have the buyers and sellers of En­ events. Since both of the fea­ rooms adjacent to the principal glish-language product to Los ture films selected this year Telefilm Canada offices in the Angeles. While the numbers of come from Quebec, the SGC is Carlton Hotel, the Quebec con­ English-language distributors pla nning special promotions " When he finally left the mine, my father bought the tingent will be on its own with and producers going to Cannes to underline the viability of horse ... so that they might both come out together, and see a booth at the Palais des Festi­ has fallen dramatically since filmmaking in the province. the sun and walk upon the grass ... " vals. Telefilm will also have a the end of the '70s, the distri­ stand there, but not in the butors and producers from Cedrick Smith portrays the father in the CKN D-TV produc­ neighborhood of the Quebec Quebec still attend en masse, tion "IN THE FALL" written and directed by Allan Kroeker. group. looking for foreign product ----+clefilm; w hich has-had offi­ and production . deals. --Illis ces at the Carlton for many year, the Societe Generale dy "I N TH E FALL" years under the various ban­ Cinema, makes its maideri Arts conference ners of the Film Festivals Bu­ voyage to Cannes, taking along 1984 ACTRA Award Winner for reau (known in Cannes as news of the revamped governJ focuses on strategy BEST CHILDREN'S PROGRAM Cinema Canada), then as the ment structures (see p. 00 Canadian Film Development and the attractive 150% ta OTTAWA- The Canadian Con­ Produced by Corp., then Film Canada, will shelter for the production 0 ference of the Arts annual be using its Telefilm Canada Quebecois films. ' general meeting and conferen­ Can West Broadcasting Ltd. name and will be staffed by Robert Meunier, director or ce will be held in Ottawa May Winnipeg, Manitoba Armand Cournoyer, Anne distribution and exhibitio? 2-4. Brown, Pete Legault and Clau­ for the SGC, will be presery At the 1984 Conference, the de Daigneault. Andre Lamy, throughout the festival, ma~t third in the series of CCA cul­ executive director, and Ed Pre­ ning the stand in the Pala' tural development plans will vost, president, will also attend. with Helene Bourgault. Bou­ be released. This third cultural The Film Festivals Bureau, gault, a director of films an strategy document raises some which will be fully integrated distributor of videos, w s of the larger concerns related with Telefilm by August, losing raised in Quebec but now liv s to Canada's cultural future. De­ CHANNEL 9/CABLE 12 its autonomous status and be­ in France and knows bot tailed discussions at the Con­ ing moved physically to Mon­ markets thoroughly, ference will convert the general treal, will now be called the Meunier. strategies into specific work Festival&-lJivI'sI'oiic nTeieuumn;-,- JM1ml!---&''jj§+LB.q,...--ll!.Ul.es~il!ld~e~t plans that will guide the arts and will occupy a separate of the SGC, will be in Cannes lobby in the months and years room to serve the press and from May 14-23 to promotE( to come. represent the four selected production in the province, Disciplinary workshops at films, Le jour 5, Les annees de and answer questions abouf the conference on the applica­ reves, Points and Tip Top. the new structures, tax advan- tion of the strategy will fo cus The Alberta Motion Picture tages and resources. 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May 1 984 - Cinema Canada/33 • C 1M E MA G' • AF M lean for Canadian distributors Moonshine sells in Vancouver TORONTO - Shareholders of On the project's financing , MONTREAL - Telefilm Cana­ worth bothering with," com­ Ticket in No Longer Valid, Moonshine Resources Ltd., a approach, Keane said: "The da's first voyage to the American -mented Rene Malo of Montreal. Oddballs, Julie Darling, Ups listed company on the Vancou­ tax shelter as a way of raising Film Market in Los Angeles Agreeing with Malo, Orval and Downs, Hotel New Hamp­ ver Stock Exchange, announced money for films is dead. Today's was capped with the screenings Fruitman of Pan Canadian shire, Sentimental Reasons, their acquisition Apr. 3 of fea­ investor is wiser, looking for of 23 Canadian features at the went on to say, "The few films Cross Country, Cover Girls, ture .film property Samuel producers with a long-term Cineplex facilities, and video that I found which were avail­ Louisiana, Blood of Others, Lount and the company's name stake in the business and the screenings of 12 cassettes, re­ able were also out of sight; Porky's, Porky's Two, Of Un­ change to Moonshine Produc­ liquid assets a public company presenting an additional seven they were asking phenomenal known Origin, The Slavers, tions Ltd., pending regulatory provides. Today's investor is titles. prices and I couldn't touch Rock & Rule, Thrill Kill, Maria approval. interested in making money, Claude Daigneault, director them." Nevertheless, Fruitman Chapdelaine and Tell Me That This means Vancouver pro­ not sheltering it." of Information at Telefilm, re­ concluded that being there You Love Me. Only seven of the ducers Laurence Keane and ports that 600 visitors called on and being seen - establishing above were made last year. Elvira Lount have found the Lount said: "It's high time the Canadian office, during the relationships with American For the first time, the AFM instrument to raise private filmmakers started telling mid-March market, 80% over­ distributors - was still impor­ did not release figures to the money for their $1.5 million . Canadian stories to the world. seas buyers, 10% Americans, tant. Most of the business Pan press about the amounts of project, two-thirds of which The British and Australians and 10% Canadians. The video Canadian did was in the video money that changed hands at will be financed by a pre-sale have been doing it successfully market was booming, he said, market. the market. It did estimate that to CBC-TV and the participation for years." She expressed hope with the principal buyers Fruitman gave Telefilm high between $70 million and $140 of the Broadcast Fund. The final that with the Broadcast Fund coming from Japan, Holland marks for its participation. million in sales were made this third. jsheme: nnw raised .and ('..Be's commitment to in- and Spain. "Their offices provided a focal year. . ...• uugn a private placement - dependent producers, ';;t rna) About 100 Canadians attend­ point, and their cassette by Moonshine and deferments now be possible to prodUCE ed the AFM out of a reported screenings were important for by cast, crew and suppliers. some quality Canadian produc Elvira Lount is a descendent 1100 participants, but for the us." He called the Telefilm per­ MONTREAL - Les Films Rene which can be marketed inter· of the film's title character, a distributors it was a lean year. formance "excellent." Malo publicist Suzanne Da­ nationally." little-known Canadian hero. "There was nothing there to The follOwing films are on ningburg has left the company The problem in Canada, Keane will direct from a script buy. If a film was interesting, the Telefilm roster as having after two years to go freelance. commented Keane, "is that by he co-wrote with Phil Savath. the Canadian rights were al­ been screened at the AFM: Malo publicity is now being trying to produce 'internatio­ Cinematographer is Marc ready gone before the Market Grey Fol', Deadline, Screw­ handled by Francyne Morin of nal' films we have ended Up Champion (Why Shoot The began; what was left wasn't balls, Hey Babe, Incubus, Your Publifilms. appearing very parochial. Teacher). "In fact, we should be pro­ Signed for the leading roles ducing films of a provincial pre Canadian actors Nick Man­ nature that deal with univer­ cuso and Linda Griffiths. 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34/Cinema Canada - May 1984 • CINE MAti • Quebec's film directors refocus efforts on organization, contract MONTREAL- Director!) in Que­ ponsible for assuring certain Artistically, the ARRFQ producers which would estab­ Theberge, even the most com­ bec are on the move to revamp objectives. The directors hoped made a strong case, insisting lish, for the first time, a collec­ mercial of Quebec's directors their image and activities to the SGC would abandon the that the director is the author tive agreement. are showing renewed interest take advantage of the opportu­ distribution of funds accord­ of a film, and resisting the no­ Over the years, the profile of in the ARRFQ. and are joining nities which the new structures ing to the old formulas of docu­ tion that either the screenwriter the ARRFQ has been less once again, feeling the need to offer for production in the pro­ mentary films, fiction films, or the producer should have marked than that of the pro­ clarify the rights of the direc­ vince. long and short films in favor of recognition as the central crea­ ducers' association or the tor in a clear contract with In March, the Association new categories which they tive person. Citing 12 proposi­ unions in Quebec. Often, it was producers. Encouraged by the des Realisateurs et Realisatri­ characterized as "cinema d'es­ tions adopted in Madeira by perceived as a more political interest and the opportunities ces de Film du Quebec (ARRFQ) sai", experimental films, films directors representing 47 coun­ group, heavy on polemics and of the current situation in Que­ presented a position paper to d'auteur, first works, and com­ tries; the ARRFQ asked the IQC light on interest in working bec, the ARRFQ. which num­ the new Institut Quebecois du mercial cinema, the latter term to insist that the directors be conditions. Moreover, many of bers about 75 members, intends Cinema, whose job is to deter­ meaning theatrical or television given the final cut, that the the directors are also members to strengthen its organization mine the policies' of the fund­ films, not the making of com­ director's remuneration be of the producers' association, with a permanent secretariat ing agency, the Societe Gene­ mercials. tied to the receipts generated having their own production and hone in on the conditions rale du Cinema. In it, the ARRFQ The IQC seems to have res­ by a film, and that all rights to companies, and so have used of employment for the direc- · made a strong case for new ponded to many of these sug­ the properties of a film be safe­ the Association des Produc­ tors. In its opinion, only by safe­ structures and guarantees to gestions, as indicated in its guarded for the director. teurs de Films du Quebec, with guarding the authority of the ~p_thR "lo11t-h"J";t" of thp i'l .(nrrn~~ .inn ~p~~i(ln oJ Anr. 10 Admitting that the ARRFQ is its permanent staff and stable director as author of a film can still a long way from being able organization, in lobbying situa­ Quebec maintain the high to impose conditions on the tions. standards which made Quebe­ industry, association president With the advent of tax-shelter cois film remarkable, and was Arthur Lamothe and -director production, many of the more responsible for its solid inter­ Andre Theberge, who met with "marketable" directors went national reputation in the '70s. Cinema Canada, hoped that the their own way, losing interest For the IQC's thinking on cur­ position paper would serve as in the association and its battles. rent initiatives in Quebecfilm­ a basis for negotiations with Today, report Lamothe and making, see p. 27. e put it all together coast · to · coast·

