DRECrORS GUILD OF OfUM Suite 815, 22 Front St W., Toronto 116 Ontario (416)364-0122 Dear Members: Four projects, ROSEDALE LADY weeks. SCOTT MAITLAND on location "WEEKEND" with CBC. FRANK PHIL­ submitted by DON OWEN, and "PEEP" with "MOTHER'S DAY" in Lunenburg, LIPS and TOM TEBBUTT working CBC sui>mitted by JACK CUNNINGHAM, Nova Scotia - due to wrap this month. shoots. ALLAN KING, RENE BON- both set for production in Toronto; and DARREN MCGAVIN is in on Guild NIERE, GRAHAM PARKER, PETER Montreal productions TU BRULES for permit. PETER PEARSON, JIM MAR- CARTER, BOB SCHULZ wrapping or I'Association Cooperative de Productions GELLOS, AL SIMMONDS, ROB prepping CBC shoots. GORD MAC- Audio-Visuelles to be directed by JEAN- IVESON, BOB LINNELL have wrapped DONALD, HUMPHREY CARTER, GUY NOEL, and BAR SALON sub­ "LAST OF THE BIG GUNS" shot on TONY THATCHER, RAY ARSE- mitted by Les Ateliers du cinfema que­ location in Saskatchewan. GORDON NAULT, GRAHAM ORWIN, BARRY becois Inc. to be directed by ANDRE ROBINSON, CHIP HALL and GERD BERGTHORSON working commercial FORCIER, have been approved by the KOECHLIN are in pre-production on shoots. HARVIE MCCRAKEN working Canadian Film Development Corporation Columbia Pictures/Acrobat Films produc­ "BEACHCOMBERS" for CBC Van­ under its special program for low-budget tion of "THE LAST DETAIL" due to go couver. GARY FLANAGAN and TONY features. $60,000.00 will be invested in before the cameras in November. HAL LUCIBELLO working "PAPER CHASE" each of these productions provided the ASHBY and MARVIN MILLER are in on for Twentieth Century-Fox. filmmakers comply with CFDC require­ Guild permit. HARVEY HART wrapping Our July newsletter outlined a few of ments. The production budget in each "PYX" on location in Montreal. JOHN the concrete proposals put forward by case does not exceed $100,000.00. BOARD and SAM JEPHCOTT have just the Secretary of State at the Press Con­ $360,000.00 is still available, and film­ wrapped "TOM SAWYER" for Hal ference held in Montreal on July 10th re makers requesting production funds Roach in Morrisburg. DAN PETRIE, the proposed Film Policy, including the SANDY HOWARD, GERRY ARBEID, under this program must SUBMIT THEIR creation of an Advisory Committee on DEANNE JUDSON, PAT GRUBEN, PROPOSALS BY DECEMBER 15, 1972. Film, consisting of representatives from BILL ZBOROWSKY, JIM ROSS working Information and application forms availa­ the five Federal cultural agencies (NFB, "THE NEPTUNE FACTOR - UNDER­ ble from the CFDC offices in Toronto CBC, CFDC, Canada Council and Public SEA ODYSSEY" in Toronto and Klein­ and Montreal. Archives), and five representatives from burg. TONY BEDRICH working with TRACKER FILM PRODUCTIONS the Private Sector. This Committee's task JAN KADAR. IAN MCDOUGALL work­ LIMITED, based in Vancouver, has is to advise the Secretary of State on all ing "GET BACK" directed by DON aspects of government action in this area. switched from their highly successful SHEBIB. SYLVIA SPRING working lensing of big game hunting, to feature At the same meeting, Mr. Pelletier films. Three projects are ready t(? go stressed the need of industry's assistance within the next year, the first of which, in drafting upcoming legislation to enable VALLEY OF VANISHING MEN, is them to meet our needs and aspirations already underway. Tracker is a wholly more fully. owned Canadian company with estab­ WITHOUT CONSULTATION WITH lished studios in B.C. ANY OF THE INDUSTRY'S GUILDS, UNIONS, OR MEMBERS, THEY'VE WHAT THEY'RE DOING DONE IT AGAIN. The Committee "POLICE SURGEON" due to resume representing the Private Sector has been production in mid-November. MARILYN appointed! Here they are - JOAN FOX STONEHOUSE, BRIAN WALKER, (listed as a Toronto Film Critic); JOHN ECKERT, JOHN RYAN, GARY GEORGE DESTOUNIS, President of LEAROYD and JOHN MEREDYTH Famous Players, Toronto; CLAUDE LUCAS will be heading back for the GODBOUT, President of the Quebec additional eight episodes. PETER CAR­ Producers Association; ROCK DEMERS, TER and ERIC TILL will, schedules President, Faroun Films, Montreal; and permitting, handle the director's chores TOM SHANDEL of Vancouver. on several of the episodes, GEORGE When the Federal election was only KACZENDER and DAVE ROBERTSON weeks away, a number of Guild members wrapping "U-TURN" in Montreal. ERIC Michael Parks (star), Don Shebib (director), and Richard Leiterman (cinematographer). on loca­ took advantage of the opportunity to TILL and ROBBIE MALENFANT in tion of Shebib's Get Back. advise their would-be representatives as to pre-production on "LA GUERRE" due how they felt about this 'representation to go before the cameras in a matter of without consultation.' Cinema Canada 50 TAX WRITE-OFF TO BE "STRICTLY been depreciating at sixty per cent of the CFTO-TV executives have been PRO RATA" production's total cost - regardless of meeting with ABC-TV on plans to film 'VVe have only recently become aware how much they had invested. six mystery-horror television features at of the way in which some film deals have the CTV Toronto studios as part of the been structured for tax purposes. Some FIRST FOR TORONTO DOMINION alternating programming slated for ABC's of them may have got through in the BANK late night slot. past, but they won't any longer. The GET BACK, the feature currently in A Freelance Guild Director interested policy is to allow an investor depreciation production with DON SHEBIB handling in a freelance affiliation with a busy only on that amount of the capital cost the director's chores, has $100,000 in its Toronto based commercial house is that he actually has to risk.' With this production budget of $500,000 from the required. Director's services would be statement, the Department of National Toronto-Dominion Bank. This marks the required on a continual basis throughout Revenue has confirmed that, in future, it first time a Canadian chartered bank has the year. Schedule and interest permit­ has to be strictly pro rata. Investors were decided to invest in the film industry. ting, contact the Guild office. allowed a sixty per cent depreciation rate The balance of financing came from the Note to P.Ms and A.Ds preparing instead of the customary twenty per cent CFDC, Famous Players, and Crawley budget breakdowns - ACTRA rates were because of the high risk in an industry Films who will handle the distribution. increased November 1, 1972. where only two out of eighteen films turn The film stars Michael Parks, Bonnie a profit for the producer (the rest only Bedelia, Hugh Webster, Henry Beckman Kindest regards, for the distributor and exhibitor). The and Chuck Shamata. Producer is Chal­ Evelyn McCartney majority of investors apparently have mers Adams. Executive Secretary CANADIAN FILM-MAKERS' DISTRIBUTION CENTRE ROOM 204,341 BLOOR ST.W., TORONTO M5S 1W8, ONT. 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