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May 1984 - Cinema Canada/3S • CINE MAt; • Producers must listen to broad'casters in planning productions TORONTO - The "bedrock" of little production makes sense in projects which will depict viding the broadcasters take package, Pearson said only one Telefilm Canada's Broadcast in Canada." violence, particularly violence the first step. formal application had been Program Development Fund is Of the fund itself, which this toward women. "If we don't A few days before Pearson's received, for $100,000 TV drama Dis-moi si and broadcasting, not feature film, year will make $48 million like a project we'll say so," speech, Astral Bellevue Pathe Ie j'derange, so independent producers available to Canadian indepen­ Pearson emphasized. "Five and First Choice boss Harold that further applications by should listen to broadcasters dent producers, Pearson stat­ hundred dollar licence fees Greenberg made one of his Greenberg would be handled and learn what programs they ed : "We are not a charity. We from broadcasters will not trig­ own, before the Broadcast like any other. On the appro­ want, Broadcast Fund adminis­ are not a public trough. We are ger $100,000 investments from Executives Society Apr. 12 in priateness of some of Green­ trator Peter Pearson told mem­ not bait to lure foreign produc­ us, nor will $500,000 licence Toronto. Greenberg announced berg's projects, Pearson only bers of the Canadian Film and tion into Canada. Our money is fees get $100 out of us if we a $79 million film and TV pro­ said: "Of the 62 projects we (the fund) have been involved Television Association Apr. 16 not a grant nor a welfare don't like the project." duction package he has dev­ in Toronto. cheque. We are a venture Disappointments and short­ eloped, including some dis­ in, all except one have been "Broadcasters understand the capital fund, prepared to invest comings during the fund's first tinctly American projects such written by a Canadian, all parameters in which the Fund or loan money to high-impact year, in Pearson's view, have as CBS-TV series Dirty Dan, except one have been directed works," said Pearson. "Without broadcast material." been that "not enough women which he said needed only by a Canadian, and all have Canadian broadcasters, very The fund is reluctant to invest have gotten i~volved at the Broadcast Fund investment to starred Canadians. At some senior levels - directing, writ­ get underway. level, our record speaks for ing. producing" ; not enough Asked about Greenberg, 's itself." SNOWBIRD "high-impact programming which a whole nation will sit MOUNTAINEERING down and watch" had . been A professional service offering proposed; too few sponsors technical know-how. safety and support had ' participated; very little in the mountains and waterways of production had taken place western Canada. outside of Montreal and Toron­ to; and "an inordinately disor­ • Location Finding derly market" still existed. • Avalanche control & Special Effects Pearson said the success of • White Water Specialist fund-related projects, which • Logistics and EqUipment Selection next year could total $200 mil­ lion worth of. production, will • Safety and Rescue Coordination depend mostly on quality contact scripts. "Screenplays organize . ROBIN MOUNSEY financing," he said. "If we do not have the writing on the Tel. : (604) 847-4876 or page, we will not have the 539-2477 paper in our pocket." Box 910. Smithers. B.C VOJ 2NO To this end, Pearson an­ nounced Telefilm Canada's willingness to match dollars with broadcasters in script development initiatives, pro-

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38/Cinema Canada - May 1984 • C I'" E • Fox's backing for a second group and CTV affiliate CFCF. The Canadian Radio-televi­ Fox wants new French net private network has met with sion and Telecommunications the enthusiastic support of a Fox has invited interested Commission (CRTC) would have MONTREAL - With the Cana­ and Fox, tangling over the Que­ number of private entrepre­ parties to develop concrete to call for applications for licen­ dian pay-television situation bec pay-television situation neurs, notably Henri Audet proposals on the basis of the ses for this second private net­ still barely out of the danger which eventually saw the Que­ who became the leading share­ Cegir report which examines work, thus initiating the hearing zone, a hot new debate has bec government becoming a holders in pay-TV licensee TVEC nine technical scenarios for process that would allow inter­ developed over Communica­ partner through its cultural before it was coupled with the establishment of a second ested parties to submit their tions minister Francis Fox's industries bank, SODICC, in Astral-First Choice/Premier private net, ranging from one projects. According to Fox, the backing the idea of a second the now-fused Premier Choix­ Choix. Other interested parties Montreal-based station to a CRTC could issue the call any­ Quebec-based private franco­ TVEe. include communications com­ superstation that would beam time between now and the fall phone television network. pany Telemedia, the La Presse throughout North America. of this year. Fox, speaking in Montreal Apr. 4, announced that there was room for a second private French-language network which could be in operation as early as September 1985. According to Fox, the new network, which would require capital investment of up to $50 million before becoming profit­ able four or five years later, is required to stop the trend of bilingual viewers in Quebec to increasingly watch English­ language and particularly U.S. networks. A study by Universite de Montreal researchers early last year found that despite the pre­ sence of Montreal's two French­ language nets - Radio-Canada and TV A - total viewing of all English language stations re­ ceived in Montreal has increas­ ed from 14 percent to 20.5 per­ cent from 1976 to 1981. The findings prompted the federal department of Com­ munications to commission an additional study by Montreal consulting firm, Cegir Ltd. The 300-page Cegirreport, released Apr. 4, found that a second private network was viable but that viability could be reduced if Radio-Canada/ CBC went ahead with its long-awaited second channel and if the pro­ vincially-owned Radio-Quebec continued to increase its market share. One week after Fox address­ ed members of the Montreal Publicity Club, Quebec Com­ munications minister Jean­ Fran~ois Bertrand rejected his federal counterpart's proposal saying that. a second private network would choke off Radio-Quebec. Bertrand said a new private franco phone net­ work would not stop Quebe­ cers from switching to English channels and what is needed was better-quality French pro­ gramming on existing channels. Bertrand did not rule out the possibility of the Quebec gov­ ernement embarking on a joint venture with private enterprise at a later date. This exchange almost literal­ ly repeats an exchange last summer between Bertrand

MONTREAL - Sonatine, the recent feature by Micheline Lanctot, has been chosen for competition at the Film Fes­ tival at Venise this summer. The film has a short, two-week run in Montreal in April, and will be re-released this fall to coincide with Venise, says pro­ ducer and distributor Rene Malo.

May 1984 - Cinema Canada/37 '> Ss > < ...... • < g ' • The festival's five-member Stats released on pay subscribers Pamart takes Art Fest first international jury also warded OTTAWA - The statistical re­ Choice subscribers numbered second prizes to Swiss cinema­ MONTREAL - French film­ Honorary president is National port card on Canadian pay­ 12,569, slightly less than Nova tographer Erwin Leiser for hi'> maker Michel Pam art took first Film Board animator Norman TV's first year of operations Scotia with 13,673. film on American painter Wi!: prize for his film Jean Le Gace McLaren. Festival director is lem de Kooningand to Britain's (Feb.'83 - Jan.'84) shows a total Among English regional ser­ et Ie peintre L at the conclusion Rene Rozon, associate editor in Stephen Dwoskin for of 495,437 individual pay-TV vices, statistics were available Shadows Apr. 22 of the Third Internatio­ chief of Revue des arts. of Light. subscribers in Canada. By Jan. only for Ontario and points nal Art Film Festival. '86 total projected Canadian west, with 86,467 in Ontario The festival, which began pay subscribers could reach and 49,601 for Alberta as the Apr. 17, screened 72 films and 1,300,000 or 14% of Canadian largest concentrations of re­ 15 videos from over a dozen households. gional viewers. First Choice countries, all on the theme of The Film Industry The report by market re­ regional English subscribers the artist and his work from the searchers Mediastats Inc. noted were also heavily concentrated visual arts through dance, ar­ that when pay-TV began in in Ontario (27,257). In the break­ is staying here chitecture, photography and Canada in Feb. '83 there were down of multiple services Que­ music. 72 cable systems offering pay­ bec led the pack with 65,403 The festival is the only one TV. That number has increased out of an available national of its kind in North America. to 312 cable companies. With total of 70,551. 153,266 subscribers in Feb. 83, subscribers have increased to 307,585, a growth rate for the original 72 cablecos of 100.7%. Melnykto head English programming Future growth, based on Mediastats' data appears, as TORONTO - Roman Melnyk, bruary. one analyst put it, "pretty steady who became CBC-TV's first­ Melnyk, who has been at the but not as spectacular as had ever director of independent centre of CBC's involvement been anticipated." ,production in April, 1980, has with Telefilm Canada's Broad­ In provincial breakdowns of been named English network cast Fund projects, was senior numbers of pay-TV subscribers program director, responsible legal counsel for CBC English for the month ending Jan. 31, for all day-to-day programming radio and television services 1984, First Choice had a natio­ operations. prior to 1980. A Montreal native, nal total of 241,441 with most Melnyk succeeds Trina Mc­ he joined the CBC's legal de­ subscribers in Ontario (82,076) Queen, who was promoted to partment in 1971. and B.C. (69,259). Quebec's First director of network TV in Fe-

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38/Clnema Canada· May 1984 • C '1 " ~i- - fAA ti • machines in Canada. "It's al­ Pan Canadian anticipated most impossible to say anything the current market by scooping Video market major for Pan-Canadian with real authority about the up rights to numerous Cana­ market, things change so quick­ dian features in a buying binge TORONTO - Canadian features, video products and sell them gains an advantage. ly," says Brooker. While each two years before the launch of including some not-so-recent to wholesalers ; these middle­ A video launch requires a year's Hollywood hits still per­ Canadian pay-TV, then made a titles, are performing well for men then sell the tapes to video distributor to help out with the form, there is also a large market bundle selling the films to the Pan Canadian on the home stores, who earn 98 percent of advertising. Hookers' theatri­ for horror and explOitation pic­ new Iicencees. video market, according to the their revenues from rentals. cal launch used 100 posters; tures, and for product exclusi­ It also foresaw that home company's director of home Distributors employ their own 1000 will be needed for the vely d esigned for video, like video would become an in­ entertainment, Doug Brooker. networks of " runners" who video campaign. "It's important such recent Pan Can acquisi­ creasingly important ancillary When Pan Canadian entered de liver the tapes (which can be for the picture to have a visual tions as Rumours of Glory, a market for theatrical releases. the home video market in Oct., made ready in days) to w hole­ profile in the vi deo store," says Bruce Cockburn concert aired Says Brooker : "In foreign terri­ 1982, eight of its first 11 titles salers, since timing of a release Brooker. last year by First Choice, and tories, when rights are sold, were Canadian-produced, in­ is cru cial : a wholesaler who Home video is growing ra­ the brand new Rock Alert: The nobody just buys theatrical cluding the top four sellers : receives product a day or even pidly: there are anywhere from Making ofRough Trade's "Ter­ rights anymore. It's theatrical Losin' It (2,900 copies), The a few hours before a competitor 400,000 to 1 million video-tape ritoria/" Video. and video rights." Amateur, The Silent Partner, andAmerican Nightmare. Cur­ rently, 31 of its 61 titles are Canadian, though this figure includes both English and French versions of some films. Pan Can's revenues from home video this year aI'e pro­ jected to be over $2 million and probably will exceed theatrical MORE MOVIES AND TV SHOWS CHOOSE A revenue, says Brooker. Some films which didn't fare well theatrically and didn't CANADIAN·OWNED COMPLETION GUARANTOR attract a high TV sales price are doing well in home video, like surfacing, which has sold a ST. loms SQUARE THE BIG HOUSE respectable 700 copies. Wel­ Produc;ers : Robert Langevin Produced by Bruce Mallen and come to Blood City, an old ~Produced by Alan Sennett and Richard Sadler George Mendeluk Canadian sci-fi western, has ifF E ...cuU..,. producer J(Jrn Winther sold 400. DRAW Pan Can's strategy is to ac­ Produced by Roneld Cohen quire all media rights when THEj LA SAGA DES GLORIEUX acquiring features, especially COUNTRY WIFE THE IRISH R.M. Canadian festures, so the high Produced by Chris Neeme Produced and Directed GUARllljlN ENZO FERRARI cost of a theatrical launch can by John Thomson Produced by Robert Cooper Produced and Directed by be amortized over theatrical, Yves Hebert home video, and ancillary market revenues. Even if a film THE SLIM DUSTY MOVIE HI! CHAMPION THE HAIRDRESSERS Annie's Coming Out doesn't profit from its theatri­ Produced by Kent Chadwick Produced by Yves Hebert Produced by Renee Perlmutter cal run (few do), big screen line Producer Richard Baker Produced by Don Murray exposure helps its profile on the home video market - where THE SECRET DIARY HILLARY CLIMBING CHRONIQUE DES ANNEES 60 THE PAMPEL,MOUSE SHOW 45 to 75 percent of total sales OF SIGMUND FREUD Produced by Claude Boni n usually take place in the first 30 JOSKE'S THUMB Produced by P•• r Oppenhei mer Produced by Mike Gill days. and Wendy Hyland Janis Cole and Holly Dale's documentary feature Hookers Mcrl1-IEI~ On Davie was released Apr. 6 AN EVENING AT by Pan Canadian at the Cine­ NOBODY THE IMPROV plex-owned Carlton Cinemas MAKES ME CRY J~()])E in Toronto. Its scheduled home video "street date" is June. "If the picture plays six weeks, TERRY THE SETTLEMENT RIEN QU'UN JEU then that's good exposure for THE~ SONA TIN E the home video release," says FOX THE NUTCRACKER Brooker. In Canada, distributors STORY - A FANTASY ON ICE PHAR LAP manufacture and package their

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May 1984 - Cinema Canada/39 = • C I" E MAti· • non-competitive Melbourne Tison, "Tip Top h(Js a very par­ Board, finds that working in Sing), described the reclusive Canada at Cannes Film Festival (June 8-20) in ticular cachet and strikingly Holland and in Canada helps Collins as having " a very per­ (cont. from p. 27) Australia. beautiful graphics." The film's him resolve the perennial sonal and distinctive style; very Canadian festival screenings presentation at Cannes, Tison problem of finding sponsors minimalist, with a direct sense Montreal last October. With a include the Montreal World commented, "is just wonder­ for his filmmaking. of humor." final print just completed, Film Festival in August and ful - a veal premiere like the "If you just depend on the "About six months ago," Rivard said that no decisions Toronto's Festival of Festivals '82 Oscar (for Radio-Canada NFB or Radio-Canada as a free­ Newland recalls "Collins had yet been made for the in September. animator Frederic Back's CracJ. lanceI', this means a project brought me some animation film's theatrical distribution. Les annees de reve will It's a reference that allows us once every three years. And which I looked at and said World-rights for the film are open theatrically in Montreal to measure ourselves with the now that there's less and less 'Let's do it. '" The result was held by Astral. and Quebec City early in Sep­ best in the world." outside money, the situation Points, International Rocket­ Pierre-Henri Deleau, who tember. Driessen, a 44-year-old free­ only gets harder." ship's second film in competi­ programs the Director's Fort­ The two animated shorts in lance animator who divides Tip Top is Driessen's first tion at Cannes in as many years. night. has selected Quebec competition are Paul Driessen's his time between Canada and animated short for Radio­ "It's quite a surprise," New­ director Jean-Claude Labrec­ Tip Top, seven minutes, pro­ his native Holland, has a second Canada since his 1980 Jeux de land told Cinema Canada. "It que's recently completed fourth duced for Radio-Canada, and animated short, Spotting A coude. means that we make movies feature Les annees de reve for Dan Collins' Points, two Cow, in competition submitted Points, a 35mm, black and people enjoy, that they work. the prestigious directorial minutes, six seconds, produced by the Dutch Ministry of Cul­ white cartoon, about cause and These are two very personal showcase. Labrecque, whose by International Rocketship ture. effect shifting along their inter­ pictures, offbeat, and that they earlier features Les smattes Limited of Vancouver which "What's good for me about face, is Vancouver freelance get selected for a big film fes­ (1970) and Les Vautours (1975) also produced last year's only festivals," Driessen told Cinema animator/ director Dan Collins' tival like Cannes shows that at also screened at Cannes, told Canadian film in competition Canada, " is that they make it third film. Collins, 30, graduated least someone somewhere likes Cinema Canada that he "wel­ at Cannes, Dieter Muller's The easier to get subsidies for films. from Emily Carr College of Art them." comes this opportunity to Butterfly· It's a prestigious thing and gov­ in 1981 where he produced his Newland said it was ironic defend the film before a franco­ Tip Top, whose theme is the ernment agencies get really previous films, 3:00 AM (1979 ) that both The Butterfly last phone audience". illusion of gravity, makes use of excited." and Wedge (1980). year and Points this year would An important documentary new techniques developed by Afte some 20 years as a International Rocketship be in ' competition at Cannes segment of the film concerns animator Driessen. According animator Driesen, who has producer Marv Newland, an "when they were turned down General Charles De Gaulle's to the film's producer, Hubert worked for the National Film animator himself (Sing Beast by a ll the Canadian festivals." famed 1967 "Vive Ie Quebec libre" speech in Montreal shot - by Labrecque himself. The 90- minute feature, starring Gil­ bert Sicotte, Anne-Marie Pro- I vencher and Monique Mercure, is a dramatic as well as visual and musical reconstruction of the emancipatory dreams of the late '60s that in Quebec cul­ minated in the October 1970 War Measures Act. Following Cannes, Les an­ nees de reve will have its Euro­ pean avant-premiere in Saint­ Malo June 17-19 as part of a retrospective of Labrecque's filmic oeuvre in the context of this summer's quadricenten­ nia l celebrations of Jacques· Cartier's discovery of Canada. At the same time Les annees de reve w ill be screened at the First of Astral package wraps MONTREAL- Shooting has been completed on the James Sha­ vick production of Dis-moi Ie si j'derange, a 75-minute te levi­ Ne Plus Ultra sion drama adapted by Janette Bertrand from her hit play of Since its introduction only one year ago, the Arriflex 35BL-1I1 with new positive-locking (PL) the same name and which lens mount has become the most sought-after camera for serious commercial cinematography. stars one of Quebec's most Why? popular actresses, Juliette Simply because the best producers and D.O.P.'s will not gamble their investment Huo!. and reputation on anything but the best equipment. They now have a camera system that Packaging and financing of works month-after-month reliably without fail. the program was arranged by Astral Film Enterprises Inc. 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40/Cinema Canada - May 1984 • C IN f MA ti • Convergences conference to bri dge film- video gap in industry MONTREAL - Because the in­ New Video/ Film Technology" and Telefilm Canada have both formation gap between this active video applications and everyone recognized the need. promises to be one of the major indicated intentions for con­ country's film/ video communi­ distribution and exhibition in The fact that 'Convergence' is events this year on the Canadian the new age. tinued support if on-going re­ ty and the new media techno­ organized by film and video media scene, and its organizers search and development bear logies isn't narrowing, Mon­ "Convergence" also hopes to professionals rather than auto feel that's exactly as it should clear the air somewhat; the out initial findings, and the treal-based camera assistant salon people or exhibition be. coming together of video and organizers also hope to involve Larry Lynn decided last year companies makes a big diffe­ "If you're not on top of the film technologies has brought rence - we know the needs of the Quebec Ministry of Cultural that something had to be done. situation, you can't compete on the two initially separate com­ our community, and we're Affairs and the City of Montreal, Lynn reasoned that if the chan­ the world market," Lynn insists. munities into direct contact addressing them directly." as well as the private sector. ges in video and film produc­ "That's a major preoccupation with one another, an often "Convergence" marks an­ "We need everyone involved, tion, distribution and exhibi­ for the Canadian community uneasy alliance that has made other important precedent: an because everyone's affected by tion were leaving Canadian right now. In the past, you had for some bad blood. "There's across-the-board collaboration the problem," Samuels notes. professionals far behind, then to travel to find out what was still distrust and misunder­ between Canada's public and "If the various governments the missing information had to going on - to the National Asso­ standing between the film and private sectors. VFM's Board of are going to throw their weight be brought to the community. ciation of Broadcasters Con­ video people," Samuels notes, Directors are all private-sector behind us, then the private , Lynn's idea struck a sympa­ vention, or an SMPTE meeting, "and it hasn't made for the best people, but the honourary sector has to take some respon­ thetic chord with writer/ com­ or wherever, and none of these atmbsphere. The lines between members do represent the mix. sibility as well. The goal here is mercial director Barbara Sa­ events were really geared to the two media are blurring They include writer/ director the competitive edge, but not muels, and the two went on to the needs of the working peo­ more and more; that's particu­ David Cronenberg, CBC Senior with each other: it's the inter­ develop the idea of a Canadian pIe: the technicians, directors, larly evident in the work of Vice-President Franklin Dela­ national market that ultimately information forum designed to producers, advertiSing agencies, people like George Lucas and ney, writer/ producer Guy Four­ concerns us. If our industry' s answer that need. Together distributors and exhibitors. We Francis Coppola, or in Kodak's nier, Panavision Canada Presi­ going to stay viable, we've got with lawyer Isabelle Juneau, want to amass all the relevant new move into video. So you dent Mel Hoppenheim and NFB to pool our resources and up­ film/video producer Francine information we can get our can't really choose to disasso­ Acting Commissioner Fran~ois date our community. And on Fournier, video producer/ di­ hands on - the experts, the ciate yourself from one camp Macerola. The NFB and CBC that point, we've got a definite rector Michel Beaudet, World hardware, the software - and or the other. We hope 'Conver­ were approached by VFM last consensus of opinion." Film Festival Market organizer bring them here. 'Convergence' gence' will bring all these November, and have proved Jacqueline Dinsmore, produc­ will happen on Canadian turf, people together: we can learn themselves dedicated support­ tion manager Barbara Shrier and that should make a big from one another and ultima­ ers of the project, contributing and production co-ordinator difference for our people." tely turn out a better product." goods, services, and the indi­ Can Cable confab Luise Massari, they formed a Scheduled for Nov. 27 to Dec. "Convergence" is the first vidual implication of many non-profit corporation to over­ 2 in Montreal, the Forum is Canadian event of its kind, and staffers. The icing on the cake OTTAW A - The Canadian Cable see the planning of such an structured as a S-day blend of has received enthusiastic sup­ was the recent committment Television Association annual event. Le Forum Video de Mon­ symposia, seminars, workshops, port from this country's film/ of development funds by the convention and Cablexpo, a treal Inc. (VFM) is now wholly screenings and exhibits, with video community. "The guilds, department of Communica­ trade show, wiII be held at devoted to the project, whose topics as wide-ranging as pro~ unions and professional orga­ tions, underlining the govern­ Ottawa's Capital Congress title explains its raison d'etre. duction techniques in electro­ nizations jumped right behind ment's recognition of the pro­ Centre from June 11-14. For "Convergence: A Forum on the nic cinematography to inter- us," Lynn explains, "because ject's importance. The DOC information, call (613) 232-2631.

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May 1984· Cinema Canada/41 • ~INE MAt; • Hetm brings de Antonio to Montreal public Student pix to Cannes' Perspectives MONTREAL - Emile de Anto­ 8, called In The King of Prussia. Hollywood, film schools, tele­ MONTREA L - Ten films by stu­ and Quatrieme set by Mario nio, the infamous American In the various public meet­ vision, Reagan's Central Am e­ dent filmmakel's from the Uni­ Gilbert ; and from Concordia and very poli tical documentary ings an d press en counters, de rican po licies, the governme nt , ve rsite d e Montrea l and Con­ University's Communications fil m m aker, was in Montreal Antonio d id much to justify h is the military and just about cordia University will be screen­ and Fil m Studies departm ents, Mar. 26-28 to atte nd a major repu tation as a free-w h eeling everything else that crossed h is ed at the Cannes Festival th is Lobstory by Bruno Moynie, retrospective of his work a t th e free-thin ker. Very much a ra­ sigh tli ne, including his own year as part of the Perspectives Daughter ill my shadow by Co nservatoire d'Art Cinem ato­ d ical, in the origi nal sense of films. He was brutally honest, du cine ma fra n.;:a is. Be nedicte Deschamps, Ma d a­ graphique, m eet film students the word, h e aptly d emonstra­ very d irect and very much alive. The progr am of student m e Crehaul' by Thomas Corri­ at Concordia Un iversity and to ted w hy h e was the only fi lm­ He managed to leave the a u­ shorts w as organized by the veau, Hector by David Brodeur, sp eak to fellow documentarians m aker to be p laced on Nixon's diences h e e ncounte red with Centre International de Liaison and Lettres et perspectives by at The Nationa l Film Board of Enemies List and why the FBI w arm feelings and hot thought, des Ecoles de Cine ma et d e Camille Gueymard . Canad a. De Antonio is the and other surveillance agencies as w ell as admiration for his Television (CILECT). Each year . "This is a very interesting creator of such controversial have more than five thousand commitment, love and passion at Cannes, Perspectives d u opportu n ity for these films to compilations as Millhouse : A pages of documents and testi­ for h is art. " It is our task, as cinema fran.;:ais looks at some be seen outside the walls of the White Comedy, a devastating monials concerning his life filmmakers, to reveal the true aspect of lesser-known franco­ university," Universite de Mon­ attack on a d evastating man - and work. His mother told one nature of society to people," h e ph one filmmaking. Last year, treal cinem a professor Gilles Rich ard M. Nixon, and the first of th e agents th at "Emile d osn't said as he got on th e p lane to focus ""as on Su per8 film­ Marsola is told Cinem a Canada. documentary to be mad e ab out believe in God. Th erefore h e New York where he would at­ m akers. "Given the very lim ited resour­ the h istory of Vietnam - In The has no moral cod e." "It's very tend yet another retrosp ective The 10 Canad ian films select­ ces available to student film­ Year of The Pig, w hich was the strange," adds d e Antonio, "but of his work and spread the ed this year are, from th e Un i­ makers, this is an important first p olitical film to be nom in­ that identical p hrase keeps Gospel according to "Dee." versite d e Montrea l's cinema­ occasion for a confrontation ated for an Academy Award, turning up over the years in the Next m onth'-s Cinema Canad a tographic studies p rogramm e: with th e outside world. And I as well as a film about Joe mouths of all sorts of p eople w ill carry a feature article on Elle egale Hermann by Jean­ th ink tha t we' ll fi n d our stu­ McCarthy, Point ofOrder, a nd the FB I asked about m e." de Antonio. Claude Papilloud, Le plus de nt films m easu re u p p erfect­ a film about e ight very brave In h is visit to Montreal h e qu'imparfait by Liliane Patry, ly adequate ly w ith other stu­ p eace activists, The Plow shares m an aged to trash and trash ' Peter Wintonick • L'indifference by Kevin Smith de nt films the w orld over."

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42/Cinema Canada' May 1984 • C IN E MAt; • thirteen-part series, one hour ture series to be produced with on CBC the first week in June. SHOOT ALBERTA and one half-hour in length. the assistance of the AMPDC, by Linda Kupecek Superchannel and CBC, is The CAN PRO •awards , held in • • • climbing towards a March '85 Lethbridge, attracted over zoo Spring has been accompanied Nick Bakyta and Gayle Helfrick Wendy Wacko, producer of the shoot. The Mary Shaffer pro­ people from stations across by a renaissance of feature acti­ of Tinsel Media in Edmonton award-winning Challenge: ject (a feature based on the Canada. CF AC and CFCN-TV in vity in Alberta, with several have River of Bones on course the Canadian Rockies, has been Banff pioneer) which Wacko Calgary, won three awards projects close to production. In for a June shoot, with pre-pro­ invited by the BBC to co-pro­ has had on the back burner for each .. . Meanwhile, the' City of addition to out-of-province duction already in progress. duce Mountain Men, part of a a number of years, has now Calgary is debating the merits possibilities, one local produc­ Tinsel Media has also joined prestigious mini-series. Wacko taken priority as a spring '86 of hosting the Miss Universe tion is said to be ready to go. hands across the country in a Productions will b.e responsible shoot. Doris McCarthy: Heart pageant (to be broadcast on Snowballs, a $1 million ski co-production deal with Atlan­ for one hour to be shot in of a Painter, a one-hour docu­ CFCN) ... Rumours whisper that comedy will start shooting tis Films of Toronto. The :two' October '85. Meanwhile, Wacko drama, is being screened at Merv Griffin may be a special May 1 for four weeks, says companies will co-produce two has several projects cooking Canada House in London, and ~est at the 1984 Banff Televi­ producer Larry Ryckman of from her office in Jasper. The Great Rocky Mountain sion Festival, taping several Calgary. He claims the film, Striker's Mountain, an adven- • Relay Race will be broadcast shows at the event. fIDanced entirely locally through private offerings, has all the money in place after a six­ month effort. ~yckn'lan lists the following personnel: Ray Ar­ senault (King of Kensington, etc.) as director ; David Kelly (camera operator on Return of the Jedi) as D.O.P. ; John Scott as pro~uction manager ; Mike Baker as co-producer and 1st a.d. ; Frank Griffiths on sound; and John Blackie as art direc­ tor. Ryckman also named Neil Gordon, Alex Tadich, Michelle Stirling, Jim Woodland and himself as screenwriters, and Jackson Davies, Michael Scott and Celine Lockhart as major cast. "Snowballs coincidentally rhymes with Meatballs" says Ryckman, saying it is intended to be a Meatballs or Porky's on skis, but "clean fun" with no nudity and a PG rating. "This is one of the funniest scripts I've ever worked on", says writer Stirling, adding with a chuckle, "with the possible exception of my own project, Studhorse Man" Snowballs plans to shoot for three weeks at Sunshine Village and one week in Calgary. • Alberta played major and minor roles in two recent segments of CBC's For the Record series. Change of Heart, a drama pro­ duced by Anne Frank and di­ rected by Anne Wheeler of Edmonton, was shot on location in Vermilion. Rough Justice, a tough well-paced story about ·the maze of the legal system as Focus on this scenic Canadian it affects a young girl attacked ' by a child molester, was written by Calgary Herald writer Don province of sunny ~kies, low costs, Truckey, who once covered the court beat. and tax-saving advantages.

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""" SUn1n1er institute af film Algonquin College, Room N306 MOLSON@ 140 Main Street, Ottawa K1S 1C2 (613) 237-1118 LA BRASSERIE MOLSON DU QUEBEC LlMITEE • C IN E MA~ • lagged, the overall pacing was about Toronto and Manitoba Quirks and Quarks; Foster crisp and the entertainment bilingualism, and a pregnant Hewitt Award for excellence in ACTRA celebrates own superb. Karen Kain danced Jayne Eastwood, who though sportscasting - Don Cherry, while husband Ross Petty sang, looking like a Nellie herself, George Young (tie) ; best writing, TORONTO - Although Empire radio program. Sean Mulcahy, Dave Broadfoot provided solid proved again she is one of Ca­ TV variety - SCN; best writing, Inc. won four awards for TV who played Wells, won the stand-up comedy, and the stun­ nada's top comediennes. radio variety - Air Farce ; best acting and writing, producer radio best actor award. ning Ann Mortifee's singing Other winners were : Gordon writing, radio drama - Len Pe­ Tom Cahill's The Undaunted: The ceremonies, telecast live earned her one of the night's Sinclair Award for excellence terson, Evariste Galois ; best Sir Humphrey Gilbert took on CBC-TV from the Sheraton two standing ovations (the other in broadcast journalism - Eli­ host/interviewer, radio enter­ home Newfoundland's first­ Centre Grand Ballroom, ran was for Olympic hero Gaetan zabeth Gray, As It Happens; tainment programming - Vicki ever Nellie for best TV program exceptionally well by Canadian Boucher.) Mortifee shared host best writing radio documen­ Gabereau, Variety Tonight ; at the 1984 ACTRA Awards and U.S. awards show stan­ duties with Laurier LaPierre, tary/ public affairs - Jay Ingram, best actress, radio - Patricia Apr. 3 in Toronto. dards. While some speeches who cracked irreverent jokes Anita Gordon, Penny Park, Phillips, The Diviners. Empire stars Kenneth Welsh and Linda Griffiths, supporting actor Gabriel Arcand, and writer Douglas Bowie earned prizes, but the six-hour mini­ series, seen by over 3 million viewers on CBC-TV last winter and sold to 35 countries, wasn't even nominated for best TV program. The only time execu­ Balance with tive producer Mark Blandford reached the podium was to accept Griffiths' best actress award. Presented by the country's Cinegelon performers and writers union, the Alliance of Canadian Cine­ ma, Television, and Radio Ar­ tists, the awards are dominated each year by CBC productions location and (the union's main engager), as CTV boycotts the event. This year, the only non-CBC winners were best children's TV pro­ you won't gram In The Fall, produced by Stan Thomas for CKND-TV Winnipeg, and TV host/inter­ viewer Barry Callaghan of City­ TV's panel show Enterprise. havetodoa Richard McMillan of the Stratford Festival won best TV variety performance for The Mikado, while Wendy Crew­ son won best supporting actress balancing act for Home Fires. Robert Collison won as best TV documentary/ public affairs writer for the NFB-CBC co-production Pri­ soners of Debt: Inside The at the dailies. Global Banking Crisis. Veteran radio and TV actor Robert Christie was honoured with the John Drainie Award Cinegel eliminates one embarrassing scene from the dailies . The one for distinguished contribution where you have. to explain unbalanced color to the prod~c~r. . to Canadian broadcasting. Instead of "fixing it in the lab", this Academy Award winning family of Christie also presented an tools corrects daylight, arc light, tungsten, fluorescent and HMI sources award with his daughter, actress Dinah Christie, who right on the set. .' shared the best radio variety The Cinegelline, which includes color-correcting gels and 17 different prize with Tom Kneebone for diffusion materials; was developed over many y,ears b~ . The Entertainers. cinematographers, lighting directors ~nd Ro~cO s specl~llsts. It ~as pro­ The Panther and the Jaguar, ven itself totally effective - on locatlo,n. and In the ~tudlo - dUring a dramatization of the corres­ pondence between British thousands of motion picture and teleVISion productions. writers H.G. Wells and Rebecca For a free swatchbook and technical handbook, contact your rental West, won as the year's best house, Rosco dealer or Rosco. Almi contract to Malo Films for Canada Cinegel: MONTREAL - Les Films Rene Malo have picked up the exclu­ sive distribution contract for The Great Equalizer all Almi Pictures Inc. product in Canada. New York-based Almi adds titles like Le bal, Woman in Flames, and Secret of the Ninja to the Malo cata­ rosco logue. 1271 Denison Street #66 Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 485 • 416/475-1400 With the addition of the Also In New York, Hollywood, London, Madrid, and Tokyo. Mutual Picture films to the Malo holdings, Les Films Rene Malo now counts over 300 titles in its catalogue.

MAV 1984 - Cinema Canada/45 _ I • CINE MAt; • Elore shopkeepers take on MG Mover Soffellocation shooting TORONTO - A sm all band of or fiv e persons, including a told Cine ma Canada MGM had Heritage Act, is considered the bel'S, town council members, Elora, Ont., mercha nts, angry single picke ter with a placard agreed to pay the town a sum second oldest of its kind in merchants, and MGM executive over what they considered an that read "MGM : Please Nego­ of money, to be u sed toward Onta rio. producer David Nicksay the unfair compe nsation deal tiate," staged a one-hour protest the restoration of a conde mned One res ident confided that, following evening cleared up m ad e by u.s. production com­ early in the evening. The pro­ footbridge, rather than com­ before the protest, rumours any misunderstandings. pany MGM to shoot street duction was scheduled to shoot pensate merchants individually had spread that certain mer­ According to innkeeper Cro­ scenes on their feature Mrs. from 9 p.m . until dawn on Mill for three nights' shooting on chants were getting paid under zier Taylor, who represented Soffel, disrupted the film set St., affecting about 50 m er­ the 1902 period-drama. The the table ." " Some people felt a the town heritage association Mar. 21 with a brief protest. chants. bridge, declared a historical little cheated," he said. in negotiations with MGM, the According to witnesses, four Elora reeve Harold Chambers structure under the Ontario A meeting between Cham- protest "would have been much better ifit were played at the Toronto Zoo." Taylor said MGM originally offered to donate $5,000 toward Canadian Film Institute the bridge's restoration in ex­ cha nge for permission to shoot Institut canadien du film in Elora. The company's plan COMMUNIQUE was to build a te mporary struc­ ture, but the town council later asked MGM if a more perma­ ne nt structure could be in­ stalled. Engineers w ere brought in Over the last year, the Canadian Film Institute ha s received many inquiries about its to make sure the abutments current activities and its plans for the future. We hav e decided that the most effi cient and put into place would meet cer­ economical method of responding to thi s interes t is to publish a se ries of Communiqu es tification requirements, and in Cinema Canada . MGM spent $51,000 on the pro­ ject. Besides reducing MGM's a fitting public tribute to this filmmaker's BILL MASON RETIREMENT TRIBUTE original donation to $2,500, the AT NATlONAL FILM THEATRE long and distinguished career. The series was presented with the assistance of the town agreed to pay MGM (tj $12,000 (minus $2,500 ), the sal­ In March, the Canadian Film Institute's National Film, Television and Sound c Archives/Public Archives Canada, The o vage price of materials used on exhibition arm, the National Film Theatre .~ the bridge. Six citizens have of Canada, presented a retirement salute Canada Council, and the National Film Z Board of Canada >­ guaranteed the $9,500, to be to Canadian wilderness filmmaker Bill '" paid at a later date. Mason. A two-time Academy Award ~ ;:l The town hopes to raise the nominee, Mason will lay down his camera COMING SOON TO THE Nfl o ~~~ ______~ ______~u money, plus another $20-$30,000 later this year to pursue his life-long first The NFT provides Canada's National [ove, painting. still needed to complete work Capital Region with the best of both alism Multimedia catalogue/Repertoire on the unopened bridge, des multimedia sur Ie multiculturalisme - To commemorate his 2S-year career as Canadian and international cinema Many through private donations, one of the world's premier nature cine­ of our programmes are also available to 1984, a valuable descriptive source book of over 600 multimedia productions deal­ The protest, reported on matographers, the NFT screened, to other exhibitors across Canada We invite page one of the Globe and Mail, capacity crowds, a comprehensive retro­ inquiries in this regard. ing with ethnocultural issues, race rela­ tions and immigration in Canada. This was described as "a storm in a spective of his films. The programme In May, the NFTwill salute Canadian film­ induded the much-acclaimed wolf docu­ publication, compiled and edited by the teacup" by an MGM spokes­ maker Allan King with a month-long retro­ Canadian Film Institute, can be obtained man. mentary Cry of the Wild (Which grossed spective of his films. The programme over $8mll1ion in the United States alone), by contacting The Multiculturalism "The whole thing was blown opens at the CBC Videotheque in the Directorate, Department of The Secretary ou t of proportion by a reporter," and his award-winning canoeing feature, National Arts Centre on May 2nd, when Song ofthe Padle. As well, Mason's jour­ of State, Ottawa K1A OMS. said Gail Thomson of the Onta­ King will appear in person with his recent, rio Film/Video Office, which neys from the Great Lakes to Canada's far controversial, television documentary The CFl's Publications division is current­ north were chronicled in presentations of wooed MGM to Ontario for the Who's In Charge? ~ ly developing The Guide to Film, Television Rise and Fall of the Great lakes, In Search and Communications Courses in Canada/ shoot. "The mayor- and the Also in May, the N FT,presents a Czechos­ of the Bowhead Whale, the Path of the Le guide des COUfS de cinema, de television producers had an agreement, Paddle series, and Wnderness Treasure lovak film series (led off by Jid Menzel's et de communications offerts au canada, but the protesters didn't under­ (Mason's first film). Short Cut), German cinema of the late 1985-86. To be published in the fall of stand the filmmaking process." seventies, and nuclear age documentaries The two-week programme concluded 1984, the Guide will be a valuable profes'" When reached by Cinema Dark Orde, In the King of'Prussia and No sional development and recruitment tool Canada after the incident, one with a special "Evenfn~ With Bill Mason," More Hibakusha. during which the filmmaker introduced for Canada's film, television and commu­ protester declined to talk about clips from his two final works in progress, Coming in the summer and fall are a pro­ nications industries. the group's actions. Breadalbane and Wati!r Walker. In Water gramme of Spanish films, film and video "Some of us (townspeople) Walker, the audience accompanied from Canada's Arctic, new Asian cinema, felt maybe w e got surprised by Mason down his favourite wilderness a lookat English Canadian comedy and a something w e didn't know," waterways to the specially scored musk week-long programme of films from the With an eye to its 50th Anniv ersa ry in said florist David Drimmie, a of internationally acclaimed Canadian European Economic Community (spon­ 1985, the Canadian Film In stitute will continue th e work it is mandated to non-protester. Commented Tay­ composers Bruce Cockburn and 'Hugh sored by the HC), which will be accom­ lor : "MGM may not have filled panied by a number of European direc­ do: encourage and promo te the study, Marsh. Breathtaking sequences from appreciatio n and use of film and tele­ everybody in exactly ; maybe tors. Breadalbane took viewers below theArctic vision as educa tional and cultural fac­ they should have done that." icecap in search of the famous shipwreck to rs in Canada and abroad. It will con­ Though normal affairs of the same name. ElSEWHERE AT THE CFI tinu e to se rv e it s constituents from coast to coast. And it will continue to resumed in Elora a few days Throughout the evening, Mason an­ The canadian Film Institute film library'S after the incident, Drimmie new catalogue, listing over 6,500 titles in plan .its growth with the next fifty years swered questions from an enthusiastic In mind. said, " I don't think we'll see the fields of arts, science and film studies, audience captivated by his images of another movie in this town for wolves, whales and whitewater. will be available to our customers from We invite your comments and sugges­ coast to coast in the early summer. tion s on our servic es and programmes. awhile because of the pro­ The Mason retrospective, which played Pl ease write to us at our Ottawa offices. blem." to sellout crowds, was the most·popular Our Information and Research division programme in the NIT's 20-year history- has recently completed the MulticuHur-

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4tUCinema Canada - May 1984 • C IN E MAC; • Quebec filmmaker Brigitte directed by Da niel Petrie. ed by Australian Fred Schepisi, Sauriol's recent feature Rien MGM's Martin's Day, shot in for festival patrons Apr. 12 in Toronto distribution picture qu'un jeu, was screened last Toronto last fall , is scheduled Toronto ... A charity screening of Special People (originally TORONTO - Pan Canadian, cast and crew Apr. 4 at Medal­ month at the New Directors/ for a Thanksgiving 1984 release, Bla c klight) , the CBS-TV movie Cineplex Corp.'s distribution lion Labs in Toronto. Film has New Films series at New York's according to a recent ad in wing, has signed a one-year been pre-sold to CBC-TV, but 57th Street Playhouse. Variety. III Canad a, tha t still film ed in Toronto last winte r, agreeme nt to exclusively producers Owen and Annette means late Novembe r. took p lace Apr. 17 at Ontario handle Embassy Pictures' Coh en have one year to nego­ • Place ... Also at On tario Pl ace theatrical re leases in English tiate a theatrical release, so • May 2 : Boardwalk l\ lotion Pic­ tures' IMA X film, made bv the Canada, its first on-going affi­ they will show the ir film to the Ol'ion Pictures has picked up Screenings: Uni ve rsal Films, liation with a U.S. company. Majors in Los Angeles this North Am e rican rights on the Norm an l ewison, a nd the Fes­ Toronto com pany last year .. Films bv York Universitl"s First release is The Ballad of s pI'ing. ICC feature Ba y Boy, shot in tival of Festi va ls presented the Gregorio Cortez, directed by Nova Scoti a last fall w ith Li v Ca nadia n premiere of Iceman, graduati~g fi lm students \\:ill Robert M. Young a nd starring Ullma n, "iefe r Sutherland, and produced by Jewison a nd Pat­ be screened May 22 at the On­ Edward Almas, Apr. 13 at the • Leah Pinsent, and writte n a nd rick Palmer last year a nd d irect- tario Science Centre. Carlton Cinem as in Toronto. Pan Can will follow w ith the rock docume ntary parody This Is Spinal Tap Apr. 20 across English Canada. National Office Instead of directly booking Spinal Tap into Cineplex houses, ' Film Board national du film Pan Can first will bid them to other exhibitors. " It's to our advantage:' commented a com­ of Canada duCanada pany spokesman. "We want to ~ get the best possible opening." Other Embassy. releases scheduled for 1984 are Cham­ pions, starring John Hurt, The Bear, starring Gary Busey, The Goodbye People, and The XYZ -----11118-- Murders. On Apr. 6, Pan Can released Hookers On Davie, the docu­ NFB TO FILM LES GRANDS has exactly the right spirit of adven­ Nason ; Camera Assistant, Zoe mentary featu re by Canadians BALLETS CANADIENS ture and the ability to adapt quickly Kirse; Sound Recordist, Roger Hart Janis Co le and Holly Dale, at to new situations_ I' m delighted the Carlton in Toronto, one day IN FAR EAST that he's working with us and that after the film's premiere before The National Film Board in collabo­ the N FB is recording this important a full house at the cross-town AN D TH E WI N N ERS ARE ." Bloor Cinema. Company plans ration with Les Grands Ballets Ca­ cultural event" nadiens will make a 90-minute film a video release in June. The film is slated fortelecas t by the For best documentary short, Fla­ record of the dance company's up­ Pan Can recently acquired English CBC network and as part of menco at 5:15 produced by Cynthia comingtourofthe Far East On May theatrical and home video Radio-Canada's" Les beaux diman­ Scott and Adam Symansky for the rights to producer Tony Kram­ 7th, the 53 dancers and staff of Les ches" in March 1985_ It is being National Film Board of Canada and reither's low-budget feature Grands Ballets Canadiens leave made by the N FB and co-financed Boys and Girls produced by janice Th rill Kill. Montreal for Peking, China, the first by Radio-Canada, CBC and the De­ Platt, Seaton Mclean and Michael stop in a 9-week tour that will take partment of External Affairs_ Film MacMillan, of Atlantis Films Ltd., them to Shanghai, Canton, Hong • Crew: Director/Pioducer, John N_ (and made in association with CBC) Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, and 13 Spectrafilm will re lease the Smith; A~sociate Producer, Eliza­ for best live-action short. April 9 cities in japan, including Tokyo, 1982 Spanish feature Demons beth Klinck; Cinematographers, was a fine night for Canadian films, Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto_ In The Garden, starring Angela Performance : David de Volpi, Kent Bravo! Molina and Ana Belin, Apr. 20 The 6-member film crew is headed at the Carlton in Toronto. by NFB produced/director john N_ Directed by Manuel Gutierrez Smith, whose most recent dance Aragon, the film won top prize films, For the Love of Dance and in the Directors Fortnight at both won the prestigious the 1982 Cannes festival. Gala, CBC-TV has acquired another. New York Dance Film Festival's Spectrafilm release, The Wars, Grand Prize in 1982 and 1983 re­ and scheduled it for Broadcast -spectively_ Colin Mcl ntyre of Les Remembrance Day, Nov. 11, Grands Ballets Canadiens, worked 1984 - exactly one year after its with Smith in 1981 during the theatrical release date. i making of Gala, the ninety-minute , film record of the Canadian Dance • Spectacular of eight of Canada's leading dance companies, including New World/ Mutua l plans a staggered national release of Les Grands Ballets_ horror pic Children of the Impressed by Smith's filmmaking Corn, based on Steph e n King's skill. and ingenuity, Mcintyre ap­ novel. Film opens Apr. 13 in I proached him about filming the Far Ontario, Apr. 19 in Winnipeg ' East tour. "This is the most ambi­ and Vancouver, and Apr. 27 in tious tour of the Far East ever under­ Calgary and Edmonton. taken by a western dance com­ NWM also will release West German director Robert Va n pany, It is going to be an exciting Ackeren's A Woman In Flames adventure but, at the same time, it Apr. 19 at the International will require a lot of hard work and Oscar winners Cynthia Scott, direct or­ John Smith to direct film record of Les Cinema in Toronto. co-operation on everyone's part," produ cer, and Adam Symansky, co-produ­ Grands Ballets ca nadiens' Far East to ur. emphasized Mclntyre_ " john Smith • ce r, Fl amenco at 5:15 . Director Don Owe n has com­ Headquarters - Montreal (514) 333-3452 National Capital -Ottawa (6 13) 996-4259 pleted his low-budget feature N FB Offices in Canada: Pac ifi c regi on - Vancouver (604) 666-1716 Quebec region · Montreal (5 14) 283-4823 Unfinished Business, the Prairie regi on - Winnipeg (204) 949-4129 Atlantic region - H,' Iifax (902) 426-6000 sequel/ remake of his 1964 film Ontario region -Toronto (416) 369-4094 plus offices in mos!" major cities Nobody Waved Goodbye. Owen held a private screening for

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"Do you really think this will work?" Comworld picks up Deadwrong for sales VANCOUVER - First·time fea· next production without you still have a large bank debt, I ture producer Len Kowalewich havin~ to put out a penny or still have some personal debts, is finally about to see his crime· commIt yourself, you'd say, and those people are patiently adventure film Dead Wrong, sure." The deal, a sort of nega­ waiting for the funds to start starring Britt Ekland and Wins· tive pick-up, was not pleasing coming in from the film. All the ton Rekert, start to recoup its to Kowalewich, but after a year debts, of course, from the film $625,000 cost; in late 1983, upon of negotiating he is "fairly happy will get paid from the first completion, it was picked up with it as it stands now." monies coming in." by Comworld Films, the distri· Part of the deal with Com· Kowalewich, who started as bution arm of the Utah·based world was the film's change of a news cameraman for BCTV Comworld Group. title. Kowalewich at the film's in 1970, is now interested in Dead Wrong, originally en­ outset had a New York law firm moving on to new things, and titled The Colombia Connec­ perform a title search, which has been receiving scripts and tion, is about a famous drug turned up a book entitled The ideas regularly. He wishes to bust off the B.C. coast in 1979. Colombian Connection. The continue with low-budget pro­ Scripted by Ron Graham, the author was paid, and the film duction. "I've always felt that film was conceived by Kowa­ went ahead as The Colombia Canadians in our industry lewich a nd writer Joseph Mc­ Connection. When Com world should be modest in their bud· 'U ~ Anthony in early 1981. Dead had the same law firm perform gets. 1 know of very few Cana­ u o Wrong was financed locally, the same search, another film dian films that have made any was discovered with the same .co Kowalewich's company The money on a large budget. We a.. Eyes productions acting as title. Kowalewich was coun­ should go after good scripts, general partner in a limited seled not to sue the New York good stories, and work at that." Photo credit : Mike Assaly partnership structure and firm, but simply to change the That is what Len Kowalewich EVELYN PATTY LINDA Kowalewich himself soliciting title and let the matter rest. will try to do. What does he KAYE GAIL VAN EVERA investment from the Vancouver As a low-budget feature Dead think his chances are as a Van· community, at that time recep­ Wrong was never intended for couver feature producer? He tive because of the Capital Cost theatrical release. Kowalewich laughs sharply. "[Dead Wrong Allowance. He had raised about felt it could make money from d.o.p.) Doug McKay said, 'Len, a quarter of the budget when two or three pay-TV sales, and don't do it - you're goingto lose the film went into production Com world will be focusing on your house, you're going to lose in Mexico in October, 1981, just the international non-theatrical all your money.' He said, 'I before the collapse in Canadian market. Kowalewich has re­ don't know one producer it film investment. tained the Canadian rights for hasn't happened to. You've got ~ERSONAL MANAGEMENT " I was totally involved with himself. " I unfortunately made a good thing going now - what's 179 CARLTON STREET making the film and was not a lot of people very unhappy the matter with you ?' He was TORONTO, ONTARIO M5A 2K3 paying enough attention to because of debts I had accu­ right." TELEPHONE (416) 923-0919 what the hell was going on to mulated. Most of them I've been the money market in Canada. I able to consolidate or payoff. I Paul Vitols • lost everything in the stock market. My real estate lost all its value, so I couldn't even go to the bank to borrow what I could have borrowed [beforel. The same thing happened, unfortunately, to the people who were backing me. I wanted to be in a strong position, with the film completed, to go out and get the best [distribution] deal possible. Unfortunately that game plan didn't come Film Arts about, because I was stuck with an uncompleted film." With the Canadian investors now shy it became necessary to seek a distributor, and ·In response t6 the m~iOy requests Kowalewich took a promo­ from our clients fO{ iniormation 16/35 post-production tional reel to the Milan Film about Life Lnsurance, we have formed a new Department. Television and feature Festival at the end of 1981, where Com world first showed production interest. "Sure they showed Our lite Department will offer interest," says Kowalewich. " If a wide variety of products for both 1 offered you full rights to my smokers and non-smokers.

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The occa­ vie est un roman), and most has been involved with have quickly and generously answer­ great conversation in a bar. sion for all the chuckles was recently Chantal Akerman (La made their money back, which ed every question that was put You listen to this seriously funny the recent appearance in galerie) ; and the Italian screen­ is, as Brickman says, the key to to him. Although one might man rattle on and tattle on Montreal Apr. 14-15 of Ameri­ writer Enrico Medioli who has filmmaking. classify such questions as about something he knows can screenwriter-director Mal'­ worked with Visconti, Zurlini, Billed as an examination of a "What kind of typewriter do very much about and is very shall Brickman. He came Bolognini, Cavani, and Leone. person's metamorphosis from you use?" or "What's your good at - making people laugh. as part of a week-long series Thirty young and talented screenwriter to director and an favorite film ?" as pedantic and The next morning you wake up on Screewriters and Screen­ screenwriters and directors analysis of Comedy, the seminar a waste of time, I thoroughly and can't remember a damn writing developed by Ewa attended the five sessions that fell short of its goals but mana­ enjoyed the conversation and thing that went on but the sound of laughter is still in Zebrowski of Primo Piano made up the Brickman seminar ged to be of great value in the humaness of the whole thing. your ear. and Paul Tana of L'association which included a screening of longer view. Although some of Who needs to be the victim of Let's have more of these cooperative de productions Woody Allen's Annie Hall and the industrious and reverential overt didacticism and year­ seminars and workshops. More audiovisuelles (ACPAV) along Brickman's first feature Simon workshoppers took copious nings for the philosophy of encounters. More exposure to with L'lnstitut quebecois du (1980) . notes, the sessions ressembled comedy and for commentary other ways of seeing. It's the cinema, . Telefilm Canada, the Brickman was born in Brazil a combination of Neo-Socratic on the larger tragic meanings of our everyday existence? For only way you can really get to NFB, the Canada Council, la in 1939 and moved to America dialogue and a gossip hour in discussion of the political im­ meet your fellow filmmakers Cinematheque quebecoise, at an early age. He started his the Green Room at The Tonight plications of laughter? who make up this invisible and the French Consulate. film career writing and direct­ Show. Brickman offered us this industry of ours. The screenings and seminars ing for Allan Funt's Candid Some participants wished methodology as a recipe for a were intended to give Cana­ Camera television series and for a more normal context to the great screenplay: dian and Quebecois screen­ then quickly went on to become meetings, but I was happy to go Peter Wintonick • • Film is related more to the writers a chance to meet suc­ the youngest head writer for' along with the consensus that the auraVoral tradition, than to cess stories, and to develop Johnny Carson, then moved on kept the encounter anecdotal and hone skills by investigating to The Dick Cavett Show, before the literate/literary one. While and relaxed. 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MONTREAL,- Reporting on its period ending Jan. 31, 1984, was for 11 accepted English first six months in operation, The Fund was created as of projects. On the French side, the Canadian Broadcast Pro­ July 1, 1983., $3,422,824 went to contracted gram Development Fund an­ Of those totals, $2,913,506 projects, and $3,497,702 to ac­ nounced the commitment of was for 12 contracted English cepted projects. Below is the $12,806,388 to projects for the projects and another $2,972,356 break-down of those projects, Projects received for the Canadian Broadcast Program Development Fund EQUIPMENT RENTALS Contracted projects STUNT CO-ORDINATOR English production /

Category: DRAMA To January 31, 1984

Title Producer Format Broadcaster

1. Unfinished Business Zebra Films 16mm/ feature CBC "HEAVEN 'S GATE" "BUFFALO BILL" CBC Don Owen "SUPERMAN" "DAYS OF HEAVEN" Annette Cohen "SILVER STREAK" " THE GREY FOX" "DEATH HUNT" " LAST DESPERADO" 2. Waiting for the Parade Primedia 90 min./video CBC " EUREKA" " PURE ESCAPE" Dick Nielsen "SPACE HUNTER" "DRAW" "LE RUFFIAN" "LOUISIANA" 3. The Bay Boy Bay Boy Prod, 120 min./35mm CTV Frank Jacobs

4. Canadian Literature Atlantis Films Ltd. 8 X 25 Global Series Michael MacMillan

5, Country Wife Renaissance 120 min./video Global Box 33, LONGVIEW, ALBERTA, CANADA John Thomson TOL I HO 6. Toronto Trilogy Chum City Prod. 3 X 30 min./ City-TV tel: (403) 558-39\6 or 243-5132 Marcia Martin tape Mario Azzopardi

7, The Gift Merv Camp~ne Prod, 60 min./video BCTV Ltd./Merv Campone and Artray Limited

8, Fingers of the Sun Sphinx Prod, 90 min./i6mm CKVU Ron Mann Total budget: $ 8,467,139 Total Telefilm participation: $ 2,520,500

Category: VARIETY To January 31, 1984

9, Just Jazz Visual Prod, '80 Ltd. 26 X 30/ 3/4" CHCH Lionel Shenken 10. Joined at the Hip Pierre Sarrazin 1 X 60 / 2" Global Total budget: $ 638,019 Total Telefilm participation: $ 213,006 =--_B_E-=--lY'~J:-l)- Category: CHILDREN To January 31, 1984 FILM CANADA CENTER 11, Dancing Feathers Spirit Bay Prod. Pilot 1 X 30 min. CBC aims to strengthen relations between the Eric Jordan Canadian and the Los Angeles film communities, in such areas as: 12. The Kangazoo Club Bruce Raymond 26 X 30/ 2" Global Productions • PROJECT DEVELOPMENT Bruce Raymond • CO-VENTURES • U,S.lFOREIGN PLACEMENT Total budget: $ 553,284 • ANCILLARY MARKETING , Total Telefilm participation: $ 180,000 Telefilm Canada is committed to an additional 11 projects whose contracts are currently The Center also provides guidance to being negotiated, Hollywood producers on: • CANADIAN LOCATIONS French production • TRADE DIRECTORIES • TALENT CATALOGS Category: DRAMA To January 31, 1984 • UNION AGREEMENTS • INDUSTRY CONTACTS. 1. L'Objet ACPAV Dramatic RadiO-Canada short/ 16mm ROLAND LADOUCEUR Executive Director ;f., ,CANADA.FlM CEMRER.M 2. Le Petit Prince ACPAV Dramatic Radio-Canada LORRAINE B GOOD ~.:.. CENTER CANADA. Made in Quebec short/16mm Liaison Officer 144 South Beve~y Drive, Suite 400 ANNABEl WINSHIP Beverly Hills. CA 90212 (213) 859-0268 Administrative Secretary Telex: 673-688 FILM CAN BVHL Prod. Pierre Lamy Feature/35mm Radio-Canada 3. La dame en couleurs ••_M Ltee ;y.':I.:!."(='~"

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Title Producer Format Broadcaster

4. La divine Sarah 3 Themes inc. 90 min./video Radio-Canada

5. Blood of Others Cine-Simone (ICC) 6 X 1 hour CTV Le Sang des autres TV / 1 feature

6. La Louisiane Cine-Louisiane (ICC) CTV

7. La Femme de l'hotel ACPAV Campone 60 min./ video Radio-Quebec Prod. ·feature

8. Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe Cine-Plouffe II Radio-Canada

Total b udget: $ 29,530,463 Total Telef ilm participation: $ 3,222,824

category: VARIETY To January 31, 1984

9. Un Festival juste pour rire Films Rozmonde 9 X 75 min./ Telemetropole video Total b udget: $ 612,325 Total Telefilm participation: $ 170,000

Catego ry: CH ILDREN To January 31, 1984

10. Melodie rna grand-mel'e Spirafilms Dramatic short Radio-Canada

Total budget: $ 131,738 To tal Telelilrn participation: $ 30,000 Telefilm Canada-is committed to an additional 9 projects whose contracts are currently being negotiated.

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May 1984· Cinema Canada/51 • C IN E MAti • Canadian Images weakened by censors Zielinski's Hey Babe! to Filmex PETERBOROURH - The Cana­ The presence of the National part to the petty demands and MONTREAL - There's light at tribution for the film. To date, it dian Images film festival - Pe­ Film Board was once again rigid morality of the Ontario the end of the tunnel for some has been sold to Showtime and terborough's annual showcase strongly in evidence and the Board of Censors. At least six of the tax-shelter productions to 24 territories. Producers are of productions from across the Board received the majority of Quebec films were cancelled which seemed to drop from Arthur Voronka and Zielinski, country - . expanded to a six­ the limelight during the festi­ because the prints sent did not view in the financial debacle of with Morden Lazarus acting as day format this year and ran val's 'Oscar night'. The NFB's carry the necessary band mark­ the early '80s. Rafal Zielinski's executive producer. from Mar. 13 to 18. nominated films Flamenco at ing approval by the OBC: Batre 1, newly retitled Hey Now in its seventh year, the 5:15, and The Profession of though the films' content was Babe 1, will premiere at Filmex Meanwhile, Zielinski is festival featured a new and Arms (from the War series) not at issue, the films could not in Los Angeles this summer. working on pre-production at timely addition: a comprehen­ were screened along with be legally shown without the The film, which stars Buddy Filmline on Fun Park WhiChl sive video program which in­ Atlantis Films' Boys and Girls band. Hackett and Yasmsine Bleeth, will be co-produced by New cluded everything from rock (also nominated) and If You The OBC also delayed the will be screened at the Olympic World if all goes welL His last' videos to community produc­ Love This Planet, the NFB's screenings of several videos. Arts Festival, in which Filmex funny film, Screwballs, was. tions. This innovative program Oscar winner of last year. While some were rescheduled, will participate this year. distributed by New World inl was such a success that tenta­ The NFB also provided the at least one other was refused After four years of editing the States and has grossed $12 tive plans call for it being ex­ festival with its only film pre­ outright. and discussions with world million world-wide to date, panded next year. miere, a SCience-fantasy, spe­ But it was the cancellation sales agents Caroleo, Zielinski sales being handled by ArnQld Other featured programs in­ cial effects film called Star­ of Brigitte Sauriol's feature has produced an American Kopelson, says Zielinski. For a cluded a series of films from breaker. Much publicized and Rien qu'un jeu, a film about version and a Canadian version feature which producer Mau­ the British Film Institute; films hyped in the days before its father-daughter incest, which of the filrn. The first is more rice Smith says cost $800,000, made by several of Quebec's screening, Starbreaker failed caused the greatest stirrings at quickly paced, but it is the that's a healthy profit. women directors; the peren­ 10 live up to its billing : its the festival. The OBC had de­ latter more poetic version which Zielinski's other projects in· nial screenings of Genie Award special effects, while impres­ manded two cuts but the only will be screeneq at Filmex. Hey clude a TV series Young Love, nominees; and a series show­ sive enough, fall far short of subtitled print with the dele­ Babe! is a dance film, and which has Telefilm backing ing the work of Canada's 'new ground breaking, and the film's tions was in Toronto for the Lynne Taylor Corbett who with First Choice, but is still wave' of filmmakers. storyline makes little sense. film's opening there. The print choreographed it also did the looking for final funding, and The festival's 'open arms' Morgenthaler, the NFB's con­ sent to the festival was that dances in the curre nt success two film scripts: Starcrossed, policy towards Canadian film troversial new documentary belonging to the Film Festivals Footloose. Zielinski hopes that a Russian-American love story entries created programs of directed by Paul Cowan, was Bureau in Ottawa and was un­ the combination of her reputa­ written with Robert Geoffrion, wildly erratic quality. The films also scheduled to be screened cut, it being the print the Bureau tion and the Filmex exposure and Girl Five about a new­ covered the gamut from trite to but was cancelled at the last sends to festivals all over the will lead to US. theatrical dis- wave, female rock'n roll band. thought-provoking; from pain­ moment. world. fully inept to seamlessly pro­ Cancellations were a major Sauriol was shocked at the fessionaL problem this year, due in large Board's decision, and particu­ larly at being told that she had "used" (Le. exploited) children in her film. She says the incest in the film is "all suggested ... very allusive", and that in seve­ - . ral countries the film is being JOB ADVERTISEMENT used as a tool to open up the angenleux subject for discussion. "In other The Independent Film Alliance du cinema independant countries they understand what the film is about", says requires a Sauriol, but the OBC ignores CO-ORDINATOR the context of the (offending) scenes. Zoom Lens for Film Cameras with Censorship problems not­ IFACI, a national association of independent film withstanding,' this year's festival production, distribution and exhibition organization,S High Efficiency Coating seemed to lack the spark of other years. While there were requires an energetic, creative and self-motivated several sell-out screenings, person with excellent leadership, oral and written there were also many more communications skills to act as Co-ordinator. Know­ which were sparcely attended ledge of the filmmaking community, cultural policy (though the inclement weather may be at least partly to blame). and experience in arts administration an asset. The 35mm: 25-625mm, 25-250mm, 20-120mm Beyond the expansion of the Co-ordinator reports to the Chairperson and Board of 16mm: 1 0-150mm, 12-120mm, 9.5-57mm ' video program, next year's fes­ Directors of the Alliance and is responsible for: 16-44mm, 12-240mm tival Inay also include a return to the four-day format. and 1 0-120mm T2 Co-ordinating all lobbying and networking activities Linda Gorman • Day to day operations and financial management Liaison with government agencies, other organizations and the media PRIME LENSES FOR 35 AND 16 Fund raising , ENG, EFP ZOOM LENS FOR MOST CURRENT Galbraith to head Organization of Alliance meetings BROADCAST CAMERAS 2/3",1/2" AND 1" TUBE Craftspeople's union FACTORY-EQUIPPED SERVICE FACILITY FOR Salary: Negotiable. Bilingualism a priority. To com­ PARTS, ACCESSORIES AND REPAIRS TORONTO - Elinor Galbraith mence July 1 st 1984. was elected president of the Association of Canadian Film Please submit detailed resume before May 30, 1984 Craftspeople (ACFC) at the union's annual meeting Mar. to: 24-25 in Toronto. Galbraith succeeds Carlo Fran Gallagher-Shuebrook Campana, who'remains on the 1224 Robie St. ANGENIEUX CORPORATION OF CANADA (1983) executive as past president. LTD., 190 DON PARK ROAD, MARKHAM, Others elected were vice-preSi­ Halifax, Nova Scotia dent Christopher Dean, trea­ 83H 3C9 ONTARIO L3R 2V8. surer John Thomson, and TEL. : (416) 475-5454. secretary Michael La Croix. ACFC general secretary is Donato Baldassarra.

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